Michael Cash wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 02:26:33 GMT, dame_zumari@yahoo.com (LB) brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
>>ifignow <ifignow@yawoo.com> wrote, with annotated subtitles, maybe for
>>the hard of comprehension:
>>
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>>>I grew up in rural Japan 20 years ago when it was a very
>>>different culture, where people were earnest and not pretentious.
>>
>>It was? Gosh. I must have missed that, way back then.
<snip>
> It seemed to me that fashion, drinking, and whatever else it was he
> bemoaned were just as popular 20 years ago as they are today. In fact,
> come to think of it, for the last manymany years hasn't the alcohol
> industry been bemoaning a *decrease* in drinking? 

This would perhaps be one of the many reasons why the alcohol industry 
simply loves my ass. And now that I've finally got the black gold (pause 
to genuflect in the general direction of Dublin) on tap in my little 
bar, the ghost of Arthur Guinness loves my ass in particular.


-- 
I am not who I think I am
I am not who you think I am
I am who I think you think I am

...or some such shite.