Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
> news:AIK_b.27449$CP4.26188@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com...
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>>when Japanese people automatically assume that any western
>>looking gaikokujin is an American.
> 
> Well, let's face it -- they are. Or if they aren't, they wish they were.

Well certainly, there being no other way I could eat "Chocolate Thunder
From Down Under", "Cheesecake Olivia" or "Jackeroo Chops" with a
straight face. Or ask an Irishman if they get the Notre Dame football
games on the telly there? or the words to "Danny Boy" in the original
Gaelic? Or whether the black Irish gets freckles?

> I mean come on guys, fess up.

Ahh but Ryan, the sepponification process is too daunting, and the less
said about seppositories the better for all concerned.

-- 
"Oh don't give me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ No, don't you give
me none more of that Old Janx Spirit/ For my head will fly, my tongue
will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die/ Won't you pour me one more of
that sinful Old Janx Spirit"