Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Questions about Japan answered here! Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:00:35 +0900 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <41F472E3.3010607@hotmail.com> References: <1106173041.263491.188150@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <41EF2BD3.8040308@hotmail.com> <1106227720.099421.123550@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <41EFDDCB.1010600@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net eSN65tXfnAoSeRuQZMGjagqfGBN/ZQRaRTh2kj+GUqgPVQxfsD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:24711 Ed wrote: > "Declan Murphy" wrote in message > news:41EFDDCB.1010600@hotmail.com... > >>John W. wrote: >> >>>Declan Murphy wrote: >> >>>>What on earth could be considered exotic about Ireland? >>> >>>Beer and whiskey are sufficient, I believe. >> >>The whiskey yes, the beer no. Ireland's beer culture is a perfect >>example of one of the downsides of oligopoly. I'm off skiing tomorrow >>(Hi Ed, I'll wave as I pass through), taking a bottle of Paddy and a >>bottle of Black Bush up to Nagano. > > Hi, Declan. Hope you had a good time skiing and Nagano traffic. I could have > skied to work faster than drivng the other day. Just horrible horrible > traffic whenever it snows. Great time skiing, pulled up stiff and sore this morning though. Must be getting old. -- Non gratum anus rodentum