Re: Someone Ought to Tell Them....
jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> John W. <worthj1970@yahoo.com> dixit:
>
>>DJ Hannibal wrote:
>>
>>>What suprises me is that the all-conservative Japanese hosting
>>>community actually LET them put something like that as a domain...let
>>>alone register it with the government.
>>
>
>>Since they speak Japanese in Japan and BJ doesn't have any meaning I
>>don't see why this would have raised an eyebrow.
>
>
> Indeed. In 米国 you could probably register enjokousai.org or
> omankogadaisuki.biz without raising, well, eyebrows at any rate.
>
Truth is stranger than fiction, of course. I offer as evidence
a chain of commercial truck stop/tire centers named Gay Johnson's:
http://tinyurl.com/847lu
"One Gay Johnson owner, Gaynell Colaric, said the tires are stored in the open..."
Or how about this fine chain of convenience stores:
http://www.kumandgo.com/
And these are in places where English is purportedly the native language!
-Jim
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