On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:33:04 +0000 (UTC), mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net
belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm yet to progress to the um-ing and aw-ing in Japanese phase, so I
>> don't know if it naturally follows, but I know a couple of gaigin who
>> regularly point to the nose, rather than to the chest, to indicate
>> "self". To me it always looks like a forced gesture, but I've never
>> actually asked the people who do it if it's natural or not, just in
>> case they get offended or something. I'm no psychologist or whatever,
>> but I would think that it must be forced. What do you lot think?
>
>Wait till you see them bowing while talking on the phone...

<prolonged sucking of air through teeth> We don't pick up habits like
that.