On 06/04/2010 12:57 AM, Declan Murphy wrote:
> On Jun 3, 6:43 pm, CL<flot...@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> On 06/03/2010 06:00 PM, Declan Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 3, 1:41 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>>> Declan Murphy<declan_mur...@hotmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>> About to have a 5th Prime Minister in 4 years. I bet 1 pint of
>>>>> Guinness to each of you that we will see a 6th before December.
>>
>>>> Vaguely reminds me of my term in the land of the crashing Nikkei;
>>>> Takeshita->Uno->Kaifu within 3 months.
>>
>>>> Mike
>>
>>> I always forget Uno. I wonder why :-)
>>
>> Wasn't he the guy who had to resign because his wife slapped him around
>> and kicked him down a flight of stairs as he returned home from his
>> mistresses' apartment (that's supposed to be a singular possessive, but
>> I forget what you do with the apostrophe in a multiple 's' case)?  Lots
>> of people forgot about him.  Rumor has it that he had the worst attended
>> funeral of any former PM in the post-WWII era.
>
> I thought he was the guy who had to resign because his mistress (high
> rank geisha) complained to the press that he wasn't paying the
> appropriate amount.

Then the boxer wife was Takeshita (?).  I've been here a long time and 
it is hard keeping the stupidity-based scandals separate from the 
greed-based ones.

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CL