CL totally sneezed all over fj.life.in-japan with a withering cloud of snot:

>The 2-Belo wrote:
>> CL totally sneezed all over fj.life.in-japan with a withering cloud of snot:
>> 
>>> And _this_ English site about things Wa-ful:
>>>
>>> http://www.seihin-world.com/s/2005/07/12_0157.php
>> 
>> "A bird feeder with authentic bird songs scientifically-proven to attract wild
>> bird. Features: A soundchip of the recordings of the 10 most popular North
>> American burds [sic] (cardinal, robin, oriole, chickadee, house finch,
>> mockingbird, wren, nuthatch, titmouse, and sparrow). By selecting the
>> appropriate regional setting, you can attract the birds that are native to your
>> area."
>> 
>> Hahahaha, I can imagine putting that sumbitch out there in the backyard and
>> firing it up. All the "burds" up in the trees will be sitting there hearing the
>> calls of Carolina chickadees and tufted titmouses, and going "WTF?"
>
>Since they'd be Japanese "burds" they'll probably all be chuckling into
>their feathers about the foreigner's weird accent and will fly around
>saying things like "Oo mai goddo; Jiizasu Kuraisuto!"

Yet, a couple years later, you start seeing mixed nests with half-breed
chicka-uguisus calling "Ho-hokekyo-dee-dee-dee!" Their caps are brownish...

[Amagasaki train accident site, although originally at this point we were
talking about Swiss cheese]

>Several people have told me about going to the train crash site.  I
>don't get the attraction.  

Simple rubbernecking, dude. I was driving by and recognized the location on the
car-navi. On April 25, 2005, on this spot, some really crazy shit happened. I'm
morbid; I had to look.

(April 25 is the anniversary of the day my wife's house burned down. Her
birthday is January 17, which is of course the date of the Kobe earthquake. I
married a CURSE!!1!!!11)

>I was down there for work about six weeks
>after the crash and there was this building with a big dent in its side
>and a crane putting big chunks of metal on the backs of flatbed trucks
>while someone else hosed the blood out.  All the trains were still
>slowing 'way down and JR West had a couple of official mourners to bow
>to each train as it passed by.  Can you imagine going through all of
>those years of jukensei shit to get into a good junior high, then a good
>high school, and then a good university where you score a good degree
>... and wind up standing in front of a train crash site in a black suit
>and bowing to passing trains?

Were they given cheese as compensation? WHICH SEGUES TO:

>>>>> Cheese exports are 'way up all 
>>>>
>>>> They're using it to build the top-secret anti-Taiwan CHEESE WEAPON!!!!!11
>>> That was the Cheddar Hypersonic Accelerator; one designed by the 
>>> Canadian engineer who was assassinated, right?  Don't know why the 
>>> Chinese would go to all of that trouble when they could just ship a 
>>> couple of container loads of frozen gyoza and beef tongue over instead. 
>>>  They don't have to buy in and can use ingredients they already have.
>> 
>> Maybe they're using it to feed the people who were trapped on trains for 60
>> hours at a time last weekend during the blizzards.
>
>Probably using to to feed all of the Good Party Members who are sitting
>in Beijing and trying to think of something to do using one hundred
>million people with snow shovels.

Three words: Big. Fucking. Snowman.


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