Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: chuckers Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Prime Ministerial roulette Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 66 Message-ID: <87d23a07-db9b-4252-a59f-8414b1559705@s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <4c0820f3$0$5554$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> <0dd80718-8941-475d-9e10-5b22a5e51ea7@11g2000prv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.36.179.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275610460 14519 127.0.0.1 (4 Jun 2010 00:14:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 00:14:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.36.179.50; posting-account=iPkvIwoAAAAK9uQVY7lJ0Hck6k8yfmjW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169278 On Jun 4, 9:09=A0am, chuckers wrote: > On Jun 4, 6:54=A0am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > > > > CL wrote: > > > On 06/04/2010 12:57 AM, Declan Murphy wrote: > > > > On Jun 3, 6:43 pm, CL =A0wrote: > > > >> On 06/03/2010 06:00 PM, Declan Murphy wrote: > > > > >>> On Jun 3, 1:41 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote: > > > >>>> Declan Murphy =A0 =A0wrote: > > > >>>>> 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 a= round > > > >> and kicked him down a flight of stairs as he returned home from hi= s > > > >> mistresses' apartment (that's supposed to be a singular possessive= , but > > > >> I forget what you do with the apostrophe in a multiple 's' case)? = =A0Lots > > > >> of people forgot about him. =A0Rumor 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 (hi= gh > > > > rank geisha) complained to the press that he wasn't paying the > > > > appropriate amount. > > > Then the boxer wife was Takeshita (?). =A0I've been here a long time = and > > > it is hard keeping the stupidity-based scandals separate from the > > > greed-based ones. > > > Anyone remember Kanemaru? Not a PM, but was caught with $42M in stocks,= cash, > > and gold bullion in his HOUSE? His excuse (I kid you not) was that he w= as going > > to use the money to "fight corruption in politics". > > > Mike > > The spousal unit keeps mentioning Kanemaru, expecting me to know who > that is. > It keeps coming up because we are apparently an acquaintance of one of > his descendants > (daughter?) =A0Or maybe that is a different Kanemaru. =A0Or not even a > Kanemaru. =A0I try to pay > attention to whats being said around the house but some of it just > won't stick. Not daughter. We know the wife of one of his sons (again, depending on if this is the same person or not. Will ask when I get home (and be berated for not remembering/paying attention. Again.))