"The 2-Belo" <the2belo@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote in message
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> Ed and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>
> >
> >"The 2-Belo" <the2belo@removethiswave-net.or.jp> wrote in message
> >news:3ed2af1b$0$32234$df066bcf@news.sexzilla.net...
> >> So last evening my building here in Nagoya was swaying back and forth
like a
> >> ship on a choppy sea, making me (and several coworkers) rather ill.
Bleah.
> >>
> >> If there's anyone in Sendai reading this group, well, I hope your
houses fared
> >> better than my stomach.
> >
> >I suggest that you stay away from California. I got so good at riding out
> >earthquakes that these little pussy-quakes that Japan produces are like
> >driving a big wheel in the Daytona 500. Cute, but not in the same league.
>
> And a phenomenon that is also indigenous to California is the apparent
necessity
> of its residents to take pride in its earthquakes, as if there were awards
being
> handed out or something.

I don't think it's really a matter of being proud of earthquakes, so much as
it is being used to them.