Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: Brett Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Adam & Joe Do Tokyo! BBC3 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:32:38 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <2q9smjFsu8p9U1@uni-berlin.de> <41407ef4$0$22758$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1094776356 26549 203.216.0.91 (10 Sep 2004 00:32:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:32:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5 X-Accept-Language: en In-Reply-To: <41407ef4$0$22758$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18043 Nick Rees wrote: > "Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" wrote in message > news:p3r0k09mk02r76dcnusp7j69himgp5vofg@4ax.com... >=20 >>On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:20:45 +0900, Brett Robson >> wrote: >> >> >>>"Our heroes also end up working in a host bar, where rich women >>>go to be flattered and given lots of attention by silver tongued >>>smoothies. The best of these charmers can earn up to ?60,000 a >>>month," >>> >>>11million yen a month? I don't think so. >> >>I've seen it on TV, it's true, for suitable values of true - an >>exceptionally popular host or hostess will get showered by gifts on >>his/her birthday and it's possible it will add up to 8 digits. >> >>Ken >=20 >=20 > Yes I saw this whole series here in the UK last year. I found it quite = funny > and fascinating especially as each week they try to find ways of becomi= ng > "Big in Japan." Even pretending to be the other halves of the Kano Sist= ers > and getting themselves in the papers. I've wanted to pull off something like that. Arrive somewhere in=20 a limo, have a couple of bodyguards and a dozen or so planted=20 fans, and get the whole thing on tape.