Michael Cash wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:10:13 +0900, Brett Robson
> <deep_m_m@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
> 
>>
>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>John W. wrote:
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>>>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
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>>>>>>necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>><mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote in message
>>>>>>>news:cjat96$gdq$12@news.Stanford.EDU...
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>>>>>>>>>>(BTW, do you know they actually SELL pocketknives in Japan? If 
>>>>>>>>>>you ever
>>>>>>>>>>visit the country, check it out.)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Ah, so if you can buy it, it is legal? Cool!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>At these things called "stores"; Japan is very ultra-modern, ya know.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>Yes, I've also seen stores that sell shin-ken. But that doesn't 
>>>>>>>mean that
>>>>>>>just anyone can walk in, buy one and then carry it around in public
>>>>>>>though...
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>>>>>>Given that they're sold as "pocketknives", and typically people put 
>>>>>>them
>>>>>>in pockets (and, as was pointed out by both Syrn and myself) you could
>>>>>>actually carry them onto planes prior to 9/11), it would seem the
>>>>>>Japanese have less of an issue with this than you or others pretend.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Once I was going through security and the lady put her hands down my 
>>>>>pants.
>>>>>
>>>>>Oh boy!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I think I read about that in Penthouse.
>>>
>>>
>>>Not that there's anything wrong with that.
>>>
>>
>>You can thank Larry Flynt for that.
> 
> 
> Flynt publishes Penthouse? That's too upscale for him.
> 

I didn't say that. But as Gowen pointed out a week or two ago you 
  can thank him for defending your constitution (the US one not 
your own personal one).