Michael Cash wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:47:43 +0900, B Robson <Xb-robsonX@gol.com>
> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
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>>necoandjeff wrote:
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>>>B Robson wrote:
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>>>>Since when did Korean TV become cool?
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>>>Where the hell have you been?
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>>One of the things I like about Japan is I can generally avoid mainstream 
>>"culture" only tapping into the things I am interested in. For instance 
>>I don't think I have ever heard a Brittany Spears song. One draw back is 
>>I didn't know how big the Chutetsu earthquake was until I sat next to a 
>>guy on the train and saw his newspaper.
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>>>If you have had any meaningful
>>>contact with Japanese women over the past year or so I can't imagine you
>>>wouldn't know this...
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>>Depends with what you mean by "meaningful".
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> 
> Absent remuneration or subterfuge.
> 

Yes, but it still isn't very meaningful. I am rather shallow in some 
respects.