Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 04:13:58 -0500 From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Calling out lurkers Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:15:16 +0900 Message-ID: References: <11bipmr8d673kdd@news.supernews.com> <2005062600211975249%spambucket@yah000com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 46 X-Trace: sv3-JVgUIPJYn+uDbabE7U2W7RmHZBWV37GGB3gaFSpSfS/kEf8v9jlAYYEUA9dUsheuRarXkeewtB7k0rl!VfiOLrTTBnw1kduBpNKMmlRUXYgdHBwgsrjjwQm79W740PiviahU8KbDnCh1p9AnvKtVWxw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:28103 On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:21:19 -0700, Chris brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: >On 2005-06-22 06:25:23 -0700, Kevin Wayne Williams > said: > >> Michael Cash wrote: >> >>> >>> You know, my spousal unit has in the past asked me about certain >>> members of our happy little not-usenet family here who don't actually >>> live in Japan and just what their connection to Japan is and why they >>> post here. >>> >>> I normally reply that I neither know nor care. >> >> I'm not sure how many of those there are. I don't live there, but was >> born there. John W. lived in Hyogo for some time. Eric lives in Hawaii >> now, but I believe he physically lived in Japan. KGII did his English >> teaching stint. >> >> Outland doesn't live there, never has, but he is a compulsive troller. >> >> Who else posts regularly or semi-regularly, but doesn't physically live there? >> KWW > >I'll admit that I lurk and come out of the darkness whenever I am set >to come back for a long vist and posible return. > >Then I think about what to do for a living.Then realizing I have zero >desire to teach English again so that return gets put back on the shelf. There's no law that says gaigins have to teach English, you know. -- Michael Cash "Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash. Clowns and jokers." Prof. Ernest T. Bass Mount Pilot College