gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2006-12-17 14:01:04 -0800, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said:

> > Insightful comments like "I don't like it, therefore it will fail"

> "You and bureaucrats are all wrong about everything" isn't insightful 
> either,

Which is nice; who said that?

> I don't like it, it's true, I saw them fail in my community.  I assume 
> they will fail elsewhere due, because I live in a broad and diverse 
> community, not because I don't like them.  Hel, I'd generally assume my 
> tastes are at the end of any bellcurve.

> I read news articles two years ago that indicated they had expanded too 
> rapidly and sold their doughnut like a $100 tennis shoe. Admittedly 

Right; which doesn't mean the mistakes will be repeated in Japan.

> Where are you that it's a boom market?

It's called "California".

> In the end do you think that doughnuts have the universal appeal that 
> coffee and hamburgers have?

It doesn't need to have a "universal appeal"; they're trying to sell to
the Japanese.

> > ...are on a par with the above-mentioned Japanese bureaucrats who, esteemed
> > though they may be, were remarkably inaccurate in their assessments of
> > what would do well in Japan.

> I may know nothing, and you may know nothing, but of course we're both 
> brilliiant compared to thousands of esteemed Japanese bureaucrats, 

Sorry, you're becoming surreal at this point.

Mike