On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:24:49 +0900, Brett Robson
<deep_m_m@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>
>
>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:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>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).

My personal one is in greater need of help.




--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College