Brett Robson wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>> Brett Robson wrote:
>>
>>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>>
>>>> another fool wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I would like to send you my most sincere thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just the other day a friend was asking me if it was possible for
>>>>> someone to come to Japan and not get laid.  I told him I was sure
>>>>> it was possible but I could not come up with any examples of it
>>>>> actually happening.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Allow me to introduce to you Brett Robson. Brett, please meet
>>>> another fool.
>>>
>>> I am sure you can help out with your exenstive knowledge having
>>> met and interviewed tens of thousands of Japanese women.
>>
>>
>> I never said interviewed, I said met. And it was several thousand
>> over a span of 17 1/2 years, not tens of thousands. I've been back
>> here for a month and I've probably met another 100, despite the fact
>> that I'm no longer single. Let's see there are the 40 or so working
>> here at MoFo, there were the 8 or so that I met when I went to
>> Softbank the other day. There were the 5 or so when I went to visit
>> Fujikura the other day. There were the 20 or 30 that I met as my
>> wife and I were being taken around to look at apartments over the
>> last few weeks. There were the two sitting behind us last weekend at
>> the recycle sale...why is this so difficult for you to envision
>> Brett?
>>
>
> No it's not difficulty to imagine. I met 200 people of the train
> this morning, and another 30 or so on the subway. Unfortunately I
> forgot to ask them all detailed questions so I could use this
> information 20 years later to impress people with my extensive
> knowledge of Japan.

I didn't say they entered my field of vision, I said met, as in speak with,
exchange names. And the claim was made in the context of your assertion that
I wasn't very familiar with the names of Japanese women. For that purpose I
should include everyone for whom I've ever even seen a name tag or whose
name I've seen on a list, although I'm not.