On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:42:55 GMT, jwb@csse.monash.edu.au brought down
from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Apud Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>>The use of "gaigin" as a shibboleth on fjlij was inspired by one
>>particularly clueless fellow who posted by the name of "Tony". He so
>>routinely and consistently misspelled "gaijin" as "gaigin" that we
>>sort of despaired of getting him to type it correctly and just decided
>>that we would all join him in his error.
>
>>http://tinyurl.com/9udx6
>
>I beg to differ (which is a polite way of saying "You're totally 
>wrong, you stupid boofhead!")
>
>That post was in 2002. Gaigin-usage was alive and well in flij before then, 
>although more sporadic.
>
>See:
>
>    http://tinyurl.com/cxgka  (1996)
>and
>    http://tinyurl.com/a4ggc (1997)
>
>The second thread there included a posting from a certain M*** C***.


Please note the phrase "as a shibboleth" in my post.





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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