Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!feed.news.tiscali.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!53.200.244.43.ap.yournet.ne.JP!not-for-mail From: Michael Cash Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Places in Tokyo for the moral traveller? Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 12:12:21 +0900 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <1g6zgzu.5jmb4o134jsqsN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 53.200.244.43.ap.yournet.ne.jp (43.244.200.53) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1073099538 3581555 43.244.200.53 ([51151]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9416 On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 02:26:33 GMT, dame_zumari@yahoo.com (LB) brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: >ifignow wrote, with annotated subtitles, maybe for >the hard of comprehension: > >> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >> >> ------ =_NextPart_000_0019_01C3D1C9.F1DE1140 >> Content- Type: text/plain; >> charset="iso- 2022-jp" >> Content- Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >> I grew up in rural Japan 20 years ago when it was a very >> different culture, where people were earnest and not pretentious. > >It was? Gosh. I must have missed that, way back then. I think most people who were of elementary school age back then missed it as well. That plus the wistful misty veil one can unconsciously throw over musty memories of the place makes it look better in hindsight. It seemed to me that fashion, drinking, and whatever else it was he bemoaned were just as popular 20 years ago as they are today. In fact, come to think of it, for the last manymany years hasn't the alcohol industry been bemoaning a *decrease* in drinking? -- Michael Cash "While we thank you for considering our firm, regretfully we have no openings for a person of your educational background and are returning your resume. Despite what your academic advisor may have told you, there are, to the best of our knowledge, no openings in our industry for a person with a degree in farm ecology." Dr. Seymore Butts Human Resources Acme Pharmeceuticals, Inc.