On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:40:23 +0900, Bryan Parker
<puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>dame_zumari@yahoo.com ( Louise Bremner) said:
>
>>Bryan Parker <puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If you had any professional advice to offer a
>>> charming 17 year old Japanese girl with dreams of
>>> becoming a translator, what would it be?
>>
>>Bizarre ambition, but who am I to persuade her otherwise?
>>
>>Um.... What field is she planning to translate in, or is she under the
>>impression that merely studying two languages at college would somehow
>>make her employable?
>
>Translation is just an elective course at the Jr.
>college that she'll be attending. We only talked
>about this for a few minutes tonight. I'll see her
>again in a couple of weeks and we'll have a lot
>mor etime to chat. What field would you go into if
>you could start over again now, knowing what you
>already know?


"If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber." 

                                Albert Einstein


or


I'm gonna get me religion, I'm gonna join the Baptist church
I wanna be a Baptist preacher, so's I don't have to work

                                Son House
                                "Preachin' Blues"


Maybe an evangelical plumber.