From: barker@aegis.or.jp (Mike Barker)
Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan
Subject: RE: Humor in Japan [ENGLISH - FLAME]
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:55:34 GMT
Reply-To: barker@aegis.or.jp (Mike Barker)
Distribution: fj
Organization: Aegis Society, Kyoto Japan

[flame warning - this message contains angry, possibly insulting,
material.  Read at own risk.]

As the person who was foolish enough to ask a question that started
this... (please note that following an early suggestion, I will use
* to indicate sarcasm)

p-kun@blacklabel.Japan.Sun.COM (Kevin Parrington - Nihon Sun Logistics)

*/2 Kevin - I assume you were sent here to show Nihon Sun how not to do the
*/2 job, right?  I've always wondered whether companies hired bad examples
*/2 deliberately when they got fat enough, now I know.  YOU can explain to
*/2 my Japanese company, friends, and others why they should buy from your
*/2 company - don't you feel good knowing that you've just helped cut SUN's
*/2 profit in Japan?  (also Fujitsu and the other resellers, by the way)
*/2 Thanks, Kevin.  ("did it feel good giving Uncle Sam a black eye? 
*/2 did it, Kevin?  well, did it?")

DAVE.93Jan21161214@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp (David Wuertele)

*/2 David - tell me, bud, do they have bars on your room at the University,
*/2 or is it padded?  I'm just wondering which branch is studying you in
*/2 hopes of detecting signs of intelligence.  I want to let them know it's
*/2 time to give up.
*/2 Thanks, David.

*/2 BTW - if you two feel up to it, you might want to try the regular flame,
*/2 humor, bizarre, and similar newsgroups.  I hesitate to send you into
*/2 those battles of wit, because you're both obviously unarmed, but...
*/2 I'd also suggest that you spend more time getting ready for your try at
*/2 Beat Takeshi's marathons, since that seems to be your style of humor. 
*/2 "Get 'em in a barrel and pound on 'em, ain't that a riot, Wilbur?"

*/2 Get real, kids.  This ain't your neighborhood bbs, where the only
*/2 people that got dirty were you and your friends.  Keep it in mind
*/2 when you decide to take "cheap shots", ok?

Inagaki-san:

My apologies for the rudeness of these two.  I realize it can be hard to
remember that not all Americans are the same, but some of us have grown
up and can be allowed out in polite company.

I would like to thank you for contributing the rakugo comment, and the
translation.  Perhaps it is because I have watched and enjoyed rakugo
(and manzai), but I could imagine the speaker and thought the story
would be funny.  You did much better at a fast translation into English
than I would do trying to translate into written Japanese, despite six
years study and electronic aids.

*/2 I almost wonder if there should be two lists, one for foreigners in
*/2 japan and one for idiots in japan.  I hope both of these people are only
*/2 here for a short time, and leave before they manage to set
*/2 Japanese-American relations back too many centuries.

I appreciate your offer to announce Toastmasters events.  I think that
fits quite well with the theme of foreigners living in Japan.

Again, thank you for your comments, and my apologies for the treatment
you have been given on this list.

mike

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