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From: mnf0642@hertz.njit.edu (    )
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Re: Junk food
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:45:31 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1k2sa1INNmm8@shelley.u.washington.edu> ze@carson.u.washington.edu (Jose Magalhaes) writes:
>In article <23JAN199303171741@vxcrna.cern.ch> pires@vxcrna.cern.ch (Rui) writes:
>>In article <9301221007.AA25618@cygnus.lnec.pt>, bc@lnec.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira) writes...
>>Rui Pires,  em directo do pai's onde nem sequer o pao e' fresco.
>>(voces aqui nos EU's conseguem arranjar pao fresco, ou tambem te^m
>>que comer pao de forma de ha' tres dias, ainda por cima ja' cortado
>>`as fatias?).
>
>	Oh yeah! Pelo menos aqui na capital do expresso, latte', capucino,
>e companhia (leia-se SEATTLE), agora conhecida como epicentro mundial da
>cultura GRUNCH (Yuck!), nao falta pao FRESCO de todas as qualidades e feitio! 

	GRUNGE !!!!!

    please

;-)
			Nuno
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
From: fmhv@minerva.inesc.pt (Fernando Manuel Vasconcelos)
Subject: ]Malta - Portugal ( WC 1994 )
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:50:40 GMT

Resultados dos jogos Malta - Portugal:

Esperancas:

Malta - Portugal : 0 - 2 ( com 0 - 0 ao intervalo )

Rezam as cronicas que a equipa Portuguesa foi nitidamente superior ao
adversario sobretudo na segunda parte em que parece que se adaptou melhor ao
estado do terreno. 

Seleccao "A":

Malta - Portugal : 0 - 1 ( 0 - 0 ao intervalo )

Exibicao sem grande brilho mas com muito rigor. Malta conseguiu apenas rematar
uma meia duzia de vezes a baliza e so' numa delas e' que criou perigo. Portugal
poderia ter conseguido, sem fazer uma grande exibicao, um resultado mais
dilatado tendo em conta a fragilidade dos defesas centrais de Malta. O Rui 
Aguas que alias marcou o golo da vitoria, teve varias oportunidades de 
conseguir marcar mais. Enfim dois pontos importantes na luta pela
classificacao.

Proximo jogo da seleccao : Dia 24 de Fevereiro , um jogo muito importante, 
Portugal - Italia na "catedral" das Antas ... ( Esta da catedral e' para os 
"Dragoes" que andam ai' por esse mundo fora ficarem contentes :-) )

Entretanto para a Taca de Portugal o Braga ficou apurado para os quartos de
final ao eliminar o Penafiel em jogo de desempate.

Penafiel - Braga : 1 - 2 ( apos prolongamento )
-- 
Fernando Manuel Hourtiguet de Vasconcelos ( INESC ) 
Email:  fmhv@inesc.inesc.pt  Phone: +351 (1) 3100216 Fax: +351(1)525843 
Adress: Rua Alves Redol No 9, sala 208 Apartado 10105 
	1017 Lisboa CODEX - Portugal 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
From: lima@pluto.ral.rpi.edu (Pedro Lima)
Subject: Re: Noticias la' do burgo!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:15:10 GMT


A propo'sito de Musica Pra'-pular Portuguesa, ha' pelo menos 3 novos
discos dignos de nota:

Resistencia: "Mano-a-mano", onde estes "reformados" do rock portuga
(Pedro Ayres de Magalha~es, Fredo, Dudas, Tim, etc) interpretam em
versao acustica temas de bandas rock (Xutos, Radio Macau, Delfins),
dos Trovante e... Zeca Afonso. A ideia parece outra vez boa, como em 
"Palavras ao Vento" (disco #1), mas o som final lembra aquelas
reunioes de amigos `a volta de uma fogueira, com uma guitarra na mao
e todos bem bebidos :-). Com um bocadinho mais de profissionalismo,
a coisa ia la'... Ha' uma versao de que gosto muito de "Amanha~ e' sempre
longe demais", dos Radio Macau.

Vitorino: Nao me lembro do nome e nao ouvi mas dizem que tem sabor a
danc,as de sala~o. Ou seja, os cantores de intervenc,a~o tambem se estao
a reformar.

Setima Legia~o: "O Fogo".  Espero ouvir este dentro de dias e depois
direi qualquer coisa, se me quiserem aturar. Espero com ansiedade pelo
resultado. Espero que na~o tenham reformado a qualidade, tambem estes...


Pedro Lima
lima@ral.rpi.edu

PS - Em todos os trabalhos novos da MPP sente-se um sabor a saudosismo e
recuperacao do passado que ate' teria a sua piada se nao correspondesse
a uma baixa de profissionalismo e a capas com touros e tal, como no disco
dos Resistencia. Mas isto e' uma opinia~o pessoal, claro. O disco dos
Xutos tambem e' assim?
From: ze@carson.u.washington.edu (Jose Magalhaes)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Mais sobre automoveis...
Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:43:50 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

Ola',

	Ainda a proposito da discussao sobre acidentes em Portugal seguem-se
uma se'rie de dados extraidos (sem autorizac,ao) dum dos "americast newsgroups:

Largest Motorway Networks
United States: 52,616 (1990)
Canada: 9,290
Germany: 5,554
France: 4,619
Italy: 4,196
Japan: 3,019
Mexico: 1,963
Britain: 1,800
Spain: 1,674
Netherlands: 1,297
   *

Number of Cars per Mile of Road
Hong Kong: 418.4
Taiwan: 240.3
Singapore: 232.0
Kuwait: 224.2
Brunei: 153.6
Israel: 124.2
Netherlands: 93.3
Japan: 86.1
U.S.: 48.3(1990)
   *

Number of Cars per 1,000 people
U.S.: 752 (1990)
Canada: 617 (1989)
New Zealand: 608 (1987)
Luxembourg: 532
Iceland: 527
Italy: 517 (1989)
Germany: 511 (1990)
France: 501
Switzerland: 500
Japan: 483
   *

Average Per Capita Annual Distance Traveled by Car (Miles per year)
Iraq: 23,982 (1989)
Jordan (East Bank): 18,600 (1987)
Yemen: 16,309
Ethiopia: 15,244 (1988)
Kuwait: 12,400 (1990)
Hong Kong: 11,925
Bahrain: 11,547
Denmark: 11,532
U.S.: 10,531 (1990)
   *

Road Accidents
Injury Accidents per 100 million miles traveled
(NB! Esta maneira de contar o numero de acidentes parece-me mais razoavel
     do que a utilizada pelo Expresso: numero de acidentes/litro de gasolina)
Rwanda: 3,224 (1990)
Colombia: 1,501 (1988)
South Korea: 1,410 (1988)
Costa Rica: 1,347
Chile: 404 (1987)
Honduras: 389 (1990)
Kenya: 318
Turkey: 318
U.S.: 118 (1990)
   *

Road Exenditures* (in U.S. $$ billions)
Japan: 64.9 (1988)
U.S.: 58.4 (1989)
Spain: 19.9
Germany: 13.5 (1987)
Italy: 11.8 (1989)
Britain: 7.4 (1990)
Hong Kong: 5.0
Canada: 4.3 (1988)
Austria: 3.7
Switzerland: 3.7
   *

   Figures are for 1991 unless otherwise noted
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
From: rmg@minerva.inesc.pt (Rui Guerreiro)
Subject: Re: Noticias la' do burgo!
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:58:27 GMT

In article <ofMzIEe00Vp8M7d1Ec@andrew.cmu.edu> js56+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joao M. Soares) writes:
>
>Os marotos dos colegas em Portugal gostam de guardar as 
>boas not'icias para eles! N~ao 'e que os Xutos voltaram
>a gravar um disco, e ningu'em avisa aqui para a rede!
>O disco 'e bom (embora n`ao se compare com as obras primas
>anteriores), e pelo som da coisa suspeito que ao vivo 
>(que 'e onde se v^e o que vale o artista) os homens continuem 
>imbat'iveis.  

O disco parece ser bom, e ate' a critica tem essa opiniao ! :-)

Segundo os criticos destas coisas (nao ouvi o disco todo, apenas algumas
faixas), este disco e' mais "social" que os ultimos. Aparecem aqui letras onde
o tema e' o modo de vida que as pessoas levam. Estou-me a lembrar
particularmente da faixa mais divulgada pelas radios e TV, "Chuva
Dissolvente", onde se "debate" a rotina macadora e cansativa que a malta ca'
do burgo leva -- levantar tao cedo que parece que ainda e' ontem, deixar os
putos num sitio qualquer, seja colegio, ama, ..., estoirar a trabalhar ate' `a
noite, comer qualquer coisa, e cama. E quando damos por nos, estamos velhos,
cansados, e o que se viveu ?

>
>Uma noticia c'a do burgo, de certo modo relacionada, para
>complementar: os Extreme tocam em Pittsburgh dia 3. Nunca
>os ouvi de modo que n~ao posso recomendar. Soube atrav'es aqui
>da rede que t^eem um portuga no grupo.
>

E' verdade que o Nuno Bettencourt (deve ser assim que se escreve) e' portuga
de nascenca (acoreano, para ser ainda mais especifico), mas acho que foi muito
novo para os states e nao mais voltou a viver em territorio portugues. 
Eles (os Extreme) estiveram ca' ha' algum tempo, e foi feita uma grande 
promocao -- principalmente porque se sabia que havia um "portuga" no grupo :-)


>Jo~ao Soares

Um abraco,


-- 
 Rui Manuel      |  rmg%minerva.inesc.pt@uunet.uu.net | Phone :	+351 1 3100220
 Luzia Guerreiro |               rmg@minerva.inesc.pt | Fax   : +351 1  525843
                 |      Address : R. Alves Redol No. 9 sala 211 Apartado 10105
     INESC       |                1017 LISBOA CODEX - Portugal
Newsgroups: inesc.geral,soc.culture.portuguese
From: jota@mujave.inesc.pt (Joao Pedro Martins)
Subject: Re: Acesso publico a Internet em Portugal
Reply-To: jota@iguana.inesc.pt
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:39:05 GMT


	O pessoal todo nao se cansa de referir que o puug (?) cobra
valores muito elevados, mas ninguem referiu quantias certas ou ate' 
aproximadas ate' agora. Ha' alguem que as saiba ?

----
 Joao Pedro Martins, Lisboa, Portugal - jota@mujave.inesc.pt
 
 "cover my face while the animals cry [...],	
  cover my face while the animals die !" (The Cure)
From: cardeira@loria.fr (Cardeira Carlos)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Raul ou Rau'l ?
Date: 23 Jan 93 10:47:13 GMT
Organization: CRIN (CNRS) Nancy - INRIA Lorraine


Quem e' que me pode dizer se se deve 
escrever Raul ou Rau'l ?

E' que eu vou ser pai, ja escolhemos o nome para 
o artista mas aqui em Nancy nao tenho a minha 
enciclopedia para saber se Raul leva acento ou nao !
E nao quero fazer asneira no registo ...

Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
From: xarax@eniac.inesc.pt (Luis Antunes)
Subject: Re: Pato Donald
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:30:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.113900.25652@inesc.pt> hpb@avila (Henrique Pedro Brandao) writes:
>Vacas, havera' sempre gente a comer, quer sejam das que veem do Brasil, da Ar-
>gentina ou de outro lado qq e essas vacas tem que comer! Se os Brasileiros
>andam a desflorestar a Amazonia para alimentar as suas vacas isso ja' e' outro
>problema e que nao deixa de ser muito grave!

ALTO LA'! OS BRASILEIROS???!!!! O Pato Donald e' que tem enormes
fazendas na Amazonia, quem e' que falou em Brasileiros??? E nao sao as
suas vacas, infelizmente a maior parte dos brasileiros nao tem dinheiro
para comer vaca... Sao as vacas que TU comes no Pato Donald.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
From: pamaga@biobase.aau.dk (Paulo Magalhaes)
Subject: Re: C&A
Organization: The Danish BioBase
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:35:30 GMT

In <1k3ej8INNdkl@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> cka@aifbdelta.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Claus Kaldeich) writes:

>In article <9301221258.AA27022@cygnus.lnec.pt>, bc@lnec.pt (Luis Miguel Sequeira) writes:
>> E'  um armazem  britanico de roupas,  que existe um  pouco  por toda a
>> Europa, e agora tambe'm em Lisboa e Cascais... :-)
>> 
>> 	- Luis Sequeira
>Ola' Sr. Sequeira!!
>Desculpa la' minha intervenc,a~o, 
>mas... o raio do armazem na~o e' breta~o, 

Ai, ai, "Sr. Kaldeich"...
Essa geografia anda muito mal!
britanico - da Gra-Bretanha
bretao - da Bretanha
...num sitio falam (maioritariamente!) ingles, no outro frances!!!

E desculpa la' a minha tambe'm, mas nao resisti ;-)

Paulo
Copenhaga
From: rui@shadowfax.hw.stratus.com (Rui DosSantos)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Re: Junk food
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:10:44 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: shadowfax.hw.stratus.com

Se estas cartas chegam as maos dos servicos de seguranca americanos, e sendo
o McDonald's uma instituicao americana, podem ser interpretadas como um 
ataque a seguranca e aos interesses nacionais americanos. 

Por consequente e possivel que o departamento de estado leve (ou nao leve)
o assunto ao conselho de seguranca, para que tome uma resolucao que resulte
no bambardeamento de Lisboa.


 " Have it your way at McDonald's today! " (coro)
From: lmg@natinst.com (Louis Gomes)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.portuguese
Subject: Re: Pastelarias
Date: 21 Jan 1993 11:39:25 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: eagle.natinst.com

In article <1993Jan21.115509.11554@inesc.pt> hpb@avila (Henrique Pedro Brandao) writes:
>O facto e' que agora se ouve muito: "Aiii destesto o McDonalds!! Sei laaa'!!"
>como quem diz: "Detesto o C&A, credo, e' so' povinho!!".
>Mas gente fina e' outra coisa...
>:-)

Ja agora, para quem nao poe os pes em Lisboa ha uns anitos, o que e'
isso de C&A?

luis miguel
From: andym@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Help Needed...
Date: 22 Jan 93 08:46:48 CST
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

In article <1993Jan21.222921.29709@Csli.Stanford.EDU>, hiraga@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Yuzuru Hiraga) writes:
> In article <1993Jan21.084440.3263@peanut> andym@bvc.edu writes:
>>In article <1993Jan20.023529.26594@til.til.com>, tanaka@til.til.com (Yokichi Tanaka) writes:
>>> One place you might try, (for information if for nothing else) is JUNET.
>>>	...
>>>    Contact:
>>>      Jun Murai
>>>      WIDE Project
>>>      Keio University
>>
>>Good one.  I have tried to write Mr. Murai-kamisama on a number of 
>>occassions asking for help; never, NEVER have I ever received any sort of 
>>reply.
> 
> Well, knowing him personally, I'm rather inclined to defending him:
> It's similar to asking the US President about your visa status.
> After all, he is a busy man (admittedly, not that punctual :-).
> 
> As I hear, "famous" people like Ed Feigenbaum have a dedicated
> secretary to handle email (which easily sums up to piles of printout),
> and don't go through them personally (or have secret accounts, perhaps?).
> 
> It's not a good idea (and perhaps even uncourteous) to ask those
> people about trivia, like network connection.
> 
> -YH

Then why list him as a reference???

Andy
From: jpr1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (James P. Reynolds)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Naze Nihonjin mada kujira toru?
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:27:30 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Konnichi wa!

Watakushi wa Nihongo ga heta desu.  Yomiyoi nozomu.

Tegami o "Greenpeace"kara morau.  Tegami Nihonjin kujira mata tsurini irassharu
nozomu mosu.

Kore shinpai saseru.  Nihon ryooshi kono kagakuteki ossharu, ga kujira Nihon
uogashi iku.  Mata Nihon sen kujira toru nozomu.  Sugu kujira to iu hodo
nokujira wa gozaimasen.

Nihonjin zenbu no hoka wa kujira meshiagaru ka?     :-)


Jim Reynolds


[This is my first try at something in Nihongo.  I think everyone who
actually does know Nihongo is going to have a good laugh.  :-)  I hope I got
all the honorifics right; sometimes I don't know if there's a humble/honorific
set for a given verb.  Also I have trouble with the particles.   -JR]

-- 
James P. Reynolds       (that's Jim to you and me.)     jpr1@lehigh.edu
     Lehigh University Materials Science Rules          jreynolds@igc.org
From: blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: Japanese names & Finnish names
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:38:10 GMT
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.


=> robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu (Henry Robertson) writes:
=> >I must say, Mari which most likely comes from Maria, Mika which most likely
=> >comes from Michael, has no correspondence with the Japanese cases which are
=> >on-yomi of Chinese characters.  It is the Chinese characters' meaning that
=> >gives rise to the name, not the sounds, which are incidental; Mari is
=> >something like "True Reason" and Mika, "Beauty more".  [...]

In article <1k097nINNedu@shelley.u.washington.edu>, 
yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:
=> Didn't someone discuss a while back about the origin
=> of the name Mari?  As I recall, it had something to
=> do with a famous 19-20th century Japanese author Mori 
=> Ougai, who had lived in Europe for many years (also
=> translated some German literature to Japanese).  He 
=> named one of his daughters Mari (from Mary, I guess).  
=> Supposedly this became popularized.  This seems somewhat
=> far fetched, but when you consider the fact that names 
=> of pop celebrities are popular among some parents, maybe 
=> it's not. :-)
=> 
=> As for Mari meaning "true reason" or whatever, one can
=> attach several so-called "ategi" to fit the phonetics.

We named our daughter "Mari-i". Or actually, my wife named
our daughter Marii. It's a little funny... Japanese seem to
think the name is English, and Americans generally think it's
Japanese (pronunciation is closer to 'Marie' than 'Mari').
The kanji is man (10,000), ri (4 leagues, traditional Japanese
unit of measure), ai (love). Translation = Great Love... sort
of. Well... it's kind of a confusing name, but unique, I guess.

But so is her Mother.

- Bill
From: yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: How about a new newsgroup here?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 20:06:00 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

>>>robohen@ocf.berkeley.edu(Henry Robertson) writes:
>>>Mr. Asano is like an undefeatable kaijuu immolating the city of scj in a
>>>sea of flames; anti-Rikiya elements, like inept Jieitai soldiers firing
>>>puny little rockets that only anger Him more.  When resistance proves futile,
>>>perhaps it is time to pray for His appeasement; ultimately, He will nod His
>>>head and return to the sea.

>>I wrote:
>>What?!  Is there no Ultraman?  Is there no hope?

Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>By the way, Ultraman was my hero!  Does anyone know who was the guy in
>the suit? 

What?! You mean he wasn't real?  Sob... (;_;)


Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
From: F10218@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Nick Yanagisawa)
Subject: Re: More Earthquakes
Organization: Motorola
Date: 20 Jan 1993 17:49:38 CST

Mr. Hiraga writes,
------------------------- Original Article -------------------------

(stuff deleted)

>of other dangerous things, only two people died.  I think there were
>something like 400 injuries, but a mere two deaths is incredible.  More
>people die each day of falling asleep at the wheel than were lost to the
>Great Kushiro Earthquake of 1993.

I have the impression that in earthquakes, but more through
the experience of Hurricane Andrew, that American homes are more
fragile than Japanese ones.  They get totally devastated, while
Japanese homes seem to retain more structure.
Is there any grounds to this impression, or is it that Andrew
was really that horrendorous? (at least by the barometer reading,
Andrew was certainly huge but not the strongest, compared eg. with
Muroto-Taifuu which went as low as 890 mb.)
I believe my impression is correct when compared with houses in,
say, (allow me to give names), Mexico or Iran.

(more stuff deleted)

---------------------- End of Original Article -------------------

The Hurrican Andrew was strong, but most of the damages were results of
poor worksmanship than anything else.  Example: There were two houses
next to each other.  One cost more than $500,000 and other cost much
less.  The expensive house were built without supervision of the house
owner and other one was supervise by the owner.  Guess which one blew up?
The roof on the expensive house was almost all gone and furnitures were
all over the house.  The not so expensive house only suffer some minor
damages to the exterior of the house.  According to the investgations
conducted by local newspaper companies (Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald),
they found a lot of defects, short cuts, improper nailing of roof, etc.
on houses that suffer major damages.  (I'm glad Anrew did not pass a
little bit farther to the north.  If it did, I may be a homeless today.)


It seems to me that a lot of builders/carpenters are the people who do
not have a "real" job, have no skills or brains (did not graduate high
school), or drifters (people who move constantly from city to city).
I don't think many of them went through the apprenticeship, they just
became builders/carpenters somehow.  In Japan, people have to go through
long period of aprrenticeship before they are consider builders/capenters
Agree?



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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:42:40 -0500 
From: Hiroshi Haga <hh0u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Akutagawa Ryuunosuke
	<C1HH3x.M6z@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

aijuin@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Akira Ijuin) writes:
> Rikiya Asano <ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> 
> >Mr. Turkey writes:
> 
> >.
> >This is borderline insulting to me. But, I am really fond of your name.
> >I can only imagine what a kind of person you are. Did you know that
> >there is a Turkey
> >North Carolina? Anyway, Mr. Li got the facts straight! Sorry.
> 
> Somebody wanna translate this for me?  I cannot for the hell in me figure
> out what the hell he is trying to say.  Or should I interpret what I see
> on the surface?
> 

It is known and undertood that an ordinary human can not even guess or
surmise what Mr. Rikiya Asano is saying for he is the true genius
which he claims to be.  It is very sad that we, ordinary human beings,
can not appreciate and be enlightened by the sayings of the Great Asano.
But, such is the way of the true genius.  Mr. Asano is a man of great
depth.  His depths in intelligence, morality, and wisdom exceed far
beyond the comprehensions of us, ordinary humans, that they go as far
as the deep bottom of hell.

So, therefore, I tell you not try to understand what Mr. Asano is
trying to say, for it is not for our puny minds to understand them,
but just try hard to understand what you see on the surface.  His
integrity in his posts makes it enough for us, the inferior beings, to
almost understand his wills and attitude in a particular matter by
just staring in wide eyes to his holiness of his posts.  For such is
the Mighty Rikiya's way.  His writings are so sacred, trying to peek
through the surface of them will blind our eyes for we're filthy and
puny beings from the eyes of the Holy Asano.

Oh, the Great Riki-chan, please don't strike me with your wrath for my
impertinence.

p.s.  To surmmarize the above passages, just ignore Mr. Rikiya's posts
for it is not us, ordinary, rational biengs to understand them.  But
they might be a great hobby you can have, to try to guess and
understand what the greatest genius of our time wants to say. 

p.p.s.  Sorry to waste the bandwidth with this gibberish.


Hiroshi Haga 
$@K'2l(J $@Bg;V(J(heretic+@cmu.edu)

"Oh, I plan to go to little Tokyo(the food store in Shadyside)
(And I wish one of you little nazi CMU Basters would try to ambush
(I really Jump) me." - A quote by ra01+@andrew.cmu.edu.
From: naru@eng.umd.edu (Naruhisa Takashima)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
Subject: Re: HDTV in Japan
Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:45:31 GMT
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From what I've heard from my father who works at NHK, the Japanese
Electronic companies have come up with a convertor, so that
Japanese will keep its current standard.

I've also heard that all the equipments for HDTV are being
produced by Japanese companies, even for American standards.
If this is true looks like American electronics industry will
suffer another blow.

Naru Takashima
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From: aijuin@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Ruler of the Sun)
Subject: Re: Japanese name !! 
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:34:48 GMT

ksbeh@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Tere K.S. BEH) writes:

>Sorry guys and gals.  I would like to know how can I tell by 

>his or her name if he/she is a guy or a gal . Just curious.

>Is there any formula for it ? (hee)

A safe bet that if a name ends with -ko, it's a feminine name.

Akira Ijuin

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