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mr.sumo snr.

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Jul 23, 2003, 2:43:05 PM7/23/03
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"Larry Fitzsimmons" <larry_fi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> I am an American who is about to move to Japan for job purposes. I
> hardly know anyone in Japan, and would be interested in making friends
> with Americans in Japan, or Japanese people interested in making
> friends with an American.
>
> I am a nice guy, Japanese-American, who is into computers and martial
> arts. I am open-minded and friendly, and sometimes funny. I have a
> graduate degree and professional job, and I speak some Japanese.
>
> Please post a reply if you are interested in making friends. I look
> forward to hearing from everybody!

Are you on the JET program?

I know not every new American is a JET...but....it's a fair assumption to
make since they usually arrive at this time of year. I meet 6 or 7 new JETs
at the local summer festivals every year.

--
jonathan


Kevin Gowen

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Jul 23, 2003, 3:06:09 PM7/23/03
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He can't be a JET. He said that he was moving to Japan "for job purposes"

--
Kevin Gowen
"This is the place where in the 1990s Hanna was hung from a rod and
beaten with a special stick when she called out for Jesus or the Virgin
Mary. This is where she and other female prisoners were dragged outside
and tied to a dead tree trunk, nicknamed "Walid" by the guards, and
raped in the shadow of palm trees. This is the place where electric
shock was applied to Hanna's vagina. And this is where in February 2001
someone put a bullet in her husband's head and handed his corpse
through the steel gate like a piece of butcher's meat."
- The Washington Compost on the Baghdad police academy where Jumana
Michael Hanna and other Iraqi women were tortured, raped, and
brutalized. Mrs. Hanna was not liberated in Martin Sheen's name.

Matthew Endo

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Jul 23, 2003, 5:29:03 PM7/23/03
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Larry Fitzsimmons <larry_fi...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am an American who is about to move to Japan for job purposes. I
> hardly know anyone in Japan, and would be interested in making friends
> with Americans in Japan, or Japanese people interested in making
> friends with an American.

Yes, but don't you already know all of us cool people on fjlij? Mike
Cash sometimes drives his truck nearby (he toots his horn to let me
know), occasionally you can see some coffee brewing translating guy
named Sigi Rindler at his shop, if you drop by the MacExpo or Akihabara,
you might catch a glimpse of Louise, and heaven forbid if you go
anywhere near Osaka or Nagoya or (gasp) the Ryukyus...



> I am a nice guy, Japanese-American, who is into computers and martial
> arts. I am open-minded and friendly, and sometimes funny. I have a
> graduate degree and professional job, and I speak some Japanese.

Larry, there is a group of hapas here in Tokyo. I'll see if I can get
you some contact info. The guy I know works in Akasaka, by the way.

When you come to Tokyo, you'll realize that there are more gaijin here
than you can shake a stick at. If you let it happen, you can easily
live without speaking any Japanese.

Oh, and I'm usually in one of my favorite Irish pubs a few times a
month. Send me an e-mail when you arrive. If you are interested to see
what I look like or who I am, you can do a google search on my name and
easily find the info.

You also might try posting something in Tokyo Classified. But be more
specific. If you're looking for alien life forms or native ladies, say
so. Do you need a partner to go to the dojo with, or someone to explore
Tokyo or outlaying areas on the weekends? What do you mean by "friend"?

Friendship doesn't come easily in this town. I have friends I haven't
seen for months, just because we are all very very busy. It takes hard
work to stay in touch.

Good luck and all the best,

--
Matt
ma...@gol.com

Louise Bremner

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Jul 23, 2003, 6:10:11 PM7/23/03
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Matthew Endo <ma...@gol.com> wrote:

> > I am an American who is about to move to Japan for job purposes. I
> > hardly know anyone in Japan, and would be interested in making friends
> > with Americans in Japan, or Japanese people interested in making
> > friends with an American.
>
> Yes, but don't you already know all of us cool people on fjlij?

> ... occasionally you can see some coffee brewing translating guy


> named Sigi Rindler at his shop, if you drop by the MacExpo or Akihabara,

> you might catch a glimpse of Louise...

You need to read more carefully--he isn't interested in the likes of
Sigi or me....

________________________________________________________________________
Louise Bremner (log at gol dot com)
If you want a reply by e-mail, don't write to my Yahoo address!

Matthew Endo

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Jul 23, 2003, 6:19:02 PM7/23/03
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Louise Bremner <dame_...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > > I am an American who is about to move to Japan for job purposes. I
> > > hardly know anyone in Japan, and would be interested in making friends
> > > with Americans in Japan, or Japanese people interested in making
> > > friends with an American.
> >
> > Yes, but don't you already know all of us cool people on fjlij?
> > ... occasionally you can see some coffee brewing translating guy
> > named Sigi Rindler at his shop, if you drop by the MacExpo or Akihabara,
> > you might catch a glimpse of Louise...
>
> You need to read more carefully--he isn't interested in the likes of
> Sigi or me....

Well, for some reason, I was thinking of 'wareware gaijin' rather than
Americanos...

BTW, how did you get that cat picture into MacSoup?

--
Matt
ma...@gol.com

Louise Bremner

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Jul 23, 2003, 7:18:58 PM7/23/03
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Matthew Endo <ma...@gol.com> wrote:

> > > > I am an American who is about to move to Japan for job purposes. I
> > > > hardly know anyone in Japan, and would be interested in making friends
> > > > with Americans in Japan, or Japanese people interested in making
> > > > friends with an American.
> > >
> > > Yes, but don't you already know all of us cool people on fjlij?
> > > ... occasionally you can see some coffee brewing translating guy
> > > named Sigi Rindler at his shop, if you drop by the MacExpo or Akihabara,
> > > you might catch a glimpse of Louise...
> >
> > You need to read more carefully--he isn't interested in the likes of
> > Sigi or me....
>
> Well, for some reason, I was thinking of 'wareware gaijin' rather than
> Americanos...

Or maybe it's "all gaigin are American"?



> BTW, how did you get that cat picture into MacSoup?

Use <http://ww.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/10091> then copy
the resultant text string into Internet Config (in the Japanese version,
it's the メセージ field in 詳細設定 which is maybe "Message"
in "Detailed Settings").

Rindler Sigurd

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Jul 23, 2003, 11:02:13 PM7/23/03
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> You need to read more carefully--he isn't interested in the likes of
> Sigi or me....
>

Yea... I don't need more boyfriends!:-)

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Declan Murphy

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Jul 24, 2003, 2:49:23 AM7/24/03
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Larry Fitzsimmons wrote:
>>>You need to read more carefully--he isn't interested in the likes of
>>>Sigi or me....
>>
> I don't know what "the likes of Sigi or me" refers to, but I am
> open-minded and would like to make friends with all sorts of people.

...and yet for some reason, your written posts tend to suggest that this
is only if they are Americans or non-Japanese women. Though I assume its
unintended.

--
The ballerina stood on point, her toes curled like shrimp, not
deep-fried shrimp because, as brittle as they are, they would have
cracked under the pressure, but tender ebi-kind-of-shrimp, pink and
luscious as a Tokyo sunset, wondering if her lover was in the Ginza,
wooing the geisha with eyes reminiscent of roe, which she liked better
than ebi anyway - Brian Tacang

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2003.htm

Michael Cash

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Jul 24, 2003, 8:56:27 AM7/24/03
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On 24 Jul 2003 03:02:13 GMT, "Rindler Sigurd"
<srin...@da2.so-net.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>> You need to read more carefully--he isn't interested in the likes of
>> Sigi or me....
>>
>
>Yea... I don't need more boyfriends!:-)

Bryan keeping you busy?

--

Michael Cash

"There was a time, Mr. Cash, when I believed you must be the most useless
thing in the world. But that was before I read a Microsoft help file."

Prof. Ernest T. Bass
Mount Pilot College


http://www.sunfield.ne.jp/~mike/

Bryan Parker

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Jul 24, 2003, 10:46:26 AM7/24/03
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Michael Cash <mike...@sunfield.ne.jp> said:

>On 24 Jul 2003 03:02:13 GMT, "Rindler Sigurd"
><srin...@da2.so-net.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
>with:
>
>>> You need to read more carefully--he isn't interested in the likes of
>>> Sigi or me....
>>>
>>
>>Yea... I don't need more boyfriends!:-)
>
>Bryan keeping you busy?

Not yet. Sigi is one of the members of this group
that I still look forward to meating.. I mean
MEETING someday.


--
Bryan
gaijenerous -
adjective: more than adequate (Example: "A slab of
gaijenerous proportion")
adjective: willing to give and share unstintingly
(Example: "A gaijenerous ejaculation")
adjective: not petty in character and mind (Example:
"Unusually gaijenerous in his judgment of people")

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Rindler Sigurd

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Jul 24, 2003, 6:01:31 PM7/24/03
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> >Bryan keeping you busy?
>
> Not yet. Sigi is one of the members of this group
> that I still look forward to meating.. I mean
> MEETING someday.
>
>

Howdy Brian...
Where shall we mate? In the park or in front of Shinjuku station?:-)

Sigi

Brett Robson

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Jul 25, 2003, 1:07:51 AM7/25/03
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:06:09 -0400, "Kevin ...

>
>mr.sumo snr. wrote:
>> "Larry Fitzsimmons" <larry_fi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ecd56b51.03072...@posting.google.com...
>>> Hi All:
>>>
>>> I am an American who is about to move to Japan for job purposes. I
>>> hardly know anyone in Japan, and would be interested in making
>>> friends with Americans in Japan, or Japanese people interested in
>>> making
>>> friends with an American.
>>>
>>> I am a nice guy, Japanese-American, who is into computers and martial
>>> arts. I am open-minded and friendly, and sometimes funny. I have a
>>> graduate degree and professional job, and I speak some Japanese.
>>>
>>> Please post a reply if you are interested in making friends. I look
>>> forward to hearing from everybody!
>>
>> Are you on the JET program?
>>
>> I know not every new American is a JET...but....it's a fair
>> assumption to make since they usually arrive at this time of year. I
>> meet 6 or 7 new JETs at the local summer festivals every year.
>
>He can't be a JET. He said that he was moving to Japan "for job purposes"
>

Yeah, everyone knows JET is a scheme for socially impaired Americans to find
wives and learn Japanese.

---
"If our [US] soldiers must be involved in a lengthy occupation, at least it's in
a place without any dangerous weapons of mass destruction lying around."

Jason Cormier

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Jul 25, 2003, 11:36:35 AM7/25/03
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On 7/25/03 1:07, in article bfqdv...@drn.newsguy.com, "Brett Robson"
<jet...@deja.com> wrote:

> Yeah, everyone knows JET is a scheme for socially impaired Americans to find
> wives and learn Japanese.


...and to isolate Austrians in bum-fuck nowhere towns where they learn to
climb the walls and masturbate frequently.

I mean, fer chrissakes, you thought that *Nagoya* was civilisation after
that. I hear you've since been cured of this affliction.

Rindler Sigurd

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Jul 25, 2003, 9:48:29 PM7/25/03
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...and to isolate Austrians in bum-fuck nowhere towns where they learn to
> climb the walls and masturbate frequently.
>

Eeeh? Who are you referring to here? Mistaken identity with Oz?
My alibi: I live in the capital!!!:-)

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Brett Robson

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Jul 27, 2003, 8:41:41 PM7/27/03
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On 26 Jul 2003 01:48:29 GMT, "Rindler ...

>
> ...and to isolate Austrians in bum-fuck nowhere towns where they learn to
>> climb the walls and masturbate frequently.
>>
>
>Eeeh? Who are you referring to here? Mistaken identity with Oz?
>My alibi: I live in the capital!!!:-)
>

No, the *other* Austria, the one with Koalas, Kanagaroos and Beer.

Brett Robson

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Jul 27, 2003, 8:40:54 PM7/27/03
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:36:35 GMT, Jason ...


While I'm enjoying myself in Eastern Capital, I'd still prefer to live in
Nagoya.

Jason Cormier

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Jul 27, 2003, 9:22:55 PM7/27/03
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On 7/25/03 21:48, in article 3f21dded$1...@news.uncensored-news.com, "Rindler
Sigurd" <srin...@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:

> ...and to isolate Austrians in bum-fuck nowhere towns where they learn to
>> climb the walls and masturbate frequently.
>>
>
> Eeeh? Who are you referring to here?

FJLIJ's resident walking hormone. He likes to yodel while he puts a prawn on
the barbie.


Michael Cash

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Jul 27, 2003, 9:56:37 PM7/27/03
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On 27 Jul 2003 17:40:54 -0700, Brett Robson <jet...@deja.com> belched

the alphabet and kept on going with:

>---


>"If our [US] soldiers must be involved in a lengthy occupation, at least it's in
>a place without any dangerous weapons of mass destruction lying around."

Shouldn't you attribute that to The Onion?

Brett Robson

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Jul 27, 2003, 11:26:37 PM7/27/03
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:37 +0900, Michael ...

>
>On 27 Jul 2003 17:40:54 -0700, Brett Robson <jet...@deja.com> belched
>the alphabet and kept on going with:
>
>>---
>>"If our [US] soldiers must be involved in a lengthy occupation, at least it's in
>>a place without any dangerous weapons of mass destruction lying around."
>
>Shouldn't you attribute that to The Onion?
>


I've attributed it to the original source.

---
"If our [US] soldiers must be involved in a lengthy occupation, at least it's in
a place without any dangerous weapons of mass destruction lying around."

- Martin Stearns

Matthew Endo

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Jul 28, 2003, 6:55:06 PM7/28/03
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Larry Fitzsimmons <larry_fi...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I could use that information soon.

My cell phone number is on my web site. When will you arrive?

--
Matt
ma...@gol.com

Rindler Sigurd

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Jul 28, 2003, 10:16:27 PM7/28/03
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> > You also might try posting something in Tokyo Classified.

Or the Tokyo Notice Board, several other smaller free English publications
free for pickup at major bookstores, restaurants, etc.
I have seen one or two Internet sites dealing with these issues too.
BTW, the Tokyo Classified and it's classified ads can be accessed via the
Internet.


Sigi

Michael Cash

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Jul 29, 2003, 6:11:54 AM7/29/03
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On 27 Jul 2003 20:26:37 -0700, Brett Robson <jet...@deja.com> belched

the alphabet and kept on going with:

>On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:56:37 +0900, Michael ...
>>
>>On 27 Jul 2003 17:40:54 -0700, Brett Robson <jet...@deja.com> belched
>>the alphabet and kept on going with:
>>
>>>---
>>>"If our [US] soldiers must be involved in a lengthy occupation, at least it's in
>>>a place without any dangerous weapons of mass destruction lying around."
>>
>>Shouldn't you attribute that to The Onion?
>>
>
>
>I've attributed it to the original source.

Just as good.

Matthew Endo

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Jul 29, 2003, 9:44:45 AM7/29/03
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Rindler Sigurd <srin...@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:

Or you could just hang out at Sigi's place, I'm sure he will point out
the willing girls to go...

--
Matt
ma...@gol.com

Bryan Parker

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Jul 29, 2003, 11:46:04 AM7/29/03
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"Rindler Sigurd" <srin...@da2.so-net.ne.jp> said:

>> >Bryan keeping you busy?
>>
>> Not yet. Sigi is one of the members of this group
>> that I still look forward to meating.. I mean
>> MEETING someday.
>>
>>
>
>Howdy Brian...
>Where shall we mate?

Meat damnit! MEAT!

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