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I'm sure changing the locks in your rented house in Japan would immediately void all your agreements with the landlord right off the bat.

Quote: Originally posted by db le spu: >I was completely disoriented and confused for days. I had this weird thing going on where it was like all these subconscious thoughts from my dreams etc were muddled in with actual events. So basically I was just garbling crap for days… People pay a lot of money and break the law for that kind of thing. Consider yourself lucky Although, it sounds not unlike being gainfully employed at a major company.

> I also want some guitar and singing semi-hippy pot smoking music Hard to beat Cat Stevens for that. Doing the Woodstock album and then following up on some of your favourite artists from the album is another good approach. Also, Inoue Yosui has some memorable melodies and lyrics. As for pot smoking music, I still cherish the memory of an evening in Manchester of sensi and Marquee Moon by Television. I thought I was in heaven.

Some useful tips. Pepper spray traps But do remember where you installed them!

Did anybody see the Hibari documentary last week? Boy could that lady sing. I'll be getting some of her songs for my PC. She started as a child prodigy in the war, and throughout her life she carried that Showa Era charm and professionalism that we still see today in North Korean artistic endeavour. No out-of-range nasal droning and spastic hand clasping from our Shibari ... I mean, Hibari.

Some of the teleport gondolas also promote hair growth.

> Any of you business owners neep Environmental Management Plans written? I was thinking of taking care of my business with an earth toilet. D'you reckon my wife would notice a difference?

I'd like to try it in one of those giant rideable inflated balls. Even if you fall 80 ft, the worst you'll suffer is lumpy underwear.

Offering a bit of paizuri in Hakuba or any of the resorts for that matter would be a very good differentiation strategy. But Japan doesn't really have the terrain for it.

slow, my wife bought some of that salty toothpaste once. I don't know what possessed her. It was obviously a mistake from the start.

> When I occasionally go without a brush you wake up with a "furry" mouth ... Yucccckkky. Exactly. That's what God gave you pajamas for.

Does anybody occasionally use a corner of a shirt to brush their teeth? In this case, it's best not use toothpaste, and the environment simply doesn't notice that you brushed your teeth (unless your environment includes other people, in which case fits get thrown.)

"While my little guitar gently weeps"

Going further off topic here, sorry; When we were back in the UK, there was a Morris Minor Traveller parked up the road from my parents' house and my boy was fascinated by it - the little triangular windows (for flicking the ash off your Woodbines), the winkers on sticks, and the wood trim. We stood around it with goofy expressions similar to the bloke in the picture. It was the same colour scheme as this one too.

Have you got any pics of what they look like when you've finished them? And are those Australian antiques, or imported? (That one looks to be in pretty good nick considering its age. No gaping holes or ought.)

Yes, why are we talking about poo? There's no call for it.

> That little bastard is unstoppable going up mountains I was going to say what a cute little dog it is, but then I noticed that he has a pretty big cock for a such a little dog. You need to get him fitted with some carrying capacity - a tent rack might be just the thing to instil some discipline and stop him scampering about aimlessly like that. SG, soubs isn't in denial about humans affecting global warming - he seems to be in a position to be skeptical about it due to his own researches.

> Apprantly, I had a very close call with being called Nigel. That's really weird because I had you pegged for a Nigel anyway...

I hate it when I'm just ready for bed and I find that there aren't any pillowcases on the pillows. Then I have to go all the way back downstairs to get some before I can go to bed.

That's Odile you're looking for there. She doesn't answer to 'Kumapix' anymore.

Lots of stink bugs = good sign for snow. Lots of giant jellyfish = bad sign for fishermen. (I'm sorry to even have to mention irrelevancies like jellyfish, but I want to squash this spurious controversy before it even arises.) We had a stink bug in our house the other day, so we can reasonably expect a luxuriant 4 cm of snow on our road instead of the usual 3.

ger, I never saw much appeal in Zappa - zany/fun music annoys me more than it appeals (although I've always liked Ian Dury who definitely fits in that box). I should give Zappa another try. I listened to the Velvets a lot, and once had a couple of John Cale albums (damn, where are they anyway? "She's Back From Amsterdam" is a really moving song.) Nico was basically talentless but fell in with a good band. My roommate at college told me about going to a Nico gig in Germany and having a horrible evening fully in keeping with a night of Nico. He experienced a collapsed lung and expected to d

>when our Hawaii beachside condo gets completed It appears to be half a mile from the beach.

I can think of several good reasons not to do that. First of all, driving with babies can be dreadful when they start screaming on the highway and won't stop. Then you can't fully gawp at the Japanese landscape as you pass through it. And driving is tiring. And traffic jams happen, especially in the winter due to ploughing, checking tyres etc., silly bastards crashing. Why not take the train to Nagano and hire a van there?

> My father in law says it's freaks him out getting to Narita never mind London Narita is a freaky place. I had one of the loneliest nights of my life in a business hotel in Narita before a morning flight. It felt like waiting to be sent into permanent exile on Mars. What a horrible wasteland the 'city' of Narita is. It would strike even TS Eliot dumb.