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...and then run into each other at full speed sending their opponents ten feet into the air somersaulting three and a half times. I know, I know, that hardly compares to "Oh, I'm going to fall down whenever an opponent tries to steal the ball from me and pretend to be hurt so that he gets a penalty."

Correction, Sanno, Vanilla Ice still rocks the US!! I wonder what the next real him is going to be. . .

Quote: Originally posted by Toque: Quote: Originally posted by BagOfCrisps: Whatever happened to Vanilla Ice? He was a natural at rapping and dancing and needless to say, the audience loved him. That's almost as funny as the video!

Great quote! The same section of dead-end road (which is hardly ever driven on) outside of the city hall of the town where I used to live gets repaved every year come march!!! The explanation I got was that they don't want their budget to decrease the following year because it isn't used up (nothing particularly Japanese about that strategy). What did I care, as a foreigner I wasn't paying Japanese taxes. Come rainy season and typhoon season, I'm glad for the tetrapods and concrete. Wish it weren't so ugly, though.

Hey now! US football is perhaps the greatest game on earth. The theme song on that clip is on the Matrix sountrack, by a Japanese DJ whose name I can't remember. But the video was too jumpy to comment on those goals. I am a recovering american, and starting to understand why people love soccer so much, expecially with some of the other best goals footage I have been seeing recently.

Rahul, instead of giving an exact date/location/magnitude prediction why don't you just switch to an alert system like those "terror threat levels" issued by the the US Department of homeland Security. Nobody ever criticises them when they're wrong! Maybe then the list members will call off the dogs.

Some scary stats indeed. Does sound a lot like "Japan, Inc" fueled by (and fueling) fears of trade imbalance, world domination, etc. China's bubble, like Japan's, will burst. There just aren't enough safeguards to prevent it, and those that exist aren't being enforced well enough. Current development, though, also includes parks, grass, trees, insulation, an emphasis on efficiency, earthquake-proofing, clean power production, improved sanitation, and other good green stuff, unlike development over the last 70+ years. Capitalism is bringing a lot of (much needed) good into Chi

"Japan, Inc" wasn't without its problems as, I am sure, "China, Inc" will be, though I haven't read it yet. For each developed hectare of farmland and each displaced farmer, there are probably at least ten urban homes and twenty city-dwellers whose homes have been "public domain"ed for urban renewal projects. I feel just as bad for them.

When I was at Appi, there were moguls large enough to play hide-and-seek in. No fun a'tall

The little big fats look cool, but I didn't just mean the overhead view of the tips being shaped like a boat, I meant the whole tip in 3 dimensions. More like a pontoon in front than a ski tip. Of course it would be expensive to produce, but it might make for one bad ass ski. Anyway, that was just one thought that came to mind to balance out the lasers and cup-holders. I'm serious. What about ski tips that you could adjust the curvature of and/or lengthen the ski for different conditions? I've hijacked this thread a bit, but. . .

Those ushers at constructions sites are the result of a lawsuit brought against a construction company for "negligence" (someone feel in a pit and sued) several years back. The company lost, opening the door for frivolous lawsuits. Its anti-idiot insurance, plain and simple. I'm always amazed that nobody has ever sued a town or a temple for the injuries that occur during some of the crazier matsuri. Fear of divine retribution, maybe?

Why not shape tips more like the bow of a boat? Certainly skiis cut through powder in a similar way to a boat cutting through water. That would probably improve their float and speed in the deeps. . .

In my opinion, started out about a 9, but went down hill (no pun intended) after mid-Jan. Just got too dangerous. Overall, I'd give it a 6.5 IAP-No negative comments on patrol this year, keep it up. I even saw one patroller at 47 help a girl who had gotten onto a run beyond her ability get down to bottom of it. Thought that was nice of him.

I made the silly mistake of signing up for the JETRO business Japanese test (BJT) coming up in two weeks. Turns out, they now put your picture on your test certificate. I guess having someone else sit the exam has been a problem in the past, but has anyone actually done (or heard of anyone doing) that? Seems like something you'd get called out on 30 seconds into a job interview anyway, so why would anyone bother?

phew, I thought this was going to be a thread about the other meaning of cufflinks. Now that would've been an interesting thread to read. I'm too poor to wear cufflinks, though if I had the money, I would still probably prefer to spend it on ski gear or other toys than on cufflinks.

Blanket is his son's actual name. Which reminds me, I highly recommend downloading the South Park episode "The Jeffersons" if you haven't seen it already. I'm laughing just thinking about it.

have had all but the "one-way lane" experience, me jane, and my hair is usually razored to 0mm. I've managed to make friends with a few guards who now look the other way about the cap thing when the manager isn't there. To add. . . I was wearing a necklace and once the guard wanted me to take it off. When I couldn't because it was permanently tied around my neck and too tight to get past my big mouth, they made me tape it to my neck. Still puzzling over that one

Soubriquet, sorry. That statement was not intended to insult, but to point out the potential dangers of mocking Rahul in the name of science and common sense (as everyone on the list was doing). Geoscience is an extremely valuable tool in earthquake prediction. But it should not be considered the only tool. It is extremely unfortunate that mathematical modeling requires enormous data, resources, manpower, and time and will likely not produce meaningful results within our lifetime, but I am not suggesting in any way that your current efforts are not extremely valuable in the long run.

I am well aware of the sheer number of large earthquakes occurring constantly along fault lines, and I'm no champion of astrology, but. . . From your list, eliminate all the ones that aren't located close enough to major population concentrations to wreak havok on that population (which is the entire point of earthquake prediction in the first place) and the odds suddenly drop quite drastically. If international news coverage is any indication, then the number couldn't be more than 4 or 5 any given year. Granted, a 6.3 wouldn't wreak nearly as much havok in Japan as it would in m

My brother-in-law still boards with poles. He's truly an amazing rider, and I do not use that term lightly. Lot's of plusses about using poles in the bc and on moguls. He gets a lot of looks and finger-pointing when on groomers, though.

Quote: Originally posted by rahul bhatnagar: THERE WILL BE AN EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN IN EASTERN HONSHU OR NORTH-EASTERN HONSHU ON 27/28 MAY 2006 OF MAGNITUDE 5.7 TO 6.4 ON RICHTER SCALE. 6.3 on the 27th near the city of Yogyakarta in Indonesia. All but the location, Rahul. Not bad. I, for one, am glad you were wrong about that (although it is still the 28th here in Tokyo), but my heart goes out to those in Indonesia. It has been proven that all sorts of animal and marine life can somehow sense beforehand or "predict" earthquakes and run for cover minutes before it even occurs

Phew, for a second, I thought you were talking about the OTHER "office."

In fact, weren't snowboards originally called "snurfboards," as in snow surfboards.

This picture sums up nicely why I can't hate Burton like some others on this list. Pioneered the enitre sport. I remember making a snowboard like these early prototypes when I was in elementary school (early 80's) hammering a bicycle inner tube onto a piece of wood I tried my best to shape like these. All the other kids laughed at me.

Baby powder? Never thought of that. But doesn't the powder turn to sludge the following year when you use them again and they get sweaty? Tried those food desiccants. They didn't work. A friend in the food packing industry later told me it was because they only last a few weeks even in a small sealed package, and in the open air, only last about half an hour.