[JenB]

Sobakasu = Freckles, yes. I use Sobakasu to refer to the Japanese version, and Freckles to refer to the translated version.

Omoi de wa itsumo kirei dakedo
Sore dake ja onaka ga suku wa...

[Corin Stormhands]

Sheesh! Just had to slap down a lie'bral co-worker.

She was complainin' that the pro-lifers were out in force today with huge signs, including pictures of aborted babies. She was appalled that there were children out there too. Like "children shouldn't be seeing that." Granted, I'm not likely to be standing out there with them cause I wonder about the effectiveness. But I said to her...

"Too bad the babies in the pictures can't be told not to look."

Then we got off onto whether the Nick Berg video should be shown and I said it should. She was ranting about how people were saying what happened in the prison was now justified because we didn't cut anyone's head off.

I said no, but that the difference was that what was wrong in the prison was because of who WE are, not who they are. The prisoners are scum.

And then I told her how Kennedy (*ptui*) and Kerry were politicizing this and I mentioned the fund raising letter.

In some six years, I've rarely been able to shut her up.

But today, she had no response.

[Fedora]

Do you have all the words for the Japanese version of the lyrics? I bet that'd help me with my Japanese if I memorized that. Right now I can mimic the sound of some of the lines in my head, but I don't know exactly what the words are or what they mean. I do notice the Japanese version seems a lot more meaningful than the English translation, even though I don't understand it. And are there several versions of the music, too?--because it seems like one version you sent me a link to opens slightly differently than what's in at least one of the anime versions, if I remember the link version right.