Posted on 08/21/2013 8:43:15 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
That picture should be labeled more like chicken wings, Mild, Medium or Hot. :-))
I was looking for a goof. Like the pic Lurkin sent.
Oops. Sorry.
“... the only candy bar with a cookie crunch.”
*titter*
; )
“Such pictures can’t be posted here, and the link will probably be removed, but try: www.tokyotopless.com”
I hope your anti-virus program and other cyber-condoms are in place before going to a website with such a titillating name.
” The Japanese are so cool about vending machines. I remember seeing machines for alcoholic drinks and cigs when we lived there; out on the streets, with nothing more than a warning sign posted telling you the legal age to use the machine.”
The good old days ( I came to Japan in 1985 ) ...Those vending machines selling various types of alcohol began being phased out in 2000 and are now non-existent . Now , in the big cities , convenience stores are ubiquitous so one can buy booze 24/7/365 . As you may recall the machines shut down at 11 p.m.
Thanks for the update. I was in Japan 1988-2002. Sometimes I wonder why I ever came back.
” Sometimes I wonder why I ever came back.”
I hear ya . I’m still here .
By the way , did you live in Tokyo ?
” Why would most Japanese women even need a bra?”
You obviously haven’t been in Japan recently .
Matsudo, but worked in Tokyo. Got a better offer and moved to Kobe just in time for the 1995 quake.
Heh heh... titillating... heh heh heh...
What’s next, Body armor vending machine in Chicago?
Did you ever hear of a gaijin band by the name of Hotel No-Tell ?
Just out of curiosity, how many times have you changed jobs since moving to Japan in the 1980s? What are you doing now?
I was the drummer for Hotel No-Tell . When in Tokyo ( 1985-1995 ) I worked for the Tokyo Center For Language & Culture ( evening company classes e.g. Honda , NEC , Hitachi , etc...) , taught privately , and the band also was a source of income ( biggest payday was when we did all-Japan promo tours each summer for Marlboro cigs - 150,000 yen a day each man ...we also played clubs all over the Kanto , embassy parties , etc...) . Moved down to my wife’s hometown in Kumamoto in 1995 and taught at the local JHS until 2011 . Now retired .
I'll bet you loved those 150,000 yen per gig paydays. The nearest I got to one was a program we put on from JETRO. I had to split it three ways since the boss was there too. The other 1/3rd went to the company. It was still generous since we did it on company time as company representatives. They could have kept it all.
In those days, JETRO was all about PR and helping foreign companies sell into Japan. Our company even got one of their annual rewards as that was our main line of business. Among other things, we were responsible for introducing those ridiculous long white socks into the schoolgirl fashion market in the early and mid 1990s. Remember them?
I have some concert video on VHS ( and we were on TV a couple of times ) but no player lol . We did release an independently produced 3 song CD that was sold in stores in Tokyo ( one song sung in Japanese entitled ORE WA GAIJIN , a funny song about the stereotypical foreigner in Japan ) but it hasn’t been uploaded to Youtube .
The “ long white socks “ are still hugely popular BTW .
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