[IamHD]

"The STRANGEST senses of humor goes to the Japanese. I haven't any idea why they laugh at what they do. Once I was in a bar in L.A. filled with Japanese businessmen. I recieved a couple of half dollars at the counter as change so on an impulse I stuck both of them into my eyes like monocles and screamed: "BANZAI!!!" Immediately the Japanese were rolling on the floor in laughter."

LOL! What a dork. (In a good way, too.) I would have laughed, too. :)

[PJ-Comix]

NOt everything I did with the Japanese was so dorkish. Sometimes it was sly humor. Once I was walking by Lawry's Prime Rib Restaurant in L.A. which Japanese love because it serves the best prime ribs in L.A.. Anyway, there was a group of confused looking Japanese businessmen standing out front holding aliminum bags. One of them said to me:

"Whaffo dokkie baks?" I couldn't figure out what he was asking and asked him to repeat which he did:

"Whaffo dokkie baks?"

Again I couldn't figure out the question until he repeated it a third time when it dawned on me he was asking me what the doggie bags they gave them were for. I thought quickly and replied with a hint of Japanese accent:

"Ah so! Ancient American custom. They give you dokkie baks and then you give to first American you see."

They all politely honored this "ancient American custom" and handed me all their doggie bags. I immediately went home and had me an incredible dinner with enough left over for the next day. Oh, and I made sure to politely bow to them when they handed over the "dokkie baks."