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Bornieo: Fully Loaded · 06-13-2005, 02:57 AM

Welcome back!!!

I spell ENVY in all caps!!!

CoasterMatt · 06-13-2005, 06:11 AM

Welcome back!

Eliza Hodgkins 1812 · 06-13-2005, 11:13 AM

Welcome home wayward travellers!

€uroMeinke · 06-13-2005, 01:16 PM

Thanks for the many warm welcom homes. For those of you who are interested, I'm slowing porting over my journal entires of our trip to Tokyo into my Live Journal whcih you can access here

Ghoulish Delight · 06-13-2005, 01:33 PM

My, that's a lot to read there, ¥uroMeinke. Glad you're back! And thank god you're finally back from Japan so you can go to Innoventions and see the most advanced robot in the world......wait a minute....

AllyOops! · 06-13-2005, 07:11 PM

Welcome back!

I'm off to go click on trip photo links!

Not Afraid · 06-13-2005, 11:06 PM

Chris has created a great account of his trip in his LJ - which I don't have the patience to do - but I will tell occasional tales of our tip now and then.

Lost in Translation - Part 2

While shopping in Akihabara's "Electric Town" we were approached by a woman asking us if we would be on camera, a movie, film (using all of the English words she could think of for what they were about to do). She said "3 minutes" would be all it would take. We agreed and proceeded to wait for the crew to arrive. Meanwhile, she recruited 4 teen Japanese boys to join us. It took longer than 3 minutes for the crew to arrive, but she assured us, most appologetically, that they would get started soon.

The camera, actor, actress in French Maid costume, and sound guys soon surrounded us and we got our lines. We were to say Moo-wee excitedly (with intensity) when we were queued. What does that mean, we asked. We were told, with not a lot of assurredness that "Ummmmm, it means I like manga". Well, OK, then.

We all preformed like Oscar winners, saying MOO-WEE on cue and with intensity. All Californians can act, can't they?

So, later, we are returning to the train station, I look up to see a store called My Way and it dawns on me.........My Way is probaably pronounced as moo-wee in Japanese. Hey, maybe somewhere on some late night Japanese infomercial you will see 4 very white faces speaking Japanese.

As a side note, apparently while being filmed, the hood of my raincoat was filling up with water. Later, in a toy store, I sat down rest my weary feet and water suddenly spilled out all over me. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what happened. Maybe I was on a trick sofa? It was lime green leather after all. Thankfully H figured it out and we enptied the rest of my little Kappa bowl. (Sorry for the strange reference to Japanese mythology.)

mousepod · 06-13-2005, 11:37 PM

Great journal, Chris!

The last day of pictures is finally up here .

AllyOops! · 06-14-2005, 12:02 AM

I just looked at the last day of pictures! Amazing photos, Mousepod!

And I really, really want the pink dress and the dress with the red laces that the lovely Not Afraid is posing next to!

Dreamy sigh..frilly dresses.

Prudence · 06-14-2005, 09:08 AM

I finally got a chance to check out the fancy western-style toilet picture. I am so jealous. I have to go home tonight to toilets that lack sufficient complexity.

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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Chris has created a great account of his trip in his LJ - which I don't have the patience to do - but I will tell occasional tales of our tip now and then. Lost in Translation - Part 2 While shopping in Akihabara's "Electric Town" we were approached by a woman asking us if we would be on camera, a movie, film (using all of the English words she could think of for what they were about to do). She said "3 minutes" would be all it would take. We agreed and proceeded to wait for the crew to arrive. Meanwhile, she recruited 4 teen Japanese boys to join us. It took longer than 3 minutes for the crew to arrive, but she assured us, most appologetically, that they would get started soon. The camera, actor, actress in French Maid costume, and sound guys soon surrounded us and we got our lines. We were to say Moo-wee excitedly (with intensity) when we were queued. What does that mean, we asked. We were told, with not a lot of assurredness that "Ummmmm, it means I like manga". Well, OK, then. We all preformed like Oscar winners, saying MOO-WEE on cue and with intensity. All Californians can act, can't they? So, later, we are returning to the train station, I look up to see a store called My Way and it dawns on me.........My Way is probaably pronounced as moo-wee in Japanese. Hey, maybe somewhere on some late night Japanese infomercial you will see 4 very white faces speaking Japanese. As a side note, apparently while being filmed, the hood of my raincoat was filling up with water. Later, in a toy store, I sat down rest my weary feet and water suddenly spilled out all over me. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what happened. Maybe I was on a trick sofa? It was lime green leather after all. Thankfully H figured it out and we enptied the rest of my little Kappa bowl. (Sorry for the strange reference to Japanese mythology.)
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mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	Great journal, Chris! The last day of pictures is finally up here . __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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AllyOops! It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Introspection Intersection Posts: 1,207	I just looked at the last day of pictures! Amazing photos, Mousepod! And I really, really want the pink dress and the dress with the red laces that the lovely Not Afraid is posing next to! Dreamy sigh..frilly dresses.
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Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	I finally got a chance to check out the fancy western-style toilet picture. I am so jealous. I have to go home tonight to toilets that lack sufficient complexity. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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