Subj:     Asian Jokes (Gz)
                 (Includes 43 jokes and articles)

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Includes the following:  Asian Paper-Scissors-Rock (S540c)
.........................Indians Drink “Divine” Sea Water (S501c)
.........................Passage To Adulthood in Thailand (S476)
.........................Pakistani Arrives In America (S425b)
.........................Assyrian King Pawns His Jewels (S362b)
.........................TV Tetris In Japan (S546)
.........................Three Bodies At Japanese Morgue (S207)
.........................Asian Enters Currency Exchange (S270c)
.........................Banking Crisis In Japan (S147, S344b)
                         Short Asian Jokes
.............................Thailand's Most Beautiful Girl (S574c)
.............................Made In Japan (S554)
.............................Negotiations - Japanese Style (S529)
.............................Tongue Twister (S528)
.............................A Single Sheet Of Paper... (S508)
.............................Buddhist Monk Buys A Hot-Dog (S500b)
.............................New Japanese Skirts (S485b)
.............................Birth Of Japanese Baby (S474b)
.............................Japanese Writing (S432b)
.............................Hindu Women's Red Spot (S338, S543c)
.............................Disciplining Japanese Children (S326b)
.............................Innocent New Delhi Man - 14 Yrs In Jail (S318b)
.............................Japanese Fashion Craze (S317)
.............................Extortion Korean Style (286c)
.............................Paper Airplanes - Nakamura (S546b)
.............................Elections In India (S267b)
.............................Shrimp For Japanese Water Plant (S254)
.............................Bin Laden Look-A-Like (S249b)
.............................Children's Day
.............................Magic Hands (S460b)
.............................Mahatma Gandhi (S123, S392)
.............................Mahatma Ghandi's List Of The Seven Deadly Sins (S512b)
.............................Mahatma Gandhi Quotations

Also see ACCIDENTS1   - 'Falling Cow'
         ARAB file    -  (see whole file)
         BANKING-SUPP - 'Currency Exchange At Bank'
         BREAST file  - 'Curing Infertility In India'
         CAMEL file   - 'Sex Like A Camel'
         COLLEGE2 file- 'Computer Science Majors In College'
         COMPUTERS4   - 'If Error Messages Were In Haiku'
         DARWIN AWRDS2- 'Pumping In Thailand'
         DENTIST file - 'Buddist Has Root Canal'
         DOCTOR3 file - 'Heart Attacks'
         ELDERLY2 file- 'Old Man And Punk Rocker On A Bus'
         ENGINEER3    - 'Ten Japanese Bridges'
         HOSPITAL2    - '18 Year Old India Girl Has Pain'
         JEWISH1 file - 'A Rabbi And A Korean On A Plane'
         JEWISH2 file - 'Samurai Contest'
         LAWYER2 file - 'Exporting Lawyers To Japan'
         MIDDLE EAST  -  (see whole file)
         NUDIST file  - 'India Women Plough Fields In Nude'
         OTHER_SPORTS - 'Burning Soccer Fan'
         PILOT file   - 'The Greatest Pilot in WWII'
         PREGNANT file- 'Granddaughter Born In Japan'
         REDNECK-SUPP - 'Three Nationalities In A Sauna'
         SCHOOL3 file - 'Japanese Student's First Day'
         SHIPS file   - 'Japanese American Boat Race'
         SOLDIER1 file- 'Large Pakastani Unit Meets Indian Soldier'
         SOLDIER-SUPP - 'Busy Radio Operator In Korea'
         STARTREK_SPC2- 'Invisibility Cloak'
         THOUGHTS LRN2- 'The Dalai Lama Says'
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Subj:     Asian Paper-Scissors-Rock (S540c)
          From: ArcadeNerds.com on 5/18/2007
 Source: http://www.arcadenerds.com/games/Game-Maniac

 The intensity of some of the Asian cultures is amazing.
 You will enjoy this short movie at either the source above,
 or on my web site by clicking 'HERE'.

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Subj:     Indians Drink “Divine” Sea Water (S501c)
          From: Khaleej Times 19-Aug-06
          From: jerry on 8/20/2006

 News article from a newspaper.

 MUMBAI - Thousands of Indians drank from a murky Arabian
 Sea creek after news spread overnight that its water had
 miraculously turned sweet and could cure illnesses, police
 said on Saturday.

 About 5,000 people gathered at the creek in India’s biggest
 city of Mumbai overnight, and many of them were seen
 drinking the dirty water with their palms, they said.

 “Sweet seawater, this is a miracle. This water is divine,”
 Sheikh Naseer, a Mumbai resident, told a local TV news
 channel.  He was also shown giving a young boy a bath in
 the creek’s murky waters that receive thousands of tonnes
 of sewage and industrial waste every day.

 Some people carried seawater away in bottles and plastic
 bags, saying they were going to share it with their families.
 Children as well as adults bathed in the murky water in which
 garbage and plastic were seen floating.

 Police said the news spread after some fishermen tasted the
 water and found it sweet and told local residents about it.
 “There has been a mad rush to the creek.  There is a dargah
 nearby and people felt this is something divine,” said S.
 Kumar, a police officer, referring to an Islamic mausoleum
 in the area.

 But police stepped in and stopped people from going to the
 creek on Saturday after authorities and doctors warned that
 the water could be polluted and drinking it could be dangerous.

 Mumbai’s civic officials said the water could have temporarily
 lost its salinity due to several reasons, including pollution
 and inflow of freshwater from a nearby source.

 “We have collected a sample of the water and sent it for
 testing,” a city official said, adding that the water in the
 creek had returned to being saline.

 Last year three people drowned in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai
 after thousands of people made a dash for a beach where
 diamonds were rumoured to be washing ashore.

Khaleej Times (Dubai) 19-Aug-06

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Subj:     Passage To Adulthood in Thailand (S476)
          From: LABLaughsAdult on 2/20/2006

 In Thailand, when a male reaches the age of 18 they are
 invited to participate in a ceremony of passage to adult-
 hood, which is celebrated in the center of the village,
 surrounding the central fire and attended by the all the
 natives in residence, and accompanied by considerable
 consumption of food an drink amid singing, dancing and
 all manner of joyous festivities.

 At the appointed time the native boys that are reaching
 maturity are formed into a large  circle around the fire
 and stand there motionless and stark naked facing
 inward towards the fire.

 Then, accompanied by a haunting musical rendition of
 native music, the most beautiful girl in the village is
 honered to perform a sexy dance, naked, around the inner
 center circle.

 Behind each boy is a naked native girl that he cannot
 see.. As soon as all the males are excited and have
 erections, the girls behind them reach between their
 legs, and pull their erect unit downward and back
 through and then on a signal all release them.

 Their units spring back up and go loudly  "WHAP"
 against their bellies. This is considered measurement
 of their strength and of youthful masculinity.

 And that's why the capital of Thailand is called
 Bangkok.

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Subj:     Pakistani Arrives In America (S425b)
          From: LABLaughsAdult on 3/15/2005

 A Pakistani arrives in Houston, Texas. All excited, he
 stops the first person he meets.  "Good day, Mr. American,
 thank you to accept me in your nice country, and..."

 The person interrupts and says: "I am not American, I'm
 Chinese "

 The Pakistani continues on his way and meets another
 passer-by:  "Thank you Mr. American for to let my family
 and me stay here..."

 Again, he is interrupted before finishing his sentence:
 "American, no !!  Mexican National.  See, still wet....."

 The Pakistani continues on his way and meets another
 passer-by:  "Mr. American, me thank you for hospitality
 you give..."

 "But my friend, don't you see that I am black? I am African,
 not American"

 "But", answers the Pakistani distressed, "where are the
 Americans??"

 The African looking at his watch and says: "Oh, they all
 work 'til five o'clock

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Subj:     Assyrian King Pawns His Jewels (S362b)
          From: pns on 1/2/2004

 Assyrian wars King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on
 cash after years of war with the Hittites.  His last great
 possession was the Star of the Euphrates, the most valuable
 diamond in the ancient world.  Desperate, he went to Crosus,
 the pawn-broker, to ask for a loan.

 "I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it," says Crosus.

 "But I paid a million dinars for it!" the King protests.
 "Don't you know who I am?  I am the KING!"

 Crosus shrugs his shoulders.  "When you wish to pawn a Star,
 makes no difference who you are."

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Subj:     TV Tetris In Japan (S546)
          From: LABLaughsClean
          on 6/25/2007
 Source: http://www.stupidity.org/video/1961

 The Japanese are so weird, and yet, so awesome.  This
 25,000 KB movie is big, but too good to not put on my
 site.  You can view it at the source above, or on my
 site by clicking 'HERE'.

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Subj:     Three Bodies At Japanese Morgue (S207)
          From: Joke-Of-The-Day.com on 1/15/2001

 Three dead bodies turn up at the mortuary, all with very big
 smiles on their faces.  The coroner calls the police to show
 them what has happened.

 A Detective Inspector is sent and is taken straight to the
 first body. "A Sato, 60, died of heart failure whilst making
 love to his mistress.  Hence the enormous smile Inspector",
 says the Coroner.

 The Detective is taken to the second dead man.

 "A Tamura, 25, won the lottery, spent it all on Brandy.
 Died of alcohol poisoning, hence the smile."

 "Nothing unusual here", thinks the Detective, and asks to
 be shown the last body.

 "Ah," says the coroner, "this is the most unusual one. A
 Soho, 30, struck by lightning."

 "Why is he smiling then?" inquires the Detective.

 To which the coroner replies: "Thought he was having his
 picture taken".

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Subj:     Asian Enters Currency Exchange (S270c)
          From: pns on 3/11/2002

 An Asian man walked into the currency exchange in New York
 City with 2000 yen and walked out with $72.

 The following week, he walked in with 2000 yen, and was
 handed $66.  He asked the teller why he got less money
 that week than the previous week.

 The teller said, "Fluctuations."

 The Asian man stormed out, but just before slamming the
 door, turned around and shouted, "Fluc you Amelicans, too!

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Subj:     Banking Crisis In Japan (S147, S344b)
          From: PGSP4LIFE on 11/24/1999
      and From: LABLaughs.com on 8/20/2003

 According to inside contacts, the Japanese banking crisis
 shows no signs of ameliorating. If anything, it's getting
 worse.

 Following last week's news that Origami Bank had folded, we
 are hearing that Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank
 plans to cut back some of its branches.  Karaoke Bank is up
 for sale and is (you guessed it!) going for a song.

 Meanwhile, shares in Kamikaze Bank have nose-dived and 500
 back-office staff at Karate Bank got the chop.  Analysts
 report that there is something fishy going on at Sushi Bank
 and staff there fear they may get a raw deal.

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Subj:     Short Asian Jokes

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Subj:     Thailand's Most Beautiful Girl (S574c)
          From: tom
          on 1/14/2008
 Ok, you be the judge.  Which one would you pick?  To view
 these seven photos, click 'HERE'.
 

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Subj:     Made In Japan (S554)
          From: LABLaughsClean
          on 8/27/2007
 Source: http://www.lablaughs.com/clean_toon.php?id=C19890316
    thru http://www.lablaughs.com/clean_toon.php?id=C19890322
 Only the Japanese could create such a useful monolith.
 It is best to see the seven pictures on my web site by
 clicking 'HERE'.
 

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Subj:     Negotiations - Japanese Style (S529)
          From: darrell94590
          on 3/9/2007
 This set of six photos illustrates hostage negotiations,
 Japanese style.  You can view them on my web site by
 clicking 'HERE'.
 

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Subj:     Tongue Twister (S528)
          From: LABLaughsAdult on 3/6/2007
 If a bra is an upper topper titty flopper stopper, and a
 jock strap is a lower decker pecker checker, and a roll
 of toilet tissue is a super duper doody pooper scooper,
 what do you a call a Japanese drummer boy whose father
 nhas diarrhea?

 A slap happy Jappy with a crap happy pappy.
 

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Subj:     A Single Sheet Of Paper... (S508 in Art)
          From: darrell94590
          on 10/13/2006 
 It's amazing what you can do with a single sheet of paper.
 These twenty-seven pictures were each cut from a single
 sheet of paper.  Click 'HERE' to view them.
 

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Subj:     Buddhist Monk Buys A Hot-Dog (S500b)
          From: Joke-Of-The-Day-Mail.com 8/20/2006
 "Make me one with everything," the Buddhist monk said to the
 hot-dog vendor who was hawking food near the temple.

 The vendor made a frank with mustard, ketchup, relish, and
 onions. The monk took it and handed over a twenty-dollar bill.

 The vendor stashed the cash in his apron and turned his
 attention to the next customer. "But where's my change?" the
 monk inquired.

 "Change must come from within, my friend," said the vendor.
 
 

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Subj:     New Japanese Skirts (S485b)
          From: darrell94590
          on 5/6/2006
 Think you've seen it all?  Look at the new rage in Japan.
 You can view these five pictures on my web site by clicking
 'HERE'.
 

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Subj:     Birth Of Japanese Baby (S474b in Pregnant)
          From: darrell94590
          on 2/14/2006
 To view this funny, MPG movie on my web site, click 'HERE'.
 

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Subj:     Japanese Writing (S432b)
          From: LABLaughsAdult on 8/9/2005
 Source: http://www.lablaughs.com/clean_toon.php?id=C20050116
 

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Subj:     Hindu Women's Red Spot (S338, S543c)
          From: Imogenelumen on 7/13/2003
      and From: edapsmas on 6/10/2007
 For centuries, Hindu women have worn a red spot on their
 foreheads.  We have naively thought it had something to
 do with their religion.

 The true story has just been revealed by the Indian Embassy
 in Washington.  When one of these women gets married, on
 her wedding night, the husband scratches off the red spot
 to see if he has won a convenience store, a gas station,
 or a motel in Florida.  If not, he must take a job in
 India answering telephones giving technical support.
 

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Subj:     Disciplining Japanese Children (S326b)
          From: LABLaughs.com on 4/11/2003
A frustrated Japanese father vented, "When I was a
youngster, I was disciplined by being sent to my room
without supper. But in my son's room, he has his own color
TV, telephone, computer, and CD player."

"So what do you do?" asked his friend.

"I send him to MY room!" exclaimed the father.
 

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Subj:     Innocent New Delhi Man Spends 14 Years In Jail (S318b)
          From: jerry on 3/2/2003
 An innocent New Delhi man spent 14 years in prison, even
 after being declared innocent, because no one, including
 his family, bothered to tell him or jail authorities that
 he was free to go.

 But the nightmare isn't over.  His family doesn't want him
 because they say he'll be a financial burden.  "Had he
 completed his education, he would have got a good job by
 now.  They spoiled his life."

 The Independent (South Africa) 11-Feb-03
 

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Subj:     Japanese Fashion Craze (S317)
          From: jerry on 2/23/2003
 The latest Japanese women's fashion craze is skirts that
 appear to be see-through but really aren't.  They are
 prints where the outline of the woman's butt and underwear
 are painted onto the fabric.

 You can see a picture at http://lerman.biz/pics/Gallery8.html
 or on my joke site at or click 'Here' to view in these files

 The Sunday Mail (Australia) 18-Feb-03

 Regarding our story of the new Japanese style of apparently
 see-through skirts, it appears that the newspaper, and there-
 fore we as well, were fooled by a hoax.  It looks like I
 won't need to make that "important trip" to Japan after all.
 

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Subj:     Extortion Korean Style (286c)
          From: jerry on 7/24/2002
 A Korean man sent form letters to 250 randomly selected
 Korean corporate executives claiming to have evidence of
 their adulterous behavior and threatening to go public
 with his evidence unless they sent him a million won.
 Nine executives sent him the money before his arrest for
 extortion.

 The executives who paid said they did so, not because they
 were having affairs, but to prevent bad publicity.

 Korean Herald 22-Jul-02
 

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Subj:     Paper Airplanes - Nakamura (S546b in Eng3)
          From: Origami-Kids.com
          on 6/30/2007
 Source: http://origami-kids.com/paperairplanes-2-nakamura.htm
 The Nakamura is a awesome paper airplane.  You can learn the
 folding steps for this plane at the source above, or on my
 web site by clicking 'HERE'.
 

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Subj:     Elections In India (S267b)
          From: jerry on 3/3/2002
 Voters in India's most populous state have elected 122
 lawmakers who are currently facing criminal charges such
 as rape, murder, kidnapping and robbery.  At least 910
 candidates for the 403 seats in the Uttar Pardesh state
 assembly are alleged criminals.

 Ananova 26-Feb-02
 

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Subj:     Shrimp For Japanese Water Plant (S254)
          From: jerry on 12/11/2001
 Yokohoma, Japan city officials are placing small shrimp
 and killfish, which are sensitive to poison, in tanks at
 four water filtration plants at points before the water
 gets distributed.
 If the shrimp and killfish are healthy, their electrical
 emissions will be steady, but if poisoned this will change
 and set off an alarm to alert officials that the water
 needs further testing.
 Mainichi Shimbun (Japan) 7-Dec-01
 

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Subj:     Bin Laden Look-A-Like (S249b)
          From: jerry on 11/7/2001
 If it looks like a Laden, walks like a Laden .

 An Indian man who looks like Osama bin Laden was ordered
 out of town because he's been attracting huge crowds.

 Kind of wondering wherever he can move to.

 Ananova 6-Nov-01
 

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Subj:     Children's Day
          From: Joke-Of-The-Day.com on 2/12/99
 In India, 14th November is celebrated as Children's Day
 (It is dedicated in the memory of the first Prime Minister
 who loved children).  A kid was asked "Why 14th November is
 celebrated as Children's day ?"  He replied with a smirk,
 "Because it is 9 months after Valentine's Day"
 

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Subj:     Magic Hands (S460b - movies)
          From: darrell94590
          on 11/18/2005

 I found a better source and moved this to
 Chinese Dancers in Asian-Chinese
 

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Subj:     Mahatma Gandhi (S123, S392)
          From: JOKE-OF-THE-DAY.com on 6/5/99
      and From: joeleon on 8/3/2004
          (Also see 'Ghandi Pun' in WORD_JOKES2)
 Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the
 time, which produced an impressive set of callouses on his
 feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail
 and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This
 made him what?

 A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis..
 

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Subj:     Mahatma Ghandi's List Of The Seven Deadly Sins (S512b)
          From: edapsmas on 11/7/2006
 Wealth without Work
 Pleasure without Conscience
 Science without Humanity
 Knowledge without Character
 Politics without Principle
 Commerce without Morality
 Worship without Sacrifice
 

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Subj:     Mahatma Gandhi Quotations

From: igiggle on 12/31/2003 (S362b)
 Be the change that you want to see in the world.
   -- Mahatma Gandhi

From: LABLaughs.com on 4/11/2002 (S271c)
 "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
  fight you, then you win."  -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

From: LABLaughs.com on 12/4/2002 (S305b)
 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot
 appear to them except in the form of bread.
   -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

From: LABLaughs.com on 4/13/2003 (S324b)
 Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the
 freedom to make mistakes.
   -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

From: LABLaughs.com on 4/15/2003
 It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly
 honest business. . . . What is true is that honesty is
 incompatible with the amassing of large fortune.
   -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

From: LABLaughs.com on 7/20/2006 (S495b)
 "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.  Properly
  understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument
  of action."  -- Mahatma Gandhi

From: LABLaughs.com on 1/29/2007 (S524b)
 "Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet."
    -- Mahatma Gandhi

From: LABLaughs.com on 4/12/2007 (S536b)
 It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to
 befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is  the
 quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
   -- Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
 

 The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that
 is flown differently during times of peace or war.  A
 portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red.  The
 blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red
 portion is flown in war time.

 In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa
     completely out of toast.
 

 From 'International Sex Laws' in LAWS file.

 The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
 (wonder how they enforce that one??)

 There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the
 countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for
 the privilege of having sex for the first time.  Reason:
 under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins to
 marry. (now let's just think for a minute...is there any
 job anywhere else in the world that even comes close to
 this?)

 In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill
 her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare
 hands. (the husband's lover, on the other hand, may be
 killed in any manner desired).
 

From: humorlist-digest V2 #190 on 98-08-15
 BUMPER STICKER
 A mouse is an elephant built by the Japanese.

From: Bawdy.Net Collage #285 on 99-02-13
 If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several
 times, does he become Disoriented?

From: LABLaughs.com on 2/14/2002 (S263)
 Vision without action is a daydream,
 Action without vision is a nightmare.
   -- Japanese Proverb

From: Joke-Of-The-Day-Mail.com on 11/16/2006 (S513b in Slogans)
 "If you believe everything you read, better not read."
    -- Japanese Proverb

From: danschu63 on 1/16/2005 (S416b)
 The Dali Llama says to the street hot-dog vendor:
 “Make me one with everything”
 

From: humorlist-digest V2 #113 on 98-05-08
 Q: What's a Japanese girl's favorite holiday?
 A: Erection day.

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