Subject: Re: "Checkers" the dog/speech
From: johnd
Date: 10/16/1996, 1:12 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

At 12:06 AM 10/16/96 -0400, you wrote:
At 09:36 AM 10/15/96 +0100, MD Price wrote:
Ryouga is an only child. In the story where Ryouga's dog Shirokiro
(horribly translated by Viz as Checkers!! in the most recent issue) has

That's not a translation, that's a Reagan joke.


Excuse me, but you're incorrect. Try the pre-presidential Richard Nixon. He
made the infamous "Checkers" speech after he was caught with his hand in
the cookie jar, so to speak...

johnd