I'm just gonna poke my head from my lurking spot and say this:
I'm laughing like a lunatic in the middle of the night.

BTW, I'm looking at a couple of REALLY old posts about Street Fighter and
suddenly realized that with the introduction of the Alpha games, the
character designs are looking more and more like anime characters. Would
you guy mind a fic I've been working on being posted here? It's not really
anime except that Sakura reminds me of a typical agressive super-human type
similar to A-ko... (minus the super-strength, anyway).

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From: Lizsue <lizsue@MIT.EDU>
Date: April 6, 1997 10:54 PM

At 08:43 AM 4/2/97 +0000, Shadow Dancer wrote:

Okay...I've recently started trying to learn Japanese, and I noticed 
something right off the bat.  The learning kit I have has no 
reference to any kanji with the "l" consonant sound.  Is this the way 
it is, or am I missing a whole bunch of stuff?

	Oh, yeah... er, like the Chinese can't pronounce "r" sounds, Japanese
doesn't have the "l" sound. Hence th old joke: "What do the Japanese call
the event where a government is voted into power? An erection..."
	Hope I didn't offend anyone with this...

Second question:  What, exactly, makes up chi?  I have a friend that 

 
According to the ingredients label on a bottle of a Rocket Juice Tropical

Chi Fruit Smoothie (available at the grocery store in the M.I.T. Student 
Center), it's 

"Filtered water, pineapple conc., fresh banana, strawberry puree,

tamarind 

puree, papaya puree, plum puree, coconut, honey, natural vegetable gums, 
Astragalus 4:1 extract 200 mg."

	Anyone watch Walker Texas Ranger this week?!? Anyway, chi is the Chinese
version of "ki." The energy force in all living things. Fun fact: Lucas
wrote Star Wars with the help of a book called "Akido and the Perfect
Sphere." Now you know where "The Force" came from.

	Now back to the lurking...

BEN
*pluggin my web site is my other job*
* http://cyniska.ubishops.ca/Benny/ *