Toilet cleaning craze sweeps Japan

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  Er…okay. I have no idea what’s going on there. But I haven’t heard a peep about this book myself. Maybe I’ll start asking around, but it sounds mostly like someone trying hard to make the Japanese live up to that “wacky” stereotype.

  I guess lady Luck likes a clean toilet. But then who doesn’t? Perhaps we should start another list about turn-offs for luck.

  Nicodraxus T on March 2nd, 2007
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  Whatever it is about, that little news story was on the intl wires today and was published in over 500 newspapers worldwide. But you might be right, Nico…….some lazy reporter wanting to feed the stereotype. Find out who wrote it. Byline! Byline!

  Danny Bloom on March 2nd, 2007
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  Seems like a sure way to get picked up by the wires, Danny. Find anything off the wall, say it’s a craze in Japan, and you’re off.

  I am tempted to conspire with JP on this. After all April 1st isn’t all that far off.

  How about “using a flush toilet to wash hair is the latest craze in Japan…?”

  ghoti on March 2nd, 2007
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  Watch! This story will be a hit on Taiwan TV this week, transalted into Chinese,and it will become a fad in Taiwan,too, what i always call Japan’s southernmost prefecture…

  Danny Bloom on March 2nd, 2007
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  […] finally, someone who agrees with me: all things “crazed” in Japan make headlines. I don’t need look very far to find crazes in Canada. But damn if this isn’t a super parody of itself: Toilet cleaning craze sweeps Japan. the point is not the subject of the link; the point is to read the 2nd and 3rd comments. I couldn’t agree with them more. […]

  Citadel of the Blogs » Blog Archive » “blankety blank blank” craze sweeps Japan on March 3rd, 2007

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