Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:56:48 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Judith Newton <jnewton at nist.gov>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A New Weirdness Champ?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

In Japan, individual servings of soy sauce sometimes come in tiny plastic
containers, some shaped like the fish-head of the superhero.  They're only
about 1-1/2 inches long, and very cute.

At 08:37 AM 11/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>         What's not to understand?  If you buy Kikkoman Soy Sauce, you become
>a superhero with a fish for a head, defeat evil and have sex with fabulous
>babes.  Same as in America.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Smith [mailto:sgs at aginc.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:35 PM
>To: WSFA members
>Subject: [WSFA] A New Weirdness Champ?
>
>http://yoga.tripod.co.jp/flash/kikkomaso.swf
>
>This appears to be a Japanese ad for soy sauce.
>
>I don't know if I want to know what is really going on in it.  The only
>Japanese word I recognize in it is "shoyu" (pronounced "show you"),
>which means soy sauce.
>
>--
>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
>Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
>"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."