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4 responses to “I lost my watermelon”

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   Alex

   2008-01-27

   I always liked the name of those passes. But why the mascot is a penguin and not actually a watermelon is beyond me.

   By the way, I just found your comment in my spam filter on my blog, and it has been approved as it should have been days ago.

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   Fugu

   2008-01-27

   Hi Alex, I’m surprised to see you (actually, *anyone*) around here. Anyway, it is called a Suica pass because it allows you to pass through the gates すいすいと – smoothly and unhindered. For the longest time though I also thought that a penguin wandering around with a watermelon is just so absurd as to make a kind of twisted sense – two popular things in the summer are かき氷 and Watermelon, so there seemed to be some kind of relation to me…

   Of course, I was just wrong.

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3. 

   Douglas

   2008-01-28

   Wow! That makes TWO whole people who read your blog. Aren’t you proud?

   You’re lucky. When you fail to understand what people around you are saying you have a legitimate excuse. I don’t have the luxury.

   Then there’s the Presidential Debates coming up. The horror….

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   fugu

   2008-01-28

   I don’t know so much about legitimate excuses: I really should have realized that she was talking about the train pass there. I mean, it would just be such a random non-sequitur otherwise.

   I’m just glad I didn’t go into the story (also last week) about what happened when I went for my annual check-up at the clinic. When I went to get a chest X-ray, the nurse told me to take off all of my clothes except for my shirt (I thought this was a bit strange) so before taking off my pants and skivvies, I confirmed with the nurse: take off everything but my shirt? Even my pants? She laughed at me.

   Come on people, be more clear! (For the record: 「Tシャツ一枚だけになって下さい」 does imply “take off your pants too!” to me.)

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