The Roaring Nineties
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Speaking of self-destruction, Japan seems to be doing a pretty good job on its own.
Soon after I arrived in Japan in 1990, I lost count of the number of times people told me something along the lines of, “Oh, you missed the bubble! You should have seen the eighties! It’s all over now, you’re too late.” Well, maybe (it wouldn’t have been the first time I missed the opening act) but … I don’t know. Compared to now, the nineties were like the roaring twenties. We had jobs! We drank champagne out of ladies’ slippers. We lit cigars with hundred dollar bills. We sang, we caroused. Upon arrival at Narita airport, everyone was issued a bag of cocaine, the finance minister’s home phone number, and a personal valet. Waiting limousines ferried us wide-eyed and hopeful into town.
Now, as the country enters its fourth recession in a decade, it’s hard not to get a little nostalgic about earlier times. But far be it from me to tell anyone the party’s over. It is, as always, just beginning.
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Posted to General Rants • 2003.03.27 (Thu) • 12:03
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Posted by Jesper 2003.03.27, 18:16
We drank champagne out of ladies’ slippers.
Ah, I see. Too good for glasses. ;)
Posted by jh 2003.03.27, 22:42
Many have discovered that if champagne is to be drunk from footwear, it’s best to do it early in the day before too much mileage has accrued, shall we say.
Of course, there are those who prefer the Bolinger seasoned. To each their own.
Posted by Jesper 2003.03.27, 23:02
With such a good form layout otherwise, it might be good to note to the comment posters that html tags will get stripped, (and possibly if links will be linked, which they should be with html tags gone).
sips Pepsi out of his sneaker
Posted by Jesper 2003.03.27, 23:47
You can use basic HTML in comments (a href, b, br, p, strong, em, ul, li, blockquote) but the tradeoff is that URLs are no longer automatically converted to links.
I’m so dumb sometimes, it’s not even funny.
Posted by gomichild 2003.03.28, 09:08
Hee hee Jesper always read the fine print (^^)
This entry jolted a realization of the fact that in my adult(?)/ career part of my life I have always lived in a country that has been going through a recession.
I have never lived in a prosperous time.
I wonder how much of this has contributed to my ingenuity and determination?
Posted by Jesper 2003.03.29, 00:03
gomi: I read fine print, I read grey text, and I have read the text before. I just didn’t scroll below the buttons that one time. :P
Posted by skunkworks 2003.03.29, 08:31
japan has the highest dollar reserves outside america. going by the current state of the high and mighty economy and the lack of resources in japan, that land of “freaks”( come on…land of kobayashi and a place where a cannibal has star status!!!) will be undone.
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