I'd Like A Mastiff, Only Make It Fit Into A Pocketbook And Color It Blue.

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 11:51:19 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

The Japanese latch onto fads and ride them for all they're worth.  Gigantic film monsters used to ravage Tokyo and other Japanese cities with impunity.  Golf, a sport requiring a lot of space is a national obsession for a people short on space. Within the last decade and a half, fads have swept over the Japanese.  It happened with tamatgotchi (literally digital pets).  Sometimes they pass beyond Japanese shores.  Both Hello Kitty and Pokemon are fads the Japanese embraced and then loosed upon the rest of the world.  As fads go all of these are probably harmless.  But, it appears the Japanese are embracing a new fad -- one which most definitely has a dark side to it.  That would be the fad of the cute inbred puppy dog.

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