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Thread #35124 Message #478187
Posted By: CRANKY YANKEE
07-Jun-01 - 05:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: O'Carolan's Irish Pub, Tokyo, Japan
Subject: RE: BS: O'Carolan's Irish Pub, Tokyo, Japan
Also learned, "If teardrops were pennies and heartaches wee gold." from them.
new story:
The Japanese word, "BENJO" means , "OUTHOUSE"
I was standing on the bridge across the fukuoka river at 0200 in 1950, in my cups, playing my banjo and singing, "eight more miles to Louisville", when a Japanese woman who was on the bridge across the Fukuoka River at 0200 in 1950, for professional reasons, inquired as to the nature of the musical instrument I was playing, I said, "it's a banjo.
She thought I had said, "Benjo ". She laughed uproriously and called all of her frends over to see this crazy American playing music on a "shit house".