There's no evidence
A foreign student, Cecil, remarks to his room-mate, Phileas, that he just bumped into a Japanese ex-prime minister.
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Phileas: It can’t be.
Cecil: It’s true. He just glided up in one of those Double Crosses. He’s parked in the field.
Phileas: Did he say anything?
Cecil: He looked as if he wanted to ask something, and so I said, “It is you, isn’t it?”
Phileas: And?
Cecil: And then, well, he just looked a bit blank.
Phileas: It wouldn’t have anything to do with…
Cecil: What?
Phileas: What the subtitles said he had said on TV the other day.
Cecil: Maybe it was the subtext that made him resign.
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Labels: Shinzo Abe
posted by Barry Natusch @ 11:34 PM
7 Comments
7 Comments:
I think he would have glided up in a chauffeur-driven V12 Toyota Century, not a rickety old '82 XX.
That's if he really HAD been Shinzo Abe. But it seems even HE didn't know who had been.
Really? Did he have go schizoid? I heard he was checked into a mental facility but I thought that was just stress.
Superfluous "have".
Auxiliary verbs. Using too many or too few. It's a problem many of us with conditions have. You might even say a symptom.
Except if you are one who has been coming from the subcontinent though. Then the number of auxiliaries you can be stringing has been often a mark of your educational qualifications.
A symptom of?
symptom of: shinzo ga warui
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