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Expedia or some such.

Pickup trucks

I love it!

@djean111 You wouldn’t have envied being on the Yamanote/Keihin-Tohoku platform (outer ring/soto-mawari) this morning! There were all sorts of delays and commuters ended up being crammed into the trains like sardines. I especially loved the commuters who would jump into an already overcrowded train at the last minute, butt-first, just to make…[Read more]

@djean111 The last time I was in a waiting lounge in Tokyo (Narita), and the Delta lounge at that, there was no TV. It was nice and quiet.

Here’s a weird one. Used in a cruise line ad. Not a rock and roll oldies cruise either but a regular one.

@satan

Maybe they should have used Mooove Out by Yaz instead.

@joentokyo

I would spend six to eight weeks at a time, several times a year, from 1995 through 2000.  Least glamorous job in the world, 18 hour days, software test liaison for cell phone billing software, spending all day and early evening in offices, surrounded by Japanese testers.  Then subway back to hotel, call software folks in Florida, s…[Read more]

@djean111

Thanks for the tip. When were you here?

@elias39

Hey, free of charge!  I do miss the little chiming CNN International jingle, though.  This was not as easy as it sounds – on my second or third trip over, my passport was stolen on the JR train platform (snowing, so no buses running), and my replacement passport had a letter stapled into it that basically said “this stupid American had h…[Read more]

How do I send you my quarter? 

When I was working in Tokyo, coming home, I would get to the airport early, so as to be first in line when the Delta desk opened, and then sprint to the waiting lounge to change the TV from CNN International to the Sumo tournament, if there was one.  If I got there first, no one coming in later would change it.  Muahahaha!

Another one airing frequently during football games – at least on Canadian TV…..

Though the commercial has a bunch of cows in an airport so maybe they would call it “MOO Monday”

Oh dear.  I think he is funny and I kinda agree with him.

Rush is one of my longtime favorites.