It can be a bit *dry*. So of Japanese beers, I like Sapporo better... On 6/4/08, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Always seemed a bit harsh to me. > > > Gonz wrote: > > Personally, I like Asahi beer.... > > > > > > > > On 6/4/08, Katrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> My denji jisho (electronic dictionary) states that asahi means "the > morning [rising] sun"... its > >> written with the kanjis for morning (asa) and sun (hi) ^_- > >> > >> a lot of things is named after it, for example the asahi shinbun > (shinbun = newspaper) > >> > >> ~Katrin > >> > >> > >> Am 4 Jun 2008 um 13:10 hat frank theriault geschrieben: > >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > > Asahi is the name of a river, a lot of different things are named > after > >> > > it, much like say Washington. Washington Mutual Insurance has > noting to > >> > > do with the Washington Nationals< (baseball team), which has noting > to > >> > > do with Washington and Lee University, except for the name... > >> > > >> > I always thought Asahi meant "light" in Japanese. Not light as in > >> > "less affected by gravity" but light as in "absence of dark". Ex > >> > Oriente Lux and all. > >> > > >> > Of course I could be wrong. And I'm sure there is an Asahi River in > Japan. > >> > > >> > BTW, speaking of the Washington Nationals, they have nothing to do > >> > with baseball. Have you ever seen them play? > >> > > >> > cheers, > >> > frank > >> > -- > >> > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >> > > >> > -- > >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > >> > >> > >> > ****************************************************************************** > >> Desert Rose > >> Chris' & Katrin's X Japan homepage! Please visit it! > >> http://www.desertrose.de > >> > >> >From now on I will try to live for you and for me. > >> I will live with love...with dreams... > >> and forever with tears.. > >> > ****************************************************************************** > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... > -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. >
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