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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 4431, "subject": "urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "2005-06-01T17:38:48+00:00", "last": "2005-06-01T17:57:36+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<20050602003830.95831E4B9@sitemail.everyone.net>", "from": { "name": "turin", "address": "turin at hell.com" }, "date": "2005-06-01T17:38:48+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "anyone seen ghost in the shell ii: innocence?\n\nEOT;\n\n\n--- urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net wrote:\n\nFrom: urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net\nDate: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:07:19 -0700 (PDT)\nTo: urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net\nSubject: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1\n\nSend urth-urth.net mailing list submissions to\n\turth-urth.net at lists.urth.net\n\nTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit\n\thttp://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net\nor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to\n\turth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net\n\nYou can reach the person managing the list at\n\turth-urth.net-owner at lists.urth.net\n\nWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific\nthan \"Re: Contents of urth-urth.net digest...\"\n\n\nToday's Topics:\n\n 1. Re: \"There Are Doors\" Comes To Japan (Maru Dubshinki)\n 2. Re: \"There Are Doors\" Comes To Japan (James Wynn)" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMessage: 1\nDate: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:56:20 -0400\nFrom: Maru Dubshinki \nSubject: Re: (urth) \"There Are Doors\" Comes To Japan\nTo: The Urth Mailing List \nMessage-ID: \nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n\n\nI'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't\nsee how it ties in. Explanation please?\n\n~Maru\n\nOn 5/23/05, James Wynn wrote:\nJapanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls\n\nMay 23, 6:12 AM (ET)\n\nTOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years\nin jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its\nwares.\n\"Peko-chan,\" a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been\nused by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning\ncountenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan.\n\nRecently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a\nrash of \"Peko-chan\" snatchings.\n\nTakeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls,\nvalued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata\nprefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday.\n\nIn several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off\nstore employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in\nprison.\n\n\"But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so the\nsentence was lighter as a result,\" the official said.\n\nAfter a wave of \"Peko-chan\" disappearances last year, the company suggested\nchaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be cruel.\n\n\n_______________________________________________\nUrth Mailing List\nTo post, write urth at urth.net\nSubscription/information: http://www.urth.net\n\n\n\n------------------------------\n\nMessage: 2\nDate: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:15:28 -0500\nFrom: \"James Wynn\" \nSubject: Re: (urth) \"There Are Doors\" Comes To Japan\nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" \nMessage-ID: <000301c56660$e20a5a30$60a3f63f@wynnhouse>\nContent-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=\"iso-8859-1\";\n\treply-type=original\n\nJust a general obsession with dolls...treating them like people ala the \nconcern that chaining them would be cruel. My first thought when I read the \narticle was TAD.\n (shrug)\n\n----- Original Message ----- \nFrom: \"Maru Dubshinki\" \nTo: \"The Urth Mailing List\" \nSent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:56 PM\nSubject: Re: (urth) \"There Are Doors\" Comes To Japan\n\n\n\nI'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't\nsee how it ties in. Explanation please?\n\n~Maru\n\nOn 5/23/05, James Wynn wrote:\nJapanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls\n\nMay 23, 6:12 AM (ET)\n\nTOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half \nyears\nin jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its\nwares.\n\"Peko-chan,\" a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been\nused by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning\ncountenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan.\n\nRecently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a\nrash of \"Peko-chan\" snatchings.\n\nTakeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls,\nvalued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata\nprefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday.\n\nIn several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off\nstore employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in\nprison.\n\n\"But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so \nthe\nsentence was lighter as a result,\" the official said.\n\nAfter a wave of \"Peko-chan\" disappearances last year, the company \nsuggested\nchaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be \ncruel.\n\n\n_______________________________________________\nUrth Mailing List\nTo post, write urth at urth.net\nSubscription/information: http://www.urth.net\n\n\n\n\n\n------------------------------" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Maru Dubshinki", "address": "marudubshinki at gmail.com" }, "date": "2005-06-01T17:57:36+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Re: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1", "in_reply_to": "<20050602003830.95831E4B9@sitemail.everyone.net>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Um-hm.\nWas it just me, or did that movie seem disjointed (and cut-off) as hell? \n\nI mean, truly awesome visuals, especially that street parade left me\nastounded, frankly- We're a long way from \"Kimba the White Lion\", let\nme tell you.\nBut then again, I was watching it on a seat-screen while crossing the\nAtlantic, so my experience was probably sub-optimal.\n\n~Maru\n/is still waiting for his library to get the obscure books referenced\nin the movie." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 6/1/05, turin wrote:\n\nanyone seen ghost in the shell ii: innocence?\n\nEOT;\n\n\n--- urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net wrote:\n\nFrom: urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net\nDate: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 12:07:19 -0700 (PDT)\nTo: urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net\nSubject: urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1\n\nSend urth-urth.net mailing list submissions to\n urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net\n\nTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit\n http://lists.urth.net/listinfo.cgi/urth-urth.net\nor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to\n urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net\n\nYou can reach the person managing the list at\n urth-urth.net-owner at lists.urth.net\n\nWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific\nthan \"Re: Contents of urth-urth.net digest...\"\n\n\nToday's Topics:\n\n 1. Re: \"There Are Doors\" Comes To Japan (Maru Dubshinki)\n 2. Re: \"There Are Doors\" Comes To Japan (James Wynn)\n\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMessage: 1\nDate: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:56:20 -0400\nFrom: Maru Dubshinki \nSubject: Re: (urth) \"There Are Doors\" Comes To Japan\nTo: The Urth Mailing List \nMessage-ID: \nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n\n\nI'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't\nsee how it ties in. Explanation please?\n\n~Maru\n\nOn 5/23/05, James Wynn wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls\n\nMay 23, 6:12 AM (ET)\n\nTOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years\nin jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its\nwares.\n\"Peko-chan,\" a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been\nused by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning\ncountenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan.\n\nRecently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a\nrash of \"Peko-chan\" snatchings.\n\nTakeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls,\nvalued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata\nprefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday.\n\nIn several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off\nstore employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in\nprison.\n\n\"But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so the\nsentence was lighter as a result,\" the official said.\n\nAfter a wave of \"Peko-chan\" disappearances last year, the company suggested\nchaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be cruel.\n\n\n_______________________________________________\nUrth Mailing List" } ] } ] }