2 degrees of Freedom
Met a guy in a bar in Tokyo (ex-pat). He worked for one of those consulting companies who lied to everyone a few years back saying they were going to change their name to "Tuesday" or something. It was the end of a hard day on the trading floor and we all piled into an English pub in Ropongii. We were served Boddingtons draft by a Manc. Landlord who had once been at a party with one of my ex's (which involved a swimming pool and a large rugby player of african desent, whom I'd met with the ex on a number of occasions, socially) - he might have embellished the tale, slightly, after I told him we had just split up. Anyway.

Said consultant spun this tale of when he and some fellow revellers from said pub, had commandeered a Jap JCB and took it for a ride home through Yotsua San Chome. They ended up with motor cycle outriders and a blessing from the Sun Prince of Japan.

The detail might bore you but it went on for hours as his fingers darted over the Reuters Telereal terminal on the bar. It had to be the most outrageous story I've ever been told*

Later that week, however, we were in another bar (this time in Yotsua San chome) owned by an Irish ex-Judo Champion.

When relating our experience the owner said. Tom**? I know Tom he's that f*&cker from KPMGPwCMcAutherPark. It's all true. I know it because I was driving the JCB ;-)

It's a good job their police aren't allowed to carry guns



*Until this week's QOTW that is.

**Names changed to protect east-west diplomacy.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 29 Nov 2007, 16:01, Reply)