What's going into the old Ginza?

Sun, 06/15/2008 - 7:09pm
By: dwptcdude

In the last couple months there has been a lot of work going on at the old Ginza building in the Braelinn shopping center. They repaved the parking lot and put in new sidewalks and now the roof is blue. I don't remember reading what might be going in there, Anyone know??

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Submitted by snappynappy on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 10:32pm.

...therefore, I think it's an I H O P.


Submitted by sageadvice on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 6:39am.

You are all wrong!

I think it, no--I know--it will be a private restaurant for the Chinese who are coming to build cement trucks!
They are building their houses within the locked compound to keep the gaijins out, and want a private restaurant so that they don't have to eat with us folks. Bad influence on Communists, I hear.

They will on occasion invite important people to come and eat---providing you like chicken feet (french fried), snake blood, and oxen tails chopped into chops.

They will be exempt from sales and property taxes for ten years---renewable.

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Submitted by mudcat on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 6:46pm.

Are you serious?

Chinese don't like "gaijins" ? You don't have a sense of history or language. I would ask that you ban yourself from this site. If they ask for a reason - just say stupidity.

Actually, the Chinese and the Japanese people do not like stupid people. Can't say that I blame them.


Submitted by sageadvice on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 8:17pm.

Sometimes in the 17 languages and dialects that I speak, I tend to use a word from one Asian language to more closely explain the situation that is occurring in another.

For instance, we sometimes here call ourselves "gringos," if the general subject being discussed is better explained by a foreign word!

The Lone Ranger also called his sidekick, Tonto. Now the Lone Ranger knew that "idiot," or "fool," would have been a better word for Tonto, but since Tonto means idiot, he tried to save Tonto's feelings as much as he could.

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Submitted by Robert W. Morgan on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 5:34am.

A better story about Tonto comes from an old Gary Larson cartoon, the Lone Ranger looks in an Indian dictionary and discovers that kemosabe is "an Apache expression for a horse's rear end."


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Submitted by JAFO 72 on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 11:36am.

Actually Gaijin is the Japanese slang for white people. The Japanese use the term not in a racial way, but to identify amongst their own. We are called America Gaijin vs Euro Gaijin, or to an even greater extent, French Gaijin.

The Chinese term would be Guai-Lo. A loose translation of Guai-Lo means ghost.

In addition, gringos can also be refered to as guerros (where-Os). This is generally a Mexican slang versus Castillian Spanish.

Hope this helps with your "17 dialects".

"The one constant in all of your failed relationships is you."


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Submitted by JeffC on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 11:21am.

No, no, no Sage! You are using the Spanish definition. Tonto was the son of the chief of the Potawatomi tribe. In Potawatomi his name means "wild one."


Submitted by MYTMITE on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:21pm.

I, too, looked up Tonto, knowing The Lone Ranger would never address his sidekick as stupid. Having grown up around Spanish people I knew that "Tonto" was usually used as a slang word for someone who acted stupidly. I think Sage got confused with his 17 dialects and referred to his old nickname.

Submitted by sageadvice on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 1:37pm.

I want you to know that I met The Lone Ranger in Chicago once at a convention. At that time, Clayton wasn't allowed to wear an authentic mask due to copyrights, etc. He had on a sub.
He is the one who told me about the Tonto name and what a laugh they all had knowing the public didn't have a clue. Tonto didn't care!
So you see, you can't believe everything you see or read!
Especially Limburger, Hannity, and that blonde witch!

Submitted by MYTMITE on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 8:25pm.

DID THE SHOW ON RADIO AND TV FOR MANY YEARS IN 18 DIFFERENT DIALECTS. THE FIRST TONTO ON RADIO COULD NOT MOVE ON TO TELEVISION WITH ME BECAUSE HE WAS A SHORT ASIAN GINGN. THE TONTO ON TV WAS PLAYED BY AN ITALIAN TENOR WHO HAD TROUBLE FINDING WORK WHEN HE WENT INTO PUBERTY AT THE AGE OF FORTY-TWO AND HAD TO SEEK OTHER EMPLOYMENT. HIS BRAID WAS REALLY AN EXTENTION--THE VERY FIRST--THE BEGINNING OF A FAD THAT IS STILL POPULAR TODAY. I RETIRED AFTER MANY YEARS AND CAME OUT OF RETIREMENT RECENTLY AND CAN BE SEEN ON CELEBRITY CIRCUIT ON WEDNESDAYS AT 3:30 AM.

P.S. I DON'T REMEMBER MEETING EITHER OF YOU BUT THEN I MET SO MANY FAN DURING THOSE YEARS.

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Submitted by JeffC on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 1:47pm.

I met him in Columbus. Same mask thing was still going on.

BTW: I don't listen to rush, sean or read the blond witch.

Keith Olbermann is the only unbiased one.


Submitted by MYTMITE on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:09am.

since I am fairly new to this site. Is Sage posting 'tongue in cheek'? Is he/she for real? Is he/she like the crazy uncle that most of us have and just sort of tolerate? Most of his/her posts make absolutely no sense and when called on them his explanations make even less sense. Am I missing something? Evidently English is not included in the 17 languages and dialects he/she speaks or am I in a parallel universe and he is the one who is right?

Submitted by sageadvice on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 6:48am.

I try the very mostest bestest thet I kan tuh poste stuff readabible.
Sum howsumevir seam tuh haf troubile readin mah writin.
I splained bout gaijin peoples. Don't youall evir use a ferign word to say somethin?
All stuff we say cum frum either latin, german, er caveman-magnon!
Hits all like enyway--jest speled different--cept a-rab.
I sugest yhet you go to blogs on the left column, then click on wun uf mine blogs at my name, then read em all. Thin maybe youl onderstood everthang!

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Submitted by skyspy on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 8:39am.

Yes, $sage aka: dollar, bonkers, d.smith are all one and the same. $age is our token blogger from the state hospital. The citizen online does not discriminate based on mental handicap.

We can always tell when the nurses are slacking off. This poor sad person needs their medicine to be given on schedule. Even one extra coffee break from the nursing staff sends $dollar into a tail spin.

As $age would say: Yu hve a goot day!

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Submitted by hutch866 on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 12:10pm.

In case you didn't know, Gaijin is a Japanese term, not a Chinese one.

I yam what I yam....Popeye


Submitted by blazing2006 on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 8:30pm.

I heard from Joseph, who owns Arnies,that Chin Chin is moving there.

Submitted by sageadvice on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 6:40am.

I don't think "Joseph" is his real name!

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Submitted by k0bra on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:27pm.

lulz omg really??!?!?!!?!!?!!??! BECAUSE HE LOOKS AZN HE MUST NOT BE NAMED JOSEPH !!!!


Submitted by blazing2006 on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 7:01am.

Do you figure that out all by yourself? If so , I am impressed.

Submitted by honestguy4 on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 7:34pm.

That is what I heard from my source.

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Submitted by Robert W. Morgan on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 5:49am.

I didn't know there were 3 other honest guys before you, but nevertheless - you are correct! A Japanese restaurant owned by a Chinese guy with sushi and hibachi tables - just like Ginza except more modern and with the renovations the building might last a few years.


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