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Saturday, September 8. 2007

Watermelon

Japanese Watermelons. They pack compactly.

 

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 05:00 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Car tires would pack better too. Somehow all those millions of people living on those small islands with no natural resources causes some aberrant thinking.

The Japanese are not particularly large people to begin with but I am surprised that over the centuries the Chinese foot binding and American Flathead Indian culture hasn't joined in their deepest fissures and developed a body binding for babies that allows them to grow to only 3 feet in height. Just think about it. Baby car seats on JAL, with a capacity of 3000 headed for Honolulu. 400 sq foot apartments as mansions. Those tiny cars roll'in like big rides....man I think they're missing some great space and resource savings there.
#1 Habu on 2007-09-08 12:44 (Reply)
Ha! I like that!

Those melons are the ultimate in modernist fruit and vegetable marketing!

Interesting coming from Japan, too, a country very attentive to making the best of limited space!
#2 Donald Douglas (Link) on 2007-09-08 13:21 (Reply)

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