My tweets

[lsanderson]

• Mon, 12:37: RT @AriMelber: "There is no voter fraud -- how can it be widespread *and* undetected?" - Colin Powell #ICYMI
• Mon, 13:35: RT @Margoandhow: Toldja, everything's beyond redemption & we are screwed. "CIA Files Prove US Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran" http://t.…
• Mon, 13:37: RT @hotdishblog: Dinkytown location of One, Two, Three Sushi opens today http://t.co/xDMxoRgzwH
• Mon, 15:31: RT @markdewes: Ugh! Sadness in #Armatage RT @EaterMPLS: Saunders Will Not Be Opening Pearl, In Season's Revamp http://t.co/aBl7GduMmN
• Mon, 16:36: RT @stevebenen: Cuccinelli on denying ER care: "Humans will adjust." A euphemism for, "We're going to let poor, sick people die" http://t.c…
• Mon, 16:50: RT @JoeSudbay: Just now --> New Mexico District Court Judge rules same-sex couples can obtain marriage licenses in the state. A win for Equ…
• Mon, 18:52: RT @TeaPartyCat: That awkward moment when a Texas preacher expresses skepticism about vaccines and then measles breaks out at his megachurc…
• Mon, 21:06: RT @nytimesworld: N.S.A. Phone Data Collection Is Illegal, A.C.L.U. Says http://t.co/AE8ZQc43qX
• Mon, 22:34: Exploratorium Forced to Cut Back http://t.co/7qlK383Dyr
• Mon, 22:38: Bacteria Study Offers Clues to Typhoid Mary Mystery http://t.co/IGnGQMDkkJ

• Mon, 22:41: Cave Collector in Minnesota Hunts for Additions to His Empire http://t.co/VlxDsiDeaZ
• Tue, 05:18: RT @andrewducker: BT Finally Scraps UK Dialup Internet Service http://t.co/QaczUXvBKL
• Tue, 07:22: Gotta baby? Need clothes? http://t.co/A5wClEAtHz
• Tue, 07:36: RT @MPRweather: Sauna-on-a-stick. Day 13 of 90+ this year. Mostly sunny & hot. High 95. Dew point 70. Feels like 104. Light wind.
• Tue, 07:43: I liked a @YouTube video from @theyoungturks http://t.co/qrr5CeJ4ij Obamacare Welcomed By Hypocrite Republican Governors
• Tue, 07:55: RT @saladinahmed: New SF/F writers of color: Read your work with me at Worldcon in San Antonio this Sunday! Free day pass! http://t.co/tnEO…
• Tue, 09:53: Ittsa Blowup Doll! http://t.co/FDtxOBGQt0
• Tue, 09:55: Vines and Vintner Beautify a Tuscan Hill http://t.co/gsbqca8ZKZ
• Tue, 11:27: They http://t.co/530xgGzrJ1
• Tue, 11:39: RT @JoeMyGod: New From JMG: Walmart Adds Insurance Benefits For Spouses & Partners Of LGBT Employees: From a memo sent yeste... http://t.co…

• Tue, 11:45: RT @JoeMyGod: New From JMG: CBS Reporter Bruce Dunning Dies At 73, Possibly Posthumously Outed In Obituary: If, like me, you... http://t.co…
• Tue, 11:46: RT @hotdishblog: Travail plans a pop-up restaurant for North Minneapolis http://t.co/DS9WtCw7qB
• Tue, 11:47: RT @michaellorg: Free fiction in support of the @helsinkiin2015 #Worldcon bid. Wow! http://t.co/DMbW6pHWE1
• Tue, 11:49: RT @citypages: Bachmannistan: The 5 craziest revelations in the new Michele Bachmann tell-all -- http://t.co/vkO6mSIkjb
• Tue, 11:50: RT @theprospect: Word of advice to pregnant ladies: drinking wine and cleaning the cat's litterbox aren't as dangerous as they say http://t…

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

My computer doesn't handle tweets well, but I love the idea of a sushi-ya named "One, Two, Three Sushi". I don't know Japanese well, despite being stationed in Japan as part of the Army of Occupation for eight months (about four of which I managed to spend In Japan, rather than In The Army -- my Outfit was pretty lax) and studying the language for two years at U. C. Berkeley, all prior to 1956, but... ummm..... In counting, "one, two, three, four" would be "ichi, ni, san, shi". so they're just slipping in a gratuitous "su" before the "shi/four". Except that "shi" (written differently, but pronounced the same, give or take some element of Tone, which native-speakers use even if they deny that it exists in their language) also means "die", and (AFAIK) even modern Japanese don't take such references lightly. Maybe except where money and a warped sense of humor is involved. Hey, does that place have workers with kimono (including happi-coats) lapped right-over left (used only to dress corpses) or mis-matched chopsticks (used only to pick uncomsumed bones out of crematory ashes)? I can imagine some modern Japanese doing that, but only if their customer base is almost entirely clueless non-Japanese/Asian. (To round things out, though I don't suppose a restaurant would do this upfront, in mixing waters of significantly different temperatures, the hot is added to the cold only when getting it ready to wash a corpse. What we're dealing with here, of course, is aversion of misfortune by reversal of customary practices.)