conversation fragment

[rone]

rone: "How does a company that makes clarinets also make a motorcycle?"
The Boy: "Dude, Yamaha makes everything. If the world came to an end and Yamaha survived, they could rebuild it."

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[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

'Strue. They make good electric guitars, okay guitar amps, and decent speakers too.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Your really, really big East Asian conglomerates are all like that. Mitsubishi sells rice.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

I had a Panasonic bicycle once. My friends kept making comments about going home to listen to music on their Schwinn stereo system.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

But they don't sell cars these days. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation was sold off as a separate entity and is now part of the Daimler-Chrysler empire.

[bivaughn.livejournal.com]

The true american shows his american spirit through his unwavering confidence in the technical expertise of the Japanese.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

The Coca Cola Bottling Company has had the technology to put out hot-can-coffee vending machines for nearly two decades now. The American homeland is being protected from futureshock by not being allowed to have this technology, but you can see it everywhere in Japan.

Japan is the showcase of all the alien tech the US is afraid to use here first. This also explains why all of their politicians are so Gray.

Hand me my NEC tinfoil hat, please.

[denshi.livejournal.com]

How old is The Boy?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

19.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

both legal and delectable. Reserve your very own today!

shipping extra. not available in Sweden or within the borders of the city of Cleveland.

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

I should smack you. But since you are kinda cute, I'll let it slide, this time.

Yamaha. Yep

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

...I was just playing my Yamaha trombone...

What, now Yamaha computer operating system?

Re: Yamaha. Yep

[eviltofu.livejournal.com]

Didn't Yamaha have their own computer series (MX-5) for midi and stuff before they canned it?! So maybe there is a Yamaha OS. :P