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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (339728)	6/7/2007 5:29:10 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573924

In Japan many of the mid-range restaurants have a window case display on the street with plastic copies of most of the available dishes. If you can't speak Japanese you grab the waiter, and go to the display and just point. Works wonders.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (339728)	6/7/2007 2:52:02 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573924

Paris Hilton Leaves Prison for House Arrest By Mike Nizza After spending a five day, four night stay in jail, Paris Hilton was released early this morning and put under house arrest, The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department announced today. “She has fulfilled her obligation,” said Steve Whitmore, the department’s spokesman. “She has paid her debt to society.” The decision was made after “extensive consultations with medical personnel,” Mr. Whitmore said. “This is certainly not unprecedented.” Confidentiality laws prevented him from offering any further details on “the medical situation,” he said. According to the plans, she will finish the original sentence of 45 days in her own house with a tracker attached to an ankle. Her reduced jail term for violating probation on an alcohol-related driving charge was 23 days. The deal was struck after several meetings with her lawyer and another on Wednesday that included the medical director for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, The New York Post reported. On Monday, a lawyer for the hotel heiress said that she “was doing well under the circumstances,” but her condition apparently crumbled after that. The Post said she was seen crying as she cracked “under the pressure of prison,” according to unidentified people. A blogger at The Los Angeles Times saw a lesson for everyone: “Crying works! Who knew?” TMZ, the gossip blog that follows Ms. Hilton with unmatched zeal, was first to report the news, citing “unimpeachable sources.” According to earlier TMZ reports, Ms. Hilton was unable to sleep until last night, which makes a prediction by Heidi Fleiss, the former Hollywood madam, extraordinarily prescient. “When she wakes up it will be over,” she said.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (339728)	6/7/2007 5:58:24 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573924

The only danger is that they'll assume you are fluent or even semi-fluent in their native language, and then you'll be stuck having to ask them to slowly repeat themselves (or in the universal "sign language"). Happened to me several times in Paris. Never happened to me......they kept asking me to stop ruining their language and speak in English.