Re: re:Sumo and advertising (fwd)

["Barbara Ann Klein" <baklein@attglobal.net>]

That's actually the kimono he wore while active.

Babanoshuzan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Basten" <cbasten@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu>
To: <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Friday, 08 June, 2001 11:08
Subject: re:Sumo and advertising (fwd)


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:25:15 -0500
> From: John Banta <jbanta@connect.net>
> To: sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu
> Subject: re:Sumo and advertising
>
> The other day, while watching an old 'Buffy' that I had saved to
videotape,
> and quick zipping through the commercials, one caught my eye that I had
> never seen before, or since. It starred KONISHKI. It was one of those
'VISA
> because they don't take American Express' commercials that are so common
on
> U.S. tv. It showed KONISHKI in Hawaii taking a tour of various
restaurants.
> At each place he was shown sitting at a table filled with food. One scene
> showed him leaving an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant, and the open sign
> in the window being flipped to closed as he left. Surprisingly (to me at
> least) the commercial began by identifying him by his talento name, and as
> an Hawaiian-born Sumo champion.
>
> To me, the strangest part of the commercial was the shirt that KONISHKI
was
> wearing. It was dark blue with a giant yellow lightening bolt on the
front.
> It made him look like a giant, walking battery.
>
> John Banta
>
>