Fw: Meeting at the basho

["Rob Hoey" <rchoey@kw.netlaputa.or.jp>]

I guess we could go in drag but personally I don't think it would be a
pretty sight :).  -Robanoumi

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> From: Lawrence Rogers <rogers@hawaii.edu>
> To: Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>
> Cc: sumo@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: Meeting at the basho
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 9:31 AM
> 
> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Doreen Simmons wrote:
> 
> > At 00:24 97.12.10 -0800, Charles Finberg wrote:
> > >If Kawika-san and Robanoumi meet at the basho, on behalf of the whole
ML, I
> > >request that they do something goofy together where we can see them on
> > >camera!  Preferably on a day when Dave Wiggins is announcing!
> >  
> > In your dreams, pal!  NHK policy is that the announcers never draw
> > attention to anybody in the crowd who isn't there officially
(especially
> > when it's the person with two heads....)
> 
> Right, but in the old days, say twenty years ago, the outfit that
produces
> Sumo Digest -- not NHK -- used to have its cameras zoom in on attractive
> women spectators quite a bit.  Cheering gaijin females were especially
> popular. I don't watch the Digest these days, but I doubt they do many
> such close-ups now.
> 
> Larry Rogers
> Hilo, Hawaii
>