February 23rd, 2002. Surprise!

I have a joke for you:

A Japanese guy gets hired at an American company. On his first day, his American boss tells him, "You're in charge of supplies." and sends him into the warehouse to do his thing. A little later on in the day, the boss calls down to the warehouse to check on the new recruit, but no one answers. Getting suspicious, he goes down to the warehouse himself to take a look. He looks everywhere, but the guy is no where to be found. Finally, as he is about to give up, the new guy jumps out from behind some boxes and screams, "SUPPLIES!!"

The beauty of this joke (other than its incredible wit and ripping humour) is that you can replace "Japanese" with Chinese, Korean, or any other ethnicity, depending on your audience.

Steve works for some big shot market research company here in Japan. Today, he did a study on Kinder Surprise in Japan. Somehow, he scammed an entire case of them and brought them back to share with everyone in the gaijin house.

Steve claims that the toys are the same as the ones we get in Canada, but I don't think so. I have bought a lot of Kinder eggs in my time and never have I gotten an opium-smoking shark. This is a kick-ass prize.

Adam loves his toy too. It's a tea pot with a face. Woo.

Eugene got the shittiest toy of all. I don't even know what it was supposed to be. A trumpet on wheels with a tongue. He was pretty pissed that he got gypped.

Soon after everyone had eaten their chocolate and assembled their toy, there was an ensuing match between Adam and Eugene, each trying to throw little bits of balled-up tin foil into each other's mouths from opposite sides of the table. I watched this with some interest for about 20 minutes and then went up to sleep.