CANCEL THE CAKE
Tokyo's 'oldest man' had been dead for 30 years
(Thanks to JP)
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July 30, 2010
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He's not dead, he's just resting.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Actually, that's pretty much what his relatives have been telling people for the past 30 years.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Buddha huh?
Posted by: Theresa | July 30, 2010 at 12:05 PM
He's just pining for the fjords.
Posted by: Siouxie | July 30, 2010 at 12:08 PM
My sympathies on the loss of your dear relative.
I got a slug.
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 30, 2010 at 12:21 PM
If he was a registered voter in Chicago, this wouldn't be a problem.
Posted by: Lairbo | July 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM
He is still, of course, legally registered in Florida,
birthday spanksLairbo.Posted by: Siouxie | July 30, 2010 at 12:51 PM
He still looks better than Keith Richards.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | July 30, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Bernie-san.
Posted by: Loudmouth | July 30, 2010 at 12:58 PM
So...that's what Kato's been up to lately.
Posted by: Siouxie | July 30, 2010 at 01:03 PM
孔夫子 Confucious say: man with bony complexion, probably dead.
Posted by: OC Dolphin | July 30, 2010 at 01:12 PM
Reekend at Kato's
Posted by: trustf8 | July 30, 2010 at 01:20 PM
I had a date with him just last week. No wonder he seemed like such a good listener.
Posted by: Suzy Q | July 30, 2010 at 01:27 PM
You, too, Siouxie? Why, that double-crossing little...I'm gonna KILL him!
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | July 30, 2010 at 01:32 PM
Happy Birthday Lairbo!
Posted by: nursecindy | July 30, 2010 at 01:33 PM
Happy birthday, Lairbo!
...Lairbo? Lairbo, wake up!
Uh-oh....dibs on his social security check!
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | July 30, 2010 at 01:39 PM
nice to know the japanese are as larcenous as we are.
happy birthday lairbo! ahh, us july babies!
the japanese guy, not so much.
he's singing in the choir invisible.
Posted by: queensbee | July 30, 2010 at 01:57 PM
"larcenous" - good word. Queensbee must be an anti-teetotaller.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | July 30, 2010 at 02:16 PM
Lairbosan, does this guy merit a haiku?
Posted by: NotSherly | July 30, 2010 at 02:53 PM
haaa! not anti teetootler, but a non-drinker. these days. my drug of choice is now coffee. did all my vocabulary-building, er, back in the daaay. now, i'm just a writer.
Posted by: queensbee | July 30, 2010 at 02:54 PM
Japanese dead man
Bedridden for many years
Can't come out to play
Posted by: Suzy Q | July 30, 2010 at 03:03 PM
Very good, Suzy Q-san.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 30, 2010 at 03:11 PM
It'll take you years to forge my signature, Annie.
Thanks to all for the birthday wishes; I wandered out to get the mail and was distracted by something shiny (the sun) and stayed outside.
I wonder if they'll posthumously award all the people who were older than this guy but died before this revelation?
Tokyo's oldest
Died long ago, but spirit
Lived on; does that count?
Posted by: Lairbo | July 30, 2010 at 08:26 PM
Happy Birthday, Lairbo!
Also: No.
Posted by: Suzy Q | July 30, 2010 at 08:46 PM
*points flamethrower at Nike spammer*
*cancels Gandalf's fireworks show for Kato's eleventy-first birthday*
Posted by: djtonyb | July 31, 2010 at 12:17 AM
Not many people want to be number one at something bad enough to stick with it even after they're dead, but this guy was in it for the long haul. That's a guy for you.
Posted by: wingnut | July 31, 2010 at 07:21 PM