Dead Gaijins

[Mike Oxlong]

2016 grabbed one more on the way out.

William Christopher, Father Mulcahy On ‘M*A*S*H,’ Dies At 84

[wagyl]

This thread is wandering away from any Japan connection, but the latest mood of the posts is also reflected here. This is the new thread there, for going forward to the future. Let no death be pointless!

[Russell]

Hell, we should have 151,600 - 3,332= 148,268 posts each day...

[wagyl]

Hell, we should have 151,600 - 3,332= 148,268 posts each day...

I see that Japan is punching above its weight: 9.6 deaths per 1000 compared with 8 deaths per thousand globally. Twenty percent excess is quite significant.

Why can't Japan be like the Gaza Strip, with only 3.2 deaths per thousand?

[yanpa]

British student died in Japan on New Year's Eve

[Taro Toporific]

British student died in Japan on New Year's Eve

The best insightful Japanese comment about, "...Justin Browning thought to have gone to the top of a high-rise to watch new year celebrations and fallen" was:

"Did he leave his shoes at the top of the building?"

[legion]

British student died in Japan on New Year's Eve

I wonder where it happened.

[Taro Toporific]

A sports editor in Japan (like for forever) and NPB journalist Wayne Graczyk passed away after a game in Kumamoto, Japan last night.
via

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Wayne was a great guy and used to give fellow gaijin free tickets to games all the time.
Refer to:
http://www.japanculture-nyc.com/2012/02 ... -baseball/

[wagyl]

RIP Greji.

[Takechanpoo]

RIP Greji.

you take it seriously? eh?
as a test, just ask his son working in some high school as a coach of the baseball team if its truth or not.

[wagyl]

Oh I fully expect Greji's ghost to continue posting here from time to time.

Why would that link not be the truth? It is backed by incontrovertible evidence "which could be used in court", and multiple unnamed sources. That man makes his living, and a lavish living at that, uncovering truths freelance, globally.

[Taro Toporific]

Longtime JT baseball columnist "Greji" Graczyk dies at 68
APR 20, 2017 | The Japan Times
Wayne Graczyk, a longtime columnist for The Japan Times, passed away on Tuesday night in Kumamoto. He was 68.
Graczyk was in Kumamoto to help Nippon Television (NTV) cover a game between the Yomiuri Giants and Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
More...

/s

[Takechanpoo]

Oh I fully expect Greji's ghost to continue posting here from time to time.

Why would that link not be the truth? It is backed by incontrovertible evidence "which could be used in court", and multiple unnamed sources. That man makes his living, and a lavish living at that, uncovering truths freelance, globally.

[wagyl]

What is so funny? Were you in the bathtub of a Showa-chic freestanding house when the Tohoku earthquake struck? As I said, lavish.

[wagyl]

Two possibilities: Take has the reading comprehension of a nine year old

or

Take has the mischief-making streak of a nine year old.

Neither is a good look.

[Wage Slave]

I'd say about 80% the former and about 20% the latter.

[legion]

Wayne was a great guy and used to give fellow gaijin free tickets to games all the time.

Not much of a sports fan myself but when it's time to go we'd all like to go in the afterglow of what we love.

[Russell]

Cause of death?

Acute giant erection sucking all blood out of his brain?

[wangta]

RIP Greji.

you take it seriously? eh?
as a test, just ask his son working in some high school as a coach of the baseball team if its truth or not.

Youre being a right cunt here. The news is on the net. Fuck, I never knew Greiji but he always warmly welcomed contributions from fucked gaijins who he did not know on this forum. He was funny and cool, shit, 68 is far too young to die nowadays. Sorry for Taro and everybody else who knew him personally and so sorry to the family of this funny and interesting man.

[wagyl]

Wangta: this one is a bit of an in-joke. There was a notorious journalist who claimed that Greji had the same identity as Wayne Graczyk. That same journalist misattributed identities of other members here too. Greji lives! Or maybe it will be his ghost posting next, chasing after spirit goats.

Some people can get so confused when they convince themselves of the identities of some of the posters here.

[omae mona]

Wangta: this one is a bit of an in-joke. There was a notorious journalist who claimed that Greji had the same identity as Wayne Graczyk. That same journalist misattributed identities of other members here too. Greji lives! Or maybe it will be his ghost posting next, chasing after spirit goats.

Some people can get so confused when they convince themselves of the identities of some of the posters here.

I consider it one of my great failures in life that I never managed to post anything meaningful enough for that journalist to write a story on me. I really wanted to see which real life person he would accuse me of being.

[legion]

Wangta: this one is a bit of an in-joke. There was a notorious journalist who claimed that Greji had the same identity as Wayne Graczyk. That same journalist misattributed identities of other members here too. Greji lives! Or maybe it will be his ghost posting next, chasing after spirit goats.

Some people can get so confused when they convince themselves of the identities of some of the posters here.

I consider it one of my great failures in life that I never managed to post anything meaningful enough for that journalist to write a story on me. I really wanted to see which real life person he would accuse me of being.

Me too

Perhaps if we try really hard we can ascend to those dizzying heights.

[Russell]

RIP Greji.

you take it seriously? eh?
as a test, just ask his son working in some high school as a coach of the baseball team if its truth or not.

Youre being a right cunt here. The news is on the net. Fuck, I never knew Greiji but he always warmly welcomed contributions from fucked gaijins who he did not know on this forum. He was funny and cool, shit, 68 is far too young to die nowadays. Sorry for Taro and everybody else who knew him personally and so sorry to the family of this funny and interesting man.

Yep, agreed.

Well, he left us a nice avatar...

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But wait a moment, guys! Greji's FG profile says that he is 74. That's different from the age of 68 mentioned in the article. Other guy?

[Takechanpoo]

Youre being a right cunt here

excuse me, the values depend on the person. and the value that death is sad is not mine. i hope you understand it. thank you

[wuchan]

ok, I know that I have been a bit of a troll since the squid took over.

The goat fucker was a legend and a staple of FG back in the days when we had to finance FG.com to be allowed into what we called at the time "the powder room".

Personally, I'l wait fort trash chick, dickhead sword user or our original lord to make an appearance.....


Taro... modern troll form...... pm me if it's true.

[wagyl]

For Fuck's Sake I am sure that Greji will be amused by the tributes but they are premature! I really don't want to regret reviving the investigative journalist joke because I don't think it is deserving of regret and, well, if we can't make those kind of jokes here then what purpose does this site have? But Jesus Christ people, surely you don't believe stuff you read on the Interwebs without some critical thought!

It pains me that responses to my post have made me feel the need to post yet another clarification.




... or are youse lot just double trolling me?

[wangta]

Ah, thanks Waygl. So the baseball writer is truly dead but aint Greji. Thank fuck for that and apologies to Taka.

Truth be told I am glad for a no of reasons including that the baseball writer aint my image of what Greiji looks like. Plus the writer is a shrimp today - 5 feet, 7? Fuck, some J gals are that tall. Greiji aint a boring looking New Joyzee originated shrimp. Thank fuck for that.

[jingai]

I'm glad to hear Greji is still among the living.

5'7" isn't that short : (

[Taro Toporific]

...5'7" isn't that short : (

♬~Short people got no reason...

(Just played this for 5''1" Mrs. Taro.)

[Taro Toporific]

Oops, this "classic" gaijin passed and nobody noticed.

Remembering the life and works of Boye De Mente, a giant of writing on Japan
BY AMY CHAVEZ | THE JAPAN TIMES ~- June 25, 201
...never met Boye’s wife, but it was she who sent me the email informing me of her husband’s death on May 12, 2017, at 88 years old. “He was a classic gentleman as well as a classic writer,” she said.

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