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Apr 30, 2007 | 8:09 pm

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mjm

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Join Date: May 1998

Location: Tokyo, Japan (or Vienna whenever possible)

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My very first # 駄じゃれ　after I picked up abit of the lingo.....

If one says: 今日はさぁ。。六日

Then pretty much any winter month on the 6th becomes "Cold Day"

because an alternate pronunciation would be:

今日は寒いか？

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