And I thought Americans were strange

[Jenny_Jackson]

Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, faces formidable foreign policy challenges in dealing with an expansionist China, a nuclear armed North Korea and a sinister Russia. But he need have no concerns about establishing friendly relations with the planet Venus — his own wife is a friend of the Venusians, having travelled there in a UFO in the 1970s.

The distinctions of 66-year-old Miyuki Hatoyama do not end there. As well a being a musical actress, cookery writer, clothesmaker and television personality, she is also a friend of the actor Tom Cruise, whom she knew in a past life when he was temporarily incarnated as a Japanese. She would be regarded as bit of a fruitcake anywhere in the world — in Japan’s staid political culture, she is unique...

The rest of the story is found at -http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6819688.ece

 

[DesertPirate]

We are!

But many others are much stranger.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Well, she was living in California, after all . . .

 

[DesertPirate]

Well, she was living in California, after all . . .

That explains a lot!

 

[driphoney]

Oh where oh where was this when I was needing a research topic for astrobiology?

And to think, I was stuck writing ten dreary pages about the possibility of life in the buried oceans of the Galilean moons of Jupiter!

Venus, I've learned is a Gas Giant. From the article, maybe it's not the only thing full of gas.

 

[Verdad]

Oh where oh where was this when I was needing a research topic for astrobiology?

And to think, I was stuck writing ten dreary pages about the possibility of life in the buried oceans of the Galilean moons of Jupiter!

Venus, I've learned is a Gas Giant. From the article, maybe it's not the only thing full of gas.

'Tis not. It's an earthlike planet. Very earthlike, save for the toxic atmosphere and the infernal temperature. What's 500 K when you're among friends, though?

 

[3113]

"she is also a friend of the actor Tom Cruise, whom she knew in a past life when he was temporarily incarnated as a Japanese."

That totally explains the Last Samurai. And here I was, thinking it was a lousy film.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

That's beyond fucked up.