Poll #28 by Mr. Pool, the Harrumph librarian ends.

     As you remember, Mr. Pool, the Harrumph librarian was engaged in a rather “racy” chat room conversation with YAMAMOTO_GUY_1238, someone he thought was the ghost of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Japan’s smashing victories in the first six months of WWII.  Of course, Yamamoto was shot down by long range P-38’s of the 347^th Fighter group on April 18^th, 1943. And now, it appears, Mr. Pool has suffered a similar fate.

     After his risqué conversation with YAMAMOTO_GUY_1238, Mr. Pool arranged for a face-to-face meeting where, unknown to him, Chris Hansen of Dateline NBC and the volunteers of Perverted-Justice were waiting for him.  After his obligatory smarmy talk, Chris Hansen told Mr. Pool he was “free to leave.”  Of course, once Mr. Pool was on the front lawn of the bait house he was pig-piled by local cops and taken away.  Needless to say, Mr. Pool will not be returning to the Harrumph library and we are, even now, looking for a replacement.  Personally, I’m voting for the chick with the huge rack, wearing those 1980’s style big glasses that we interviewed yesterday.

     As far as the poll results for “What’s the best thing to come out of Japan,” it looks like the “Samurai tradition of honor” only garnered 2 votes, “Cheap, reliable goods” only one, and “Fish heads” none at all.  The big winner was, of course, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with 4 votes!  I think we know there are several reasons the TMNT won, among these:

They're the world's most fearsome fighting team (We're really hip!)
They're heroes in a half-shell and they're green (Hey - get a grip!)
When the evil Shredder attacks
These Turtle boys don't cut him no slack!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Splinter taught them to be ninja teens (He's a radical rat!)
Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines (That's a fact, Jack!)
Raphael is cool but crude (Gimme a break!)
Michaelangelo is a party dude (Party!)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Heroes in a half shell
Turtle power!

Go Ninja, Go Ninja. GO; Go Ninja, Go ninja, GO!
GO GO GO GO