From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   I cannot shake the feeling that the following lost cat flyer is stupid and   
   racist.   
      
      
         The flyer had "KEIKO" at the top where they most often   
   said LOST or MISSING.  Keiko was a calico.  In her picture,   
   she sat facing the camera with her right paw raised up to   
   the level of her ear, not as if she were reaching, but   
   curling its toes forward.  The orange and black spots where   
   smaller than Cleo's, leaving much more of the body to be   
   white.   
         "Keiko waves her paw, like the Maneki Neko.  She has a   
   bobtail."  After this line, there was an ink drawing of a   
   cat standing in side-on view, done perhaps with a nib pen,   
   or some sort of stylus.  A stub of a tail, no longer than a   
   human thumb, curled back on the rump.  The drawing was   
   complete with so few strokes, simple and flawless, that one   
   thought the artist drew pictures of Keiko so often every   
   stroke had been perfected.  The written English was very   
   precise, but its vocabulary was modest.  "It is unlucky,   
   but we do not worry for luck.  Keiko must be home."  It was   
   hard not to feel the flyer had been composed by a Japanese   
   person.   
      
      
   The quoted parts are English haikus.  I keep feeling that's one of the things   
   that makes it stupid.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)