On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Oct 31, 2016, at 12:36 PM, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> This went on for about 15 minutes, giving me time to plan my new life as a refugee in Tokyo in some detail. Then suddenly, and with no explanation, I was handed my boarding pass and directed to the customs and immigration area, where I sailed through without further incident. I still have no idea whatsoever what happened at the JAL counter.

Clearly you were being flagged as a potential Vilani agent, and they were deeply confused by the instructions attached to closely examine your luggage for penguins.

Or there was something in your file about your former profession (e.g. sniper) and they were wondering what you had been doing lately . . .

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.