====== Asobi ======


===== Recruitment =====

A chance meeting at a picnic thrown by Cornell Alums (Princeton Area) we met [[Helene]]. It is 
[[Helene]] who deserves the credit for leading me down the road to sin..(I owe her 'big time' 
and she never lets me forget it!). After doing some puzzles for various publications she was 
involved in....sneakily she invited me to a soiree (actually several) at her home...where I met 
a lot of krewe...and she encouraged me to go to [[misc:acpt1998|Stamford]] ... where I met a lot 
more, and [[Treesong]] who convinced me life would not be complete without membership in the NPL.. 
Always willing to try anything at least once...I signed up for a year...then renewed for multiple 
years. Finishing last at [[misc:acpt1998|Stanford]] in several attempts prepared me for membership, 
for I can only solve about 6-8 flats a month (if lucky) however I do enjoy reading about all those 
who have 'completes' My expertise in solving has made me the sole distributor of 16 1/2 cases of 
binders so I must have some value to the group. 

//First Issue//: Dec 1990

===== Recruits =====

[[Ozymandias]].


===== Nom =====

Asobi (not Asobu). There is quite a difference. 

A friend who saw I was always doing paper puzzles (etc) used
the word 'asobi' when talking about me in his own language. I
asked him what it meant, and he said "play, game, puzzle) Of
course, this was the same person his American co-workers told
HIM that in order to compliment a western woman you:

Pat them on the rear and say "nice buns"

Now...the explanation for ASOBU follows:

Asobu is Japanese for the verb 'to play' but its use is not
limited to the meanings of the english 'to play.' With other
references about the difference in the moral view of sex, it
is not a far-fetched extension to understand that Japanese
think of sex with the word for 'to play.' One friend
explained that it was just like anything else to do with no
moral connotations. Another told me that of course the
parents knew their daughter was getting night visitors, just
like if a westerner sent a kid upstairs to bed and s/he was
reading a comic book under the sheets by flashlight... the
parent doesn't do anything about it unless it gets out of
hand.

The 'asobi' username has an 'i' instead of a 'u', which is
one way to conjugate verbs to make them into nouns, so my
username is more like 'the play' or 'the game' or 'the sport'
rather than a verb for 'to play.'

Some uses of 'asobi' ... In japanese a person can either 'do'
tennis or 'play' tennis. My Japanese friends when they say
they will go swimming translate that to english as 'Do you
want to play swimming with me?" or "I like to play rock
climbing."

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