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[Ya-ta Boy]

Inspired by �Me Lee the drunken Adjushi�

I thought that was a worthy endeavor. In the spirit of fair play, I thought like-minded people should engage in a sad and pathetic attempt to do for the sadly and undeservedly neglected, over-looked waygookin ajosshi what the author did for the local variety.

Here is my offering:

A waygookin ajosshi:

1. Did try to exert his independence by moving 6 blocks to the local college/university in his hometown, but moved back home to mom and dad�s basement when his roomies short-sheeted him because he took his laundry home for mom to do every weekend.
2. Would not be in danger of taking flight if mom and dad had had the financial wherewithal to pay for ear-reduction surgery.
3. Does not catch the irony inherent in him and his friends sitting at the bar rating the T & A of the local women while prognosticating on the amount and consistency of pubic hair while getting (justifiably indignant) when his female co-worker complains that yet another Korean ajosshi asked if she is Russian.
4. Is eternally grateful to Al Gore for inventing the internet so he can engage in macho posturing while remaining anonymous.
5. Is eternally grateful to Al Gore for inventing the internet so he can spout endlessly about secret conspiracies to take over the world and not have his drinking buddies break a pitcher of beer over his head because he is clueless.
6. Thinks attacking any and everything in the most hostile and aggressive manner possible is the height of wit and sophistication and will distract everyone from noticing that he still can't get a date with anyone who can understand what he is really saying.
7. Works for a uni hakwon but insists on being called �professor�.
8. Proudly proclaims he�s never paid for sex while paying out the equivalent of W100,000 for dinner and drinks while the nubile honey passes her phone number to the stud at the next table.
9. His best friend is another waygookin who collects empty cereal boxes in his shoe-box apartment.

I�m sure others have more to add. Feel free.

[Ya-ta Boy]

69 hits and no one agrees (or even disagrees) with me. You can't be telling me that I'm the only one who has noticed the similarity. Can you?

[tacon101]

a little late to read it all

so i skimmed...and i've never met anyone like that in korea...now do one about weird waygookin business men and maybe i can relate

[uber1024]

Where does the line item about making lists of characteristics of fictional people on the internet fall?

[On the other hand]

Is shocked to find that Korean drinking culture is a little more rough-and-tumble than the campus bars he frequented back home, where the meanest dudes in the whole place were the drunk English professors in the corner arguing about Milton.

[On the other hand]

Ridicules Korean men for sponging off their parents well into adulthood, while himself earning a living wage plus housing and health benefits, in exchange for conducting simple conversations in his native language.

Tries to make his life seem more exciting by convincing fellow waygooks that the idiotic rantigs of a few anti-ESL netizens are a harbinger of pogroms to come.

Secretly regrets having missed out on of "The Hatefest of 2002".

[Moldy Rutabaga]

..has 46 maple leafs sewn on his weekend clothing, while complaining how pushy Koreans are about their country.

..while hanging up a copy of the TEFL certificate he earned over a weekend in Halifax, comments how bogus many Korean qualifications are.

..is running out of walking space in his apartment, which is slowly being taken over by piles of those little pickle cups that come with delivery!

Ken:>

[riley]

Hah!
#3 sounds too much like me at times. So yeah, there does seem to be some truth in that. Funny!

[JongnoGuru]

#7 has my name written ALL OVER IT.

[Ya-ta Boy]

...stands there in his droopy shorts big enough to fit both him and his only friend at the same time, a hole in his dirty t-shirt, a knitted stocking cap pulled down over his ears and three days of beard on his chin and has the gall to say, "These ajummas with flowered pants and plaid shirts wearing sun visors are just not with it fashion-wise, man."

[Plume D'ella Plumeria]

Ya-ta, get a life. Is there any such thing as male menopause?

Sure, there are some jerks on the board and it can be a bit of fun to have a go at them. There is, at times, a bit of sourness to some of your posts - this one for example.

The "Professor," I will admit, can be a bit of a sourpuss. Hasn't she been hammered on enough? Not that I'm wild about her posts and I wish she'd silence herself, but enough is enough...