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Koohii stories:

1) [PepeSeco] 26-1-2010(183): (re: Raichu) An undercover alliance between Japan (the sun on its flag) and Turkey (the moon on its flag) detected by a surveillance satellite dish. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100126a3.html.

2) [fuaburisu] 13-5-2006(86): A new alliance is proclaimed at the end of a meal between officials. As a symbol of their alliance they clean up together one dish, and present it to the photographers. The clean dish under the flash lights appears very bright, and it's pretty much all you can see on the photo that appears on the next morning's newspapers, with the title "New alliance, one bright dish!".

3) [Crowfoot] 2-6-2008(52): The bright dishes in the cupboard form an alliance against the others.

4) [LazyNomad] 18-1-2010(44): In medieval Japan (during Sengoku Jidai) there was an interesting ritual to form an alliance between different samurai clans. The warlord, who wanted to propose to form an alliance to another warlord, would send him a big ceremonial dish with the sun drawn in the center. If the proposal were accepted, the second warlord would draw an image of the moon next to the sun on the same dish, and then return the dish to the first warlord. (not true story, but helped me to create vivid image).

5) [dingomick] 1-3-2007(20): The alliance has built bright satellite dishes to defeat the rebels.

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