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refined

On-Yomi: セイ、ショウ、シヤウ

Koohii stories:

1) [johnzep] 8-8-2007(154): Before rice is refined, it is actually blue…bet ya didn't know that!! (alternate….Condi Rice was blue when insurgents blew up the iraqi refinery where oil is refined).

2) [joxn_costello] 15-1-2009(141): Very refined people in the upper classes have skin as pale as rice and blue blood.

3) [Raichu] 8-4-2008(40): NB This means "spirit", "vitality", "essence", "semen". For vitality, you need to eat healthy food, symbolized by rice, and exercise under the blue sky.

4) [yorkii] 25-6-2006(24): The job of the smurfs. not many people know this, but it is to create the most refined rice in the world.

5) [wonderflonium] 20-10-2009(18): "Uh, why is your rice blue?" "It's been refined! And by 'refined' I mean it's been in the back of my fridge for a few months.".

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