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rush mat

On-Yomi: コ

Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 26-7-2009(29): Orphans sleep on the flowers of a rush mat.

2) [kioku3] 30-7-2009(9): Rush Limbaugh criticized orphans and flower children on his show. So one group of orphans began selling "Rush Mats"–doormats with Rush Limbaugh's picture on them so people could wipe their feet on Rush's face before they went into the house. "If our parents were still alive, they would be proud," the orphans said.

3) [icamonkey] 13-10-2009(3): On my elegant rush mat I laid down flowers and an orphan named Lolita ..wait. what?

4) [nadiatims] 25-6-2009(3): The poor orphans took to injecting 'flowers' (poppy variety), and lay Knocked Out (KO) on the rush mat floor of the orphanage.

5) [dihutenosa] 29-7-2008(3): You stop by a local marketplace and see that the orphans are selling rush mats again. The orphans live out in the flowers, and as soon as the rushes flower (which is only one week out of the year), they grab them and weave mats. They are really nice - covered with flowers so they are soft to step on - and when you do step on them, there's none of that nasty rush smell - just the smell of sweet baby melons.

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