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Japer Bowles, an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Adams Morgan, said he is excited about this weekend’s closure.

Japer Kim, the founder of theSeoul-based Asia-Pacific Global Research Group, says South Koreans may perceive the ruling as unfair because the trial took place in the US - and such sentiment could trigger a patriotic backlash against Apple products.

From BBC

One flamboyant japer paraded around on his first day wearing bright red knee-length socks and nothing else.

IF you've been burning the midnight taper, And of new policies deem yourself shaper; If at the world you're a green-gosling gaper, Or of old "Junius," juvenile aper; Bumptious Scotch Duke, or irate Irish Draper, Crammed with conceit, which must publicly caper; Angry old woman, or frivolous japer; Thraso or termagant, Tadpole or Taper, To blow off your steam, or your gas, or your vapour, There's one fool-loved fashion—'tis write to the paper!

Now let the japer, and the smiler with his knife, do me what harm they may.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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