Monthly Archives: August 2007

Wall Street Meltdown

August 15, 2007 – 10:47 pm

Fox Business Analysts have been touting the US stock market like a coked-up thoroughbred at the Kentucky Derby and this week investors were shown the nag’sbones. Dobts about the low-prime mortgage debt rippled across the globe and the gains of 2007 were wiped out ithin a few phone sell calls. Minor adjustment? Sorry.

By Peter | Posted in america, economy | Comments (0)

SIXTEEN TONS

August 11, 2007 – 9:50 pm

As a kid I loved Tennessee Ernie Ford’s hit SIXTEEN TONS. “Sixteen tons and what do you get. Another day older and deeper in debt.” Even to this day the coal industry touts ‘clean-coal, but I’ve been to China, a country phlegmatic hackers. It is not a mating call and I developed a throat-clearing hack after a few weeks […]

By Peter | Posted in Environment | Comments (0)

Darwin Award Candidate 2007

August 11, 2007 – 9:32 pm

Charles Darwin’s SPECIES OF MAN fostered the theory of evolution ie that Man has earned his ascendancy through survival of the fittest, however my personal belief is that Man evolved from miscegenation not from apes, but several animal groups and judging from the size of tourists on the beaches of Pattaya, the most likely candidate would be […]

By Peter | Posted in Environment, Pattaya | Comments (0)

Shenangin’s Pub Move

August 10, 2007 – 3:28 am

August 9, 2007 was the final night for Shenanigan Irish Pub at its long-standing address below the Royal Garden Shopping Plaza. The bar/restaurant had been serving excellent pub food and entertainment to its faithful clientele since 1997 under the mirthful watch of Simon Dutton, the general manager. The former rugby player from Oz runs a […]

By Peter | Posted in Drinking, Pattaya | Comments (0)

Up is not always Down – $US Dollar hits 34

August 10, 2007 – 12:40 am

Isaac Newton is reputed to have said, “Whatever goes up comes down.” This week those words came true. The dollar had been streaking toward pre-1997 levels against the baht. Each decrease cut into my beer fund and I contemplated a move back to the States, where I’d work at the Breakers at Palm Beach as […]

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