Monthly Archives: February 2017

Superstitions of Thai Food

February 8, 2017 – 10:49 am

Every country has their own Old Wive’s Tales. Thailand is no exception. Some might seem crazy on the surface, but most have been based on solid logic, so farangs will still hear the following axioms being said today in some Thai families about dining etiquette and they have nothing to do with using the wrong […]

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The New Road To Mae Sot

February 7, 2017 – 11:28 pm

The Silk Roads cut across Asia and caravans carried the riches of the Orient from China and the Spice Islands. Modern man has dreamed of connecting the new cities of Indochina to India and beyond. Now the trans-Asia Highway is inching westward from Saigon to Phnom Penh. The stretch from Siem Reap to the Thai […]

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Un Fils De Charleroi

February 7, 2017 – 7:59 pm

My nephew Fabo is back in Pattaya. On his last trip I wobbled off the motorsai taxi. He lost a lot of teeth. Fabo is from Charleroi. People don” need much teeth in that city. Beer doesn’t acquire chewing. I wish I was in Pattaya with him. I like drinking beer too, but not Heiniken.

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My Motorcycle Broke Down

February 7, 2017 – 3:35 pm

Men truly are able to think of nothing. And women think of everything.

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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN NORTHERN MAINE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 6, 2017 – 2:34 pm

Scientists first warned the world about global warming with an 1975 article published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ‘Inadvertent climate modification’ sounded like gobbledygook to the common man, who was more terrified by the possibility of a ‘nuclear winter’ produced by an atomic bomb exchange between the USA and USSR and American oil producers pooh-bayed the National […]

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