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Queen For A Day

September 12, 2012 – 1:05 pm

Back in the late 50s American audience were captivated by the tales of woe told by desperate housewives on the TV show QUEEN FOR A DAY.Each of the three participants had several minutes to recount their hard times to the host Jack Bailey and the winner for the most sorrowful tribulation was decided by the […]

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Thai Water Buffalo Revival

June 12, 2012 – 9:19 am

A warning to farangs living in Thailand. Be prepared for an onslaught of kwai mai sabai or sick buffalo complaints from your girlfriends, as up-country relatives switch from tractors to water buffaloes to work their fields. For years the King of Thailand has proclaimed that the water buffalo was a vital part of the nation’s […]

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Sick Buffalo Email

April 18, 2012 – 11:35 am

“Dear Xxxx I love you and I miss you too much. my friend bar say you old man look same same monkey but I know you hansum man I have problem I write you before that buffalo me sick Now it die Fall down and dead in middle rice field. Bad fortune when it fall […]

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SICK BUFFALO FOR EVERYONE

April 18, 2012 – 11:18 am

Several years ago my future ex-wife’s brother-in-law received a phone call from his brother. Bok and his son were in the hospital. They had had a motorsai accident. My future ex-wife hung up the phone. “Neither of them are dead?” I asked in Thai “No.” This was good news. Bok and his son Beer were […]

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GOING UPCOUNTRY

December 31, 2011 – 2:59 am

Q Most farangs vacation in Thailand for the beaches food, culture, and temples. I had been to many. In 1997 a friend in exile from the UK off-suggested a visit to the Last Babylon. Pattaya offered love-lost western men a chance to meet a girl of their dream. Past and present are unimportant. Most men […]

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