joekicker

Yeah. What he said. The East doesn't match the West, kind of like the NFC doesn't stand up to the AFC. One or two or three teams, though... The Bruins are absolutely peaking and TB can certainly whip any of the four western teams on any given night. On the other hand, it's good live in a stable, mostly predictable world where the Caps tap out, the Sharks fold like a cheap cardboard box.... Biggest single surprise for me was the Ducks. But the Lightning really came from nowhere on my charts for sure. .

No kidding. THAT is why I have no sympathy for the whiners and whingers and the terrible, terrible election that will just ruin their entire holidays if not their whole lives. .

Yes. No surprise. This has been known for a while. I wrote just a few days back that 'enry Cooper was a real gentleman, and of course so was Seve. Fabulous golfer, charismatic and a "real" person. .

Feel better now? .

Pre Cisely. We assume this is a "good" contract. Therefore, the OP has legal control of the house. But that is a VERY dicey situation to be in if the lovely wife wants to get up to any number of mischiefs. I'd be looking for a *friendly* and agreeable way out of the lease, assuming that this is possible. .

So I'm watching the Boo-ens stick it to Philly and I have to say for Philly, I haven't seen that many important turnovers in a game since, well, the Capitals yesterday. Jeez. .

NO!! Please. Houses on wheels attract hurricanes and tornadoes, you know that!!! .

Yes. But unless I misread or he misstated the OP, he doesn't have the lease, his wife does. If the lease is in her name, SHE has complete control and he has nothing - or, more literally, he has whatever she grants him. .

Dany Heatley and Jason Spezza. heh. Yeah. But yeah, "Ovechkin gets the puck, crosses centre, he's going across the blue li... oops." .

Caps simply don't want it. They're just handing the Lightning the victories. They trip, they fall, Ovechkin tries to stickhandle and simply overskates the puck, leaves it right there to a three-man rush. It's a Washington disease. .

I simply don't understand that missed call. I watched it a first time and saw it. The replays are obvious. The incompetent officials even called a corner (not a goal kick) because they saw that Vidic touched it - what did they think he touched it with, his chest of God? And the only POSSIBLE way he could have touched it was with a long-outstretched arm, otherwise the ball was beyond him. Soccer officiating is bad, but this set some new standard of low. .

Then you don't have a house here. You can't own something in someone's name, anywhere in the world. Your partial stake, if any, in your wife's house would depend on any other legal papers that might exist about it. What (other) contracts did you sign with her? .

GIYF .

This is actually a pretty good choice for a lot of stuff, and it's normally what I do. I don't two-bit price-shopping, frankly (or buy two ounces of perfume for my gifts) so I can only say that the prices here are okay. Two things: The ciggies are all what is on the local market, i.e. the UK ones are mostly from Malaysia, the US ones from the Philippines. So I would never buy those. Also, they will (generally, although anything is ultimately negotiable in Thailand) but generally only let you buy in quantities that meet Thai law for duty-free, such as ONE bottle of booze, ONE carton of smokes, etc. That said, I've bought three, four bottles of perfume and waltzed through, which I think is over the limit. So your mileage WILL vary on this point. .

I'm not a fortune teller for mid-May, but I do suggest you just steel yourself to the possibility that Thai authorities will obey the laws not too far down the road. This is a dead-easy campaign for politicians to jump on at election time. SO FAR, this isn't a public campaign, which is to our advantage. When-not-if it hits the media, we're on the losing side. .

I don't think it's the government. Remember - Purachai was in charge of the police last time round. If I'm an occifer, I am not going to take chances that he'll be there again. Which he WELL might be. It doesn't take the government to order a "crackdown", eh? Why, you want to be sure on the right day in order to vote? The exact day is not set. Very late June or very early July. Elections are on Sunday by tradition. .

double bugger "flood control" BS nonsense

What did she think when you didn't even offer her an ice cream? Too enthralled with the ambience and the view to comment? .

No. Purachai has been out of touch for quite some time (mostly in New Zealand) but he is fit, tanned, rested and has announced he is running in the coming election. He has had a LOT of front page out of it, how when he's elected he will clean up the filth, etc. Interestingly, never mentioned the Topless Trio. For him, it has always been all about the nightclub circuit, foreign areas included but not villainised. .

Funny, but the first post, I actually laughed and thought BidD had really got his leg over. Sadly, he was being serious. Tragically, he really meant you should take your lunch date to Burger King - for the food and for the ambience. I for one believe you. You're well on record with your opinion of people with vaginas. Funny-coincidental, I thought YOU were kidding with a little black humour with YOUR first post about it. .

Without quibbling about "plenty" and percentages of all flights, you're quite right - not at all impossible. If you're on a non-stop, you can buy a couple or six proper sized non-cheap charlie perfumes and get them to Thailand for sure. .

Jeez. You would actually troll the duty free shops for 2 ounces of perfume and NOTHING else but that? Jeez. But yes, you are correct, Cheep Charles and his up-to 3 oz TOTAL of perfume and all other liquids can skate through security so long as there is nothing else, quite right. .

What have you done with papillon, but why do you think we'd pay to get him back just because you're much worse? "Any Thai girl"? Any one at all? You're entirely, completely out of your mind. .

Nah, that blew over, and the nightlife was never blamed for it anyhow. More likely it's an approaching election, in which the old "Mr Clean" Purachai Piemsombun is going to run as, well, Mr Clean. His clean-up of nightlife in the early Thaksin days was actually quite popular among folks who vote, polled VERY well, and no one is going to run up against him on this issue. Expect more of this sort of thing over the next month and then, if "we" lose the election, for a long time to come. Purachai is running as the Thai version of an independent, then he'll try to horn in to the coalition after the election - presuming there's to be a coalition which is almost certain. .

In almost all cases, if you buy a bottle of perfume (or booze or after-shave or water) and then land and then board or reboard a plane, you will lose the bottle of (whatever) to the jack-booted security goons. In other words, it's almost impossible to get a bottle of (something) from Heathrow to Bangkok. It has become a matter of what is possible, not what is the best deal. .