joekicker

Just a quickie -- do the players then have to actually be in the playoffs? .

Lucky for them they don't have any other team competing for attention, and get all 7 million. Elway never liked Tebow -- kind of like you, Vic. But he kind of likes winning and the big problem for Elway is that Tebow is a winner AND puts enormous numbers of bums on seats. What McDaniel and Fox and Quinn and Orton (and Elway) did was 1-5 and chase away fans. What Tebow did was turn that into 8-7 and bring enormous cash into the Broncos' franchise. You absoutely have to hate a quarterback that does that -- turns a three-win season into 8 or 9 wins, right? Right? I'd bet a substantial amount that Elway doesn't have the stones to even pretend, even SUGGEST he wants to to get Andrew Luck, let alone to actually pursue him and gut a very sub-standard team of its last remaining talent to do it. Elway is a Colorado icon, but he hasn't won a game for the Broncos for many years now, and I don't believe he'd dare to go up against the market -- or that even the fatuous, vaguely conscious Pat Bowlen would allow it. Elway went broke, failed at everything he did after his Super Bowls, and the Broncos gave him a job to get him through. It's a *job* not a God-post. Predicting is pretty tough work, especially about the future. But this I know. If Elway does go after Luck, it will go very badly for Elway. If he gets Luck, it will not be good for the Broncos, it will tear apart the fan support, which was already on its way out the door over the Orton person, which is why Josh was thrown in to the volcano to appease the Colorado fans and other gods. Orton comes to Sports Authority Field on Sunday. Simple: Broncos win, they are 9-7, win the division and go to post-season for a game, maybe two. Orton wins, the Broncos end their year 8-8 which is a lot better than Orton, Elway and Fox were going to give them. We shall see. .

Only missing the "j" in edjucation. .

Hmmmm. There's a guy I know in Bangkok who flies to Hawaii annually .... this is not a joke, this is true.... to get shirts! Only to get shirts! MM's collection is not myth, but it is challengeable. .

Yes. And No. There are a lot of rice cookers out there today, they really have moved up several generations. A lot of them have microchips and can do all kinds of fancy stuff like, (as mentioned) cook red rice and cook joke. All of this *is* automatic, one button push just like the basic one you describe. Making it a "slow cooker" that does not boil is a piece of cake, these days. Yes, on your basic rice cooker, you can turn it on, and then immediately switch it to "warm" or some similar setting. And to be picayune, the rice would (eventually) cook but it wouldn't steam, which is the point with khao suay, is that if it's "cooked" or boiled, it sucks. A slow cooker/crock pot is built a bit differently from the bottom up from a rice cooker. But only a bit. As jacko quickly found and informed the thread, there are lots of rice cookers these days doubling as slow cookers at the press of a button. I think people who would "never" cook a slow-cooking recipe in a rice cooker are the sort of people you find who say they MUST have cast iron and MUST have copper bottoms or would NEVER cook in aluminium, etc, etc and boringly etc. You ever seen a really good restaurant that draws in people because they only use cast-iron, copper-bottom pans? But hey, if you refuse to put your dish in a rice cooker because (spit, yuck, spit) it's not a real crock pot, well, fine. I have to admit that a rice cooker is not a place I'd put my joint, as several posters suggested. But I wouldn't put my joint in a crock pot either. That's what the Leks and Daengs are for, eh? I'm a big rice-cooker person. I think that next to air-conditioning it is the most important modern invention in Asia. It has liberated women, just for a starter. My daughter wrote a long paper on it at my suggestion and got very high praise for it from a US perfesser who had never heard of such a thing before but it made her go "hmmmmm" - in a good way. It is telling that probably half the women and most of the men in Thailand today couldn't cook rice unless they had an actual rice cooker. (But I can, one of the advantages of being ... um, experienced, I guess.) .

Never heard that one, heh.

It's not really myth (but not entirely true for sure), and also it's not Pattaya, but rather it's Bangkok. The rule of thumb for an awfully long time was that the short time price was the biggest bill in circulation. So in the past 40 years that would start at 100 baht. Then the 500-baht bill came in around the mid-1970s and the 1,000-baht note in the 1990s (going from memory). Like I say, not really myth, but not entirely factual of course. .

You're very welcome for the information on exactly where to find new, slow cookers for sale in Thailand, including store department and shelf. You needn't mention it. .

Cook books and instruction pamphlets give you food poisoning? Wow!! I'm glad I don't read them. .

Well, thank goodness for the Internet. You can always get the answer you want, for sure. .

Update. Indianapolis whipped the Texans, say good-bye to Houston, talk about going the wrong way in December! I've really liked SFO this year, small market team and all, coming off years of terribleness, very under the radar most of the season. It's a long way to Lucas Oil Stadium but there are several ways to get there, and yours is not fantasy. Reminder: All games this weekend are on SUNDAY, not Monday. (Pattaya time.) Onliest exception is "Sunday Night Football" on Monday morning as usual. .

Kamagra is "generic" Viagra. .

Same name, same basic script - different product. Try one small bottle, I'm sure you'll hate it ... .or acquire a taste for somethinf entirely different. .

I'm pretty sure the minister is extremely concerned at this allegation of excessive fees on Britons travelling abroad and will order an urgent study into such possible abuse. This guy is really serious about stemming such unwarranted attacks on consumers by Big Credit, don't you know that already? He's not like those other ministers from that other unspeakable party. But on the OP: What is this "Christmas gift" then" Talk about a political windbag. Not a single fact or charge or saving, not a word about what is too much or too little, no indication of what is "just right". Adapted from Goldilocks by a professional politician. The UK Cards Association laughing their arxe off. And it took FIVE people to assemble the politician's press release and an Internet story about Which? I'm so old I can remember when Britain had good... no, scratch that, when Britain had *great* journalism. .

You may or may not know something about cooking. But no one is arguing about cooking except you. And to the point here is what is certain: you don't know a lot about reading. Not a person, not a post, not a SENTENCE in this thread says that a rice cooker "will ... do" what a crock pot does. In fact.... I believe you are the first person who even suggested the idea. "Look" - as the man says. If you don't have a slot screwdriver, you might be able to loosen that screw with a table knife. If your DVD player won't play the disk you picked up in America, you may be able to watch it on your PC. If you can't get to Pattaya this weekend because of all the joints you're cooking, you may be able to download a copy of "Girls of Pattaya" and, er, take it to bed with you so to speak. No one here said any of these pairs is *_equal_*. Except you, to set up your strawman to knock it down. So you ALSO don't know. Why run it down so, if you don't know? Why not, you know, find out? When you get a few, ask someone to explain this Internet thingmy to you, how it works and all. Interesting, because mine has been sitting there for (quite a few) years, and hardly even thought of it. Do you have to adapt the recipe, put more liquid, anything like that? .

You have an oven? And you're worried about whether you can buy a crock pot? Talk about starting at the high end and working down. So you don't know what happens, you have no way to test it, but anyone who does it must be... no ,strike that, anyone who suggests it *is* an idiot. Not the best example of an open mind, I'd say. FWIW, I idiotically agree with you that *IF* you can get a crock pot, it would be nice for the dish you made up out of thin air for the OP. And if you can *not* get a crock pot, or if you don't want to shell out for one, or if you're low on storage space, then *one* possibility to try might be a rice cooker, which simmers on very low heat for a day or three without a problem. .

Obviously.... well, apparently not obviously, but ACTUALLY everything that will be done with the girl will be done at immigration and not any other place. "All they can do" is fix up the problem so there isn't a problem any more. Lawyers can't do that. Lawyers can advise you on how to approach the people who can and will do it. So can immigration officers advise, only for free. But the only possible unique sole solitary group of people who can (and will, later if not sooner) actually really physically *_will do_* something are the officers of immigration. Going to a lawyer for an otherwise legit kid overstayed three months is overkill. You're paying the lawyer for something you can pretty easily accomplish yourself. Three months is a trivial overstay. But it's an overstay. It can (well, it will) be cleared up by immigration, because no matter how much money you have, lawyers can't clear it up. Then the next step is to arrange a "real" visa, possibly based on her going to school, maybe not. Either way, lawyers can't do that, only immigration can do that. That (probably non-immigrant) visa will run out when the school ends, but it might also be extendable *IF* you don't pixx off immigration too much with lawyers and agents that they decide you're a lot of trouble. There's no such thing as a student visa. There's a type of non-immigrant visa for students, there's another one to accompany mother, and so on, but they all are non-immigrant visas. The task after cleaning up the overstay is seeing where and which category the kid can fit into the non-immigrant visa. Immigration officers are ever so good, and ever so inexpensive at advising on this stuff. .

Five days later.... and no one has walked into a bank and asked, "Do you have rolls of 10 baht coins?" .

Have you ever put a 2kg joint of meat with stock & wine in a rice cooker for 8 hours? .

Why would you expect them to be competent at visas? Tha's what parents are for, surely? If she is over her visa she WILL be charged, there is no "can" about it. She's here on a visa, she overstayed. What did you think? A poor little helpless child, they couldn't possibly charge her? And you blame the school for hopelessness and incompetence? Did it never occur to you that there are real experts in this in Pattaya? For free? At the immigration office? Answer to your question: She needs a visa to stay in Thailand. Most probable is a non-immigrant to attend her school this year. If she has overstayed her current visa, you'll have to clear that up, too. Why not go to the ONE place in all of Pattaya that has a reliable "story"? Very discerning of you. This would be unlike which other businesses? So legally, you really have no stick in this at all, from the Thai perspective. Nevertheless, you can scoot along to immigration and get the info for your girl friend to get to work on extracting her daughter from the immigration problem she (the daughter) seems to be in. At the moment, by your description, she's wracking up the 500 baht payments to the government every 24 hours and not much else is happening. Get to work! If it were my kid.... well, it wouldn't be but if I returned from a trip to Mars and found my kid in that situation, I would grab the kid and her passport and all the other papers including Mom's passport, and I'd head immediately for Jomtien and the immigration office and clear it up by this afternoon. And I'd take a wad of money in case I could pay the fine right there plus the 1,900 for the new visa application. .

heh. Yeah, I was thinking of a 24-hour day, you betcha. .

Isn't that amazing? And of course they are suing Apple, which will settle for bazillions because it's cheaper to give the Yurps bazillions instead of fight them for mega-bazillions, like Microsoft and others. I don't know how anyone can support that organization. .

Yep, that's why I told him there are lots of them for sale here, too. Pretty well all the big department stores have them -- western, Japanese and Thai. It's not Wal-Mart for selection, AND you usually will find them interspersed with the rice cookers in that department. But it is un-difficult to find them. .

Sure you can. Most rice cookers stay on all day to keep the rice warm, that's the point of them. .