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Good effort - always entertaining.

Thanks for your reply to Saa, Martin. I was a bit taken aback at the inference that I was gay - hasn't happened before. I now will be permanently traumatised and will fall into a curled up prone position on the floor every time I hear the word, "spunky".

Well, Sa, there are quite a few different interpretations of what "spunky" might mean, as there are at least 3 different ideas as to what "spunk" might be. In Australia, the word "spunky", when referring to a girl, would mean that she was quite sexually attractive. I was referring to that interpretation.

Thanks Saa. Now we await the critics.... (By the way, I think I have only ever been into Spanky's once, and that was because I thought it was Spunky's)

Just love it

Good on you, Mate. Keep up the good work (both yourself and Ouy).

Can't believe that picture on the wall in the spare bedroom is still doing the rounds. I bought one exactly the same in the early 1970s and I still have it hanging in a room somewhere (I think in my flat out the back).

Just back from LOS, wishing I wasn't. Was bloody hot in Sisaket, but freezing my arse off in NSW, Australia. Can't wait to get back....

Love it! I too enjoy a reading-fest while wandering around the city.

I took a friend along to share a meal in your restaurant on (about) 27th or 28th April, when in Pattaya. Once again I need to say the special chicken curry that was provided was sensational. Thank you for another enjoyable meal and really cold beer.

Oh, okay, but as a high school teacher (English and History) I was taught "racquet" and have always taught the same. I see you used wikipedia, which is really an American spelling tome, and isn't always really correct, English-wise, but I take your point. I guess it may have came about due to the great vowel change in England occurring after the emigrants had wandered across the Atlantic - a bit like where Yanks call pigs hogs, and hogs being the older term.

Not that too many will be interested, but I'm flying Thai and wheels up from Sydney tomorrow morning, 10.00 AEST - wheels down (hopefully) 16.30 at Swampy. So bloody wet and cold here at the moment, so really looking forward to the heat. Off to Kanchanaburi the next day, after a quick personal service in Sukhumvit tomorrow night, for ANZAC Day services. Back in Patts on 27th, along with 3 mates. Hope I run into a few boarders.

I thought the above was about a scam involving tennis. Is "racket" the American way of spelling "racquet"?

You've got to do something to fill in time waiting for next appointment....

This one is important:

Sorry englishinsiam, but couldn't help this: My wife had her teeth whitened this morning, but to be honest, most went onto her chin....

HOW TO WRITE GOOD Frank L. Visco My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules: 1. Avoid alliteration. Always. 2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. 3. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.) 4. Employ the vernacular. 5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. 6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. 7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive. 8. Contractions aren't necessary.

I stay at Jings (and I was sure there was another recent thread on this exact topic, but it seems to have disappeared). Jings is a Guesthouse, but the Fenny Foo's Mews are great rooms and it is a fantastic central place to stay: http://www.jings.in.th/

Great shot, Joe - he caught the mood beautifully.

Yep, wish this had come at another time too. I am flying both ways from Aust to LOS in just less than 3 weeks. Gives me something to think about, or means that I will have to board a little more pissed than normal. Oh well, we all have to put up with shit sometime.

I actually think I may have seen a few farang who weren't British in those photos...

I agree with BeeryBelly. I have stayed in a couple of Ibis hotels in Australia and the bathrooms have been drop in modules that are quite 'squeezy', while the bedrooms are way too tiny for me. That is why I have never stayed in one in LOS.

With the habits that Chinese tourists seems to have around Pattaya, I wonder if they shit in the cockpits of their aircraft...?

Glad to hear your TGF is okay. Hope she recovers well.