PeaceBlondie

There is a world of difference between a shouting father and a child beater. Weight is irrelevant.

The danger of making it elaborate is that it increases the chance of failure. KISS

It's Augustine's fault, and all those popes and televangelists. "Jesus wants you to kill all those families of God-damned mother rapists!!" Nearly everybody including Jews and atheists has been taught to commit unholy genocide.

Afghanistan...imagine an army of rapists visit your town, as they did Nanking. And after six years, the invaders' country commands more rapists to rape your family.

The strange part comes long after you've finished the first draft.

"Could you change this to be about lesbian zombies in the Amazon?"

"This story has no Aleut rabbis poisoning caribou!

"Why not move this 200 years forward, to Star System yz78?""

First thoughts are it is too 'one paced', I would mix it up a bit, put a few more angles in the sub-plot and introduce a few more characters.

At the moment it is not too dissimilar to the usual saturday night in PatPong

Thanks Mossfinn, for constructive critique.

However, I've been to Patpong, where I saw no Mayas, hardly a Shan, no assassinations, no clay mountain trails, nobody in a tunic, no cardinal being smeared with fresh brains while 100 million viewers watch aghast; no aged queen.., "You're not a Patpong regular are you PaulMossfin?

Single issue? Three countries, five cultures, a half dozen themes; saving a Karen girl from human traffickers; destroying a 1600-year heresy that blessed all warfare; etc. Maybe 90 named characters.

Sorry I didn't mention that before. Again, thanks.

I think Honda had auto transmush sportsbikes around 1980. Which is like making Valentino Rossi race in a girdle and a lady's bonnet.

Florida - is that Far East Texas?

.05 baht = 5 satang (and that's my 5 cents's worth).

This reminds me of arguments about "Which TEFL course is better?" when almost no one has ever taken two different courses.

KISS

Keep it simple.

I'm convinced; 3029 is the Middle Ring Road.

I heard that if you only sit one of the impossible tests, they renew your temp license, even if you flunk.

universal jamie .

and you screwed up the bet among mods as to who would bring it up first. cheers!

Who was short odds?

Mossfinn was on the short list.

No need to rehash a six-year old thread.

If there are only two ring roads, there is no middle one.

Most people that have visited or lived in Chiang Mai city for some time use reference to Inner, Middle, and Outer Ring roads, PeaceBlondie. If you don't believe it, just do an internet search for "Chiang Mai Inner Ring Road", another for "Chiang Mai Middle Ring Road", and another for "Chiang Mai Outer Ring Road". It may not be official naming (I doubt if any, including Bangkok, are officially named Ring Roads).

MSPain

I got here in 2003. Apparently you mean the (partial) ring road that goes from Canal Road, under Hang Dong Road, past Global House, etc. - perhaps highway 3029.

This cite - "Middle Ring Road, Sarapee, Chiang Mai" sounds like Outer Ring Road, 121.

This map illustrates it I think: http://www.pimuk.co.th/home.php?file=locat...amp;language=en

Sounds like a replay of 1983/4 in USA. Which got me deep deep discounts through 1988.

If there are only two ring roads, there is no middle one.

Moved to Pattaya Forum at OP's request

I saw a new Raider 150 in Lamphun in 2004.

Not 100cc bigger, More like 82cc.

Pure speculation.

Your mileage may differ. I did not get seen immediately at Chiang Mai Ram. But I stand by my own direct experience. I consider more than a 30 minute wait excessive.

In 2001, my Mayan friends had no cell phone, landline, electricity or plumbing. Maria's teenagers taught her that the earth revolves around the sun. Yet they invented corn and zero, and had great astronomers when our ancestors shivered in caves in Europe.

I really have led an exciting life, on less than two cups of coffee in my lifetime. Does a customer need to drink coffee?

Rodney King was not eloquent during those troubled times. When I moved in with a roommate from Birmingham, Alabama, we had opposite definitions of 'cock'.' compared to New York and Illinois. I suspect old Scots had linguistic differences with Londoners.