PeaceBlondie

I bought big wall map, bilingual, at some book fair. You can get them already laminated, too. Mercator projection. DK or Suriwong. Globes too maybe.

Great place to live year round if the smoke in early months doesn't bother you (or you could travel for the worst month).

The new 90 day method seems faster.

Back to the OP: Thaksin can go to some third-rate country (Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea; surely not Thailand), have a sex change operation, and return here as Eva Peron.

Actually the CBR150 is exactly like my 1958 Cushman scooter. And identical to my 1957 Austin-Healey Corvette.

the enemy is war.

there is not a big difference in dropping bombs over Berlin, Bagdhad, Dien Bin Phu, Coventry, Guernica, Nagasaki, Kandahar or Dresden.

War is much more then only soldiers not returning back home.

Rule Britannia, Pax Britannica, Pax Americana, Kalifonia �ber alles - that is war.

uncounted, nameless, unsung are the civilian victims.....

I'm not sure there's consensus here on the differences between wit, sarcasm, understatement, intentional exaggeration, irony, etc.

Brits understand "If I've told you once, I've told you a trillion times." They usually understand that a Texas driver's license is a license to exaggerate.

Yet - whilst acting at times as if Brits still have the original patent on the American English language, they often don't see the intended irony of "I could care less."

Siamese sarcasm? Isaan irony? Lanna loonyness? I have no idea.

Am shocked , and pretty disgusted, to see that anti-semitism is alive and well. Some of the comments here defy belief.

Off-topic: I read quickly; thought you said some comments deify belief.

I know nothing about IRS foreign issues except what I read on IRS website.

Whoever said things were not going to change should try to take a ride into the center of Hua Hin from the North. Oh my is it a nightmare already, they sealed off a lane for the ASEAN and around the palace there is only one lane each direction, I think it took us more than ½ hour from Soi 6 to the post office.

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HP VP's for big US companies have staff that interview.

Don't blame the Thais - blame their education system.

Interesting. Is there some other nationality in charge of the Thai education system?

I ain't no expert. I suspect CWMcM is probably mostly right, I stink (read my signature).

Well, we'll wearily whiz through these wizardly wonders at 675 tetrabytes per nanosecond until Starship Sigma enters the Fifth Android Prolapse. My thanks to Lt. Zulu and the staff.

A lot of the free stuff uses this scam. You can get a free registry cleaner from;

http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/

Download one called Free Registry Cleaner. It works great and they DON'T try to scam you.

^ Spend $29.95 on what?

For RegCure, a program that 'cures' my 731 registry errors

PB google is your friend, try this.

http://www.regcure.com/

I like the bit at the bottom, free download.

Happy downloading.

Big dark clouds over SE part of city at 4:20 PM, but I ran ahead like "Riders on the Storm."

^ Spend $29.95 on what?

Announcement by a bureaucracy. Education reform again, but did they reform it in the last ten years? Good luck.

Sorry, Phil Harries - I only criticize pedants who criticize others and make their own errors:

"We are, for a start we can spell/proof read, we can use uppercase characters in the right place and can correctly use punctuation with it's attendant spaces."

It should read, "We are, for a start. We can...with its attendant spaces."

Special programs - English native speaker, EP, MEP, etc., have add-on fees.

Different problem: haven't gotten a Windows XP update for months.

Double-you, double-you, double-you dot windows update dot com. This site will walk you through a manual update.

I'll try tomorrow. Thanks.

I spent an hour today joking with my 4th grade grandson on Yahoo Chat. I was admirably immature.

And what do UK diplomats say about their own staffs? Probably derogatory, as well. Speaking of Thaksin's favorite banana republic, Nicaragua, Anthony Lake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lake wrote in Somoza Falling that the lesser embassies were often staffed by third-rate graduates of lesser universities.

My assistant manager was a cross-country runner, a tall, White suburban Detroit teenager when he moved to El Paso. The best runners in W. Hemisphere - Tarahumaras from western Chihuahua, most of them 5 foot 5 - ran circles around him. They still can in 2009.

Arnie wasn't an arm wrestler.