baabaabobo

They could also charge him with " selling ice without a work permit"

You duck your head automatically when you pass in front of someone.

You accept ice in your beer

Your wrist always has some form of band around it

You pat scabby dogs on the head

Yup Apple rock

Jeez, chill out Moskito!! I was just making a statement. You are reading much too much into my light-hearted comments.

By the way, you mentioned the war, not me

Simon

I mentioned it once.. ButI think I got away with it.

You started it

Can someone please enlighten the rest of us as to what a "doobie" is?

Yeah,

I like the way you think. For me, you can't beat Ko Chiang ... if you don't mind the travelling. I've spent about 20x more time there than Pattaya and Phuket put together. Quiet. Good food. Good fishing. Not many bars and few jerks looking for bargirls.

Love it.

Cheers,

Virgil, Out!

I remember encircling the fish with local fishermen and woman with a huge net at Kata Beach, then concelebrating the catch with a lot of food and beer and a doobie or two. Those were the days. Today you can invite me to Phuket, all expenses paid. I would not go.

A Doobie is a member of the band The Doobie Brothers - all members were called Doobie although they weren't related.

In Phuket during the seventies members of this band were often passed around wherever a party was in full swing. NOT!

I agree that there should be less "low class" tourists for Phuket so that those of us who live here don't have to watch them half naked and constantly pissed driving around with no helmets. Seriously though you cannot judge Phuket on what you see in Patong/Karon etc. It is a very large island and has still alot of beauty if you know where to look.

Hiya All

my Son has a British Passport from Bangkok and has only got a Thai Birth Cert, no Thai passport. On returning to Thailand will he have to get a visa stamp in his British passport as we are staying over the 31 days?

I was told we could show his Thai Birth Cert at contol on the way out and we would not have to pay overstay etc...

Please advise, thanks all

It is my understanding that unless he has a Thai passport he will be considered British on arrival and given the famous departure card and stamp. Showing his Thai birth certificate when leaving is no guarentee that they won't charge overstay. The way I do it is my son arrives in Thailand on his Thai passport and arrives in UK on his British. You have to show both when leaving Thailand to indicate that no visa is required

(they seem worried about letting Thais leave without a visa). If you got him a Thai passport it could save alot of headaches if you travel here alot. Otherwise just get him a visa like yours...

Both new to me and both good

KATHU: Police have arrested three Sri Lankan men for credit card fraud, seizing more than 5,000 bogus credit cards allegedly encoded with information from real credit cards.

Police suspect the three men may be part of a much larger ring operating in popular tourists areas throughout Thailand and other parts of the world.

Pol Lt Col Boonlert Onklang of the Kathu Police identified the three suspects as Pathmathas Ganeshamoorthy, 26; Srikanthan Veerasingam, 29; and Sivagnanam Gnanakanthan, 35. The passports of all three men revealed that they had been frequent visitors to Thailand.

Col Boonlert said that police arrested Ganeshamoorthy and Veerasingam at the northern end of Thaweewong Rd in Patong early Tuesday evening after a closed-circuit TV camera had caught the pair using a fake credit card to draw money from an ATM machine in front of the Kon Thai Pub in Karon.

At the time of the arrest, one of the men was sitting in a silver-colored Honda car; the other was on the beach.

A search of the vehicle uncovered a notebook computer, 2,703 fake white credit cards and three flash drives. After the arresting officers turned down a 2-million-baht bribe in exchange for their release, the men were questioned, Col Boonlert said.

The two men told police the cards and equipment belonged to Gnanakanthan, who had arrived in Phuket earlier that day, Col Boonlert said.

The men had picked up Gnanakanthan at the airport and dropped him off at his hotel, the Pen Villas in Surin, he added.

A visit to Mr Gnanakanthan’s room just after midnight early on January 3 uncovered an additional 2,533 fake credit cards. Of these, 483 were green and the remainder white. Unlike the cards seized earlier that day, all the cards were were marked with a four-digit number.

Police also seized an MSR206 magnetic strip card reader and encoder.

All three men were arrested and are now being held in at Kathu Police Station. They were taken to Phuket Provincial Court yesterday afternoon and each was charged with one count of electronic card forgery and one count of possessing a fraudulent electronic card with intent to use.

All three men denied the charges. Bank officers will inspect the cards tomorrow and determine how many of them have been used. It is still too early to estimate the cost of the men’s activities to Phuket businesses, Col Boonlert said.

Police believe the Sri Lankans might have been operating as part of a larger fraud ring, he added.

The cards seized in Phuket were similar to cards seized in earlier raids in Bangkok and Chon Buri. Those cards were encoded with data from genuine credit cards issued in the UK, Col Boonlert said.

From the Phuket Gazette

http://www.phuketgazette.net/news/index.asp?id=5440

Which licence do I need to apply for that enables me to ride up the wrong side of the road with no headlights, carrying 5 passengers with no safety helmets and ignoring all road rules????

:D :D

frank zappa ..... guitar

this is a double cd of guitar solos.

taken from concerts in the 70's and 80's.

for me this was zappa at his best , some of these intricate solos last 4 or 5 minutes and in spite of the complexity of them he never once drops a note , pauses or gets lost.

also , to hear zappa without his often tiresome lyrics is a great improvement.

if you are a fan of both zappa and good unadulterated and masterful guitar work , then i recommend this .

Yup I love this album - I'm a big zappa fan.

He also released shut up and play yer guitar as another double CD of awesome guitar solos.

I recently discovered this website about the man http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/index.php/Main_Page

In Phuket we have http://www.helithai.com/

Marine housings available on the top floor at central Festival

Nope it's not just you - Thai internet was affected by the quake in Taiwan.

Gmail is playing up as well.

See here http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98548

and here http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98615

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I agree with Libya about Bob Dylan's Modern Times - a real surprise and an album I would recommend to everyone.

U2's next album should be good if the last one shows any direction same same for Bowie.

I believe that even volunteer work here requires a work permit - If you are near a beach there are often clean up days where I think you can pitch in.

Can't get onto Google this morning - unusual.

Here's one for the season:

TREVEL

1. a. (n.) Merry-making while on the move.

2. b. (v.in.) To indulge in boisterous revelry whilst going from one place to another.

Merry Christmas to one and all

Cashtration: the act of buying (or building) a house, which renders the subject financially impotent indefinitely.

Ignoranus: a person who's both stupid and an ######.

Intaxication: euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realise it was your own money all along.

Reintarnation: coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Bozone: the substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the future.

Foreploy: misrepresenting yourself in order to get laid.

Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very high up.

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

Osteopornosis: a degenerate disease.

Karmageddon: when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes and it's a serious bummer.

Decafalon: the gruelling event of getting through the day while consuming only things that are good for you.

Glibido: all talk and no action.

Dopeler effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Arachnoleptic fit: the frantic dance performed when you accidentally walk into a spider's web.

Beelzebug: the mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

Caterpallor: the colour you turn after finding half a worm in your apple.

Coffee: the person upon whom one coughs.

Words that do exist where the meaning should be changed:

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Flabbergasted: being appalled at how much weight one has gained.

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Abdicate: to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

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Esplanade (verb): to attempt an explanation while drunk.

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Willy-nilly: impotent.

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Negligent: absentmindedly answering the door in a nightgown.

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Lymph (verb): to walk with a lisp.

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Gargoyle: olive-flavoured mouthwash.

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Balderdash: a rapidly receding hairline.

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Testicle: a humorous question in an exam.

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Rectitude: the formal and dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

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Oyster: a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish.

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Frisbeetarianism: the belief that after death the soul flies up on to the roof and gets stuck there.

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Circumvent: the opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

In Thailand you feel alive!

These are from a book called “Disorder in the American Courts”, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?

WITNESS: No, I just lie there.

________________________________

ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?

WITNESS: July 18th.

ATTORNEY: What year?

WITNESS: Every year.

_____________________________________

ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?

WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?

WITNESS: I forget.

ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?

_____________________________________

ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?

WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can’t remember which.

ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?

WITNESS: Forty-five years.

_____________________________________

ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?

WITNESS: He said, “Where am I, Cathy?”

ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?

WITNESS: My name is Susan.

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?

WITNESS: We both do.

ATTORNEY: Voodoo?

WITNESS: We do.

ATTORNEY: You do?

WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?

WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

____________________________________

ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?

WITNESS: Uh, he’s twenty-one.

________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?

WITNESS: Would you repeat the question?

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?

WITNESS: Uh…

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: How many were boys?

WITNESS: None.

ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?

WITNESS: By death.

ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?

WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.

ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?

WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?

WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?

WITNESS: Oral.

______________________________________

ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?

WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.

ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?

WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!

____________________________________________

ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

WITNESS: Huh?

____________________________________________

And the best for last

ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?

WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?

WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law

TOPS supermarket (in Phuket) .not only take them (exchange them for baht) but give you a gift as well.

I got a nifty sandwhich box. Go to the customer services counter

The weather in january should be perfect for swimming - hot and sunny with no large waves.

Kata is a pleasant beach so you won't have far to go for a swim.

Hey all!

Looking to visit an orphange in Phuket and just don't know where to go.

If you have the names and address of some that would be great.

Whilst in Chiang Mai went to one just for children with aids or with parents that had aids, if you could tell me if the one you sugest is for just kids, older children or children with aids that would be great!

Thanks

Ash

The Life Home Project helps orphans and mothers (and children) with AIDS. They are reliable and a well worth while charity.

http://www.lifehomeproject.org/ for contact info

80 kmph here in Phuket. I get sweary palms just remembering it.