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Reminds me of arriving in Thailand mid-March, 1977. Hot! Then later in April spending time studying in Maha Sarakham. Brutally hot and dry. Then I ended up in Loei ... cold in the winter. I had to leave a washtub of water covered by an old bus window out in the sun to heat water warm enough to bathe in the afternoon. Fortunately my bathroom was outside under the house so I didn't have to carry the tub too far.

If I had to pick a gate at a Speedway race, I'd choose "extra heat".

Some days I wish they were more like the first generation, LOL. My Thai wife has many friends here in the USA, but mostly Asian. Chinese/Malaysian, Thai, Chinese and lately a few young Japanese. They come to lunch at our house and yak in sorta-English for a few hours. It's a melee in a hen-house. They just feel more comfortable with others who don't speak so well, I think. Part of it, anyway.

Adults do, but kids under about 15 or so seem to do well here in the U.S. if they aren't in an area with a high concentration of their ethnic/language group. I imported several relatives and the three kids speak pretty well now. The three adults still mostly speak Thai with at me after about 10 years or so. A Lao refugee family had three younger ones, and after a few years in school you'd think they were born and raised here. They sucked up English like a sponge.

I'm sure individual judges have their own minimum or floor for the contents of the brown envelope. One has to be careful when price fixing.

April Fools Day, 1957 - Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino. Classic

Tell him that's impolite and very disrespectful toward an elder and he shouldn't talk like this. (If that fails, try "Why do you talk to me like this? I didn't stomp your father's head, you fat monitor lizard." It sounds best in Isaan Lao.)

That Yoshi muffler is a 21,670 Baht option! I see the limit in Malaysia is 75 db. Not sure where this is, but looks like fun.

Why don't they just get it done and dusted? Endless talk about what they're going to talk about or propose. Vague promises of riches, etc, etc. If they legalized the stuff with THC, they could brag about stimulating the economy by increasing sales of munchies and Kanoms.

Back in 1979/80 I was working in a refugee camp in Loei which was mostly Hmong people from Laos. I saw an old guy smoking tobacco (?) from a bong. I asked my interpreter what the guy called it. The old man replied "bong". I suppose that name was adopted by troops who served in Vietnam and Thailand.

Coming to a RTP/Customs flea market near you soon.

Will these be wrinkle-resistant? It would save me ironing when I'm laundering a lot of money.

Anzani 1920s bike.

The Honda Tsunami Wave is mo bettah still.

This guy won the Daytona 200 three times on a Norton - 1949, 1951 and 1952. He lived to be 91 years old.

Yeah. When I was 15, a 4 year old kicked my butt.

The CT125 Trail 125 is new. But it looks like Kawasaki doesn't offer the street-legal KLX150's on their web site now. Or the KLX250/300's. They do show the D-Tracker 150. Yamaha has the WR155R but it's pricey. Suzuki has a new 113cc Raider J Crossover.

Enough humor - back to bike porn. 1951 Manx Norton 350cc.

Why can they not get this all done and dusted in a flash? Still bickering about who gets a monopoly or a decent cut of the big bucks they will reap from being ganja dealers? Who gives a <deleted> about weed, which has been around forever? Just those who hope to profit from regulations.

Only officially sanctioned ditch water can be used in those squirt guns.

I always liked flying in 737s. Their wings didn't flap like 727s.

That works out to roughly 208,000 Baht per person or 645,000 Baht per household.