Bangkokboy

Bangkokboy

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Reply to How did you meet your spouse or SO in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

my wife lived directly across the street from me when i was in college. as a mere high school kid, she was totally beneath any attention on my part (lol). she pestered me for 6 years until i went to vietnam, and resumed pestering me on the other coast as soon as i returned. we got married 2 months after i got back, and that's 29 years ago. she has amazing persistence. not the best taste, but amazing persistence. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmidd

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Reply to ANZAC day in Oz. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

gallipoli is like the ploesti oil field raid of WWII - the casualty rates were so mind boggling that it's almost unbearable to think about the event even long enough to properly honor those who fought and died there. salute!

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Reply to Your Nicks Origin, Now we can all own up...... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

very true, FL. when the thais borrowed the word there was no "h". (probably because the you-know-who were not on the scene when the word was coined). just kidding. the brits did a fine job of transliterating thai words and geographic names - nakawn panom => nakhon phanom, etc. ( there go the h's again! heh

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Reply to Your Nicks Origin, Now we can all own up...... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

KG - karma is correct most places, kharma is incorrectly correct if you're in thailand due to the usual british meddling. many thai words have an embedded "h" equivalent which effects pronunciation of the following consonant, but is not itself pronounced. the english scattered these h's all over the durn place when transliterating, turning tai into thai, kao into khao ad infinitum. the karma word , 'g' 'r' 'r' 'm' ( "gahm") has no native h, so badkharma will have to live with whatever bad karma

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Reply to Daijiro Kato....... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

i apologize for venting a little off topic in my previous. i had enduring relationships with two people whose life energy was funneled into "having a name", and who happened to care nothing about family, friends, society, love, or any of the various things that make the world a better place to live. the raw nerve which the quote struck is mine, and i should have kept it that way.

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Reply to Daijiro Kato....... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

"One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name!'" to you, yes. to your family, no. many of the people who have lived life to the hilt at great risk did so "without a name", and were not bothered in the slightest by that fact. the most heroic deeds i saw in vietnam were not observed and recommended for medals. mr Mordaunt may have lived 79 years, but i don't think he ever quite grew up. back to the subject: the loss is a real shame.

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Reply to The full deck... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

bkb can neither confirm nor deny the following. the phoenix cards were a message directed to as yet undetected south vietnamese government and military personnel who were spying for the viet cong and passing them critical tactical information. intel was passed to people individually instead of in groups, and subtle differences were buried in the data. viet cong communications were monitored secretly, repeatedly crosschecked, and it would soon become very obvious whose hands leaked the "marke

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Reply to The full deck... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

the original suggestion was probably to imprint those 53 faces in rolls of toilet paper. then the army's more politically sensitized ingroup won the day with their playing card proposal. if only this had been entrusted to the air force, it could have been handled with so much more tact and sophistication.

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