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Ive always have this on my ticket the 4 years when i was in the US and im not travelling from thailand.  Mine was with additional S, so SSSS. Guess why?

I love it - then BONGER it shall be. Plus it is a close cousin to its phonetically sounding BONER - which us old guys can still do -- although, sometimes with a little assistance from our friends:    or  

How about just a BONGER index - Barely Older Naughty Gentleman's Easy Retirement!!! LOL!

For several years, RTW tickets were always cheaper if purchased in Kuala Lumpur. Then Bangkok took over. However, I once hit a snag with a Bangkok issued RTW ticket. After several stops in Europe, I landed in New York. After 3 days, I flew on to LAX from La Guardia. Since I was packed and out of my hotel room a few hours before i needed to be at the airport, I went down to the Village and bought some porn DVDs. On my return, instead of locking them in my suitcase, I just put them into one of the compartments in my trolley bag. As I went through security, I was hauled aside by a grossly overweight lady and asked if she I would take off my belt and my shoes. She then went through the trolley bag and of course found the DVDs which she proceeded to lay out on a table so that all passengers could see them. That did not concern me as the chance of someone going through that security line who actually knew me was nil. Eventually, everything was repacked and I made it to the gate. Boarding the 767 business class, I had just settled down in the seat when I heard my name called. I was asked to take my luggage and proceeded to the aircraft entrance door. Great, I thought. Upgrade to first class! Not at all! Two airline cops were waiting to escort me off the aircraft and asked me to wait. Then that ridiculous security lady waddled duck-like towards me. I was asked to put my trolley bag on a seat and open it. One cop asked her what had she found. She fished into the compartment and pulled out the DVDs. The cops then turned on her. "You have delayed this aircraft for something that has nothing to do with aircraft safety? Get back to your position before we report you - and fast!" The cops then apologised profusely to me for what I can only assume they regarded as an invasion of privacy. They wanted my address so the airline could send an official apology. I waived that off saying all I wanted to do was get to LAX quickly as I had a dinner engagement. Back in my seat, the purser came to me with a large glass of champagne and another apology. The point of this tale is that I wondered why had this lady pulled me aside. It's not as though I looked anything other than a normal passenger. Only on my return to Hong Kong did a friend who works for Cathay Pacific take a look at my boarding cards. "Look at this," he said. There on my US boarding cards were in quite large letters "SSS". That is because in the US they regard Thailand as semi-dangerous and the letters stand for "Special Security Screening"!

Wow!!! I love this post from @numazu. Thanks @PeterRS for taking the time to enter into the catacombs of our gayguide forum to dig it out of the archives. And I love this concept of a Monger index. This concept fits in very well with my ongoing experiment to compare 3 retirement destinations with each other: Cebu to Jomtien Da Nang to Jomtien Cebu to Da Nang  So, maybe I need a modified Monger index for retirement life, that in addition to the cost of offing the local guys, also includes cost of living elements (food, rent, massages, entertainment, transpoetation, etc.) What could its name be?   RRR index = Rainbow Road Retirement ??