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Most Thanksgiving dinners you'll find in Pattaya restaurants are hundreds of baht more expensive. This one is one of the least expensive and, in my opinion, one of the best.

Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 27. Pattaya will have several choices for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. My personal preference is the Amor Restaurant. That's where I go every year and I intend to be there this year too. The dinner is served "family style" with waiters bringing around trays filled with each of the selections. You can have as much as you want as many times as you want. If anyone wishes to join me and my group, we will be delighted to have you. Just send me an Email at gaybutton@gmail.com and I'll be happy to add you to my reservation.

MaxNet is ASDL service, offered by the TT&T telephone company. It is one of several Internet Service Providers available in Pattaya. The two other major providers are Loxley and True. As far as I know, only dial-up and ADSL are currently available for Internet service in Pattaya. I have heard that cable modem is now available in Bangkok, but I really don't know. I do know it's not yet available in Pattaya. MaxNet's Premier Package offers a 2048/1024 option for 1090 baht per month. That's what I have now. They also offer 3072/1024 for 1990 baht per month. They have three other speed options available if you wish to pay the fee. You can view the options at: http://www.maxnet.co.th/product_adsl.php . When you get to that page, scroll down and click on the little blue box that says "Premier." MaxNet's main web site is: http://www.maxnet.co.th . It's mostly in Thai, but you get a pretty good idea. WiFi is also available in Pattaya. I don't use it, so I know nothing about it. Someone else will have to post about that. I do know, however, that how well it works depends on your location. A friend stayed in one condo and couldn't get it to work unless he set up his computer out in the hallway! Another friend stayed at a condo and could only get WiFi to work intermittently. When it would work, sometimes he got good speed and sometimes dial-up would seem lightning fast in comparison. He got so frustrated with it he damned near packed up and went home! In other words, WiFi seems to be risky, at best, in Pattaya. I don't know enough about the technology, but I do know that ASDL works much better via a router than via a DSL modem. I don't know why. Good routers are available here for about 2500 baht or so. If you want to try your own modem or router in Thailand, make sure it can be adjusted to PPPoE. PPPoA will not work in Thailand. The reason for that is because Internet service only works here if your computer has an ethernet card. Satellite service is offered by UBC, but that's for television. It has nothing to do with Internet service. Cable TV is offered by Sophon Cable and Banglamung Cable, also strictly television service. There may be one or two other cable TV providers in Pattaya, but I use UBC, so I really haven't paid any attention to what else is available. At the junction of Pattaya Tai and Third Road, there is a company offering satellite TV for a one-time fee and claims to offer a great many more channels. I haven't investigated what that's all about. Maybe someone else has and can fill us in on what they have to offer and whether it is any good.

I received a flier from MaxNet. Naturally it was written entirely in Thai, but I could see that they were offering some sort of new package. I went to their office on the second floor at Carrefour to find out what's being offered. I'm glad I did. I had been paying 1000 baht per month for 1024/512 speed, which was fine for me. What their flier offers is their "Premier Package", which gives you up to 2M speed for 1100 baht per month. I don't know what the hell 2M means, but for an additional 100 baht per month I decided to give it a try. Now I'm getting nearly double the speed I was getting before. I don't even get those annoying delays anymore when I look at a video on YouTube. This seems to be the best you're going to get in Pattaya unless you want to pay for a dedicated line, but I would imagine most people would be satisfied with the Premier Package. It's definitely fast enough for me. The 1024/512 speed was fast enough for me, but the Premier Package is much faster. Those of you who are MaxNet users might want to consider making the switch.

I'm curious as to the price of a CPAP. Did you get as far as finding out what it costs?

Wednesday, October 1 Opening Rates: US Dollar: 33.67 Euro: 47.385 British Pound: 59.885 Australian Dollar: 26.6375 Canadian Dollar: 31.58 I expect to be "away from the desk" for a few days. I may not be around a computer to post the exchange rates. If you wish to follow the exchange rates yourself, click the following link: http://www.krungsri.com/eng/exchange01.aspx

The following appears in the BANGKOK POST: _____ Somchai Charged Less than two weeks after being elected prime minister, Somchai Wongsawat could lose the post and his seat in parliament over another shares scandal. Senator Ruangkrai Leekijwattana charged at the Election Commission on Monday that Mr Somchai helds 100,000 shares in a listed telcommunications company, CS Loxinfo, which does business with a state enterprise. According to the senator, Mr Somchai held 100,000 shares worth 368,000 baht in the firm, which operates under a concession granted by CAT Telecom. Mr Somchai made a brief public statement to the press. He said he would adhere to the legal and judicial process. "I have no worries at all," he told reporters. That process could now bring him down. Sen Ruangkrai, who filed the charges that caused the downfall of ex-premier Samak Sundaravej for hosting a TV cooking show while prime minister, said that Mr Somchai's alleged share holdings violate a number of constitutional articles. Several of them bar government office holders from owning shares of companies doing business with state enterprises. One, Article 48, also bans owning any shares in any telecoms company at all. Mr Somchai has headed the cabinet for less than a week, after taking the post following the court's dismissal of Mr Samak. The legal case filed by Sen Ruangkrai could be drawn out for several months, but the steps are clear. The Election Commission will consider the charges, and if it feels they are warranted, it will forward them to the Constitution Court, which can order a brief trial and then pass a verdict. Election Commission spokesman Ruangrote Jomsueb said a subcommittee would be appointed to investigate the matter, the first necessary step. Mr Somchai can legally hold his post through the process and told the media on Monday he intends to do so. As an ex-judge, he pledged to act in a legal way. ____________________ The following appears in THE NATION: _____ Let Law Takes Its Course, Says PM By Atthayuth Butrsripoom, Worranaree Kosajan, The nation Published on September 30, 2008 Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat said yesterday he was not disturbed that he would be investigated for alledgedly violating the Constitution by holding shares in CS Loxinfo that has a concession with CAT, and having his daughter hold shares in M Link, a company that operates a state concession. "For the investigation, everything must go in accordance with the law. I had announced clearly that I accepted to become head of the government and I will uphold principles and justice," he said. He was speaking after appointed Senator Ruengkrai Leekitwattana filed a complaint with the Election Commission to check if Somchai had violated the charter and should be disqualified and removed from his post. Ruengkrai's earlier complaint against former prime minister Samak Sundaravej, of violating the Constitution by continuing to host his cooking programme despite being head of government, had resulted in Samak losing his premiership early this month. Ruengkrai said he suspected Somchai may have disqualified himself since January 22 this year by allegedly holding shares in CS Loxinfo, which operates a state concession or is a contract partner of a state enterprise. That would be a violation of Article 265 (2), resulting in him being disqualified as an MP as per Article 106 (6), and disqualified as PM as per Article 171. Ruengkrai also suggested that the EC check whether an 8-rai house worth over Bt200 million was included in the assets declaration that Somchai filed with the National Counter Corruption Commission. "The house where Somchai was when he received the Royal command was not declared as part of his assets. He might have transferred it to another person's name. Could it be a case of asset concealment?" he posed. Ruengkrai denied that his crusade to check politicians in the government were intended as political harassment. "I carry out my duty without bias towards any politician," he said. He said he withdrew his complaint for investigation against former deputy prime minister Surapong Suebwonglee because he was no longer in office. He said he was ready to be probed over allegation of abuse of authority for illegally checking the assets of others. "I demand the probe be open to the public and the media. I have been waiting for them to come and check me for long," he said. Election Commission (EC) member Sodsri Sattayatham said the EC would today decide whether to appoint a panel to probe the allegation that Somchai had violated the Constitution. She said she would prefer that the EC appoint a special panel instead of using the existing panel, that had been appointed following a complaint by Supachai Chaisamut to check the qualifications of MPs and Senators. "This panel has to probe hundreds of MPs and senators already," she said.

I'm wondering if the economic chaos, especially following the failed USA bailout package and subsequent worldwide stock market crash, is going to cause people's travel plans to change. Are any of you postponing, canceling, or otherwise amending your travel to Thailand plans?

Here we go. Now that the USA's bailout package failed to pass and the US Stock market had the biggest loss in its history, coupled with the political instability still going strong in Thailand, this is going to be another week to keep an eye on the exchange rate. Tuesday, September 30 Opening Rates: US Dollar: 33.92 Euro: 48.705 British Pound: 61.165 Australian Dollar: 26.9925 Canadian Dollar: 32.2575 _____ Closing Rates: US Dollar: 33.67 Euro: 48.295 British Pound: 60.755 Australian Dollar: 27.1025 Canadian Dollar: 32.045

Monday, September 29 Opening Rates: US Dollar: 33.81 Euro: 48.89 British Pound: 61.69 Australian Dollar: 27.94 Canadian Dollar: 32.4625 _____ Closing Rates: US Dollar: 33.87 Euro: 48.485 British Pound: 60.86 Australian Dollar: 27.465 Canadian Dollar: 32.40

To me, worrying about being clandestinely filmed in one of these bars by news media guys with concealed cameras, and then having that film end up on television, and even then someone who knows you seeing it, makes about as much sense as refusing to fly because the plane might crash. Yes, it can happen. Yes, sometimes it does happen. But the odds are greatly in your favor that it won't happen. Like air travel, it's a possibility, but there's not much you can do about it other than to refuse to fly. Then you won't be killed in an air crash (although tell that to the people who were in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon). The subject of cameras and ending up on television, YouTube, or something else has been brought up before. If it is something you feel is cause for you to be afraid, then the only solution I can see would be for you not to go to the bars or even go to the gay venue areas at all. I don't know what else you can do about it.

One of the major recent concerns was the CCTV cameras in the bars. People were afraid they might be compromised in the manner you describe in your post. So far, nothing of the sort has happened. I don't think anybody has to worry about the cameras in the bars, but there's little anyone can do about the media and concealed cameras they may carry outside of the bars.

I'm sorry some of you are having problems with Baht-Stop, but why are you posting about it here? Now that you have the Email address (see Hedda's post) wouldn't it be better to send an Email directly to Baht-Stop and explain the problem?

COMING SOON ! October 05, 2008 Pattaya’s most popular Sunday Brunch Enjoy your Sunday with your Family and Friends at Casa Pascal! Delight with an extensive buffet that offers Cold Appetizers including smoked Salmon, Rock Lobsters,Prawns,Crabs, Great international Salad Bar & Thai Salads Abundance of Appetizers, Italian Antipasto Cold Cuts, Terrines, Beef Tatar Live Pasta &Flamed Beef & Pork Tenderloin Station Soups and lots of other Asian and European Main Dishes And of course, the Sunday’s Breakfast Items Great Desserts such as Chocolate Mousse, Creams, Tarts, Parfaits And a Fruit Pancake Station will boost your appetite. Including a Glass of House Champagne Do not forget to reserve your table ! **************************************************************** Adults 899 baht net, Children (under 12) 599 baht net Every Sunday 10:30 ~ 15:00 starting on October 05, 2008 For your reservation : (038) 723-660 or (081) 983-4182 (Kim)

There is one effect so far. If you transfer money between accounts online, even when it's your own account, there is a two day delay before the funds become available. It used to be immediate.

Apparently there has been no reconciliation between the PAD and the new Prime Minister. The following appears in the BANGKOK POST: _____ PAD 'to close airports' Supporters of the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) said on Friday they will close five airports in the South to try to stop a visit by new Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to his home town. The five airports are Hat Yai, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani and Phuket. PAD said they will close all of them with human barricades to prevent a visit by Mr Somchai scheduled for Saturday. Mr Somchai planned to visit his hometown in Surat Thani province to celebrate being named prime minister. He was scheduled to land at Surat Thani on Saturday, but he may try to use another airport in the region because of the militant actions of the anti-government group. Sunthorn Rakwong, core leader of PAD group in the South, said the move is to show Mr Somchai he is not welcome in the South because he is a nominee of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, the premier's brother in law. Mr Sunthorn said the PAD members would gather at the five airports on Friday to "begin operations". He said protesters would remain peaceful, and vowed to avoid violent or aggressive measures. If the premier manages to land in the South, PAD members will follow wherever he goes to pressure him to leave the region and go back to Bangkok, Mr Sunthorn threatened. On Thursday, a group of PAD supporters in Nakhon Si Thammarat blocked House Speaker Chai Chidchob from attending a scheduled seminar on "The House Meets People" held in the southern province, forcing Mr Chai to leave for Bangkok on Friday morning. Meanwhile, PAD core leader Chamlong Srimuang said provincial members of PAD can do what they believe it is suitable, and claimed that any such action had nothing to do with the central PAD. Maj Gen Chamlong also said the group welcomes the opportunity to negotiate with newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh if he actually serves as a mediator between the government and PAD. Gen Chavalit is a senior, national figure who served in top posts including army commander and prime minister, he said. However, another PAD core leader Pibhop Tongchai cast doubts on that promise. He said he has doubts about the real intention behind Gen Chavalit's appointment as a mediator. ____________________ The following appears in THE NATION: _____ PAD: No to Rector's Pitch on Reforms By THE SUNDAY NATION Published on September 28, 2008 Group Says Politicians without Legitimacy Cannot Bring about Change The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) yesterday rejected a proposal by 24 university rectors for the formation of an independent body appointed by the government to start political reform. PAD coordinator Suriyasai Katasila said the PAD could not accept the proposal to have the government as a manager of political reform because this government was a nominee of the Thaksin Shinawatra government and had come to power with a hidden agenda. 'GIVE PUBLIC A CHANCE' "We do not believe that politicians who have lost legitimacy would actually create a new politics. We believe that the public as a whole should be given a chance to oversee political reform, in which case the PAD will help create public participation in the political-reform process,'' Suriyasai said. He said that if the government appointed a so-called independent body to reform politics, its intention would be only to buy time to cling to power. PAD spokesman Panthep Wong-puapan said the PAD had also come up with other political proposals, one of which was that to ensure separation of the executive and the legislature MPs should not hold ministerial posts, which he said would curb the problem of "MPs selling their souls". The PAD has also proposed that MPs should not belong to any political party. To increase public participation in politics, the PAD proposed that members of the public should be able to file corruption charges against political office-holders directly, and corruption cases should not come under a statute of limitations. Panthep also said it was time the justice system underwent a reform, starting with the Royal Thai Police, independent agencies, the Human Rights Commission and the Office of the Attorney-General. To streamline the country's justice system, police and public prosecutors should be given a deadline of three or six months to complete their investigations, he said. ABHISIT BACKS PROPOSAL However, Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the opposition Democrat Party, threw his weight behind the proposal by 24 university rectors that the government form an independent body to reform politics. He said politicians had to accept that the public was not happy with the current situation and it would be a good solution if a neutral body could act as a coordinator and bring every part of society into the move to reform politics. "It is not important who initiates it; it depends on whether they have the sincere intention to reform politics and reduce tension. We will wait to see how the government reacts to the proposal,'' he said. He added that an important condition was that a new constitution must not be drafted with an eye to vested interests or the interests of any political faction. Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat yesterday declined to comment on the rectors' proposal, saying he needed time to look into it.

I'm glad you had a wonderful time here. I hope we'll see you again very soon.

Details are posted on our "Beer Bar" forum.

I suggest you contact the Email address Hedda posted. I received a PM from Baht-Stop telling me the problem has been resolved. Apparently it has not.

Legendary Actor Paul Newman Dies at Age 83 Saturday September 27 9:16 AM ET Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends. In May, Newman he had dropped plans to direct a fall production of "Of Mice and Men," citing unspecified health issues. He got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including "Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The Sting" and "Absence of Malice." Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting." He sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term marriages. "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?" Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray. They wed in 1958, around the same time they both appeared in "The Long Hot Summer," and Newman directed her in several films, including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie" With his strong, classically handsome face and piercing blue eyes, Newman was a heartthrob just as likely to play against his looks, becoming a favorite with critics for his convincing portrayals of rebels, tough guys and losers. "I was always a character actor," he once said. "I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood." Newman had a soft spot for underdogs in real life, giving tens of millions to charities through his food company and setting up camps for severely ill children. Passionately opposed to the Vietnam War, and in favor of civil rights, he was so famously liberal that he ended up on President Nixon's "enemies list," one of the actor's proudest achievements, he liked to say. A screen legend by his mid-40s, he waited a long time for his first competitive Oscar, winning in 1987 for "The Color of Money," a reprise of the role of pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson, whom Newman portrayed in the 1961 film "The Hustler." Newman delivered a magnetic performance in "The Hustler," playing a smooth-talking, whiskey-chugging pool shark who takes on Minnesota Fats played by Jackie Gleason and becomes entangled with a gambler played by George C. Scott. In the sequel directed by Scorsese "Fast Eddie" is no longer the high-stakes hustler he once was, but rather an aging liquor salesman who takes a young pool player (Cruise) under his wing before making a comeback. He won an honorary Oscar in 1986 "in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft." In 1994, he won a third Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for his charitable work. His most recent academy nod was a supporting actor nomination for the 2002 film "Road to Perdition." One of Newman's nominations was as a producer; the other nine were in acting categories. (Jack Nicholson holds the record among actors for Oscar nominations, with 12; actress Meryl Streep has had 14.) As he passed his 80th birthday, he remained in demand, winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the 2005 HBO drama "Empire Falls" and providing the voice of a crusty 1951 car in the 2006 Disney-Pixar hit, "Cars." But in May 2007, he told ABC's "Good Morning America" he had given up acting, though he intended to remain active in charity projects. "I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to," he said. "You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me." He received his first Oscar nomination for playing a bitter, alcoholic former star athlete in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Elizabeth Taylor played his unhappy wife and Burl Ives his wealthy, domineering father in Tennessee Williams' harrowing drama, which was given an upbeat ending for the screen. In "Cool Hand Luke," he was nominated for his gritty role as a rebellious inmate in a brutal Southern prison. The movie was one of the biggest hits of 1967 and included a tagline, delivered one time by Newman and one time by prison warden Strother Martin, that helped define the generation gap, "What we've got here is failure to communicate." Newman's hair was graying, but he was as gorgeous as ever and on the verge of his greatest popular success. In 1969, Newman teamed with Redford for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a comic Western about two outlaws running out of time. Newman paired with Redford again in 1973 in "The Sting," a comedy about two Depression-era con men. Both were multiple Oscar winners and huge hits, irreverent, unforgettable pairings of two of the best-looking actors of their time. Newman also turned to producing and directing. In 1968, he directed "Rachel, Rachel," a film about a lonely spinster's rebirth. The movie received four Oscar nominations, including Newman, for producer of a best motion picture, and Woodward, for best actress. The film earned Newman the best director award from the New York Film Critics. In the 1970s, Newman, admittedly bored with acting, became fascinated with auto racing, a sport he studied when he starred in the 1972 film, "Winning." After turning professional in 1977, Newman and his driving team made strong showings in several major races, including fifth place in Daytona in 1977 and second place in the Le Mans in 1979. "Racing is the best way I know to get away from all the rubbish of Hollywood," he told People magazine in 1979. Despite his love of race cars, Newman continued to make movies and continued to pile up Oscar nominations, his looks remarkably intact, his acting becoming more subtle, nothing like the mannered method performances of his early years, when he was sometimes dismissed as a Brando imitator. "It takes a long time for an actor to develop the assurance that the trim, silver-haired Paul Newman has acquired," Pauline Kael wrote of him in the early 1980s. In 1982, he got his Oscar fifth nomination for his portrayal of an honest businessman persecuted by an irresponsible reporter in "Absence of Malice." The following year, he got his sixth for playing a down-and-out alcoholic attorney in "The Verdict." In 1995, he was nominated for his slyest, most understated work yet, the town curmudgeon and deadbeat in "Nobody's Fool." New York Times critic Caryn James found his acting "without cheap sentiment and self-pity," and observed, "It says everything about Mr. Newman's performance, the single best of this year and among the finest he has ever given, that you never stop to wonder how a guy as good-looking as Paul Newman ended up this way." Newman, who shunned Hollywood life, was reluctant to give interviews and usually refused to sign autographs because he found the majesty of the act offensive, according to one friend. He also claimed that he never read reviews of his movies. "If they're good you get a fat head and if they're bad you're depressed for three weeks," he said. Off the screen, Newman had a taste for beer and was known for his practical jokes. He once had a Porsche installed in Redford's hallway crushed and covered with ribbons. "I think that my sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me sane," he told Newsweek magazine in a 1994 interview. In 1982, Newman and his Westport neighbor, writer A.E. Hotchner, started a company to market Newman's original oil-and-vinegar dressing. Newman's Own, which began as a joke, grew into a multimillion-dollar business selling popcorn, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and other foods. All of the company's profits are donated to charities. By 2007, the company had donated more than $175 million, according to its Web site. In 1988, Newman founded a camp in northeastern Connecticut for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. He went on to establish similar camps in several other states and in Europe. He and Woodward bought an 18th century farmhouse in Westport, where they raised their three daughters, Elinor "Nell," Melissa and Clea. Newman had two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, and a son, Scott, from a previous marriage to Jacqueline Witte. Scott died in 1978 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium. After his only son's death, Newman established the Scott Newman Foundation to finance the production of anti-drug films for children. Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of two boys of Arthur S. Newman, a partner in a sporting goods store, and Theresa Fetzer Newman. He was raised in the affluent suburb of Shaker Heights, where he was encouraged him to pursue his interest in the arts by his mother and his uncle Joseph Newman, a well-known Ohio poet and journalist. Following World War II service in the Navy, he enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he got a degree in English and was active in student productions. He later studied at Yale University's School of Drama, then headed to New York to work in theater and television, his classmates at the famed Actor's Studio including Brando, James Dean and Karl Malden. His breakthrough was enabled by tragedy: Dean, scheduled to star as the disfigured boxer in a television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Battler," died in a car crash in 1955. His role was taken by Newman, then a little-known performer. Newman started in movies the year before, in "The Silver Chalice," a costume film he so despised that he took out an ad in Variety to apologize. By 1958, he had won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the shiftless Ben Quick in "The Long Hot Summer." In December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age. "I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said. Newman is survived by his wife, five children, two grandsons and his older brother Arthur.

Thank you, Hedda. For the record, Gordon did send an Email to me earlier today. I did pass the information on to Baht-Stop and the problem has already been addressed and taken care of.

According to that web site, he said most of it. The web site itself says, "Dan Quayle has certainly made more than his share of misstatements, and most of the ones on the following list are actual Quayle quotes." The ones the web site says are falsely attributed to Quayle are: "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." "A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing is." According to that web site, the rest of the quotes are things Quayle really did say. So, in fairness, I've edited out and removed the statements in my post the web site says were erroneously attributed to Mr. Quayle.

BAR LA CAGE SOI V.C. PATTAYA Diary for October. Every Day. Happy hour until 9pm. BOGOF! Buy One Get One Free! (Beer Chang = 32.5 baht! Gin & Tonic = 40 baht!) Every Sunday. Chill out with popular Classical Music until 9pm. Saturday 4th. & Sunday 5th. OCTOBER BEERFEST Bar La Cage and the White Night Restaurant present a weekend Beerfest with German Premium Pilsner Beer on tap, German bottled beers and wines on offer and FREE SCHNAPPS!! Traditional German delicacies including Bratwurst, Sauerkraut, Currywurst, Wienerwurst, Potato Salad and much, much more! Oompah music and lots of alcohol induced silliness guaranteed. Monday 13th. Wine & Cheese Special Evening. 9 - 11pm. An extra special selection of quality Australian wines and cheeses. Sample as many of the fine wines that you fancy from Hardy’s and Jacobs Creek, then enjoy a glass for just 150 baht and sample a selection of specially imported Australian cheeses, absolutely free! All welcome, especially Cultural Attach?’s and Bandicoots! Monday 13th. George Stanley Sings. From 11 pm till late. By very special request George returns to sing “From the Heart and Soul”. If you like your music Live, Intimate and Polished with a bias toward the blues, don’t miss this gig! Highly Recommended. Friday 31st. Halloween Party. Fun and frolics all night long with the Ghouls and Ghosties. We transform the bar into a Creepy Crypt! Traditional Halloween games Apple Bobbing etc. Prizes for best Costume and lots of drinks promotions. Free buffet 9 – 11 pm. Come if you dare!!!! All our ‘special’ nights are charity fund raisers for The Mercy Centre, except for George Stanley’s appearances in aid of Thais4Life. Bar La Cage. (Mikes Bar.) That popular little bar next to the White Night and Top Man. Soi V.C. 273/98. 0894028741 http://www.lacage-pattaya.com

Well, that's it then. Get some Vitamin B complex . . . and feed it to the cat.

I have no idea. It's written entirely in Thai. I would imagine one brand is pretty much the same as the next.