thaiophilus

The usual confusion is between 100 and 500 notes, which can be a genuine accident as they look very similar under dim or red lighting. As others suggest, say the amount out loud.

There's that American exceptionalism again... What makes you think it's always about you? 😈

I once had the privilege of attending a private birthday-party performance by Mark Bunyan, who was canonised by the SPI as St Mark of the Musical Tendency.

You haven't met the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence?

Many years ago there was a fashion for huge grand pianos. The BBC was going to order one when someone said "hang on - will it fit through the doors of the hall?". The answer: "we'll make a wooden mockup and try it out". They duly made a lifesize replica piano - only to find that they coudn't get it out of the workshop.

A cynic would say the important detail is that everyone and their baggage goes through US customs & immigration and actually sets foot on US soil. That gives the government more powers to do things to anybody they consider undesirable.

I go by Katherine Whitehorn's (author of Cooking in a Bedsitter) rule: Red wine doesn't go with carpets.

True, but hardly unusual. Sterile transit within an international airport is common (outside the USA) but not between airports. How would you stop people just hoppping off the shuttle bus/taxi/train and illegally entering the country? G4S? Note that there's a considerable distance between the various "London" airports (LHR, LGW, LCY, STN, LTN, SEN). For example scheduled buses cover the 40 miles between LGW and LHR in 70-75 minutes but on a bad day on the M25 that time might be doubled.

The usual advice here (I have not tested it 😀) for prospective threesomes is that you should pick one, ask if he's willing, and if so let him choose someone he's comfortable with as the third party.

In a Baudrillardian sense?

Construction work? would that be "erection"? 😈

And a doctorate in Chapter IX - Of the Auparishtaka .

I suspect maybe @Louis has a mental picture of someone with a framed diploma on the wall, trained in all the exotic mysteries of the Orient?

Be careful what you wish for...

If @olddaddy was more attentive he'd have noticed a thread not long ago discussing the fact that Soi 4 is alread up for sale: