Lucky

I like a nice stiff one as much as anyone, but size isn't as important as face. So a beautiful face contest would really appeal to me. Lacking that, I'll take the big dick contest!

No problem! You are now at 85. You should easily make 300.

SHOPPING I mentioned all of the time I spent shopping, but it was more window shopping than anything else. I bought a lot of t-shirts, a DVD of Breaking Bad, Season 4 for 7 dollars, and a DVD of The Help for $3. Yes, I have looked at them since I got home and they are not blank. Various chocolates, of course. But I do worry about Customs on the pirated purses and watches. They seem not to mind, though, if you keep a limit on what you buy. Of the t-shirts, I bought an Ed Hardy for $7. They are $155 in the store. That's a joke, of course, as I would never pay that much for a t-shirt. When the same shirt can be sold for $7, the people paying $155 should have their head examined. The night markets are full of designer purses and watches, and there is always the Rolex that looks real for about $30. They even have a weight in it to give it heft, and a genuine looking certificate of authenticity. I bought one back in the 90's for $25, and it did last a year. There is also Thai art, sculpture, and jewelery. Once in the Chiang Mai night market I bought two lions made of wood that looked quite old. So when I got to the checkout I was surprised to pay only $6 each. Later, I learned that Thai markets specialize in phony antiques. I was a novice back then. But you have to lug the stuff home, and it doesn't always look so great in your living room as it did in Thailand. So, considering that, and considering the lugging home, and considering customs, I buy very little these days. So many of the Thai Tchotchkes I bought years ago still remain around the house, and I don't regret buying them. I just don't need any more.

caeron I don't know spitlock well enough yet: Four Aces hitoallusa Anyone I missed? Just ask!

EXPAT CharliePS Totally Oz

MsGuy Lookin Lurkerspeaks JKane Tampa Yankee Lucky

it's enough to make me cry! I am so jealous of Ellen!

"Lucky is endearing in a prickly sort of way.' You don't have to live with him!

Yes, which makes your comment in the other thread insulting. People have every right to make their feelings about the contest known. It attracted only ten entrants. Only five of those are following through. One of those five is no longer posting. So, only 4 are following through. Two of those 4, you and lurkerspeaks, seem disappointed in your tallies. So that leaves two contestants trying, one of whom is me. I think that gives me the right to speak my feelings. For a contest that was supposed to get more posting, some are actually posting less. Only EXPAT has increased his posting due to the contest. So why would we not want to point that out? Should we maintain the charade that the contest is a big success?

Oliver arrives next week! My scale says I am down 23 pounds, but that's the new scale, which may be giving me a 4 pound grace. So, it's either 19 or 23, but not 25. If 23, I can drop 2 by February 1st.

Here are the tallies to date for those who entered the MER Contest: EXPAT 634 Lucky 280 Lurkerspeaks 91 FourAces 79 BiBBoy 77 JKane 73 Five contestants are under 50 300 posts are required to get in the raffle.

First of all, Mr. Yankee said that bitching was a sign of life, and that that was good. So, I bitched. A trial lawyer is always taking a witness' words and using them in the most detrimental way. So, I dissented by taking Ty's words and using them in a trial lawyer fashion. He didn't like that, proving my point that "any sign of life is good" was not quite what he meant. Most witnesses don't like it when they speak carelessly and have their words turned against them. Of course, he is not a witness, but it seemed to me to be a pretty direct way of showing that "any" sign of life was not good. Not sure how Mitt Romney figures in this, but he doesn't like having his words from earlier campaigns used against him either. As for the knees, mine are not great either. After an 11 hour flight to Tokyo, I got down on the floor at Narita to get into my carry-on. Getting back up was a bitch as my knees had stiffened up on the flight. I was embarrassed, yet grateful, when a woman in Muslim garb came to me and extended a helping hand. There. I got the gripe, the Mitt, and a bit of travelogue into one post. (And now for Vietnam too!) As for Vietnam, I have been there, and did not see anyone who looked like those movie stars I posted in the picture gallery.

Costa Rica is supposed to be a wonderful place to visit, not that far away, and relatively cheap. Plus I hear that they have rentboys available.

There will be no war. I am a pacifist. BUT, look how many posts the Pub got since this morning. Even Lookin came out to play. I didn't succeed with my post though... (hehehe...Fortunately, a few are interested enough to bitch -- any sign of life is good. )

The stated goal of the website is now "any sign of life is good." That will certainly encourage more posting. I don't quibble with EXPAT's strategy for winning the contest, I quibble with whether the contest has proven good for the website and enhances my reason for being here. It isn't, and it doesn't. Those who have posted less since the contest began are given no reason to reconsider. Other websites already do Hollywood gossip, and do it well. But if that's what you want to encourage, well, you da boss.

Ah, well. When someone sees his post drop to the second page rapidly due to the influx of new posts by one person, that does not encourage that person to keep posting. That's how I see the contest rules as counter productive. Nonetheless, the powers that be have ruled, and the chips will fall as they may. We will no doubt be aware of any nominees to virtually any award show though. If that's what you come here for...

So many streetside eateries in Thailand were unappealing to me. But, they are so popular with the locals, who I think know best.

Thus semen is the essential for this diet. Lots of seeds plus fluids keep you healthy.

Who knew? Oh, probably a few billion people in those far away lands called Asia.

EXPAT has 27 of the threads in the Politics forum main page, so it is easy to think he might be overdoing it. BUT, he is following the contest rules, which encourage this very thing. So any objection must be directed to the admins and not EXPAT. It is clear to me that he will win for most posts and could ease off, BUT the contest also rewards for achieving a certain number of posts. So I say don't blame EXPAT for trying to win, blame the contest rules. Perhaps it is time to review them and see if they make for a better message center. As Simon likes to say: Just saying.

It is available on DVD, and perhaps at Netflix.

People need to remember that the president appoints federal judges. My reaction t this story was that it would be easily overturned by an appellate court, but you can't count on that since the politicalization of the courts.

A few days after this story appeared in The nation, it appeared in the Bangkok Post- the very same story! My search skills continue to fail me in finding the article, but here is a similar one along with the trailer. The movie is available on DVD. Lost in Paradise One of the movie's stars is Hồ Vĩnh Khoa, shown here:

I added a post about this in the Pub, where we talk about the Renaissance hotel. It's security checks made clear that the Thai government's insistence that there was no threat were pretty hollow. The Thai government was clearly pissed that the US issued the warning, and shortly thereafter, they recognized Palestine, perhaps in retaliation.

Ah, 444. Firecat had told me to check him out as I was bound to like him. So three nights I went to the bar where he worked, but he was not there. Thus, when firecat came to town, I asked him to go with me. Sure enough, 444 was there, and yes, I liked his look. He turned out to be a quite pleasant guy, and I had my hopes up for a renewal of old Thailand memories. But not to be. 444 was as eager as he could be, just not hard. I am sure that he is straight, so imagine what it must be like to go to work every night with the expectation that you will be hired to do things you don't enjoy. But, as they say, your mileage may vary, and no doubt firecat will bring out the best in him. I did tip him extra since I made him sit through the show for 40 minutes even after he confessed that it did not interest him. I liked it, though. Nude dancers, break dancers, clothed dancers who could really dance, one of whom had the most charming smile. I would have hired him just to see him smile at me.