Pattaya police today raided a big house in Jomtien and arrested an Englishman and his Thai wife for producing and distributing illicit drugs. Police discovered raw materials and approx. 6,000 tablets ready for distribution. The seized evidence had a street value of 1,000 million Baht. [via Pattaya Daily News]
Comment on my post of 30th Oct re Boston Red Sox, by Anonymous
The u.s. WORLD SERIES was named for the New York World newspaper, which was the original sponsor of the contest and did so until the newspaper went under. Just like a fucking brit to assume something he has no clue about and no motivation to actually do the research first.
Ed. Anonymous. It appears you should have done a bit more research before you jumped on your soapbox. Let me help you out on this one:
The title of this championship may be confusing to some readers from countries where baseball is not a major sport (or even where it is), because the "World" Series is confined to the champions of two baseball leagues that currently operate only in the United States and Canada. The explanation is that when the term "World's Championship Series" was first used in the 1880s, baseball at a highly-skilled level was almost exclusively confined to North America, especially the United States. Thus it was understood that the winner of the major league championship was the best baseball team in the world. The title of this event was soon shortened to "World's Series" and later to "World Series". A recent myth has arisen that the "World" in "World Series" came about because the New York World newspaper sponsored it. There is no evidence at all supporting that hypothesis. The annual publication called the World Almanac was originally published by the New York World. Its ambiguous title and U.S.-centric content may have inspired the World Series myth, either facetiously or naively.
Anonymous - The above can be found at wikipedia but other than putting the myth to bed it does little to justify the naming of a national US event as a world series. Whatever, in future I suggest you get your myths straight before you blow it out your rear. Also for the record, the only accurate part of your original comment was "fucking brit". Living in Pattaya, I try, I really do try.
Comments on my post of 29th Oct re Beyonce, by Anonymous
I seriously doubt Beyonce was arriving at Don Muang, since the nation's main international airport is Suvarmabumi.
Ed. I think Don Muang is still used for charter flights and VIPs and Beyonce probably qualified on both counts. I picked up the story from The Nation so I suspect it is correct but wouldn't want to put my house on it.
Sierra Tango
- TQ2 Wet 'N' Wild party - Friday
- Silver Star Go Go, Soi 8, scheduled to re-open Friday
- Photos from Baby Dolls Halloween Party courtesy of Captain Sensible:
- The 94-room seaside Best Western Pattaya features contemporary décor and traditional Thai hospitality near Dolphin Cir cle in North Pattaya. “This latest addition to our Thai portfolio will add value to the Best Western brand as Best Western Pattaya starts operating at a time when the destination is going through a Renaissance to bring back its status as the Asian Riviera,” said Best Western Vice President International Operations Asia, Glenn de Souza.
- Don't wish to belabour the point but the search results I received when searching news sites today with the keyword, "Pattaya" are shown here. One story totally dominates the search results and this is not good for Pattaya, not good at all
- Golf Club Bar opening shortly in LK Metro - aims to target the better courses in the area.
- Joy Toy's got more than 2000 pictures of sexy Asian girls on Flikr. To show how nice I am, here's the link.
- Five Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google [via Digital Inspiration] - Google is the world’s favorite web search engine but there are a couple of cool things that you can do only in Yahoo!. They are:
- Last night, yet another Democratic debate. Sen. Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of frequently changing positions. After hearing this, Bill Clinton said, “I wish.” [via Conan O'Brien]
1. Compose emails from the Yahoo! search box. Type !mail abc@xyz.com in the Yahoo! search box and it will automatically compose a new email message for you in Yahoo! mail.
2. Get Lyrics of any song or your favorite artist. Type madonna lyrics (for lyrics of Madonna songs) or madonna material girl lyrics (for lyrics of a particular song)
3. Specifiy the order of search keywords in queries. Say you want only web pages where word x comes before y but not vice versa, then just put the search query in Square Brackets. An example: [Sylvester Stallone] - will only return web pages where the word Sylvester appear before Stallone.
4. Search your favorite websites from Yahoo! itself. For instance, type !wiki google in Yahoo! search box to search Google in Wikipedia.com. Other popular shortcuts are !ebay, !amazon, and !flickr. You can also execute these from the Firefox search box without changing the default search engine.
5. linkdomain - An undocumented Yahoo Web search operator. A quick question - Can you find the number of articles on Wikipedia website that link to CNN.com ? It’s almost impossible to get this data from Google but you can do so quite easily in Yahoo! with the incredibly useful linkdomain operator. The answer is: linkdomain:cnn.com site:wikipedia.org
- Britney Spears did a call-in to Ryan Seacrest’s radio show this morning. Half-way through the interview, she was suddenly gone. Ryan asked her a question and there was no response. Her assistant said she went to take a shower. At least she’s showering, we know that. They called her back a little while later, and she didn’t say much, but she did talk about her Halloween costume. She had a good idea. She’s going to go wearing panties. So she will be totally unrecognizable. [via Jimmy Kimmel Live]
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