Bernard Trink - Why aint he dead yet?

**dirtydog** · 22-09-2009, 03:17 PM

Now Bernard Trink was born in 1931, I checked earlier and there has been no reports of his death, being at such a great age and no doubt the lifestyle he led in Bangkok for 40 odd years he should really have passed on by now, anyway found some of his old Bangkokpost Nite Owl articles.

2000 Jan
07/01/00 Trink's 10 best films of 1999
Jul
07/07/00 The origins of the wrench
14/01/00 Art for art's sake
14/07/00 Farang husband's lament
21/01/00 HIV to Aids? Not according to the facts
21/07/00 Support for writers
28/01/00 Majority view by e-mail
28/07/00 Your blood is needed
Feb
04/02/00 Lost E-mail and comments
Aug
04/08/00 Thanks for the blood
11/02/00 Shooting down Cupid
11/08/00 Advice asked and given
18/02/00 On being a child again
18/08/00 friend A growing menace
25/02/00 Brickbats and bouquets
25/08/00 Con and scam together
Mar
03/03/00 Urban myths on the Internet
Sep
01/09/00 Debunking an urban legend
10/03/00 But is my e-mail trustworthy?
08/09/00 Same scam, another approach
17/03/00 St Patrick's Day and pillow talk
15/09/00 Lawyer jokes aside, hire 'em
24/03/00 Letters from home
22/09/00 Marriage: Give and take
31/03/00 Still only a spectre
29/09/00 Few Thais are colour-blind
Apr
07/04/00 There are exceptions
Oct
06/10/00 Farangs don't rate
14/04/00 A cry for help
13/10/00 Thailand's dowry system
21/04/00 The cry is heard
20/10/00 Visas, jobs and names
28/04/00 Airport chicanery
27/10/00 Saving money, losing face
May
05/05/00 Is the whingeing justified?
Nov 03/11/00 -unknown-
12/05/00 Perfect hamburger quest
10/11/00 Standard sob story
19/05/00 Cool tips on the hottest buns
17/11/00 Satyrs keep score
26/05/00 Over to you
24/11/00 Prostitution and jokes
Jun
02/06/00 Striking a balance
Dec
01/12/00 A dubious progress
09/06/00 Statistics and definitions
08/12/00 Round eyes on the strip
16/06/00 Unauthorised biography
15/12/00 It's Greek to me
23/06/00 -unknown-
22/12/00 Minority view not discredited
30/06/00 Readers' observations
29/12/00 Have I been cloned?

More can be found here.
Full Trink Ahead: The (Mostly) Compleat Guide to Bernard Trink, the Bangkok Post's Nite Owl

Dan · 22-09-2009, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

there has been no reports of his death

That's a shame.

**Loy Toy** · 22-09-2009, 03:32 PM

I knew of him for years and years poking his nose into bars around Pat Pong and to honest I have never said a word to him over all of those years.

Harmless enough and his Bangkok Post Nite Owl columns were of interest to people all around the world as well as me on occassions and when I needed to know the special night life happenings.

Pretty much the same type of bloke as Baron Bonk (Sir Peter) and for being a stayer and survivor here in LOS.

**kingwilly** · 22-09-2009, 04:14 PM

Bit of a harsh title DD.

**DrAndy** · 22-09-2009, 04:17 PM

I used to enjoy reading some of his posts, but they got more and more repetetive as time went by

besides the Burma shave idea, his copying of vast tracts of military nonsense got tedious

**dirtydog** · 22-09-2009, 04:44 PM

^^Harsh? He's nearly 80, pretty sure he has accepted that he maybe likely to die in the near future.
^ I only ever bought Fridays Bangkokpost to read Trinks page, the rest of the week if there was one in the bar I might have glanced through it, never did understand all that Burma aftershave rubbish, assume it must have been American humor.

**klongmaster** · 22-09-2009, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by DrAndy

besides the Burma shave idea, his copying of vast tracts of military nonsense got tedious

the Burma Shave stuff was the most tedious of all...

Dan · 22-09-2009, 04:57 PM

The Bangkok Post is, from beginning to end, a shit newspaper, and his column-of-turd was about the worst part. Truly, a weeping chancre on the cock of Thai newspapers.

**hillbilly** · 22-09-2009, 05:01 PM

His early reporting use to be my favorite parts of the BKK newspaper.

**dirtydog** · 22-09-2009, 05:04 PM

^^The Nation is even more tedious than Bangkok Post, that is a paper i have never bought.

Dan · 22-09-2009, 05:09 PM

That's one of those lying-next-to-the-whitest-man-on-the-beach things; it's hard to think of a paper which wouldn't be cast in a good light by The Nation.

**mackayae** · 22-09-2009, 05:13 PM

Trink the Dink.

**Thetyim** · 22-09-2009, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

never did understand all that Burma aftershave rubbish,

Neither did I.

BS was an advertising idea in the US putting a string of boards along the roadside that you read as you drove along.
How that fitted into his newspaper column I could never work out.

**slackula** · 22-09-2009, 05:53 PM

It beats me why / liked the most / is the f*cking / Bangkok Post/ Burma-Shave

**Rural Surin** · 22-09-2009, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I knew of him for years and years poking his nose into bars around Pat Pong and to honest I have never said a word to him over all of those years.

Harmless enough and his Bangkok Post Nite Owl columns were of interest to people all around the world as well as me on occassions and when I needed to know the special night life happenings.

Pretty much the same type of bloke as Baron Bonk (Sir Peter) and for being a stayer and survivor here in LOS.

Curmudgeons always survive, LT. Rumour has it is, his {early} depature from the Post was forced on him as the beloved newspaper and a new editor chose to take a more politically correct tact. Jennifer Bliss' take on him is worthy reading, 'I Don't Give a Hoot' {Post Books}. I believe one can find more current writings online throughout an assorted number of blogs and such.....Dean Barrett has nothing on the master.

**slackula** · 22-09-2009, 05:55 PM

It's a sensation / that people / actually / read the / Nation / Burma-Shave

**nidhogg** · 22-09-2009, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Full Trink Ahead: The (Mostly) Compleat Guide to Bernard Trink, the Bangkok Post's Nite Owl

If memory serves correctly that stash was put together by a poster (doxyblue) on the nanaplaza board (as it was then). Mega prolific poster who threw a wobbly and deleted something like 20K+ posts in a swoop.

**dirtydog** · 22-09-2009, 05:58 PM

^Stroller in his younger days?

**blackgang** · 22-09-2009, 06:24 PM

Originally Posted by Thetyim

BS was an advertising idea in the US putting a string of boards along the roadside that you read as you drove along.

Never heard of Burma aftershave, but do vividly remember the advert signs along the hyways, 5 signs in a row and were real easy to read and lots of little saying and rhymes, but when the speed limit was 35 miles an hour it was nice to have something to look at as no air con and hot as hell on the roadways and only AM radios that did not work well.
So the only thing to look foreword to was those signs or the next Giant Orange to stop and get a cold glass of fresh orange juice.

**DrAndy** · 22-09-2009, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Dan

The Bangkok Post is, from beginning to end, a shit newspaper, and his column-of-turd was about the worst part. Truly, a weeping chancre on the cock of Thai newspapers.

it wasn't that bad, at least it was in English

Originally Posted by hillbilly

His early reporting use to be my favorite parts of the BKK newspaper.

I liked it too

Originally Posted by blackgang

Never heard of Burma aftershave, but do vividly remember the advert signs along the hyways, 5 signs in a row and were real easy to read

That shows the advertising did not work for you!!

**blackgang** · 22-09-2009, 07:15 PM

Could be right, as there never was a Burma Aftershave in those days..

**Begbie** · 22-09-2009, 07:26 PM

I'm pretty sure Trink started out on the Bangkok World. A great newspaper printed on pink paper. Really classy too with a centre spread dedicated to the "go go dancer of the week".

**PBateman** · 22-09-2009, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by Begbie

I'm pretty sure Trink started out on the Bangkok World. A great newspaper printed on pink paper. Really classy too with a centre spread dedicated to the "go go dancer of the week".

Found this on wikipedia............

Bangkok Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Another English newspaper of Thailand, the evening-edition Bangkok World, was begun in the 1960s, but was bought by the Bangkok Post in the late 1980s and shortly afterwards shut down"

**Rattanaburi** · 22-09-2009, 09:51 PM

Trink will be back soon. He's just waiting for old the old folks who are 'bored' to die off then it will be as if he never went away. Trink really wrote pretty much the way things are here in LOS, endlessly repetitive. What's really changed here in 40 years. Blackgang might know. Anyways I'm sure Trink doesn't give a hoot what people think about him. It's all human nature as he would say.

**mediamanbkk** · 22-09-2009, 10:17 PM

He never called an Elephant an Elephant but a Patchyderm. One good thing about his page was he let you know which bars had a free buffet on during the coming week for Nok or Nui's birthday bash or 3rd Anniversary of the bar. He drunk in Crown Royale a lot I believe.

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