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Bernard Trink - Why aint he dead yet?
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Originally Posted by dirtydog
there has been no reports of his death
That's a shame.
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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.
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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
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^^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.
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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...
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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.
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His early reporting use to be my favorite parts of the BKK newspaper.
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^^The Nation is even more tedious than Bangkok Post, that is a paper i have never bought.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by
dirtydog
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.
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^Stroller in his younger days?
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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.
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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
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Originally Posted by hillbilly
His early reporting use to be my favorite parts of the BKK newspaper.
I liked it too
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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!!
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Could be right, as there never was a Burma Aftershave in those days..
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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".
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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"
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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.
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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.
