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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.
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Expat page in the Nation was a good replacement but just for taking the piss out of the authority in Toyland.
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Originally Posted by blackgang
Could be right, as there never was a Burma Aftershave in those days..
It was shaving cream, not after-shave.
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Here's a link for all of the Burma Shave ads.
Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties - Page One
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Just been googling, seems Bernard is alive and well and still doing book reviews for the Bangkokpost.
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someone should send him a link to this thread
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Originally Posted by
dirtydog
Now Bernard Trink was born in 1931, I checked earlier and there has been no reports of his death
He died about 15 years ago.
When someone is old and farts dust, they are exalted.
Especially when they write about the "nightlife" of Bangers, from a 70 year old's perspective.
So erudite. So expertise.
Old Geezer is in bed, while we're doing the field work.
And his Pay for Read coloumn didn't last long did it.
Another charlatan, needs to go away and burn out.
Better to burn out, than to fade away --Neil Young.
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FFS milky 2 posts above yours!
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^ hehe
Funny you started this thread, DD, as for some weird reason, Trink popped into my thoughts the other day. Sure, his column was naff, but it gave a homestyle, old colonial days feel to the Post, like hometown newspapers still do. Even if you rolled your eyes at it, it was sort of comforting.
AND I DON'T GIVE A HOOT!!!:)
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Peterpan is still with us.
Why shouldn't Bernard Trink be
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A couple of American Independance Days he went to Soi Rangnam to my local drinking hole and did reviews on the burgers that Doug the American owner made himself and described us as a "boistrous crowd"..so I could say I appeared in his column...but I won't!!
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i can remember seeing trink wandering around the bars years ago, his great lumbering hulk with his trousers hitched up under his armpits and that fucking medallion he wore as if it was the victoria cross, he always had his thai midget diddy man photographer with him, about 3 paces behind, ready to snap a shot of prostitute of the week for his column. they reminded me of the two ronnies, it was always a good read but no surprise when his column was axed by the editorial hypocrites of the post. his column was of a no longer acceptable, but fondly remembered and much missed era.
those really were the days.
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Originally Posted by jizzybloke
someone should send him a link to this thread
He wouldnt be able to enter it in his typewriter. :)
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Originally Posted by
dirtydog
Just been googling, seems Bernard is alive and well and still doing book reviews for the Bangkokpost.
Same desk, same typewriter, no doubt.
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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.
You don't like it then?
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Yes those were the days when Trink, Molly Meldrum (a poof Aussie music guru/ TV presenter) and a few other notable long term farangs would grace the Pong to everyone's delight or dismay depending on their level of inebriation.
