Bernard Trink - Why aint he dead yet?

**Smug Farang Bore** · 22-09-2009, 10:24 PM

Expat page in the Nation was a good replacement but just for taking the piss out of the authority in Toyland.

**pickel** · 23-09-2009, 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by blackgang

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

It was shaving cream, not after-shave.

**pickel** · 23-09-2009, 12:37 AM

Here's a link for all of the Burma Shave ads.

Burma Shave Slogans of the Fifties - Page One

**dirtydog** · 23-09-2009, 12:46 AM

Just been googling, seems Bernard is alive and well and still doing book reviews for the Bangkokpost.

**jizzybloke** · 23-09-2009, 01:05 AM

someone should send him a link to this thread

**barbaro** · 23-09-2009, 02:13 AM

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.

**jizzybloke** · 23-09-2009, 02:22 AM

FFS milky 2 posts above yours!

**Jet Gorgon** · 23-09-2009, 02:54 AM

^ 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!!!

**mrsquirrel** · 23-09-2009, 03:44 AM

Peterpan is still with us.

Why shouldn't Bernard Trink be

**Jeremia** · 23-09-2009, 07:13 AM

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!!

**taxexile** · 23-09-2009, 07:46 AM

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.

**Gerbil** · 23-09-2009, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

someone should send him a link to this thread

He wouldnt be able to enter it in his typewriter.

**mackayae** · 23-09-2009, 09:17 AM

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.

**crazy dog** · 23-09-2009, 09:52 AM

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?

**Loy Toy** · 23-09-2009, 10:08 AM

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.

**barbaro** · 23-09-2009, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

FFS milky 2 posts above yours!

I was speaking figueratively, sir.

I know he's actually alive.

Hard to notice the difference, though.

**The Ghost Of The Moog** · 23-09-2009, 01:20 PM

Trink made the mistake when he left the Post of charging a subscription for his spin-off site.

Fatal. In those days (and it still largely applies today) people won't pay for content unless porno.

**dirtydog** · 23-09-2009, 03:35 PM

^He should do something in the stickman vein, weekly column, few adverts, pretty sure he could do it better than an engrish teecher.

**PlanK** · 23-09-2009, 04:00 PM

Most of his column was just cut & pastes of things his readers had sent in. Hardly ever an original thought or opinion of anything.

Stickman did it better, and online, and for free.

**Rural Surin** · 23-09-2009, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by PBateman

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"

The Bangkok World was one of those maverick publications {60's & 70's} that sought out a reputation for independent and investigative journalism. Especially during the American war years as well as the turbulent Thai domestic periods.....unlike a number of surface mainstream info sources that succumb to the establishment, the BKK World was a dissenting beacon {for it's time}.

**awesome adjunct** · 25-09-2009, 02:30 PM

Trink was an institution, hard to judge his column by the standards of today, they were a reflection of a different time and Trink's writing style was a reflection of a different era as well, but Trink was able to make a living for YEARS doing little more than trolling bars and writing a short column. Sweet deal. Last time I saw him around around was 3 or 4 years ago at the Fourth of July celebration at NIST.

Come on admit it, how many of you old timers were hoping Trink would kick the bucket and you could replace him?

**DrAndy** · 25-09-2009, 04:22 PM

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**aging one** · 25-09-2009, 05:16 PM

I for one used to look forward to the Nite Owl. Did for a fair few year. Once he went to half a page it was all over. Funny watching new arrivals fighting over that section of the paper.

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