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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Comments ? I am slowly working my way through all the gin-joints in town.

johnslat · Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:34 am Post subject:

Dear scot47,

Must be thirsty work - hope they keep those ginless tonics (with lemon peel) coming.

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

John, in February I shall be having my 63rd birthday party on licensed premises in Manama, Bahrain. You are welcome to join my steadily-growing pack of fans and admirers to help me celebrate. I think there might even be three of us in 2010 !

Will 2010 be my last year TEFL-ing ? Or should I sign up for another period of indentures ?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Will I then be celebrating alone ?

johnslat · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:50 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,
February, huh? So, you're a fellow Aquarian. Mine's on Feb. 14th, Valentine's Day, and I'll be (gulp) 67 in 2010.
Much as I'd love to join you, I'm afraid the commute would be a bit much.
However, you are, as you know, always welcome here in Santa Fe should your travels ever land you in this neck of the woods.
Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

So John has declined and there are no other takers ? Sheech ! I think I will go and hang myself. That will show you all !

johnslat · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:27 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,

If you hang yourself this birthday, what will you do for your next one?

Hanging's a hard act to follow.

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I see your point. The "self-kill" or "free-death"as our German cousins so quaintly call it can wait until 2011.

johnslat · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:01 pm Post subject:

Dear scot47,

Death may not be proud:

"DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me."

but it is infinitely patient - perhaps from spending so much time in the Middle East.

So, take your time - every last given second of it. Remember, it's all inshallah:

"The Appointment in Samarra"
(as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933])
The speaker is Death

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture, now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threating getsture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Time is a very curious thing. I never thought about it much - but now that my hourglass is running out I think of little else !

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Gulf Pearl Hotel was okay. Frosty-faced staff on reception. Noisy. Incessaant phone calls offering "massage".

If I am back in Bahrain - which I doubt - I will use the Dilmun. The whoremongering is more discreet.

7atetan · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:42 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Cabs now have government notices threatening their drivers with dire penalties if they do not use the meter to calculate the fare and stick to that. Of course these successors to the Gulf pirates ignore these threats.

Taxi-drivers and aggressive hookers are what spoil Bahrain for me.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Undeterred by the Agents of the Evil One, I shall return to the hotels of Bahrain !

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Events have conspired to FORCE me to go to Bahrain next week. I shall, of course, have to continue my field work in the hotels and gin joints of Manama. I trust the brethren will pray for me as I go about the Work of the LORD !