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khmerhit · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject: 40-something

Hey, I'm turning forty tomorrow. Wuh--------hay (deflated sound like punctured bagpipes).

Assuming you knew me and we were old friends, what indigenous gift from your country of domicile would you choose to present me with?

(Not that I'm a narcissist or anything. Rolling Eyes

)

Spending range? How about five dollars.

OK, lets see (rubs hands together...)

willy · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

a bottel of glen fitch will be my offer, for all the help you have given.

Shaman · Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Hammertown

I don't know. A bowl of poutine and a Montreal Canadiens dartboard?

Shaman

Teacher in Rome · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Posts: 1286

Happy, happy birthday to you
happy Birthday to you, and to you....

I'd be spoilt for choice for gifts...

If we were in Cambodia, a massive spliff only for you (we'd watch you turn green as you smoked a kilo of grass - 5 dollars or less you said)

From Italy, a beautiful mozzarella cheese, or one of the creamy "eat and melt your heart" "burro" cheeses. Cherry tomatoes and basil thrown in to give you ultimate sensory pleasure.

From the UK, a compilation of 70's disco hits, just to make you laugh over those sounds. Of course, we'd make you dance so we could have a laugh and all...

Have a good one Khmerhit...

James_T_Kirk · Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 357 Location: Ten Forward

I live in St. Louis, Missouri, USA...since I like you, I would probably buy you a concrete (frozen custard) from the "world famous" Ted Drewes...if I didn't like you, I would buy you some budweiser (not counting the gateway arch, the fact that crappy budweiser beer is brewed here is the city's claim to fame...no wonder I am so eager to leave!).

Happy Birthday Khmerhit!
Kirk

Guest · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject:

A pension card and a list of Retirement Homes

foster · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 485 Location: Honkers, SARS

An all-you-can-eat Dim Sum buffet - maybe over $5 but not by much!

Bonne Fete!

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Let's see... with $5 in Japan, you can buy...

uh...

(Denise scratches her head)

Mos Burger?

Or maybe I would go crazy in the hundred-yen shops and come out with all sorts of kitschy, cutesy little doo-dads.

Happy birthday!

d

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

For $5 US, I could buy you a half-dozen pirated DVDs...
... or one tin of imported Guinness. Confused

cha muir · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 64 Location: Plateau, Montreal

Wadda party weer gone have whiff all that bbooze and food and spliffs and kitsch and and poutine Shocked

and happy Phnom Penh and we all fly in microwave those J-burgersload the bong and start throwing darts

what should i bring?

how about pads?

cha

Aramas · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 1:29 am Post subject:

A fake ID card that says you're 29 Smile

Harry Haller · Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 24

Because almost single-handedly you have kept alive my original ESL dream, which was to teach Cambodian kids English, I would buy you a used copy of the poetry of Robert Penn Warren, so you could read the last section of the poem "Audubon."

And because almost single-handedly you have kept alive my original ESL dream, which was to teach Cambodian kids English in that roach-mobbed sweat-peppered dusty muddy city in which you live, I would give you a room for the night at Tuol Sleng. You may invite a guest, if you like.

So Happy Birthday!

Perhaps.

khmerhit · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:40 am Post subject:

Tell me a story.
�In this century, and moment, of mania,
Tell me a story.

�Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.

�The name of the story will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.

�Tell me a story of deep delight.

Audubon: A Vision: VII[B]

By Robert Penn Warren

Harry Haller · Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 24

It appears as though I must send you the dozen cans of spam instead.

Eijse · Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 119 Location: Yemen (Aden)