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Posted DCO Thailand Our Man in Pattaya Duncan Stearn (Cartoons by Jon Gray) Come for a walk on the wacky side as Pattaya and its locals and foreigners come together in a collection of the best of the popular Our Man in Pattaya monthly columns from the pages of the Pattaya Trader (also published by the Phuket Gazette newspaper under the title Streets of Pattaya). These columns - by way of a scalpel-sharp wit and savagely funny lines - offer a wry look into the sometimes wonderful, regularly erratic, always engaging and interesting life of Pattaya, a place the city fathers, lodged firmly in their ivory tower, delude themselves into thinking it is Thailand’s premier seaside resort. The football World Cup, astrological charts, Japanese programs on Thai TV, a religious freak in Penang, an over-exuberant Russian on Pattaya’s Walking Street, and the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s domestic travel campaign all come in for that special brand of irony and sardonic wit, the hallmark of the column. A bracket of Thai phrases involving crocodiles, sharks, and elephants; an idea for a fox hunt; pachyderms on zebra crossings; ‘news’ stories concerning foreigners leaping from high floors in condo complexes, and, of course, the consistently hilarious situations in the never-ending battle of the sexes are all dealt with in the usual irreverent manner. Click the above link/image for details of this book. Reply to this topic to add your review. Use the Rate It! link to submit your rating of this book. Click here to search other titles by Duncan Stearn.

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