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#24149 03/24/01 01:09 AM
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Phuket is pronounced differently by different Thais. I had a Thai student from near there who pronounced it P-hooket. Actually, the Ph dipthong in Thai sounds very much like the Wh dipthong in Maori. I bet the vets pronounced it Fook-it, Wow. It's the sex capital of Thailand, and that's saying something! A colleague of mine and his wife, in their fifties, went there for a fortnight two months ago. He was propositioned so many times in the first few days that he stopped counting ...



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#24150 03/24/01 02:51 AM
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Cap,

Not a prude, but the sex-slave trade's beyond saddening.


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