Who would you like to have a beer with?

[anonone]

well I hung around for a bit but no one showed up. maybe catch up next time.

[RonanTheBarbarian]

Do report back on how many turned up!

You are meant to ask the waiter for "Bruce's group"

[Jellybean]

... You are meant to ask the waiter for "Bruce's group"

Dear-oh-dear Anonone, you are not very good at this cloak and dagger stuff are you? Listen carefully as I shall say this only once:

On arrival you should inform the waiter that you are looking for BruceтАЩs group. He will then take you to a door at the back of the hotel.
At the door you must knock three times. Not once, not twice, but three times.

A sliding hatch will open and the kon-f├вo-bpr├а-dtuu will say, тАЬWho goes there?тАЭ

You should reply, тАЬThe keys.тАЭ

The kon-f├вo-bpr├а-dtuu will then say, тАЬWhose keys?тАЭ

You must then reply, тАЬBruceтАЩs keys.тАЭ

The door will be opened and youтАЩll then be ushered downstairs and led through several labyrinthine corridors until you reach BruceтАЩs speak-easy and the rest of your fellow members.

Now, once you have memorised the above, I suggest you delete this message.

Remember, loose lips sink ships! =))

[bucknaway]

I'd buy Smiles a beer. And Bucky. Hell, I'd be glad to meet and have a beer with almost anyone at least once.
C'mon... drinks on me.

I arrive later this week... I return home on the 29th

[catawampuscat]

... You are meant to ask the waiter for "Bruce's group"

Dear-oh-dear Anonone, you are not very good at this cloak and dagger stuff are you? Listen carefully as I shall say this only once:

On arrival you should inform the waiter that you are looking for BruceтАЩs group. He will then take you to a door at the back of the hotel.
At the door you must knock three times. Not once, not twice, but three times.

A sliding hatch will open and the kon-f├вo-bpr├а-dtuu will say, тАЬWho goes there?тАЭ

You should reply, тАЬThe keys.тАЭ

The kon-f├вo-bpr├а-dtuu will then say, тАЬWhose keys?тАЭ

You must then reply, тАЬBruceтАЩs keys.тАЭ

The door will be opened and youтАЩll then be ushered downstairs and led through several labyrinthine corridors until you reach BruceтАЩs speak-easy and the rest of your fellow members.

Now, once you have memorised the above, I suggest you delete this message.

Remember, loose lips sink ships! =))

As 'key' is the Thai word for shit, asking for Bruce's key will probably lead one to the toilet.

[joe552]

Jellybean - love your response, a good laugh. Seems the meet up didn't actually happen. We'll wait for Bruce's response.

[Jellybean]

As 'key' is the Thai word for shit, asking for Bruce's key will probably lead one to the toilet.

Yes, youтАЩre absolutely correct catawampuscat, the Thai word for excrement, dung, residue and dirt is тАж k├оi (as written in its Romanised form).

But I, of course, wrote тАЬkeysтАЭ, plural, and as everyone knows, there are no plurals in Thai, they get round this by using classifiers. So, no such Thai word as farangs, just fa-r├аng (Caucasian or guava).

Interestingly the word k├оi is also used as a prefix to many other words. I checked my notebook and found that I had written down 26 words beginning with k├оi.

IтАЩve picked out a few and would invite members to speculate on which ones could be applied to, not members of this forum, but to foreigners generally that theyтАЩve encountered in their travels around Thailand:

k├оi-n─нao тАУ stingy, cheap
k├оi-b├▓n тАУ to be given to complaining
k├оi-mao - a drunkard
k├оi-yaa тАУ a cigarette or drug addict
k├оi-l├вo тАУ addicted to alcohol
k├оi-├╣at тАУ boastful
k├оi-r├┤ok тАУ sickly, unhealthy
k├оi-goo-h├▓k тАУ to be given to telling lies

I also managed to find a тАЬk├оiтАЭ word which could best describe the nature of this post тАж k├оi-len (playful).

Oh, and there is this one, k├оi-k─Гw, which at a pinch, I suppose, could be used to describe some Thai lads, although I feel sure none of us on this forum know any such person. It means тАж habitually asking for things.

And finally, for those who did not understand my reference to тАЬkeysтАЭ, the dialogue I used was a spoof on the ceremony of тАЬthe keysтАЭ played out every night at the Tower of London.

The following was copied from Wikipedia:

At exactly 9.53pm, the Chief Yeoman Warder in Tudor Watchcoat, meets the military escort, made up of members of the Tower of London Guard. Together, the Chief Yeoman Warder and the Yeoman Warder 'Watchman' secure the main gates of the Tower. Upon their return down Water Lane, the party is halted by the sentry and challenged to identify themselves:

Sentry: "Halt! Who comes there?"
Chief Warder: "The keys."
Sentry: "Whose keys?"
Chief Warder: "Queen Elizabeth's keys."
Sentry: "Pass Queen Elizabeth's Keys. All is well."

[AsiaExplorer]

I am a new member that has followed this forum for several years. I have been traveling to Thailand three to four times per year for the last five years for about three to four weeks at at time. I had the honor of meeting Bruce and Christian last week in Bangkok for Bruce's first Bangkok meeting. It was the night before I returned to the US.
I really appreciated Bruce's efforts to set up an opportunity for those who are inclined to meet personally while living and/or visiting a country that I have come to love and enjoy. Bruce, you have so much energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge on so many topics which include gay Thailand! I thoroughly enjoyed are conversations that Saturday night.
Christian, I enjoyed meeting you and look forward to conversations with you. I know the music/noise near where we were sitting was too loud for your liking. It was so nice to match a face to a name and blog forum that I have become familiar with and have enjoyed over the last several years.
I will be returning in November and look forward to meeting additional members and seeing you both again. I would encourage other members to try the meetings if you are so inclined!

[christianpfc]

Do not confuse

р╕Вр╕╡р╣Й k├кe [to] defecate ; crap ; shit / excrement ; waste ; residue / (prefix that indicates the following adjective is a negative quality of the person being referred to)

with р╕Др╕╡р╣И k├кe odd ; single ; uneven (different spelling, but same pronunciation as above)

(However "a shit day" and "an uneven date" are not rendered to the same pronunciation with different spelling in Thai, I asked a friend.)

with р╕Вр╕╡р╣И k├иe [to] drive ; ride (a bicycle, motorbike, horse).

(Romanization and translation from thai2english.)

AsiaExplorer, thanks for your nice words and bringing up the noise problem (I didn't want to be the first to comment on this). As I predicted, it's difficult to have a conversation in Soi Twilight, you have to shout at each other. Acoustics is horrible and background noise. Even in a quiet environment, I would prefer one-to-one meeting.