Phnom Penh 2005?

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Elephant Bum @ FCC circa 2005
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My current wife at that time was a super trim bicycle rider who's favourite haunt for 3/4 of a bottle of gin was at the FCC.
I used to call her Elephant Bum (more like a pair of cantaloupes) so this is in honour of Kathleen.
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Jim Gil wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 5:16 pm Pretty sure that first picture is number 9 guest house and the picture would have been taken in 2005 at the earliest as that's when the place next door got a refurb. The lake was pretty well fucked by 2008.
I used to stay at "Brother #9" in my early days, same owner - that slick cop.
A "waiter" who snagged the right girl.
He is an HE now.
(via being a top drug cop, via the Lakeside. LOL)
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Was #9 owned by that strange Dutch guy, Harry?
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Maybe i was wrong.
Brother Number 9 (2 or 3 g/h south) was definitely related to #9 when i was there
and deff owned by a smart youngish Kh cop.
I forget his name. I bumped into him about 5 years ago and he gave me his HR card. ( the usual "advisor to blah blah")
Had a new place on that new backpacker ghetto, and a service station, and was a top drug cop,
He seems to choose biz's with good cash flow.
Spoiler:
probably a place on the Lakeside but in Genova these days too
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Don't forget Brian the smack smuggler and wanna-be Scarface from Freedom guest house on the lake.
originally from Glasgow's meanest streets in the world.
Somebody here once called him "the Keith Richards of the Lakeside"

unfort' he did not survive like Keiff
died of Hep in a bombay gaol when the scam went bad once too often
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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:23 am Don't forget Brian the smack smuggler and wanna-be Scarface from Freedom guest house on the lake.
originally from Glasgow's meanest streets in the world.
Somebody here once called him "the Keith Richards of the Lakeside"

unfort' he did not survive like Keiff
died of Hep in a bombay gaol when the scam went bad once too often
Brian was shot in PNH around 2012/2013
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Clutch Cargo wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:28 pm Look how La Croissette has changed...and what's with the elephant?

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Riverside was great then, Phnom Penh was on the rise. :bigeyes:
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How would members explain riverside today?
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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alexvanlaar wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:39 am
SternAAlbifrons wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:23 am Don't forget Brian the smack smuggler and wanna-be Scarface from Freedom guest house on the lake.
originally from Glasgow's meanest streets in the world.
Somebody here once called him "the Keith Richards of the Lakeside"

unfort' he did not survive like Keiff
died of Hep in a bombay gaol when the scam went bad once too often
Brian was shot in PNH around 2012/2013
He died in an Indian prison about 2008. I don't recall any foreigners being shot (dead) in all the time I've been here.
Silence, exile, and cunning.
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