The NGO - a tale in 10 chapters

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The NGO - a tale in 10 chapters

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Dear members, this little tale has already been published some years ago, but I guess that most of you (newer ones) have never read it. The NGO community reacted a bit allergic to this article that time……. just for that reason I think it’s time to republish it.
This short ten chapter tale is serialised in the hope it will shed some light on one of Cambodia’s greatest mysteries, namely the NGO. The inner workings of these strange organisations will be revealed chapter by chapter, so read on . . .it’s funny.
Today read chapter one and two ….tomorrow chapter three and so on.

Chapter 1:


I came to Cambodia to work for something called a “Non-Governmental Organization” or “NGO,” a term I had never heard before. Propelled in equal measures by a desire to help the Cambodian people recover from the horrors of the Khmer Rouge years and dissatisfaction with a stale life in the West, I signed a one-year contract, rented out my house, and hopped a westbound 747 out of San Francisco. Since then I’ve since fallen in love with the country and with the Khmer people, some of the nicest in Asia. I was lucky enough to meet my wife here. Cambodia is now home, and to live in this beautiful land among its warm and gracious people is a privilege and a treat.
But every Garden of Eden must have its resident serpent. In Cambodia this role is filled by the NGOs—half embassy playthings, half graduate school dormitories, half-inept administrative fiefdoms. (If you are complaining that that adds up to three halves, you are just revealing that you haven’t been in Cambodia long enough; stick around for a while and you’ll learn to not only accept, but to relish, this wonderful kind of logic.)
NGOs are proof of the old cliché that there is no such thing as a free lunch. “No NGOs, no foreign aid money,” say the Europeans and the Americans and the Australians; and many recipients, after meeting some NGO workers, have come to wonder whether the price is worth it.
There are well over three hundred NGOs in Cambodia, all different: large and small, richly-endowed and underfunded, left-wing and ultra left-wing. But all are financially dependent
on the governments they secretly loathe. All are given responsibility without authority and tasks without adequate resources to finish them. They are often staffed by random
assortments of lost souls; viciously critical of each other; quick to insist on their own creature comforts but slow to disburse useful help to the Cambodian people.
Some readers have accused me of unfairly singling out the worst features of Cambodia’s NGOs, so let me try to be fair and balanced for a moment. There are a few good NGOs.
These are the organizations that recognise and reward hard, thoughtful work rather than bureaucratic paper shuffling and infighting. Their staff accept modest salaries. These NGOs
send their people out of the comforts of Phnom Penh and into the countryside where they are most needed. They are careful to place the interests of the Cambodians ahead of their own. When
they compete with other NGOs for the annual government funding of their operating budgets, as they must, they do so honestly and fairly.
Both of them were closed down last year.

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And then there is “TNGO,” my acronym for “Typical Non-Governmental Organization”. Are the
sketches that follow a fair characterisation of what really goes on behind the facades of the NGOs in Cambodia? You be the judge of that. But whether you believe these Tales of TNGO or not is less important than my hope that they might help relieve the stress and tension that sometimes go along with life in Cambodia, and help you pass a pleasant hour or two in laughter on the sunny banks of the Mekong…
And if you can’t find at least one laugh in this tale, I suggest you shove a few more lies into your curriculum vitae, polish up the prose a bit, and rush it over to TNGO. For TNGO always has vacancies for the humour-impaired, and there you will surely find many kindred spirits....
Notes: (1) For those of you new to Cambodia, or just passing through, there is a short glossary of the Khmer (Cambodian language) words used in the text. Brad Erskine and Mun Sopheap compiled it with the help of a $2.8 million FORGOVAID Development Program grant.
(2) I had originally planned on using this space to make one of those self-righteous, morally conceited announcements that smug authors cherish. You know, the ones that are designed to make you feel rotten and guilty if you decide not to read this article —the pious whining about unselfishly donating all the proceeds of this book to TNGO so that it can continue its valuable Cambodian programs for the benefit of poor suffering humanity, blah, blah, blah....
In lieu of that, I’m giving half the money to my Cambodian father-in-law for his beer and smokes, and keeping the rest to take the wife and kids down to Kompong Som for a weekend at the beach. If you want to understand why, read on....

TNGO Briefing Sheet
Welcome to Cambodia!
Your work at TNGO will be much more “meaningful”
and “rewarding” for you—and, after all, that’s the real purpose
of your coming here, isn’t it?—If you will follow these few
simple guidelines:
1. Please glance out the window a few times during the
20-minute drive from Pochentong Airport to TNGO’s downtown
office in the air-conditioned car TNGO has sent to pick you up.
This exposure to Cambodian life, society, culture, geography,
customs, politics, economics, manners, and morals will fully
qualify you as a TNGO expert on Cambodia by the time you
reach TNGO’s headquarters villa.

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2. In order to understand the Cambodian people better and show our solidarity with them, we at TNGO are committed to fully sharing their living conditions. However, there are a few minor exceptions to this guideline. TNGO will provide you with a maid, river, spacious villa, guards, cook, air-conditioning, car, fax machine, photocopier, personal computer, e-mail, mobile telephone,
furnished office, tax-free Western salary, Western medical and dental care, free airline tickets for home leave twice a year, Western food, and exemption from all taxes, fees, customs
duties, etc.—but with these trivial exceptions your living conditions will be identical to those of actual Cambodians!
3. If you should have any further questions about Cambodia, do NOT make the mistake of asking a Cambodian! Instead, follow TNGO’s simple “1-2-3-4” Rule. TNGO considers the best sources of information about Cambodia to be the dazed, scruffy backpackers with: one earring, two days of
beard stubble, three types of incipient hepatitis, four days or less in Cambodia.
These reliable sources may be found looking rather dazed in front of any $ 5 per night or less guesthouse during the afternoons, or at the FCCC after dark.
4. TNGO takes absolutely no position on local political matters, except that you are required to unquestioningly believe that the sun shines out of Sam Rainsy’s backside.
5. TNGO is committed to promoting the Rule of Law in Cambodia. We expect Cambodians to obey and respect all the laws we write and impose on them. Note: This does not apply to you or your friends while you are in Cambodia. If you want to smoke grass, sleep with members of the same or opposite sex of any age, etc., go right ahead! Rule of Law applies only to Cambodians, not TNGO workers!
6. Under no circumstances should you learn to speak or read the Khmer language.
7. Certain tasks have been divided up among the NGOs in Phnom Penh by nationality. Thus the Japanese NGOs are in charge of promoting racial tolerance while the Australians have been assigned the job of stamping out child prostitution. The French are in charge of fostering international co-operation among aid donors. The Brits lecture on granting asylum, using Hong Kong as an example. America, home to half the world’s lawyers and the O. J. Simpson, Menendez brothers and Rodney King trials—not to mention Ken Starr—is in charge of law reform.
8. Never, ever, be embarrassed at the thought that all the suffering you see around you was caused by left-wingers like your friends and professors back at home! Just remember and repeat this simple and concise summary of the history of the Khmer Rouge years (1975-79) as seen by David Chandler, Ben Kiernan, William Shawcross, Serge Thion and others: “It was all Nixon’s fault.” (Within TNGO there is a minority point of view that claims: “It was all Kissinger’s fault”, but, hey, that just goes
to show that we here at TNGO respect diversity of opinion!)
9. TNGO encourages dormitory-style bull sessions about political science, democracy and politics in the abstract. On the other hand, TNGO does not approve of any current Cambodian politicians—people who have won elections and who have been going to work and actually accomplishing things every day for many, many years. Remember that you have been asked to come to Cambodia to philosophise, lecture and pontificate about democracy and politics, not to actually do anything. (Note: In the unlikely event you have ever won elective office yourself, please see TNGO’s Human Resources Person immediately—you are clearly unqualified to serve as an expert and were hired in error. You will be sent home on the next available flight.)
10. Exposure to Cambodian culture is easy—and fun!
TNGO recommends that you spend all your free time hanging out with other Westerners at the FCCC, Elephant Bar, Cathouse, Elswhere, Pontoon, and the Sharky Bar.
Optional extra credit: On your way to and from any of these local cultural centres, you may chat with your Cambodian driver.
11. You are here to give advice and to express your opinions—do so loudly, firmly and at every opportunity! Never mind about the Cambodian response, after all, if Cambodians knew what to do, you wouldn’t be here, would you?
TNGO does, however, ask you to respect the following minimum standards: You must have been in Cambodia the length of time indicated in order to give advice at the corresponding level: 20 minutes: any civil servant, 4 hours: members of the National Assembly, 8 hours: ministers, secretaries of state, 12 hours: Prime Minister, 50 years: His Majesty the King.
Exception: The good news is that if you have ever read a book—any book at all—about Cambodia, these waiting periods are waived, and you can begin giving advice immediately! (If you have ever written a book about Cambodia, all waiting periods are doubled as a penalty—there are too damned many silly books about Cambodia already.)
12. In the unlikely event of a conflict between two NGOs (such as the most embarrassing split of opinion on the Mekong River Project), there is a simple, easy to remember tie-breaking rule: the more left-wing NGO automatically wins.
13. Perhaps during your work here you will be able to help TNGO answer the single greatest puzzle about our work: why so many Cambodians feel our projects have no value, and would gladly chuck the lot of us in the Tonle Sap in exchange for a single Malaysian garment factory owner with the vulgar knack of actually creating jobs for Cambodians and thus alleviating the suffering of the Khmer people. TNGO has already spent—solely for the benefit of the Cambodian people, of course—$3.5 million to organise academic conferences to address this enigmatic problem at universities in Lyon, Berkeley, Ithaca, Oxford, Paris, New Haven, Sydney, and Cambridge, but the answer continues to elude us . . .
Welcome to TNGO! To Be Continued . . .

End of chapter 1


Chapter 2
MEET THE TNGO STAFF


Dr. Harvey S. Murtch, Resident Director of TNGO.

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B.A., Sociology; M.A., Anthropology ; Ph .D ., Administration, all from Pomona State Junior Technical College & University, Pomona, California. Ex-high school guidance counselor, ex-mediator, ex-social worker, ex-junior high school English teacher, ex-university administrator, ex-political campaign worker, ex-T’ai Chi instructor, ex-human resources facilitator. Previously declared bankrupt in New Jersey (once) and California (twice). Secret fear: “Jesus, what if this job doesn’t work out?”

Brad Erskine, Senior Program Officer.

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Bought a red and white checked krama on the afternoon of his second day in Cambodia and has not taken it off since, even in the shower. Ends all his sentences with the word “nah” for emphasis, even when speaking English. Knows all the Khmer kings since Jayavarman II and the major political crises of the Sangkum Reastr Niyum and simply will not shut up about them. Shaved his head and went on retreat in a wat during the last rainy season; no one at TNGO noticed he was gone. Secret fear: you will discover that, despite years and years of private lessons and intense study, he cannot produce a single intelligible sentence in Khmer.


M s . L i l l i t h - M a r i e Bennington-Smith, Senior Program Analyst.

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Costume: (1) flat, open-toed plastic sandals; (2) shapeless, billowing , floral pattern “peasant” dresses in which no self-respecting peasant would be caught dead; (3) extremely large hammered -pewter earrings, bracelets and pins shaped like unicorns. Says “s/he” in spoken sentences. Organized TNGO’s mandatory Recycling Week, TNGO’s mandatory Gender Sensitivity Week and TNGO’s mandatory Logging Protest Week. Recently had “Boycott Myanmar” tattooed next to the small blue rose on the top of her left breast. Militant vegan; currently pondering whether some of the higher plants have a form of consciousness and should be removed from her diet. Reported Harvey Murtch to the Phnom Penh chapter of United World Feminists when he inadvertently uttered the word “chairman” in her presence last year. Secret fear: Her biological clock is ticking louder and louder, but no one else seems to hear it.


Master Sergeant Joseph T. Rockhurst (U.S.M.C., Retired), also known as “Sergeant Rock” or “Gunny”, Head of TNGO Security.

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Wakes the Cambodian house guards up at 0600 and tries, in vain, to get them to stop giggling and line up for inspection. Wants you to know that this chickenshit TNGO outfit is nothing at all like the Marine Corps, at least the way the Corps was run back in his day. Most of his paycheck goes to his three ex-wives (one Korean, one Okinawan, one Thai). Knows all the best brothels in Phnom Penh. Always eager to share his reminiscences of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Hue with you; if you will listen to them for more than 20 minutes Sgt. Rockhurst will be your buddy for life. Secret fear: you will discover that he spent his entire 30 years in the Marine Corps as a supply sergeant and never saw actual combat.

Mun Sopheap, Manager of Cambodian Staff.


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All right, these are the craziest foreigners in Phnom Penh, but how can he turn down the wildly extravagant $325 per month they pay him? Smiles tolerantly when Brad Erskine tries to speak Khmer with him. Related by blood or marriage to all the other Cambodian employees; they have no other apparent qualifications for their positions. Secret fear: Someone will discover that he has fallen in love with Ms. Bennington-Smith.

Brian (?) the Backpacker, Gofer.

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Turned up on TNGO’s doorstep a couple of months ago. Paid out of petty cash but always loses his wallet before he can remember to buy food. Amiable, goofy smile; shaggy blond shoulder-length hair.
Accent indicates he may be Californian, Australian or Canadian; hard to tell because he always mumbles. Takes computers and fax machines over to JMK Technologies for repair and occasionally remembers to bring them back. Procures grass for TNGO staff; shares well with others. Stares at the ground a lot. Secret fear: He will recover his memory one of these days, remember his name and where his parents live, and have to go back home.

TNGO’S FUNDING REQUEST
MEMO TO: Fred B—, FORGOVAID Funding Officer, Phnom Penh

FROM: Harvey S. Murtch, Ph.D., Resident Director, TNGO RE: TNGO’s Fiscal Year Funding Request
1. TNGO seeks a modest 1,897 percent increase in FORGOVAID funding for the next fiscal year. TNGO wants its application to be considered on a purely objective basis; personal relationships and friendships should not affect FORGOVAID funding decisions. [Handwritten marginal note: Fred, old buddy—If you’re free next Tuesday and have recovered from Saturday night’s party at my place, let’s meet at the Inter-Continental for drinks and dinner to discuss this funding request—my treat this time! Harvey]\

2. TNGO needs additional FORGOVAID funds for the following projects:
A. Rural Development Project, $1.6 million. This is TNGO’s showpiece, on-site, provincial-level, grassroots, hands-on development project. TNGO needs the entire $1.6 million to purchase, renovate and air-condition its new Rural Development Project Headquarters Villa off Monivong Boulevard in Phnom Penh.

B. Gender Equity Research, $1.2 million. TNGO will try to determine why three critical occupations (sperm donor, surrogate mother and wet nurse) remain open to only one sex in Cambodia.

C. O’Smach Tourism Promotion, $800,000. Never mind Siem Reap; TNGO has identified this tranquil area as the site of the next major tourist boom in Cambodia.

D. Endowment of Sam Rainsy Chair of Political Science at Phnom Penh University, $175,000. [Handwritten note: Fred—This is a matching grant. TNGO is sure that counterpart funds can be raised from the National Assembly or the CPP. Harvey].

E. Where is ASEAN? $125,000. TNGO believes that this may be a nearby regional organization of some sort; perhaps Cambodia might be interested in joining. This FORGOVAID grant will enable TNGO to locate ASEAN and draw it to the attention of the Cambodian government in the near future.

F. Summer Intern Research Project, $25,000 plus travel and per diem for each participant. Why do Cambodian men buy button- down shirts but never fasten the collar buttons when they wear them? [Handwritten marginal note: Fred—This is a great project for any FORGOVAID dependents who need college money. We can go up to $25,000 each, plus round-trip airfare for two weeks’ summer work in Cambodia. Let me know if any of your kids are interested. Harvey]

G. Kampuchea Krom Kultural Exchange, $280 per hectare.
TNGO is planning a giant Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Center and Theme Park in Svay Rieng Province. The park will feature Vietnamese cultural achievements and a historical panorama showing great moments in the historically inevitable Vietnamese expansion to the south and west. This should be educational (and fun!) for all Cambodians. The Vietnamese government is eager to fund the construction of the park and the exhibits; all TNGO needs to proceed is a commitment from the Cambodian Ministry of the Interior to permanently donate several thousand hectares of border farmland in Svay Rieng to the Vietnamese government for the site. To date TNGO has received no printable response from the Ministry of the Interior, but we remain optimistic.

3. TNGO has made great strides toward correcting the unfortunate misunderstandings with FORGOVAID’s accountants about last year’s funding discrepancies. The following minor accounting adjustments will completely reconcile and balance TNGO’s books:
Rent: Add $112.67
Telephone: Subtract $67.50
Miscellaneous:Add $11,867,545.03

4. TNGO also hopes that the unfortunate events following last year’s staff party will not adversely affect its current funding request. TNGO sincerely regrets the incidents involving the
women members and the reindeer of the Finnish trade delegation, the 2,000-watt amplifier, the 17 gallons of olive oil, the spray paint cans, the cutting of the Royal Palace garden hose into 4-foot
lengths, and the resulting damage to the foundations of Wat Phnom. In an effort to make amends, the dead cats have been removed from the wells at TNGO’s expense, the cyclo drivers are
now out on bail, and most of the contents of the West Wing of the National Museum have been retrieved from the villas of TNGO’s staff and returned to the Royal Government.
In an effort to prevent a recurrence of this sort of thing, all TNGO staff will attend mandatory seminars on alcohol abuse, drug abuse, substance abuse, medication abuse, inhalant abuse, gasoline-sniffing abuse, spray paint abuse, electricity abuse, human rights, civil rights, women’s rights, equal rights, animal rights, sexual harassment, gender equity, and the laws of public indecency, preservation of cultural artifacts, larceny, riot and mayhem. Should these remedial measures prove ineffective, TNGO will conduct a mandatory tour of T-3 Prison immediately prior to its next staff party. [Handwritten PS: Fred—Help us out with the funding for this year, and I see no reason why anyone in Washington should ever have to see those photographs of you and
“Blitzen” snuggled together in the cyclo!]

End of chapter 2........to be continued tomorrow
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Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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TNGO! Great stuff. Originally published in the Pearnik, twice, I do believe. Made me laugh out loud a couple of times back when it was new.
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CHAPTER THREE: THE CRISIS

The meeting was called to order, exactly on schedule, at 0830 hours by Master Sergeant Joseph T. Rockhurst (U.S. Marine Corps, Retired), Chief of Security for TNGO. However, no one else had arrived by that time.
By 10:17 a.m. most of the rest of the TNGO staff had drifted in and the meeting began. Present were Dr. Harvey S. Murtch, Ph.D., TNGO’s Resident Director; Ms. Lillith-Marie Bennington-Smith, Senior Program Analyst; Mr. Brad Erskine, Senior Program Officer; Mr. Mun Sopheap, Manager of Cambodian Staff; Brian (?) the Backpacker, office gofer; and Sergeant Rockhurst. Dr. Murtch opened the meeting by stating that TNGO faced the greatest crisis in the brief history of its operations in Cambodia. Due to a 100% non-completion rate on its projects last year, FORGOVAID had threatened to cut off all of TNGO’s funding. Dr. Murtch then called for ideas from the staff.
Ms. Bennington-Smith noted that, as usual, there were five men in the room but only one woman, so in the interest of gender equity she should be allowed to speak five times as long as anyone else.
Mr. Erskine muttered something about quality rather than quantity.
Ms. Bennington-Smith stated that that was a typically sexist, patriarchal,
hegemonistic, oppressive remark and that she, for one, was not going to put up with it.
Mr. Erskine stated that she ought to say “she, for two” or possibly even “she, for three” rather than “she, for one” as she was a fat, silly cow.
W a s n o t , r e p l i e d M s . Bennington-Smith.
Was too, said Mr. Erskine.
W a s n o t , s a i d M s . Bennington-Smith.
Dr. Murtch interrupted to ask that the staff please focus on the FORGOVAID funding crisis.
Mr. Mun asked what would happen to the Cambodian staff if the FORGOVAID funding were cut off?
Dr. Murtch stated that he had written a memorandum on that subject but was unable to distribute it as sometime during the night the cockroaches had eaten all the toner in the TNGO photocopier.
Sergeant Rockhurst said that that reminded him of a similar tactic used by the Communists in Hue back during the Tet Offensive in 1968.
Brian (?) the Backpacker stubbed out his fourth joint of the day and stated that earlier this morning he had seen a really interesting sort of a color whirl, or something, in a puddle over near where the oil had leaked out of TNGO’s Land Cruiser. The color whirl was almost like a rainbow, he explained. But not quite.
Sergeant Rockhurst expressed the opinion that a stint in the Marine Corps might tighten up Brian’s fan belt and make a man out of him.
Ms. Bennington-Smith objected to Sergeant Rockhurst’s use of the word “man” in that context and explained the reasons for her objection for 17 minutes and 38 seconds.
Mr. Erskine noted that he had timed her statement at 17 minutes and 38 seconds and that this was a new personal record for tedious remarks made by her.
Ms. Bennington-Smith noted that Mr. Erskine had earlier said something about remarks being judged by their quality rather than quantity, and that if he were not such a notorious hypocrite she might recommend that he heed his own words.
Mr.Erskine advised Ms. Bennington-Smith of where, and at what angle, she could put it.
Dr. Murtch asked if there was any aspirin left in the TNGO emergency medical kit.
Mr. Mun stated that the cockroaches had eaten the aspirin too.
Sergeant Rockhurst said that just went to prove what he had beensaying. About the Communists.
Dr. Murtch once again called for helpful comments on the very, very serious crisis confronting TNGO. He pointed out that loss of FORGOVAID funding would mean that the Cambodian people would no longer benefit from TNGO’s many useful programs.
When the laughter died down, Dr. Murtch pointed out that this would also mean that they would all lose their jobs and have to try to find work back in the United States, except for Mr. Mun who would be unemployed in Phnom Penh.
An uneasy silence fell over the room.
After a while, Mr. Erskine asked if FORGOVAID had ever threatened other NGOs with a total funding cutoff.
Dr. Murtch stated that FORGOVAID had never done so, since every other NGO had managed to complete at least one or two programs every year. TNGO’s 100% incompletion rate was unique in the history of aid to Cambodia.
The uneasy silence resumed until Ms. Bennington-Smith suddenly sat straight up in her chair and snapped her fingers.
She suggested that TNGO could ask FORGOVAID to fund new $16.8 million research project next year. TNGO would use the funds to study its own total and abject failure in order to determine why this had occurred. The resulting report might provide useful future guidance for other NGOs in Cambodia.
Dr. Murtch stated that this was the most brilliant and original idea he had heard since he thought up the topic for his own Ph.D. thesis. He was sure he could persuade FORGOVAID to fund such an important study. Dr. Murtch then called for the TNGO staff to vote to support this exciting and vital new funding proposal.
Mr. Erskine grudgingly stated that he would go along with it even considering the source of the idea. After all, he said, even a blind hog found an acorn once in a while.
Ms. Bennington-Smith stated that this remark was insensitive to the needs of the human race’s animal companions, but she would let it pass in light of Mr. Erskine’s unprecedented agreement to support one of her ideas.
Mr. Mun stated that it sounded like a good idea. He would support it on the condition that TNGO would also request an increase in funding for local staff so that he could hire his brother-in-law from Kampong Cham, who would sit in TNGO’s office and bang a gong all night long in order to keep the cockroaches away from the photocopier and the medicine chest.
Sergeant Rockhurst said that he could never figure out what the hell you people are talking about half the time anyway, so go right ahead and do whatever the hell you want.
When asked for his opinion, Brian (?) the Backpacker said he was going back outside to look at the color whirl again, and did anyone want to come with him?
The meeting adjourned at 11:08 a.m.
To be continued ...
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Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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Is today already tomorrow? :lol:
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Ooooooops....wrong time zone :D . Tomorrow....chapter 4 !
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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Satire looses its sting when it goes on and on like this piece.
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No, it doesn't.
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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I'm not reading anymore of Francis's posts unless he embeds cat pictures
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Image :D
Und der Haifisch der hat Tränen
Und die laufen vom Gesicht
Doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser
So die Tränen sieht man nicht

In der Tiefe ist es einsam
Und so manche Träne fliesst
Und so kommt es dass das Wasser
In den Meeren salzig ist
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Digg3r wrote:I'm not reading anymore of Francis's posts unless he embeds cat pictures
Same here, but I want pictures of a dog.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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