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Tuesday , May 13 , 2008
New House Speaker Chai Chidchob: Dont kick the bucket!
Posted by Yoon , Reader : 567 , 11:06:21  
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Chai Chidchob, 80, was elected House Speaker yesterday. He declared that he was still physically fit. "I can still kick a pail and make a noise...." he said. In Thai, that means he is still a man of physical strength and yes...sexuallly active.

But don't try to translate that into English. If he "kicks the bucket," that's something else. Kicking the bucket means to die. How does that expression come about? One of the theories says that a person standing on a pail or a bucket with his head in a slip noose would kick the bucket so as to commit suicide.

Uncle Chai should therefore try to avoid at all cost to kick any bucket  under any circumstances.

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Ian date : 14/05/2008 time : 12.20
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

My Queen, 3 years older than HM is on a diplomatic visit to Turkey at the moment.
Royalty, simply by their status, can often achieve what politicians cannot.
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wch date : 14/05/2008 time : 10.19

HM this morning told,
"Even 80's, if work for good cause, one can help the nation out of misery".

Is there such a word, " Human Laundry " ?.
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Ian date : 13/05/2008 time : 12.27
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

The wooden frame that was used to hang animals up by their feet for slaughter was called a bucket. (From the French 'bouqet' a wooden beam). Not unnaturally they were likely to struggle or to spasm after death and hence 'kick the bucket'.
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