Far East Cynic

US Open comment

The S.O. and I have been following the US Open this weekend very closely. Thanks to the time difference and the fact that I have not been back to work yet following my return from Israel-we get to watch all the rounds. ( Well she did, I only got to

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Creeped out…

Doing my taxes tonight-which are more complex than last year. ( That’s both a good news and a bad news story-suffice it to say while I am unhappy where I am living, I am very happy with my company. 🙂 ). Unlike my teabagging associates however, I am not complaining

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What Tiger woods should have said.

I was at lunch with a co-worker yesterday. As it happened I was eating an oyster Po-boy sandwich when Tiger woods speech came on the television in the restaurant / bar we were eating at. The sound was turned down but it sure seemed like it went on for a

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Thanks Tiger!

For proving that age old adage about relationships: -No matter how beautiful the woman-somewhere, somebody, is tired of boinking her.

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Why I love golf…..

 Because its a great week when Tiger doesn’t make the cut and Tom Watson makes it to a play off.   TURNBERRY, Scotland — Tom Watson squandered a chance to become golf’s oldest major champion. The 59-year-old missed an 8-foot putt on the 72nd hole of the British Open, then

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Call me silly-I was rooting for Rocco……..

“Golf and  sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.” –Jimmy Demaret Well at least I got to play golf yesterday. Tried for a trifecta………but alas “the tired fairy” showed up. And part of that lack of performance on the S.O.’s part can be

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A good walk spoiled……….

By a not so great golf game. Ask me again, why I love living overseas.

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The venue………….

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.-P. G. Wodehouse And Lordy, my brother in law

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On this we agree……

At least Mark and I do. Actually we agree on several things-in particular the level of buffoonery that goes on in Yongsan Barracks. (Are you listening BB Bell?). He’s also right about this father doing serious psychological damage to his daughter. When she pulls the Uzi out and guns down

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Life's a beach………

He’s a real bunker man. Living in his bunker land. Making shots out of the sand, Impressing nobody……… If there was a bunker I was not in yesterday, I will be hard pressed to find it. Bad bounces you say? I got them. Shanked shots? Been there done that. The

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