Archive for the ‘satire’ Category
Chúc mừng năm mới: Question – What’s the great irony of Tet? Answer – Putting on your best pair of shoes to go visiting people’s houses only to have to take them off before going inside and being forced to slide into some unattractive honeycomb dzep. It’s too late for advice this year but next […]
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Tags: dzep, facebook, shoes, tet, whopper
Two thousand oh-nine
Return of the Hat: We’re back in the saddle here at The Comical Hat HQ. And what have we missed over our Christmas-New Year sabbatical? Diddley-squat by the looks of it. Well, Vietnam Vo Dich. Finally, perennial arch nemeses Thailand and Singapore were beaten in the same competition as Vietnam clinched the Suzuki Cup. The […]
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Tags: etc, gene wilder, minsk fc, stuff, things, vietnam vo dich
Mid-week respite
Wise words from Axl: If all the wetness is getting you Hanoi-folk down, remember what Axl Rose said: “Nothing lasts forever in the cold November rain…” — it will stop, eventually. Promise. Just like the making of Chinese Democracy looks like it is about to come to an end. Axl’s manager has already defended the 13-year in the making, umpteen […]
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Tags: axl rose, blah blah blah, bobby chinn, dogs, floods, Music Makers
We could call them motorbike security, parking staff, or even valets, but in Vietnam they’re known in English (by expats) as they are in Vietnamese — I speak of the ‘bao ve’. They are the men who may or not park your bike outside whichever building it is you are entering (some prefer to entice you into parking it yourself, […]
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Tags: International be nice to a bao ve week
