Beyond toilet walls...

[Chanak]

@Maharlika:

ROTFLOL!

That's a classic, to be remembered always and committed to the hallowed halls of history.

By the way, Maharlika is a Tagolog (sp?) word, isn't it? I lived in the Philippines years ago (79-82), and I seem to recall hearing it, or a word like it, in a certain commerical...

[Maharlika]

Originally posted by Chanak
@Maharlika:

ROTFLOL!

That's a classic, to be remembered always and committed to the hallowed halls of history.

By the way, Maharlika is a Tagolog (sp?) word, isn't it? I lived in the Philippines years ago (79-82), and I seem to recall hearing it, or a word like it, in a certain commerical...

...saw your pic too at Grunt's thread... you look like an adventurer... very apt for those who dare to roam in this forum.

Yes, Maharlika is a Tagalog word, but to be more politically correct, it is a Filipino word. Maharlika is old Filipino for noble way back before Magellan came and the Spaniards colonized the islands.

You'd probably heard the name on the telly --- Maharlika Broadcasting Television (MBS) Channel 4.

So you stayed in the Phils before Ninoy Aquino got assassinated at the tarmac... did you live in one of the US bases there (Clark Air Base in Pampanga or Subic Naval Base in Olongapo)?

@Gruntboy: Hey Mr. Bloom (), you'd get your intestines on fire if you had been eating the local food here!

@Ysh: Dont ask me, ask Weasel... ... but if someone called me while sitting on the throne...

@Tammy: You would actually think it was God talking to you if the man spoke with a resonating, well modulated James Earl Jones voice.

@Beldin: Just dawned on me that Weasel might have been speaking to associates of the late Mr. Crapper.

[Weasel]

Originally posted by Maharlika
...I'm sorry too for BUTTing-in into your conversation...

Hmm... I wonder who weasel was talking to that time.

In my goal of World Domination, every minute counts. Can't let mother nature get in the way of my noble goal.

Originally posted by Yshania
ROFLMAO!!

What kind of person calls someone from a toilet cubicle anyways?

Only a Truely Evil, Vile Tyrant?

[Chanak]

Yes, Maharlika is a Tagalog word, but to be more politically correct, it is a Filipino word

I admit to a bit of confusion regarding my understanding of the language. It's been quite a few years since I was there. Thanks!

I remember the San Miguel beer jingle, LOL (it was very catchy). How could I ever forget "Mag beer muna tayo?" I don't know if 'maharlika' was in there, but it seems to me it was. We would watch Filipino TV often, as the old reruns on FEN grew stale after a while. Funny how one remembers commercials, eh?

Hearing about Mt. Pinotubo's (sp?) eruption, and subsequent devastation, was almost unreal. I had so much fun when I lived there - I was but a lad - it was hard to imagine the Philippines I remember devastated that way.

did you live in one of the US bases there (Clark Air Base in Pampanga or Subic Naval Base in Olongapo)?

We lived in Clark Air Base. Of the many things etched in my memory of this beautiful country - and people - I'll never forget my caribou ride in a rice paddy. I garnered much respect for the farmer that day, for riding on the back of a caribou was a prickly experience!

There's lots of history there, to be sure. My elementary school class took an awesome field trip to a Spanish fortification near Manila. I can't remember the name of the place - I wish I could.

Writing about this brings back a flood of memories.

[Tamerlane]

Originally posted by Maharlika
@Tammy: You would actually think it was God talking to you if the man spoke with a resonating, well modulated James Earl Jones voice.

Well that would of been a traumatic experience to say the least

[Maharlika]

Originally posted by Chanak


We lived in Clark Air Base. Of the many things etched in my memory of this beautiful country - and people - I'll never forget my caribou ride in a rice paddy. I garnered much respect for the farmer that day, for riding on the back of a caribou was a prickly experience!

There's lots of history there, to be sure. My elementary school class took an awesome field trip to a Spanish fortification near Manila. I can't remember the name of the place - I wish I could.

Writing about this brings back a flood of memories.

The Spanish fort you are talking about is Fort Santiago in the old section of Manila called Intramuros.

LOL @ the carabao ride! I used to ride one in my grandfather's farm in the province in the island of Panay.

You drink San Mig? Now, I'm getting homesick...

[Chanak]

@Maharlika:

The Spanish fort you are talking about is Fort Santiago in the old section of Manila called Intramuros.

Yes, that was it. Very old. I remember there was an area where you could find buried shards of pottery, which we were allowed to take if we could find it. I had a great day there.

I wish I could find San Miguel beer here. People who returned stateside would often have friends ship them some...which I'm sure is not exactly legal. It's possible, though, that it's exported here to the states, somewhere. Finding it is the problem. A quest, perhaps?

Carabao...LOL! I thought I had spelled it incorrectly. As I recall, they were pretty tempermental.

I enjoyed living off-base in Angeles city. What I particulary liked was hearing the balut peddler calling out early in the morning:

"Baluuuuut! Balubalubaluuuuuut!"

Balut was...well...interesting. An acquired taste, I am sure!

Well, if you ever run across some San Miguel, take a long pull for me.

[Maharlika]

Originally posted by Chanak
@Maharlika:



Yes, that was it. Very old. I remember there was an area where you could find buried shards of pottery, which we were allowed to take if we could find it. I had a great day there.

I wish I could find San Miguel beer here. People who returned stateside would often have friends ship them some...which I'm sure is not exactly legal. It's possible, though, that it's exported here to the states, somewhere. Finding it is the problem. A quest, perhaps?

Carabao...LOL! I thought I had spelled it incorrectly. As I recall, they were pretty tempermental.

I enjoyed living off-base in Angeles city. What I particulary liked was hearing the balut peddler calling out early in the morning:

"Baluuuuut! Balubalubaluuuuuut!"

Balut was...well...interesting. An acquired taste, I am sure!

Well, if you ever run across some San Miguel, take a long pull for me.

(...I'm drinking one right now!)

If you live in the West Coast (where the Filipino community is largest particularly in California), chances are you will be able to find some. However, I think they would be in cans not in bottles. I always prefer my beer from the bottle than from the can.

Balut... yes, an acquired taste. For those who don't know what balut is, it is an egg with a chick inside.

Hmmm... Clark not Subic. I remember that Richard Gere was at Subic when he filmed the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman"(?) about the same time you were at Clark.

Yes, Pampanga now will never be the same again after Pinatubo's eruption, but I heard that the locals are beginning to get a better life.

[Georgi]

Originally posted by Maharlika
(...I'm drinking one right now!)

That's just mean. Tease.

Balut... yes, an acquired taste. For those who don't know what balut is, it is an egg with a chick inside.

Eeeewwwwwww

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Just out of curiousity @Mah, exactly what drives one to "acquire" a taste like that?

[Georgi]

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
Just out of curiousity @Mah, exactly what drives one to "acquire" a taste like that?

Eating lots of it. Like acquiring a taste for anything else... like beer, for instance

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Originally posted by Georgi


Eating lots of it. Like acquiring a taste for anything else... like beer, for instance

I was more concerned about why anyone would want to develop a taste for that balut stuff.

I tried that with beer, it didn't work. Still can't stand the stuff.

[Chanak]

@Ode:

Just out of curiousity @Mah, exactly what drives one to "acquire" a taste like that?

Not that I presume to speak for Maharlika, but from what I could see, it's a traditional, cultural food. It's alot like eating insects: the idea is foreign to those of European and European-based cultures (like Aussies, most Americans, and Canadians), but it's quite common in many parts of both Asia and Africa. If you grow up with it, it's not a big deal.

[Georgi]

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
I was more concerned about why anyone would want to develop a taste for that balut stuff.

The thing is, it's pretty much true for anything that's an "acquired taste". If it was nice in the first place, one wouldn't have to "acquire" a taste for it

@Chanak you're probably right Like us Brits squirm at the idea of our neighbours across the channel eating snails and frog legs

[Chanak]

@Georgi:

Like us Brits squirm at the idea of our neighbours across the channel eating snails and frog legs

I've never tried frog legs (they're popular here in parts of the USA, though. People say they taste like chicken. LOL ). Turtles are wildly popular in the southern US...so much so that certain species had to be protected by law to save them from extinction.

Do you like lobster? Or shrimp? Perhaps crab?