I’d sell my stock (if you have any) in those “Lonely Planet” travel books after the revelation that one of their (apparently main) writers dealt drugs and plagiarized to support writing their Colombia guidebook. He never even went to Colombia. Here’s the fun part: “I wrote the book in San Francisco [California],” he is quoted as saying in the Telegraph. “I got the information from a chick I was dating — an intern in the Colombian Consulate.”
[Hey, did you ever use one of those "Lonely Planet" books in all your travels?-ed. I plead the Fifth... but, funny thing, there was this supposedly great Pho joint in Phuket I traveled fifty miles for... and it turned out be a laundromat.]
This is first thing that ever made me want to actually read anything from Lonely Planet.
“I got the information from a chick I was dating — an intern in the Colombian Consulate.”
Apparently the planet isn’t all that lonely after all.
But wait a minute–a straight guy in San Francisco? I thought they were hunted to extinction.
He’s naturally shilling a memoir of his “swashbuckling misadventures” which seems to also include an insightful look at his own fraud.
I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover as the cliche goes but over at his Myspace he just sort of comes across like a real cock.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=43567144
“there was this supposedly great Pho joint in Phuket I traveled fifty miles for… and it turned out be a laundromat.”
So you just shrugged your shoulders and said “Phuket!”?
Dr T–that’s foo-KET, not the more plausible pronunciation you’re thinking of.
This guy is not a liar.
He’s just fictionally gifted
From Mamet’s ‘State and Main’
But wait a minute–a straight guy in San Francisco? I thought they were hunted to extinction.
No, nononono…you don’t understand: he wasn’t talking about a HUMAN female…
Used the Lonely Planet Guide for Mexico to find the Las Golondrinas Inn in Oaxaca, Mexico. It was fabulous and everything the Guide stipulated.
If I were going somewhere out of the USA, a copy of the Lonely Planet for that location would be in my bag on top, despite this.
Simple problem though … fire the guy, apologize and send me down to Columbia to write a better guide.
Lonely Planet. Call me.
“But wait a minute–a straight guy in San Francisco? I thought they were hunted to extinction”
Read the Lonely Planet Guide to San Francisco … their names and phone numbers are listed in the appendix… I think it takes up about 3 1/2 pages.
This sounds like a book that would be purchased by the typical white person.
But, it depends on where you are. Bitter people who cling to guns and religion, like in PA, would not typically buy this book, they are cynical a part of them just doesn’t buy it.
And when it’s delivered by ó it’s true that when it’s delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama, then that adds another layer of skepticism.
Umm, now these are in some communities, you know.
“This sounds like a book that would be purchased by the typical white person.”
Sounds like a topic for stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.
I don’t know about the ‘typical white person’ (even tho I R one), but the Yuppie trash personified at stuffwhitepeoplelike.com would appear to be among those who would purchase such books.
I once criticized a LP guide on their forums and was promptly banned and my comment erased. There’s no way they didn’t know there was something fishy going on with their guides.
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of short-sighted financial planning we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of shallow financial thinking we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of shallow financial thinking we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of shallow financial thinking we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of shallow financial thinking we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of shallow financial thinking we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of shallow financial thinking we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of shallow financial thinking we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
But just a second: you recommend selling stock in a privately held company? Is this the sort of shallow financial thinking we can expect if your cronies privatize Social Security?
On the pronunciation of Phuket:
Accents vary. For instance:
Actor David Niven started out as an officer in the British army (Highland Light Infantry). The battalion was stationed in Malta when there was some semi-rioting by anti-British locals, and his platoon was sent to block off a street one night. Some yobs appeared and chucked a few rocks at the Jocks, beaning one. The outraged Scot howled “Fook that!” and charged down the street, bayonet gleaming. The “rioters” departed hastily.