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Thread started 02/01/14 4:44pm

Lammastide

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Name 30 Asian Cities (Off the Top of Your Head!)

Can any of us do it?!?!? hmmm

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
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Reply #1 posted 02/01/14 5:02pm

Lammastide

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Dammit! I did it, but erased the entire list with an edit! pissed

[Edited 2/1/14 17:13pm]

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #2 posted 02/01/14 5:12pm

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omfg

No way.

Let's see how far I can get...

  1. TOKYO
  2. KYOTO
  3. HIROSHIMA
  4. NAGASAKI
  5. BEIJING
  6. SHANGHAI
  7. HONG KONG
  8. BANGKOK
  9. KHUALA LUMPUR(sic)
  10. MACAU
  11. TIBET (is that the capital or the country???)
  12. SAIGON???
  13. HO CHI MIHN CITY???
  14. NEW DELHI
  15. KARACHI (capital of Pakistan?)
  16. BAGHDAD
  17. TEHRAN
  18. KABUL
  19. DUBAI
  20. MECCA???
  21. JERUSALEM
  22. TEL-AVIV
  23. TAIPEI
  24. KUWAIT CITY???
  25. RHIYAD(sic)
  26. MANILA
  27. PETRA (still habitated?)
  28. ISTANBUL (considered Asia, right?)
  29. ...
  30. ...
By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory!
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Reply #3 posted 02/01/14 5:13pm

PurpleJedi

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Lammastide said:

Lammastide said:

1. Saigon Ho Chi Minh City


lurking

[Edited 2/1/14 17:12pm]


falloff

I included BOTH in mine!!!

Time to google...

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Reply #4 posted 02/01/14 5:22pm

Lammastide

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1 kyoto

2 seoul

3 tokyo

4 islamabad

5 osaka

6 hanoi

7 Ho chi minh city

8 taipei

9 delhi

10 mumbai

11 jerusalem

12 tel aviv

13 beirut

14 bethlehem

15 tyre

16 amman

17 mecca

18 medina

19 hong kong

20 beijing

21 shanghai

22 abu dhabi

23 dubai

24 kathmandu

25 chernobyl

26 baghdad

27 damascus

28 phnom penh

29 phuket

30 manila

Somehow it was tougher on this second attempt. faint

[Edited 2/1/14 17:34pm]

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #5 posted 02/01/14 5:22pm

Lammastide

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PurpleJedi said:

Lammastide said:

Lammastide said:


lurking

[Edited 2/1/14 17:12pm]


falloff

I included BOTH in mine!!!

Time to google...


I got it right on the second attempt. lol

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #6 posted 02/01/14 5:23pm

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1. Bangkok

2. Tokyo

3. Phuket

4. Shang hai

5. Mumbai

6. Calcutta

7. New Dehli

8. Agra

9. Beijing

10. Kyoto

11. Jakarta

12. Seoul

13. Saigon

hmmm. this is really hard. I can name countries, but I don't know many cities...

14. Hiroshima

15. Nagasaki

16. Hong Kong

17. Manila

18. Taipei

19. Ankara

20. Jaipur

21. Osaka

22. Kabul

23. Doha (sp?)

24. Petra <-- does this count, it's a "lost city", right?

25. Hanoi

26. Ho Chi Men City

Gah - I give up, I can't think of any more although I can think of four more countries that I haven't listed cities from:

27. Laos

28. Cambodia

29. Myanmir (Burma)

30. Nepal

The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp.
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Reply #7 posted 02/01/14 5:28pm

Lammastide

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Good try, Jone70! woot!

It's darned tough, isn't it?

[Edited 2/1/14 17:28pm]

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #8 posted 02/01/14 5:30pm

PurpleJedi

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jone70 said:

1. Bangkok

2. Tokyo

3. Phuket

4. Shang hai

5. Mumbai

6. Calcutta

7. New Dehli

8. Agra

9. Beijing

10. Kyoto

11. Jakarta

12. Seoul

13. Saigon

hmmm. this is really hard. I can name countries, but I don't know many cities...

14. Hiroshima

15. Nagasaki

16. Hong Kong

17. Manila

18. Taipei

19. Ankara

20. Jaipur

21. Osaka

22. Kabul

23. Doha (sp?)

24. Petra <-- does this count, it's a "lost city", right?

25. Hanoi

26. Ho Chi Men City

Gah - I give up, I can't think of any more although I can think of four more countries that I haven't listed cities from:

27. Laos

28. Cambodia

29. Myanmir (Burma)

30. Nepal


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I included Petra as well, and all the the while I had Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal (& Bhutan) running through my mind!!!

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Reply #9 posted 02/01/14 5:34pm

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PurpleJedi said:

jone70 said:

1. Bangkok

2. Tokyo

3. Phuket

4. Shang hai

5. Mumbai

6. Calcutta

7. New Dehli

8. Agra

9. Beijing

10. Kyoto

11. Jakarta

12. Seoul

13. Saigon

hmmm. this is really hard. I can name countries, but I don't know many cities...

14. Hiroshima

15. Nagasaki

16. Hong Kong

17. Manila

18. Taipei

19. Ankara

20. Jaipur

21. Osaka

22. Kabul

23. Doha (sp?)

24. Petra <-- does this count, it's a "lost city", right?

25. Hanoi

26. Ho Chi Men City

Gah - I give up, I can't think of any more although I can think of four more countries that I haven't listed cities from:

27. Laos

28. Cambodia

29. Myanmir (Burma)

30. Nepal


highfive

I included Petra as well, and all the the while I had Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal (& Bhutan) running through my mind!!!

I included both Saigon & Ho Chi Min City. Oops. Was also thinking of Bangladesh.

The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp.
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Reply #10 posted 02/01/14 6:20pm

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God, I don't even know which countries are officially in Asia

Kuala Lumpur
Ipoh
Bangkok
Phuket
Krabi
Denpasar
Manila
Shanghai
Beijing
Tokyo
Osaka
Kyoto
Mumbai
Jakarta
Singapore
Hong Kong
Xiamen
Guang Zhou (is city or province?)
Timbuktu ( lol is that even a real place?)
New Dheli
Kuta
Saigon
Tehran
Tel aviv
Kabul
Teluk intan
Jerusalem
Istanbul
Dubai
Abu Dhabi
Taipei
Macau (that's a country though isn't it? hmmm )
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Reply #11 posted 02/01/14 6:20pm

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Ok, here goes.

1. Tokyo

2. Shanghai

3. Beijing
4. Tienstin
5. Shenzhen
6. Hong Kong
7. Ulaan Bator
8. Osaka
9. Bangkok
10. Ho Chi Minh City (f.k.a. Saigon)
11. Manila
12. Pyunyang
13. Seoul
14. Hiroshima
15. Nagasaki
16. Kawasaki
17. Rangoon
18. Calcutta
19. Bangalore
20. Delhi
21. Mumbai
22. Jakarta
23. Bali
24. Macau
25. Islamabad
26. Karachi
27. Rawalapindi
28. Kabul
29. Kandahar
30. Tehran
31. Baghdad
32. Basra

33. Mosul
34. Kuwait City
35. Dubai
36. Doha

whew typing

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Reply #12 posted 02/01/14 6:24pm

Lammastide

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ZombieKitten said:

God, I don't even know which countries are officially in Asia Kuala Lumpur Ipoh Bangkok Phuket Krabi Denpasar Manila Shanghai Beijing Tokyo Osaka Kyoto Mumbai Jakarta Singapore Hong Kong Xiamen Guang Zhou (is city or province?) Timbuktu ( lol is that even a real place?) New Dheli Kuta Saigon Tehran Tel aviv Kabul Teluk intan Jerusalem Istanbul Dubai Abu Dhabi Taipei Macau (that's a country though isn't it? hmmm )

Timbuktu is a real place... in Mali (africa)! lol You'll need a replacement, young lady.. no no no! Macau is an administrative region (like Hong Kong) in China. I think that's acceptable for the purposes of this thread. smile

[Edited 2/1/14 18:27pm]

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
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Reply #13 posted 02/01/14 6:29pm

Lammastide

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728huey said:

Ok, here goes.

1. Tokyo

2. Shanghai

3. Beijing
4. Tienstin
5. Shenzhen
6. Hong Kong
7. Ulaan Bator
8. Osaka
9. Bangkok
10. Ho Chi Minh City (f.k.a. Saigon)
11. Manila
12. Pyunyang
13. Seoul
14. Hiroshima
15. Nagasaki
16. Kawasaki
17. Rangoon
18. Calcutta
19. Bangalore
20. Delhi
21. Mumbai
22. Jakarta
23. Bali
24. Macau
25. Islamabad
26. Karachi
27. Rawalapindi
28. Kabul
29. Kandahar
30. Tehran
31. Baghdad
32. Basra

33. Mosul
34. Kuwait City
35. Dubai
36. Doha

whew typing


Some very obscure towns you've named here. hmmm Very cool if they come off the top of your head.

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #14 posted 02/01/14 6:30pm

ZombieKitten

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Lammastide said:



ZombieKitten said:


God, I don't even know which countries are officially in Asia Kuala Lumpur Ipoh Bangkok Phuket Krabi Denpasar Manila Shanghai Beijing Tokyo Osaka Kyoto Mumbai Jakarta Singapore Hong Kong Xiamen Guang Zhou (is city or province?) Timbuktu ( lol is that even a real place?) New Dheli Kuta Saigon Tehran Tel aviv Kabul Teluk intan Jerusalem Istanbul Dubai Abu Dhabi Taipei Macau (that's a country though isn't it? hmmm )


Timbuktu is a real place... in Mali (africa)! lol You'll need a replacement, young lady.. no no no! Macau is an administrative region (like Hong Kong) in China. I think that's acceptable for the purposes of this thread. smile

[Edited 2/1/14 18:27pm]



Crap! dunce I thought tin tin went there on his Himalayan adventures
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Reply #15 posted 02/01/14 6:35pm

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ZombieKitten said:

Lammastide said:

Timbuktu is a real place... in Mali (africa)! lol You'll need a replacement, young lady.. no no no! Macau is an administrative region (like Hong Kong) in China. I think that's acceptable for the purposes of this thread. smile

[Edited 2/1/14 18:27pm]

Crap! dunce I thought tin tin went there on his Himalayan adventures


I bet you're thinking of Kathmandu.

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #16 posted 02/01/14 6:42pm

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Lammastide said:



ZombieKitten said:


Lammastide said:



Timbuktu is a real place... in Mali (africa)! lol You'll need a replacement, young lady.. no no no! Macau is an administrative region (like Hong Kong) in China. I think that's acceptable for the purposes of this thread. smile


[Edited 2/1/14 18:27pm]



Crap! dunce I thought tin tin went there on his Himalayan adventures


I bet you're thinking of Kathmandu.


That's the one I meant! I'll have that as my replacement lol
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Reply #17 posted 02/01/14 6:53pm

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1. Bangkok

2. Tokyo

3. Beijing

4. Shanghai

5. Xian

6. Baghdad

7. Kabul

8. New Delhi

9. Singapore

10. Hiroshima

11. Nagasaki

12. Phuket

13. Kuwait City

14. Mecca

15. Hong Kong

16. Seoul

17. Mumbai

18. Tehran

19. Ho Chi Mihn City

20. Medina

21. Jerusalem

22. Damascus

23. Islamabhad

24. Gaza

25. Dubai

26. Kathmandu

27. Depok

28. Tangerang

29. South Tangerang

30. Komodo?

30. Abu Dhuabi (How did I forget this one?)

Damn that was hard lol

[Edited 2/1/14 19:21pm]

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Reply #18 posted 02/01/14 7:08pm

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Can any of us do it?!?!? hmmm

now we're talking, now we're talking

1 Ankara

2 Damascus

3 Beirut

4 Petra

5 Tel-Aviv

6 Jerusalem

7 Gaza

8 Tehran

9 Mecca

10 Riyad

11 Medina

12 Baghdad

13 Basora

14 Kabul

15 Qandahar

16 Islamabad

17 Delhi

18 Bombay

19 Yakarta

20 Hanoi

21 Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City lol)

22 Beijing

23 Shangai

24 Hong Kong

25 Seoul

26 Yokohama

27 Tokyo

28 Kyoto

29 Pyongyang

30 Manila

+ bonus Bangkok

+ bonus Kuala Lumpur

+ bonus Peshawar (the fav city of Bin Laden)

+ bonus Palmyra, Babylon and Persepolis lol

I was virtually unable to name a single city of the Stans countries eek neutral (other than Afghanistan)

[Edited 2/1/14 19:10pm]

[Edited 2/1/14 19:18pm]

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Reply #19 posted 02/01/14 7:12pm

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aardvark15 said:

30. Komodo?

hmmm All of your others seem great, but I don't think this is a city.

Anyone know if each Indonesian island operates as a separate municipality?

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Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
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τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #20 posted 02/01/14 7:14pm

Lammastide

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JoeTyler said:

Lammastide said:

Can any of us do it?!?!? hmmm

now we're talking, now we're talking

1 Ankara

2 Damascus

3 Beirut

4 Petra

5 Tel-Aviv

6 Jerusalem

7 Gaza

8 Tehran

9 Mecca

10 Riyad

11 Medina

12 Baghdad

13 Basora

14 Kabul

15 Qandahar

16 Islamabad

17 Delhi

18 Bombay

19 Rangun

20 Hanoi

21 Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City lol)

22 Beijing

23 Shangai

24 Hong Kong

25 Seoul

26 Yokohama

27 Tokyo

28 Kyoto

29 Pyongyang

30 Manila

+ bonus Bangkok

+ bonus Kuala Lumpur

+ bonus Peshawar (the fav city of Bin Laden)

+ bonus Palmyra, Babylon and Persepolis lol

I was virtually unable to name a single city of the Stans countries eek neutral (other than Afghanistan)

[Edited 2/1/14 19:10pm]

I was embarrassed that I couldn't do more of the "...stans." I did get Islamabad, though.

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #21 posted 02/01/14 7:20pm

aardvark15

Lammastide said:

aardvark15 said:

30. Komodo?

hmmm All of your others seem great, but I don't think this is a city.

[Edited 2/1/14 19:12pm]

I was stuck on the last one for so long. I ran out of options lol

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Reply #22 posted 02/01/14 7:20pm

JoeTyler

Lammastide said:

JoeTyler said:

now we're talking, now we're talking

1 Ankara

2 Damascus

3 Beirut

4 Petra

5 Tel-Aviv

6 Jerusalem

7 Gaza

8 Tehran

9 Mecca

10 Riyad

11 Medina

12 Baghdad

13 Basora

14 Kabul

15 Qandahar

16 Islamabad

17 Delhi

18 Bombay

19 Rangun

20 Hanoi

21 Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City lol)

22 Beijing

23 Shangai

24 Hong Kong

25 Seoul

26 Yokohama

27 Tokyo

28 Kyoto

29 Pyongyang

30 Manila

+ bonus Bangkok

+ bonus Kuala Lumpur

+ bonus Peshawar (the fav city of Bin Laden)

+ bonus Palmyra, Babylon and Persepolis lol

I was virtually unable to name a single city of the Stans countries eek neutral (other than Afghanistan)

[Edited 2/1/14 19:10pm]

I was embarrassed that I couldn't do more of the "...stans." I did get Islamabad, though.

I keep forgetting Pakistan is another of the Stans countries lol I still think of it as the "muslim India" I got Islamabad and Peshawar

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Reply #23 posted 02/01/14 7:43pm

JoeTyler

it's kind of cruel that you guys keep mentioning Hiroshima/Nagasaki but not Yokohoma or Osaka disbelief evillol wink

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Reply #24 posted 02/01/14 8:28pm

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JoeTyler said:

it's kind of cruel that you guys keep mentioning Hiroshima/Nagasaki but not Yokohoma or Osaka disbelief evillol wink


I did Osaka and not Hiroshima or Nagasaki! cool

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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Reply #25 posted 02/01/14 10:16pm

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JoeTyler said:

it's kind of cruel that you guys keep mentioning Hiroshima/Nagasaki but not Yokohoma or Osaka disbelief evillol wink

I mentioned Osaka in my list. smile

The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp.
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Reply #26 posted 02/02/14 12:07am

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Not looking at any replies ...I want to but I won't. lol



Tokyo

Hiroshima sad

Siagon (knew someone who was there during the Vietnam war)

Phnom Penh (one of my son's school friends was from there)

Uijeongbu, South Korea (remembered this from MASH-no spell-check so this may be all wrong)

Hong Kong

Beijing

Java ( never forget a movie I saw as a child, Krakatoa, East of Java-stuck in my head)

Pyongyang, North Korea (remember Rodman visiting) confused

Jaipur, India (remembered because my fave movie right now is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

Bali

wow I can't think...must be this beer. lol




Oh oh I know... excited




Taji, Iraq because my son was stationed there.

Bangkok (from that crazy song-one night in bangkok)

Manila (worked with someone from there)

Dubai (from Sex in the City and the high-profile rape case)




geez... half is all I can get right now. boxed



I always try to remember them by association. neutral

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JoeTyler said:

it's kind of cruel that you guys keep mentioning Hiroshima/Nagasaki but not Yokohoma or Osaka disbelief evillol wink


Osaka was on my list I think. hmmm
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Reply #28 posted 02/02/14 6:02am

JoeTyler

I stand corrected!

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Reply #29 posted 02/02/14 6:09am

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Siagon

Ho Chi Mihn's rolling in his grave right now lol

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