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YOUR HUMBLE NARRATOR will soon be starting a new daily column, will lots of comedy and news commentary. It will be appear in newspapers in various countries from Monday September 5th, and other places too, such as magazines and websites. You can also get it through a friend link on Facebook, or via the Asia Sentinel, the web magazine. With a bit of luck, it’ll be good and lively, with the regular favorite contributors joined by some new faces. So put the date above in your diary and save up lots of funny comments and stories for us all to share.

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IN THE MEANTIME, reader Dan Kubiske has moved into a new home in Honduras, and has been trying to work out his address. The system in his latest adopted home country is “not so much an address system as a set of directions”, he said.

This is his address.

Colonial Viera (that’s the name of the general neighborhood)

Subida a El Hatillo (that means “on the slope to El Hatillo”)

Casa No. 2301 (that’s the number of the house)

Contiguo a Condominios Viera - Muro Color Rosado (that means, next to the Viera Condominiums, the one with the pink wall)

Tegucigalpa, Morazan Distrito Central (that’s the name of the city and the district)

“I don’t think there’s enough room on most envelopes for this,” Dan sighed.

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READER KEITH NG wrote to say that he had to undergo an unexpected wisdom tooth operation – a three-hour ordeal, followed by excruciating pain that went on for days.

“A friend of mine, a French guy, told me his dentist said he was a mutant, a new evolutionary species without this problem,” he said.

“Any idea how people in ancient times deal with this kind of toothache ? Is this one reason people died young, due to indescribable pain?” He asked whether there were any references in history to people who died of toothache.

I can’t think of any, although there have been tales of people who died by holding in farts. Emperor Claudius passed a bill allowing gas emissions at banquets to avoid this. Sensible guy.

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STORY from reader Julie Meldrum:

A doctor on his morning walk noticed the old lady pictured above.

She was sitting  on her front step smoking a cigar, so he walked up to her and said,

"I couldn't help but notice how happy you look! What is your secret?"

"I smoke ten cigars a day," she said. "Before I go to bed, I smoke a nice big joint.  Apart from that, I drink a whole bottle of Jack Daniels every week, and eat only junk food.  On weekends, I pop pills, have sex, and I don't exercise at all."

"That is absolutely amazing!  How old are you?"

"Forty," she replied.

Comments

[grandpa]

With a name like this , in Honduras, it will be only a matter of hours before anybody in the neighborhood can give the right direction to any "tourist" looking for him, unless he looks like a Honduran....

Uncle
Waiting for your new start...

[Paul]

Yay, Mr. Jam gets a reboot. Which I am told is much better than getting 'the boot'. ;-)

Congrats Uncle N. :-)

[Lift Lurker]

It will be appear in newspapers in various countries

So the rumor story that you will be publish in other planets is not true?

I see this story below in Asia Sentinel:

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3706&Itemid=224

If I do my maths, 1 + 1 = (Jimmy Lai + coming-soon daily newpaper + coming-soon daily column) and I remember to switch my guess according to monty python game, then the only conclusion is that they are not related at all, and you are moving office to Honduras to share flat with Dan?

[grandpa]

LL
I do not understand your math:
Jimmy lai PLUS coming MINUS soon daily PLUS coming MINUS soon daily ?!
It looks to me me like elevator math:
You go up and down , without knowing where it takes you
"Honduras to share flat with Dan"
Unless I am mistaken, an address like this one looks more like a "finca" on a hill than the address of a flat.
Central American people like to spread their house horizontally , not vertically .
I see more a 4 bedroom house with swimming pool, the jungle in the backyard, and a panoramic view of cane fields all the way to town, banana trees, mango trees in the yard.
Each bedroom can accommodate a kingsize bed , with plenty walking space around it
needless to say, elevators are unknown in such a place.