# Anatomy of a Foreign Suicide

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-foreign-suicide/454654>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 29, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-foreign-suicide/454654 "2008-06-29T15:46:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-foreign-suicide/454654/61 "2008-07-14T07:44:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Ale]  
After reading this stuff over and over again the conclusion I arrive to is that I should start pimping and make a bloody fortune. 😛  
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Or do like Stickman and become a detective. It’s quite a lucrative little sideline, I hear.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-foreign-suicide/454654/62 "2008-07-16T04:12:08Z")

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Yay! I am pleased to report a documented happy farang-Thai relationship. See [here](http://www.idahostatesman.com/115/story/441154.html).

Excerpt: “Doug and Kathy were married for 32 years before Doug died of brain cancer at age 61 on June 20 at their home in Boise.”

My own Thai wife and I are well on our way to that. (Except hopefully not for the brain-cancer-at-61 part, plus I don’t live in Boise. And my name’s not Doug. Nor is my wife’s Kathy. Otherwise, it could be us someday.)

RIP, Doug. ☹

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-foreign-suicide/454654/63 "2008-08-19T04:26:11Z")

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And in other bargirl news, [here](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/17/thailand.familyandrelationships) we have the tale of a retired British gent murdered recently by his ex-bargirl wife and her Thai boyfriend. The writers are long-time Thailand-based reporters. Drummond in particular writes extensively on Thai-farang crime.

And [here](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/17/thailand.familyandrelationships1) is a good article, “Where an Older Man Can Think He Is Debonair,” by the co-author of _Hello My Big Big Honey! Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews_. I have that book, which is, as the title suggests, a collection of letters between bargirls and their sponsors. The book is a fascinating read.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anatomy-of-a-foreign-suicide/454654/64 "2008-08-19T05:01:26Z")

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[QUOTE=Slithy Tove]  
The word “Farang” I recently learned by accident, came to Thailand via India, where it was a corruption of the Turkish word “Ferengi,” for “Frank” their catch-all term for Western Europeans.

I have no idea why Star Tek used the term.  
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Because the term also means “stranger” and in some contexts “enemy”, which is not uncommon in many cultures.

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