Tourist Les


Living out my Steve Irwin fantasy

It's good to see you posting Les.

Big piece of real estate,..."P.I."

Whereabouts didst thou venture ?

GTC

That snake looks like a pit viper. It's head looks like one that needs kill'n. What was it?

Yup, it IS good,....

I'm a bit concerned about him falling in with a Moro snake handling cult, though.

GTC

We only have to worry when he puts on a diaper and turbin whilst playing the flute.

The snake was a baby Python, the island staff were afraid to grab, so I walked up grabbed its tail and snatched it out of the tree, and proceeded to enlighten/scare a bunch of international students with it.

I was in Southern Mindanao, in the Davao City area. Nice place, Moro are more northern part of Mindanao.

You get bit by that thing?
And did it shat on you? They are nasty bastards.

I'll post the video of it.

My Steve Irwin moment

[video:youtube]Baby Python: http://youtu.be/UIAmJotbstk[/video]

I do not look like Joe Peschi dammit.

Watch out for the stingrays Les.
If I was one of the people you harassed with the snake, I'd be looking for a great big tarantula for you.
I feel the same about snakes as you do spiders!

Yeah, but the only ones that knew I don't like spiders were the ones I was there with, and they like spiders as much as I do.

you were trying for Jack Nicholson! and hit it perfectly!

Are you sure you didn't come back with anything else? About half the expats that work for me own a place in PI and about half of them are married to one. The other half do the same in Thailand.

LBFM's

As you want to say it, I don't Scott.

Ahhh PI memories Clark SERE and San Miguel How you doin buddy and how's Dad?

Dad is doing great Woody, he has all his wood done for the winter and wants to spend this fall hunting. Me, I am doing pretty good. How are you and your family?

We are all good except for Mom but have a new grandson to spoil since I saw you last.BTW do you remember your old addy here was it on Ave. A or possible B ? Thought I'd take a pic of the house for you as I probably go by it everyday..

Where's the spider pics?

Hi Les, hope your 303s are just in storage, the ones with the compass in the butt stock are getting very hard to find!

everyone needs a little R&R from time to time Les. Looks like you spent yours around water and good people.

say, did you ever get that hot sauce I sent, or did the mail nazis confiscate it?

I was doin' fine till the snake...



I don't like snakes..



Nice to see you're having a bit of relaxation Les... Stay safe, rest easy.....

ah yes, the PI. i spent some time there at Clark AB back in the mid 80's. had quite the time. lots of ex-pats living in that area in those days. and living quite well.

it was the main street right thru town, I could walk straight to the Bridge over the Platte from my house. Hope that helps.

Sam, the hot sauce made it, and it was a hit on the hot wings, now over in the PI, I found these wonderful little bitty peppers called sili's....Them things are AWESOME, I did make a small mistake with them the first time I made some salsa with them though.

I had chopped up a fair sized handful of them and mixed them in with some garlic, onion and fresh chopped tomato. Well, I made the mistake of rinsing my hands off,(notice the term rinse, it is much different than wash)Well, I carried the salsa out to the girls with some tortilla's, and decided I had to go take a leak. I went inside and did my business, rinse my hands again(theres that damned word rinse again)so I go out, grab my glass of scotch, and no sooner than I sat down, I noticed my nether regions were getting kind of warm, about 30 seconds later it went from warm to WTF poured hot lava down the front of my shorts. Eula and her girlfriends all realized what was happening and started laughing their damned heads off. I told them they don't stop laughing I was gonna pull it out and tell them to blow on it, I made it about another 30 seconds before I ran for the shower.... Lesson Learned, them little bastids is HOT, I mean Habanero hot, I will from here on out, WASH, RINSE, REPEAT, WASH, RINSE and REPEAT..

Preach it, brother. Snakes are to me as spiders are to Les. They're also the reason I went from .357's to 44's - more shot in the capsules.

Ain't no snakes in the tip of the mitten ya big panzy, snakes will almost always go the other way...unless ya screw with them...as i do. LOL

You know why there ain't no snakes up here? 'Cause I'm here! I'm like St. Patrick with a pistol.

BTW, It sure is good to be able to BS and josh around with you on here again.

Uh Les, that's Anthony Hopkins.

I must say though, you look all swave & deeboner!

I think I was just called a Boner, we hell, I'll take it, thats better than being called LARRY FUGGIN ROOT!

That's a Northern Michigan pronunciation of suave and debonair.
But, you knew that.

Seriously, it's really good to see you post.
This place has been overrun by sockpuppets.

Yeppers....

Yes, you are correct, not nearly that handsome!

That wasn't Danny DeVito ??

He's been hangin' with Swampy...notice the hat in his avatar

Steelhead, LBFMs! thanks for the flashback. 1st R&R in Bangkok, straight from a freefire zone to Paradise. Great thread Les.

mike r

Danny Devito....fuggin HillBilly.

well 'Steve Irwin' you werent holding a python, its a venomous snake, rear-fanged and likely mildly venomous but im bout 99% sure not a python unless you found either a new species or thats the weirdest coloration of retic ive ever seen as they are the only known python in the PI's.....not sure which species but its a Boiga of some sort im pretty sure....most are pretty harmless but a hell of alot have no study done on their venom

that's what I was thinking, Sheridan

May have been a boa, I am not up on my snakes, all I know is the locals kept calling it a python.

no fangs, had it's mouth open, I looked it over pretty good, and very non aggressive.

You are slipping...

no boas over there....what the locals call it dont matter....the fangs would have been a slightly bigger tooth back past the eyes in the mouth....while im not up on all Asian snakes ild put $20 on it being a Boiga of some sort....lots of them are easy to handle, some are nasty...

Did you have any balute yet Les? How about some chicekn guts on a stick or my favorite, pork sticks?

Had some good times whilst tdy at Clark, cold San Miguels or ESQ, man those were the days!!

Well have a great time and stay safe when ya go back to work.

Balot, pronounced Ballought, tasted good, but I only had 14 day old.

Looks nice, but am wondering what PI stands for...

Phillipine Islands...

Les, glad you survived your vacation. Too much puzzy is bad for a fella, I hope you know that now...

When are you going to come back to the States?

My Next leave will be around the March time frame, but want to save a week for my oldests graduation in June.

So you aren't going to go deer hunting this year? Even in Michigan with your Pop?

Can't their training cycle drives our leave time. I lose a fair amount of money when I go on leave, enough that it hurts. Especially if I go to the states for more than 14 days. I go more than 18 my paycheck becomes taxable. That's in a calendar year.

Snakes don't bother you, but spiders do�.go figure.

Snakes are cool

Yes they are. But only the venomous ones are interesting. like women.

So if you are in the States for 19 days in a calendar year,your whole years pay becomes taxable?

LBFM's abound

My trip to the PI lasted four years.

Yep, it sure does, kinda sucks. At the mercy of the goobermint.

Good memories here. Pure paradise for young Gi's (Old ones too)

Texas Rat Snake for Bart

Great to see you posting again Les...

Good to see you on here Les!

thanks guys, gee, wonderful Hofuf, KSA, the power has been out for the last two hours, will see how long my tablet holds out for power.