Bernard Trink’s Nite Owl recalled

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From Pattaya Mail

Coming up is the second anniversary of the death of Bernard Trink. For four decades from 1966, his weekly Nite Owl columns appeared in Bangkok World and Bangkok Post. Love him or hate him, he was an institution. Here’s a column he might have written for this week in 2022. Old hands should be able to spot at least 20 Trinkisms.

֍ Down Pattaya way, the Royal Garden mall is putting on a drag cabaret to attract customers, on weekends and public holidays 2 pm. It’s neo-Pattaya, so aimed at families and kids. A sign of the times.

֍ Karaoke bars combine two of the nation’s greatest evils: people who shouldn’t drink with people who shouldn’t sing.

֍ There’s noisy talk of making the new liquor closing time in the gin mills a pre-dawn 4 a.m. That’s gonna upset those saloonkeepers who currently serve till cockcrow. No doubt the constabulary will review the issue via brown envelopes.

֍ A bearded and nude male customer in Bangkok’s Rawhide club joined the demimondaines in their naked shower performance on stage. Most of the imbibers (all male needless to say) immediately asked for their check-bins and promptly left. Nuff said.

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https://www.pattayamail.com/alltime/bernard-trinks-nite-owl-recalled-411760

 

[pong2]

Mosey on over

Keep them coming..... (was meant to stimulate readers letters)

Cases of TITs = THis is Thailand

Thats what I remember after all those yrs (only from the BKK-post when I was in town) without checking this text.

After the yrs the BKK-post gradually seemed to get alienated from him-reducing the page size, the frequency and perhaps even what he was allowed to write (?!). Then came yet another new chef and it was all stopped (but I guess he was already long time knowing it to happen and over pension age)

 

[PeterRS]

If I recall correctly, even after his column was axed he still wrote book reviews for the Bangkok Post.

The only problem with his regular columns was they were focused almost entirely on the girly bars. Only occcasionally there would be a nugget or two about the gay scene. But it was always fun reading those columns.

[Olddaddy]

I remember Bernard Trink , he was still going well into his 70's 

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On 9/28/2022 at 5:49 PM, Olddaddy said:

I remember Bernard Trink , he was still going well into his 70's 

As are some others of us. 🤗

[floridarob]

I used to look forward to his column , was always funny and witty.