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Happy Mother's Day All!

*austingal* affirms WWII worst fears as the "rolling bubble" seeks "fresh meat" in an 11th hour attempt to keep it self alive and kicking. Of course it's all the MEDIA's fault that people ran out and got NAAVLP's in an effort to circumvent "traditional financial architecture" and defy the laws God, gravity and in the end, man. We're fresh out of greater fools!

"Peso Palace (TM)* actually started in the Philippines. Gals that married "dashing young sailors" (well, we were young anyway) would muster all their vacation pay and max out their lines of credit to build their parents back home a ridiculous "manse". For the longest time I was O.K with it until the bubble. People started using their HELOC bubble bucks to build even greater P.I Playboy Peso Palaces! Stucco California sub division nightmares square plunk dab in the middle of swaying palm trees and fishing nets drying on bamboo poles. Yes folks, the bubble has reached the furthest reaches of the globe. There was a tribe so remote in the P.I I'd heard they hadn't seen westerners until the 1970's. They now have P.I Peso Palaces. Great........ In Baja, a place with climates so severe that they challenge even NASA they now have a bubble too. I was going to have a star named after my wife for Mother's Day in the Star Registry but there was a bidding war! Peter P, it is the "Star Registry" isn't it? How far does one have to go to find a place so remote as to be "unscathed" by the bubble? I await all of your considered opinions.

Affectionately,

DinOR

Oh, and if you want a real hoot check out www.islandsproperties.com for a goof! My wife showed me a listing in Zamboangita (it's a real place, you couldn't make a name like that up) with a sprawling estate and a f@cking pool no less than 30 yards from the ocean! Yeah a pool! When my wife was in high school they used to swim out to Apo Island from Zamboangita (about 11 land miles) as a dare. These kids are almost born with GILLS! But someone built them a pool! Yet another case of "bubble bucks" gone mad.

Now I could see if you were in Tarlac (outside of the old Clark Air Base) and miles from the ocean but that's an extreme example! Because most of life in the Philippines gravitates toward the shore lines for the fishing it's got to be like 98% of people live within a mile of the beach. Of course excepting the Igorot peoples which still hunt the highlands for wild boar. Please leave these people be.

astrid, could you please check my spelling on Igorot? I've heard even the most casual remark perceived as a "slight" can result result in a life long hex being put upon you. Man, I'd hate for that to happen.

DinOR,

That spelling looks fine to me. Google checked out and didn't recommend an alternative. I doubt the Igorots can track you down in the wilds of Oregon. (hmmm, was that a slight?)

Also, I heard there's some land that just opened up in Greenland. The land used to be under large sheets of glacier. Get in on it before the next ice age.

Just to show you all my "devil may care" attitude I will tempt fate by identifying the "Ifagau Tribe" as the extras used in the final scene of Apocalypse Now as they sacrificed the carabao (water buffalo). If I have spelled either Igorot or Ifagau incorrectly this could have major repercussions on my soul in the "after life". There are no ends that I won't go to prove the existence of the bubble in the furthest reaches of the planet (at great personal risk to myself) for your bubbletainment!

The Ifagau are now contractors.

If kidnapping and healthcare are not issues there, I wouldn't say no to this.

http://www.islandsproperties.com/properties/beachfronts/negor-dau-bf-68/index.htm

I can grow some taro on the front lawn and make my own coconut wine.