Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Siem Reap

Right now I'm sitting in a bar in Siem Reap, Cambodia, drinking 75 cent beers (that is not a typo), sweating my balls off because this place doesn't have a/c, but does have wifi. I guess you don't need a/c to get customers when your beer is only 75 cents.

A little history on Siem Reap, feel free to go to the link on wikipedia here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siem_Reap, and I'm just going to cut and paste my favorite part.

The name Siem Reap means the 'Defeat of Siam' —today’s Thailand —and refers to a centuries-old bloodbath, commemorated in stone in the celebrated bas relief carvings of the monuments.

Now that his how you gloat over a victory. Imagine if General Sherman had burned Atlanta, and then decided to name it "You Suck Confederacy" and then put a bunch of monuments to the the Union triumph all over Georgia.

So next time I beat your ass in apples-to-apples or any other game, and I start doing my victory dance and you call me a bad winner, just think of whoever named this city and be glad that I'm not going to burn your house down and name it "Aaron is the Man". I wish I could though. Not really, but seriously, I would if I could.

2 comments:

  1. I am now going to refer to all board games by whoever one them last. Any takers for Kate is the All-seeing Lord and Master of Bananagrams? No? Maybe later. Keep it up with the cheap beer and bizarre fruit! Less with the food-poisoning.

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