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I B Squidly
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:38 am    Post subject: Subic Bay Reply with quote

Was surrounded by drainage canals. Does anyone know them by another name?
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gmez2001
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Subic Bay Reply with quote

I B Squidly wrote:
Was surrounded by drainage canals. Does anyone know them by another name?



In Japan they called them Benjo ditches. Subic ???????
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George F. Thompson
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:19 pm    Post subject: pubic bay Reply with quote

In Thailand, we called them klongs.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was stationed there in 68/69, it was uneuphamistically called $h*t creek. During dry season, especially, the aroma crossing the bridge tended to get rather overpowering, then would come the rain season and everything got flushed out into the South China Sea.


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George F. Thompson
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:08 pm    Post subject: pubic bay Reply with quote

In Thailand, we called them klongs.
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