I'm speaking to Tropicana on the phone...

[Derek]

Re: I'm speaking to Tropicana...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He is a White Jamaican of German descent</div></div>


...with a Polish surname.

[Tropicana]

Re: I'm speaking to Tropicana...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He is a White Jamaican of German descent</div></div>


...with a Polish surname. </div></div>

[Tropicana]

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Jet lag a lick me!!

It's back to bed for me.

[Tropicana]

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Bwoy. Jet leg a lick me hard. Do you know I'm just getting up now. 2 full nights of sleep plus sleeping for most of the flight on the way back and mi still feel degey-degey.

Captain Magic, what do you do when you want to recover from jet lag? I don't remember having these problems when I was flying but then I only work North American, European, and Caribbean routes where the time zone change wasn't so drastic.

Anyway oversleeping leads to some strange dreams. I dreamt I was round the back and I locked myself out of the house. So I headed up the walkway to the front door to let myself in. A very tall a Jamaican sprinter in full swimsuit (the kind Olympic swimmer wear) was heading down the walkway towards me with his entourage. They were taking a shortcut to the swimming pool next door where he would be having a media event later that day. (By the way, there is no swimming pool next door but there was one in the dream.)

He posed for me by the pool, on the diving board and the picnic table and I took some great photos of him. Then the camera started acting up and I woke up.



What the heck kind a dream was that?!?!?! Mi nevah dream bout Jamaican athlete yet.

Man mi tiyad so till!!

[Magician]

Re: I'm speaking to Tropicana...

Only ting you can do to fight jetlag is stay up as long as you can then sleep 12 hours to wake up in the morning. If you can't and need a nap limit it to 90min. Eat light meals and exercise. It will still mess you up but at least you can mitigate it.

[Tropicana]

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Thanks. I'll try that. I was up all night. Just couldn't get to sleep until around 6 AM but I've forced myself to get up and get some fresh air now.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: I'm speaking to Tropicana...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Bwoy. Jet leg a lick me hard. Do you know I'm just getting up now. 2 full nights of sleep plus sleeping for most of the flight on the way back and mi still feel degey-degey.

Captain Magic, what do you do when you want to recover from jet lag? I don't remember having these problems when I was flying but then I only work North American, European, and Caribbean routes where the time zone change wasn't so drastic.

Anyway oversleeping leads to some strange dreams. I dreamt I was round the back and I locked myself out of the house. So I headed up the walkway to the front door to let myself in. A very tall a Jamaican sprinter in full swimsuit (the kind Olympic swimmer wear) was heading down the walkway towards me with his entourage. They were taking a shortcut to the swimming pool next door where he would be having a media event later that day. (By the way, there is no swimming pool next door but there was one in the dream.)

He posed for me by the pool, on the diving board and the picnic table and I took some great photos of him. Then the camera started acting up and I woke up.



What the heck kind a dream was that?!?!?! Mi nevah dream bout Jamaican athlete yet.

Man mi tiyad so till!! </div></div>it mean you should turn off the tv when you go to sleep.

[Tropicana]

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Yes I did doze off watching the TV. Also, I have been around a lot of people with West Indian accents lately.

Dr. Dudd. I was speaking with some of Captain Magic's buddies and they had never heard of the brown paper bag test that used to apply for admission to certain schools and access to certain jobs in Jamaica. I know you have spoken about it. Can you please tell us about it and also when this happened and when it died out?

[Tropicana]

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Okay Magic. This is the story I was telling you about. Derek, I know you had heard about it but here are the details. I still haven't seen the one about the *G*a*y* *S*h*e*i*k*h in the elevator. Share the link if you can.

I am taking lengths to make sure this doesn't get b*l*o*c*k*e*d in the U*A*E. Let me know if you can see this.

Not sure if you will be able to access this site or if you will have to wait till you travel.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/09/world/main1483031.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-202_162-1483031.html?pageNum=2

*O*r*s*i* said he had no idea who *S*h*e*i*k F*a*l*l*a*h *b*i*n* *Z*a*y*e*d* *b*i*n* *S*u*l*t*a*n* *A*l* - *N*a*h*y*a*n* was before they met on the evening of *A*u*g. 1*9, *2*0*0*3. In fact, he didn't learn his identity, he said, until he stumbled bloodied and bruised to the hotel reception desk and pleaded with staff to call the police.

At a closed-door hearing in March, the s*h*e*i*k*h acknowledged they got into a heated scuffle when he overheard someone remark that &quot;this s*h*e*i*k*h is *g*a*y .&quot; But he insisted he never struck *O*r*s*i*, either with his fists or his belt, nor arranged to pay him $13,000 in hush money.

*O*r*s*i*, a son of Italian immigrants who grew up in suburban Rochester, said he was sipping fruit juice while chatting in English and Italian with a Saudi friend near the bar at the posh *L*a* *R*e*s*e*r*v*e* hotel when a passer-by dressed in casual shirt and jeans asked where he was from.

The stranger offered him something to drink and *O*r*s*i*, declined, saying he didn't drink alcohol, yet the man soon sent over a bottle of Dom Perignon.




*O*r*s*i*, said he politely waved his thanks but left the champagne unopened on the table because he was worried the offer was a ploy to force a confrontation.

A quarter-hour later, *O*r*s*i* alleged, the man suddenly came up behind him, jostled his glasses, <span style="font-weight: bold">sat in his lap and tried to kiss and fondle him. </span>



When *O*r*s*i* protested, he maintained <span style="font-weight: bold">the man became violently angry, threw him to the floor, punched and stomped him, smashed his glasses underfoot, then removed his belt and whipped him with the metal buckle.</span>



All the time, *O*r*s*i* said his attacker was yelling abuse, saying at one point that &quot;no stupid American or Italian is going to tell me what to do!&quot;


*S*h*e*i*k*h F*a*l*l*a*h , 35, was charged in November with suspicion of assault with a dangerous instrument, which carries a maximum three-year prison sentence.

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The *s*h*e*i*k*h* was found guilty but it was overturned on appeal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8366387.stm

He was initially convicted of actual bodily harm, but was acquitted by Switzerland's highest court last month.

Mr Orsi says the later ruling infringed his human rights and was a cover-up.

'Dangerous object'

Last year, *S*h*e*i*k F*a*l*l*a*h, the brother of *U*A*E* President and *A*b*u *D*h*a*b*i* ruler *S*h*e*i*k *K*h*a*l*i*f*a* *b*i*n* *Z*a*y*e*d* *b*i*n* *S*u*l*t*a*n* *A*l* - *N*a*h*y*a*n*, was found guilty of the attack on Mr *O*r*s*i* at the *L*a* *R*e*s*e*r*v*e* hotel and ordered to pay a fine of 10,000 Swiss francs (£4,930, $9,820).

But in October, his lawyers successfully argued at the Swiss Federal Tribunal that under Swiss law the offence of actual bodily harm could only be proved if it was carried out with a &quot;dangerous object&quot;.

<span style="font-weight: bold">The metal-buckled belt their client used to whip Mr *O*r*s*i* did not qualify and so the conviction was overturned</span>, Mr *O*r*s*i* said.

[Tropicana]

Re: I'm speaking to Tropicana...

Okay and this was the story I told you about Andrew Lloyd Webber's music director. I am sure this won't be *b*l*o*c*k*e*d*.

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=7f2cf34b-5fc9-4b2f-a839-6f52cc8ca41d

You are now up to date on all the gossip.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: I'm speaking to Tropicana...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yes I did doze off watching the TV. Also, I have been around a lot of people with West Indian accents lately.

Dr. Dudd. I was speaking with some of Captain Magic's buddies and they had never heard of the brown paper bag test that used to apply for admission to certain schools and access to certain jobs in Jamaica. I know you have spoken about it. Can you please tell us about it and also when this happened and when it died out? </div></div>the brown paper bag test was use for most jobs involving working indoors eith lighter skin people brfore it got to tge children. Tge Catholic church only educated black chldten the elementary levels all higher kevrls required the paper bag test. Except alpha boys school where it was for delinquents eho they taught mudic snd nothing else.