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Hound Dog

Jun 26, 2010, 4:16 PM

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I see the lack of participation in the Southern Mexico Forum as a sign that there is limited interest in this region on these forums and that´s OK in my book. I just think that it is important that I tell you that the best restaurant town in Mexico outside of DF is Tuxtla Gutierrez, the spectacular capital city of scenic Chiapas. Exhuberant, cheesy, frenetic, wildly magnificent while filled with unprepossing homes. A nice and simultaneously not nice place.

smokesilver

Jun 28, 2010, 7:56 PM

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Not so Dawgman. I have never been there but enjoy all comments which relate to that area. It appears that you are the only one living in that area who is 'traveled and learned' and interested enough to post about the area. Thanks very much for your posts.

Hound Dog

Jun 28, 2010, 8:29 PM

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You have inspired me Smokesilver. I shall press on.

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joaquinx

Jun 29, 2010, 10:21 AM

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Thanks a lot, smokesilver, now we'll never hear the end of it.

Hound Dog

Jun 29, 2010, 10:39 AM

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Thanks a lot, smokesilver, now we'll never hear the end of it.

True, indeed, joaquinx:

Discussion of Dawg´s favorite part of the world (outside of France) inspires loquacious excess by Dawg but that is, after all, what I am here for with the caveat that if the fat boy´s remarks may offend you, presumptively speaking, you have the option not to open the goddamned post. Life is full of options that may present opportunities or, alternatively, bile. That´s life on this planet. Ask the fishermen of Mobile Bay about lost opportnities after four generations of effort because of the intercession of opportunistic interlopers. I am sickened at the useless waste.

joaquinx

Jun 29, 2010, 10:54 AM

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open the goddamned post

Sorry about your resentment. I meant no harm, but the next time I read your post, I shall fold it and put it where....

Hound Dog

Jun 29, 2010, 11:13 AM

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Joaquinx:

You misread me and I apologize for an obscure response. I value your contributions to the discussion hereabouts and, if you re-read my post you will see that I meant no disrespect to you personally but had made a broader response. In no way do I resent your opinions contrary to mine. Kick my butt, I say. I like the imbroglio and encourage discussion. I never intend to be contentious, it just seems to happen occasionally because of my own incivility.

joaquinx

Jun 29, 2010, 11:19 AM

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No harm done. The last time I misread something, I said "I do."

raferguson

Jul 4, 2010, 7:49 PM

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I enjoy your comments. Maybe a couple of years ago, you were over the top, not necessarily in a good way. More recently your comments have been interesting and to the point, in your own inimitable style.

Keep on keeping on, you have your readers.

Richard

http://www.fergusonsculpture.com

Hound Dog

Jul 6, 2010, 2:32 PM

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Thank you for your pleasant semi-endorsement Richard. I have likewise begun to appreciate your comments over the years. I feel I have mellowed with age but there are those who might surmise that I have become old and tired.

I have enjoyed your postings over the years as well and that acknowledgment gives me the chance to say that I have also enjoyed the postings of those occasionally of irascible bent since banned because of imprudent language on occasion. Much is lost in discourse by moderators inteceding to temper discussions because someone once in a while becomes intemperate. While he and I do not know each other nor do we often agree on issues; I admit to missing the comments of Manuel Dexterity and question why he was, according to his take on the subject, banned. Perhaps there was a miscommunication.

wendy devlin

Jul 6, 2010, 3:33 PM

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Manuel lives, most of the year, in Guadalajara. Hound Dog spends time living between Ajiic and San Cristobol, Chiapas, where Manuel spend some time, in early years, working.

How difficult would it be for you, two, to meet up, physically? No distance at all. Sort out or celebrate your differences. Get drunk together or get into a brawl. Get 'real' with each other.

Personally, over the years, I made arrangements, some elaborate, some quite simple to meet in person, anyone living in Mexico,or elsewhere, that I wanted to get to know, from 'hanging' with, over the internet.

Generally speaking, the relationships were rewarding, and memorable,however how long or brief.

To anyone, who declines to meet face-to-face and sort things up-close and personal, the relationship hovers in 'no-man lands'.

This up-close and personal thingee, that is an attribute of Mexican culture, was a world of education for me,in years, gone by, coming from an Anglo-background.

This education also provides a personal perspective on current Mexican events. Even if I live,in Canada.

There isn't a day, that I don't think, worry, feel................about my family/friends in Mexico.
And what, if anything, I can contribute to their safety and well-being.

Anonimo

Jul 7, 2010, 3:51 AM

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Manuel Dexterity was banned? Again? I am familiar with some of his checkered history on Thorn Tree, Mexico Branch.

I'll miss him, and I hope that he's allowed back pronto.

Saludos,
Anonimo

Hound Dog

Jul 7, 2010, 10:07 AM

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How difficult would it be for you, two, to meet up, physically? No distance at all. Sort out or celebrate your differences. Get drunk together or get into a brawl. Get 'real' with each other.

¡Wendy!

Do you realize that this fellow Manuel Dexterity spent his youth personally timber cruising deep forests in the impossibly vertical terrain of the Chiapas wilderness just to impress his father-in-law while Dawg was sitting in smoke-filled conference rooms with countless other ne´re-do-well fat-assed bank examiners in various commercial banks in California reviewing credit files and writing critiques of bad loan decisions which were of numerous varieties and here is the key. When I was a smart-assed bank examiner, I had the might (or so we thought then) of the U.S. Treasury Department behind me when I humiliated a helpless and incompetent loan officer who, if he/she had transgressed against accepted lending norms could be reduced to chicken soup there on the spot. However, if I and M.D. sat down to hash out our differences and things came to naught, I will have lost the Treasury Departments emergency "help" number and he just might thrash me in the manner of one of those Chiapas trees destined for the sawmill by his hand.

I think I´ll just elect for a solitary tea behind high walls on my patio. Bank examiners are not noted for excess gumption.

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wendy devlin

Jul 8, 2010, 7:36 PM

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Gracias, Perro Grande,

Problamente, tienes razón.

For all you, or I or María's daughters know.

Manuel could be another incarnation, del Pozolero, de Tijuana. Just waiting for you/me to venture into his territory.
Then...Snafu! In the soup:)

Maybe we could hold hands, like Hansel and Gretel, and meet up with Manuel, some day. Como vistantes a la casita dulce:)

¿Restaurante?

roni_smith

Jul 29, 2010, 8:04 PM

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I plan to eat at this place in November

http://www.yolisto.com/blog/view/id_460/

Sounds and looks good to me.

We're spending a few weeks in November, some of the Caribbean coast, but most in Mérida
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