Thanks Joy, though I myself find it's hard to recognise the humourous part of my comment. It's one of the few things in my life that's can't be easily let go.

Regarding stanG's article, I have a lot of arguements. Samak's comment concerning the Oct 76 massacre was not a white lie, though the whole world had already known what's exactly happenning that day. He needed some rationalization to keep his ego intact, even lying to himself sometimes. For the tyrants trio(Thanom, Prapas, Narong), they weren't demonized overnight by some students. Actually they're ousted by their rivals esp. those generals in the same army who kept their dissents towards the trio for years. In other word, there's an unannounced coup in Oct 73, that getting rid the trio NOT the masses uprise.

I agree with StanG for one thing, everybody has good parts and bad parts. For Samak, his good parts are, he's a man of his words, a family man, his straightforwardness. He's going to 'live' in my thought til I'm done. He's already had a place in my personal historybook, one of my (personal) legend of all time.