Living the life of the rich and famous can be hard.

Mieke

FYI:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/south_asia/2008/mumbai_attacks/default.stm

We had a bomb-sniffing dog in the hotel I worked at in Turkey. He was not being used to detect bombs, I think, but to investigate a loss of a diamond necklace. The animation staff was being interrogated as well. I didn't mind being interrogated, though I wished I had stolen these diamonds.

Maybe the whole story is a mock-up for bombs and didn't the hotelmanagement want to alarm us.

Dens

A diamond sniffing dog? Are you sure?

or a truffle snifing dog

Arnon

I was aware that the Taj Mahal hotel had been one of the targets for the terrorist attacks in November. Consider it a joke of bad taste.

Next time you hear about a dog like that, ask for his credentials. Not every dog is an expert.

Mr. Arnon

Yes, a diamond-sniffing dog. That's what they told us. I thought bombs at first, who wouldn't, but then they said the dog was there to find this necklace. They found it in the end. It was laying somewhere in the bushes. Someone did steal it, but chose to return it anonymously.

Maybe the dog just needed to scare the thief.

Dens

Were your co-workers by any chance gullible?

Oscar

Look no further. When it comes to stones I am always gullible.

Well, gullible. They're still Turkish. I've always found them a little bit like people who run a lunar park at a fair. They're quite manipulative and sneaky. Maybe a bit gullible as well, yes.

Mumbai

I don't expect foreigners to stop using Nowy Jork or Londen, nor do I submit to the will of nationalist politicians in my country trying to change the name of a food to Freedom Fries. So why do so many of us submit to nationalist loonies in India when it comes to Bombay? Forget the issue of which name is actually more legitimate and just ask why it is not okay for different countries and languages to have different names for the same place. I don't say Moskva or Muenchen or Den Haag (because, believe me, it's considered a very irritating habit in English to pronounce things as the natives do). I say China others say Kitai, neither has any relevance to the zhonghua minzu, it's just a fact of life on earth ignored by Baal Thackeray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_Sena#Party_violence) to win cheap political points by infuriating foreigners. Sure, India is in important respects an English speaking country but if Boris Johnson changed the name of London to Thatcherton it would be greeted with appropriate disdain.

I enjoy swimming near dogs. We used to have one who thought all swimmers were drowning and who would claw you silly trying to pull you from the water.

Bomb sniffing dogs rule.