"They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. We'll go on forever."
Posted on 07/16/2009 3:14:40 PM PDT by Tribune7
Who is Jim Thompson?
He's the one that's all around in the dark. He's the one that's everywhere --wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat; wherever there's a cop beating up a guy.
He's in the way guys yell when they're mad and in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready
And when our people eat the stuff they raise, and live in the houses they build, he's there too.
That's who Jim Thompson is.
But more importantly, Who Is John Galt? I think Jim Rob would agree. ;)
Jim Thompson hates vanities and wonders why you couldn’t post this to the end of another thread? (I don’t speak for JT)
Jim Thompson, eh...?
I can tell this is going to be hugh and series...
Who is Jim Thompson?
He’s the guy Hank Rearden wants to be when he grows up.
Sir Edmund Hillary said “I might as well climb this stupid rock, since I’ll never be Jim Thompson”
Thomas Jefferson had a WWJTD? pin.
If he drank Schlitz, the Most Interesting Man in the World would throw away his Dos Equis.
During WWII he changed his name to Kilroy and almost singlehandedly won the European Theater.
"They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. We'll go on forever."
To the poster he appears to be the latest incarnation of Jesus Christ.
Jim Thompson, born March 21st, 1906 in Greenville, Delaware, was an American architect who helped revitalize Thailand's silk and textile industry in the 1950s and 1960s.
Thompson, previously a member of the CIA, disappeared mysteriously after going for an afternoon walk on Easter Sunday in Cameron Highlands on March 26th, 1967.
Jim Thompson was on a quiet sojourn to the highlands to visit some friends and the fact that he left his cigarettes and a small silver 'jungle box' on the chair outside Moonlight Cottage where he was staying suggests that he had not planned to be gone for long.
Thompson was never seen again, and the theories for his disappearance are many, some plausible and others complex and far-fetched.
Many believe that he was kidnapped for his previous involvement in spying activities. However it is more likely that he was eaten by a tiger, murdered in a botched robbery or fell into an aboriginal animal trap (a pit with a spike) and buried by the Orang Asli when they discovered what had happened. Many hypotheses have been put forward to explain Thompson's disappearance, and there were some reported sightings of him after his disappearance, but what happened to him still remains one of the greater unsolved mysteries of Southeast Asia.
http://www.cameronhighlandsresort.com/jimthompson.htm
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"The disappearance of Jim Thompson is one of the most baffling mysteries that has come out of the Far East. The story told here is even more interesting because the author met Jim Thompson, and a few days after the Thai Silk King disappeared, he joined other searchers looking for him in the Malay jungle. The author also came to know intimately all the people connected with Thompson, including those who possibly held the clew to his disappearance. As to whether or not the truth will ever be known, the author has his owns thoughts, as he relates in the epilogue.
Although The Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson first appeared in print in 1976, under the title Asian Portraits, the author felt he could not let the memory of these people pass when Asian Portraits went out of print. The text in the new edition is exactly as it originally appeared in Asian Portraits. The only additions are those that appear in the epilogue. Here the author also tells what happened to the many characters after the passing of years.
And, in deed, we have to call them characters. Swiss artist Theo Meier walked across China in the 1930s with an easel on his back painting Chinese warlords; he lived with cannibals in the wild New Hebrides in the South Pacific; he followed the footsteps of French artist Paul Gauguin in the Marquesas; and he live on Bali for 22 years and the last 20 years of his life in Chiengmai in northern Thailand. He didn’t actually die as a pauper, for his did have a fine traditional Thai house in Chiegmai, but he had little money in his lifetime. Today his paintings are selling for over a hundred thousand dollars at Christie’s auction sales.
Again, what makes this story exciting is that the author knew Theo very well, for they had one thing in common, the South Seas. Theo planned to return to Tahiti aboard the author’s schooner Third Sea that he was outfitting on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok. Theo even furnished the schooner with some fine carvings and a large oil that hung in the main saloon. Theo died before the schooner sailed on that epic voyage. (For more about the voyage, read The Last Voyage, the Story of Schooner Third Sea.
The author actually knew personally all the people he wrote about, aside from Jim Thompson and Theo Meier. He spent many long hours with Franz Schutzman, the general manager of the Manila Hotel. Franz was so moved by the story of Homer Hicks in the chapter on the “Old Man from Zamboanga” that he was instrumental in getting the US Embassy in Manila to provide Homer with an eclectic wheelchair and other amenities at his home in Zamboanga.
After the Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson appeared in print, the author received a letter from an expat living in Indonesia who recalled seeing Jeff and Robin in their tiny converted turtle boat in a small cove in Java in Indonesia. American author Gore Vidal would be pleased to hear that. When the author met Gore Vidal at a reception at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, the first question Vidal asked was what happened to Jeff and Robin.
Kurt Rolfes who was chewed up by a lion, who had his camera stop a bullet aimed at him in Vietnam (where he was a war correspondent) and who went deep into the Malay jingles looking for the Asian Big Foot, has surprised the author by moving into an estate a rich uncle left him in Portland Oregon.
There are other stories that the author is keeping very much alive in The Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson. You will read about deep-sea diver Doug Tiffany, belly dancer Ziena Amara, Brian Huges who married a Malay princess, and others."
Jim Thompson is who Chuck Norris looks under the bed for when he goes to sleep at nite.
Shave Jim Thompson’s beard and you won’t find a chin - just another fist.
“I am Jim Thompson”.
I AM JIM THOMPSON!
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I actually know someone named Jim Thompson - for real. He plays a mean bass guitar.
Ev’ry mornin’ at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew ya didn’t give no lip to Big Jim.
(Big Jim, Big Jim) Big Bad Jim (Big Jim)
Nobody seemed to know where Jim called home
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone
He didn’t say much, kinda quiet and shy
And if you spoke at all, you just said “Hi” to Big Jim.
Somebody said he came from New Orleans
Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen
And a crashin’ blow from a huge right hand
Sent a Loosiana fellow to the Promised Land-Big Jim
(Big Jim, Big Jim) Big Bad Jim (Big Jim)
And every true FReeper treasures every one of them.
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Of course he's too busy running Free Republic to post too much. For all you do, Jim Thompson....
Yes, he was ubiquitous, even though he couldn’t spell it, not to mention omnipresent.
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with Jim
Who is John Galt?
Jim Thompson's stunt double.
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