Thin women are all very well if you need to stack them in a corner...but for practical use they need a little substance in my humble opinion. A fat man is just a fat man though!! lol
It is the Victorian batsman Dean Jones who speaks most candidly about the 1989 flight. It was Jones’s first tour and his father had advised him to sit next to the opener to pick up hints on batting in England, “Boonie had plenty of advice for me as we had just left Singapore and we had just finished our 22nd can of beer.” Jones writes for the Australian Paper Web site. He went upstairs and fell asleep, waking later to “tumultuous” applause. Simpson thought somebody had won a card game until the plane’s captain announced Boon had consumed 52 beers. “Simpson went purple with anger and I mentioned to (selector Laurie) Sawle that maybe Boonie should be sent home and I would bat in his spot,” Jones recalls.
It’s a record Boon has never claimed, but Lawson confirms the score and says with great regret that he wishes he had rescued the sick bags from the plane. “They would have been worth a fortune,” he laments. “You can imagine Tony Greig selling replicas of them summer after summer after summer.”
Lawson and Jones say Boon walked from the plane unaided. Mercifully, Boon was not asked a question at the press conference. Taylor recalls Simpson getting stuck into the team about the flight. “When we got off the bus, Boonie was in quite a bit of trouble with Simmo, who was disappointed with him for drinking so much, and he called us into a team meeting and said. ‘Righto, a couple of things: David, I’m very disappointed with you and you’re on probation, but also I don’t want this story to leave this room. It’s not to leave the Australian cricket team.” And Merv Hughes at the back put his hand up and said. ‘Oh, Bob, I’m sorry mate, I’ve done radio interviews with…’ and he named four or five stations he’d done interviews with, and said, ‘Mate, it’s all over the world.’ Everyone started laughing and I think Merv got put on probation along with Boonie.”
I am sure your figures are valid but that is not very constructive. The issue is not who gave what but more a perception in the US that they give everything, that nobody else does and that everyone is ungrateful for their disinterested bounty. All that needs saying is that other dig into their pockets too and don't require gratitude for it.
I don't think her remarks were infantile. You have annoyed her by dismissing everything she said. Being pro-American involves standing up to wrong decisions and wrong propoganda from your long-term friends. No point in having friends if all you want from them is to cheerlead.
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they need a little substance in my humble opinion. A fat man is just a fat man though!! lol 
RE: Fuller figured fans!
I bet she kept his teeth clean. But apart from ease of storage...what other use was she to him I wonder?