“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: THE ABDUCTION OF RORY DYLAN STEPHEN: WHO IS THIS SINGAPOREAN SHIPPING MAGNATE SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE?

The Singapore Times Exclusive: WHO IS THIS SINGAPOREAN SHIPPING MAGNATE SIR REGINALD NICOMSHIRE?

Humans converse with their dogs under a false impression the canine understands very little of what they say. Not so. This is the secret power of dogs and explains why we have survived thousands of years besides humans. It started as a big con for food and has devolved into something more sophisticated. Dare I say we are experts at manipulating humans and taking over the world!

Bobby Jr. is always chatting with me; whether too much vodka in his durian juice or a need to communicate with another living being; who knows.

He laughs when Nicomshire proffers a title of Sir. He has oodles of wealth but absolutely no royalty. It is no demeaning of his humble beginnings by Bobby Jr. but rather Nicomshire tries to leap over his roots. His father was a boiled sweets salesman on the streets of Liverpool. Or was he in reality a gagger exchanging sweets for drops?

Reginald, or Reggie as the lower elements of Liverpool referred to him as quit school at 11 years of age to sell pornographic postcards. Well not really. He sold them as pornographic postcards but when the seal was broken by the buyer the pornographic images were those of the Liverpool post office. The buyers were too embarrassed to request a refund.

With his postcard profits he smuggled scotch from the Scottish Highlands on barges and trucks to be distributed in Northern England. And then with the profits he purchased a dilapidated cruise ship that cruised the waterways of England where the business was sex cruises. He was a regular seaman transporting semen!

He then opened “recreation camps” in Communist Romania which were brothels for high-ranking party members. And with those profits he purchased a few rusty tankers to ply the Black Sea with whatever contraband fetched the highest price.

His wealth augmented to the point he married his wife Prunella, daughter of X a key member of Singapore’s ruling elite; using her family’s wealth he built a fleet of cargo ships transporting perfectly legal cargo except on occasion opium laden gum for the “criminal elements” of Singapore. That’s where Madame Fong became handy.

In short he constructed respectability in Singapore. A strategic supporter and funder of the PAP structure and Singaporean philanthropy and the arts. A citizen above suspicion. Had he reformed? Even a screever can move beyond hogs!