And even more technically it's just "baht", which is both singular and plural.

But I don't comment solely to be pedantic about language.

I once looked into the eyes of an elephant that was on a footpath in a busy area of Bangkok. I thought I'd seen the whole world and all its pain in one glance. It was horrifying. I knew then that sugarcane and bananas were not the thing for this big critter to be eating and that the concrete and asphalt of the city wasn't the place for it to be. A jungle or a large pasture and bale of alfalfa hay would be nice for the elephant.

The issue of elephants in the city has been a vexing one for a long time. The animals and their handlers have often been expelled from the city, only to return and continue their begging ways.

I'm not going to get into why the elephants are captured out of the wild to work with the men in the first place. That's a whole other issue.

But the Thai government has recently come up with scheme to microchip the pachyderms and subsidize putting them and their mahouts in zoos, wildlife sanctuaries and tourist-oriented elephant camps outside the city.

http://www.dailyxpress.net/2009/04/27/coverstory/coverstory_5937.php

Iggy voices the cool revolutionary uncle in the English version of Marjane Satrapi's animated feature film Persepolis. He's featured in the extras on the DVD.

The commercial won a Gold prize at this year's Cannes Lions Awards.