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| Sunday, 09 April 2006 |
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Politics unpacked
A dark liberal — often a dark horse, but never quite a disaster, said recently that he has problems with the ‘’people I move with.’’ Story is that even being a liberal, he backed what he thought was a progressive political movement. Result: He was accused of undercutting his class, and his ‘folks’’ who hail from the class that finds it difficult to identify with anything that’s progressive — and/or fast forward With love from Siam
Ten o'clock news
An Editor of a Tamil daily was heard saying (when he was stone cold sober) that he has difficulty falling asleep if he misses one day of ‘tension’’ on the job. Those who are familiar with the seminar-room jargon went home thinking there was some tension between that statement and the fact that ‘tension’ in Tamil newspapers can leave some Editors on more than just tenterhooks.
Until the fat lady sings...
Mayor again and again
Quiz time What do you call a party leader who is never strong enough to carry his party through to win national elections, but is still strong enough to remain leader of the party? Would you take a shot at answering this new trivia quiz - the answers being: (......You would call him........) 1. A no win man (...personifying the typical no win situation). Answer: All of the above The long race
At one of those UNP brainstorming and barnstorming sessions that are becoming increasingly vogue these days, M. H. Mohammed the veteran got into an argument with Mahroof of tippexing-controversy fame. Mahroof lost his shirt at one point and alleged that Mohammed is an old man (......oops, geriatric, we will say.) Mohammed said he would see about that. He said he could outrun the “obese sausage like Mahroof any old distance.” After delivering himself of that, he was seen huffing and puffing as if he had just run a 100 meters.... |
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Class act 
Takshin Sinawatra, ex-Thai Prime Minister said he would endure as Prime
Minister, even though somewhat besieged and stung. But the next day, he
spoke to the Thai king — and reneged on his word. He said he couldn’t govern
with the mandate he received “at last week’s elections.” The upshot of it:
In some quarters they are saying Ranil Wickremesinghe should be despatched
to see the Thai king. Who knows: an audience might rid him of everlasting
losing leader-itis. 
Vasudeva
Nanayakkara, on being hailed recently as ‘the future Mayor of Colombo’, had
a pat on the back and a wide grin for the man who said it. But, he allowed
that ‘its not over until its over.’ He then looked around for the host of
the event he had come for —- and found that the host turned out to be a
hostess. He might get the gender wrong, but would he get his chances of
winning wrong, asked a pesky bystander? 
The ‘Mayor designate’ was invited to a function in Mt Lavinia recently. Why
not refer to this person with the simpler ‘mayor elect?’ Maybe she was the
designated Mayor for the occasion only, however (such as a designated driver
for a drunken evening) with Mayor stakes notoriously having been of a
considerably suspenseful kind in this south-of-Colombo ward.
