1 February, 2004 Volume 10, Issue 29

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NUTSHELL

Clean Out

No sooner had the Clown Prince set his paws in Paradise isle having descended from sunny L.A. tales of his shindigs were doing the rounds. The Clown had left a hotel room in Palm Springs after burrowing out of a mound of filth having puked all over the room. According to a livid management it took the hotel four solid days to clean up the mess and the Clown Prince has been declared persona non grata at the hotel.

A Lankan manager has had to bear the flak for recommending the Clown and despite informing the hotel of the Clown's impressive lineage, the Yankees will have none of him.  The Clown Prince can now be heard whining, yankee doodle doodle doo... hic! yankee doodle dandy... hic!

 

Star Gazer

In a dither and a bother since the Podu Peramuna types signed on the dotted line with the Rathu Sahodarayas, Satellite is in a spin. Uncertain of the shots the worse half of the partnership is to call, Satellite was reduced to star gazing. No more for her the business of governance.

Instead, to weigh the options of a provincial or general mathivaranaya she spent the entire day on Friday surrounded by no less than seven anjanan eliya types, comparing their prophecies and warnings. Well, well, a marriage certainly makes strange bedfellows and in this magula the mates are getting estranged by the day....  Sin men.   

 

Act of Fury

And the sis with the beautiful eyes was equally disturbed. No sooner she spied Nimal Sree Parlour  at a diplomatic do, she let forth her fury. She scolded the blot chiding even Mallo for having taken on the role of magul kapuwa and pushing for the marriage. Sis needed no sastharakaraya to warn the two kapuwas that their magula would soon be kaput. "Kapuwa kapothi vei," she scolded, adding Satellite should not have been subjected to such a marriage....

 

Censored

And Satellite too was determined to keep the Rathu Sahodarayas away from her chambers. In her new role as the media angel she recently summoned all media bosses and asked what the political dramas were to be on the idot box. Pat came the reply that hot on tape was a one hour chinwag with ole Somay from Blighty.

Satellite saw red - and blasted the Eye-Tee-En kind saying why should he get one hour of television time - stop the show. And so ole Somay may never hit the road or the box in this case, and all because the vicious blot may have had a hand in pulling the trigger on Vijaya. Hmm...

Poya Fiasco

Remember the Bookie, that much smaller and rechristened Konakapala? Well no sooner had his latest counsel Dee Pee the Princely lion appeared to appeal for help, he had to reappear for another case that witching hour before the court full of appeal.

An amount of 500,000 smackers was discussed in the second case and the judge could not resist asking tongue in cheek from Dee Pee if he could pick up 450,000 smackers?  But Dee Pee was quick to respond, "No, Siree, I am not a poya counsel..." Hee, hee - ole Ana and Rienzie will for sure never live that name down having danced the tango together that ill-fated poya day.... The dance even cost ole Ana his post as chief of the Bee Eh Ess El... well, well     

 

The Long Wait

And they waited and waited, and waited. The occasion was the primary school admissions for the western province. Education Minister for the province Reginald had made the cardinal mistake of inviting Satellite for the tamasha. She never turned up the first time forcing the organisers to reorganise the event for a second day. An auspicious time was got for 8 a.m. 

But Satellite though well known for her lateness is not known to be an early riser and she turned up at the event at 12.30 p.m., prompting superstitious parents to wail in despair saying what a beginning for their darling offspring...


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