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9th October,  2005  Volume 12,  Issue 13

First with the news and free with its views                                     First with the news and free with its views                             First with the news and free with its views                                    

Nutshell

Feeling Blue

Katana-pulle was a worried man after he heard on the local grapevine Thonda and Hack-eem were to back Ra-kneel. So he rushed across the Palk Straits to consult with the anjanam eliya types. Their predictions did not make life any easier — for it was a subdued Katana-pulle that appeared on the selacine thereafter. Oh well... The planets do, do a somersault sometimes don’t they now, dear boy?

It’s a scream

Siri-parlour also went and put his big flat feet squarely in his mouth. For he told Thonda and crowd that if the Clown Prince were to walk the same platform as the Pee Em and address the masses he, Siri-parlour would not be able to utter a word. For the others among the blues would jeer the Clown he said. And Thonda could only grimace, making up his mind pronto that with this kind of politics at play within the blue camp he would be better off with the aliya types. Ouch!

Red fury

Ole Somay is in a right royal froth these days. For Wee-flower went and told the git to take off somewhere across the deep blue seas and keep his trap shut until the dust settles on his having told the armed kind to take a walk. Somay saw red and yelled at Wee-flower to go take a hike himself calling him a podian what not, shouting, "You wanna dance to their tune, do so but not me I say!" My, my... Temper, temper eh?

Co-habiters

And tempers are sure rising among the blue camp. For some of those that call themselves the seniors went and complained to Ma-hinder that portraying Mangy and Wee-flower as official campaign spokesmen is an underhand move to seat Mangy in the premier’s post if Ma-hinder is named prez. The Pee Em could only nod. His bother anyways these days is not the pee em’s post, what?

Educated guess

So the educating types decided to host ole Satty to say thank you for all the good she has done the system. As usual she was one hour late. But the Pee Em, also an invitee, was two hours late. Entering the hall the comperé announced his arrival with a flourish. The crowd clapped loud. The comperé got excited and shouted for added measure, "Here comes our future prez." Dead silence followed. And when Satty rose to speak she deadpanned, "Nobody knows who the future prez will be — but if it is one from my party it will be a guy who follows our policies." Some of those present were swearing she ground her teeth. Gotcha!


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