Open letter to the Honourable Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando
Dear Honourable Sir,
I'm ever so grateful to you for showing enviable uprightness in your life as a Member of Parliament. Malta, nay the world, needs people like you as its champions, its newly-minted benchmark. Now that the House will soon move from the historic presidential palace to Piano's pink pigeon coop in Freedom Ex-square it is only fine and fitting that you walk on this fabled land of ours as one of its own revered giants.
I am a blind believer in all things that give this sometime maligned country of ours a bold and proper representation of us, the people. And your presence, your vision and strength have assured me that amongst the pliable numbers at the House there is one as solid as rock and obviously that man is you and you alone.
Thank you for standing up, walking tall and getting rid of she-who-can't-be-named and her messenger and messer-in-chief, RCC.
Now that you have moved his spitefulness out of the way I do hope you will move even higher in your ways and move me up as the official and topmost blogger and scribbler par excellence. It always peeved me deeply that a man like RCC never thought of including me to give me my regular briefing of what to say and how to say it. If he did it to a witch, a marbled wardrobe and a cleric couldn't he have included me too? And because he never wrote my stuff you never put me in the same bracket as them. Which means no one has ever heard of me and no one reads my scribblings. As a wild soul once said the worst thing besides being talked about is not being talked about.
Anyway I need you now to give me a boost and a veritable boot up the escalator of blog fame. I'm the only known being to have chased paparazzi not because they were bugging me with all their flashing clicks but because I wanted to be shot, put in the frame and bestowed with fame. I'm the invisible blogger so please dear mighty good JPO save my bout of crying envy and include me in your list of important—or ex-important—bloggers in Malta. Even if I get dumped into a witch's brewing cauldron at least I'll get my seconds of being super-hot.
I know your main line in life is fixing teeth and not fixing egos. But I'm sure you are the world's leading curer and appraiser of horrid envy and torrid jealousy. To you I do run to cure me of this my affliction—if I am not elevated to being a quoted blogger by the likes of you and Jesmond I will just die of shame and spite.
Yours in envy
The invisible blogger
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Francis Saliba M.D.
Jun 27th 2012, 11:28
Sarcasm is lost on the witless but it would be appreciated by the intelligent especially when the sarcasm is richly deserved - as in this case
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Jun 27th 2012, 12:28
Yes, so long as the sarcasm is directed at people you dislike, its fun - if it is directed at you, then it's bad. Your last few words give you away, dear doctor.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Jun 28th 2012, 14:16
@ Andrew Camilleri.
Efficacious sarcasm has an intrinsinc worth that is indipendent of any biased like or dislike, in favour of, or against, a target that provoked the sarcastic retort. If you asked for it, don't complain when you get it.
Your entire comment, not just the last few words, gives you away, dear Mr Andrew Camilleri.
d. attard
Jun 26th 2012, 19:09
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler
Andy Farrugia
Jun 26th 2012, 21:51
Possibly, but they are effective, biting and hilarious. What else do we need?
d. attard
Jun 27th 2012, 08:41
How about argument...?
Andy Farrugia
Jun 27th 2012, 08:52
@ d attard
"How about argument...?" Oh, I'm sure types like you will provide us with loads!
Andy Farrugia
Jun 26th 2012, 18:12
Brilliant...quite simply brilliant!
Vince Deguara
Jun 26th 2012, 17:15
Oh the sarcasm...
Great letter :D
Alison Bezzina
Jun 26th 2012, 16:22
Victor - I feel your pain :)
But consider this - out of the 16.7k people who answered this paper’s poll, which asked the question "Do you agree that Richard Cachia Caruana should have been made to resign?" 46% said yes....whilst 3% are undecided. So as immoral and wrong as it may have been, was it entirely not representative of the people? Perhaps not representative of the majority by a few percentage points, but not entirely off the mark.
The Personal Is Political, whether we admit it or not - http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120623/blogs/the-personal-is-political.425603
Andy Farrugia
Jun 26th 2012, 17:06
No=50%, Yes=46%..............Undecided = 3%: The Nos have it! You are indeed CRAP at MATH!
Andy Farrugia
Jun 26th 2012, 18:28
"So as immoral and wrong as it may have been, was it entirely not representative of the people? " Ms Alison Bezzina http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120623/blogs/the-personal-is-political.425603
What, what? Are you in favour of "immoral[ity] and wrong"? That's news!
Eddy Privitera
Jun 26th 2012, 18:49
Andy, did you see the latest opinion poll about the state of the parties, and the trustrating between Lawrence Gonzi and Joseph Muscat ? So , what did it say ? Do Lawrence Gonzi and his GonziPn represent the people's wishes at this moment in time ??
ANTHONY PAVIA
Jun 26th 2012, 19:11
May I ask Mr Farrugia if the survey was run on professional lines? And whether he believes the survey/result is representative of the Maltese electorate?
Franco Farrugia
Jun 26th 2012, 19:38
Ms Bezzina, since when was an online newspaper poll anything to by, when it comes to what the people really think?
Then, again, is such a poll 'correct'? I bet you anything that three-quarters of the country don't even know Mr Cachia Caruana and would vote according to what they perceive to be their political leaders' wishes!
Then, again, even if, according to you, it was 'representative of the people', if it was 'immoral' and 'wrong, I would still have been against it.
You need to work a bit more as to what 'principles' mean.
Andy Farrugia
Jun 26th 2012, 21:58
@ ANTHONY PAVIA
I was not commenting on the reliability and / or validity of the survey: I was simply adding a necessary CODA to Ms Bezzina's proposition, who inadvertently (?) left out the AYES.
Andy Farrugia
Jun 26th 2012, 23:49
@ ANTHONY PAVIA
errata: "......AS she inadvertently (?) left out the NAYS."
Andy Farrugia
Jun 27th 2012, 08:33
@ ANTHONY PAVIA
Errata: "...AS SHE inadvertently (?) left out the NAYS".
Francis Saliba M.D.
Jun 27th 2012, 13:29
The percentages in favour, and against, the resignation of RCC reflect the political divide at a time of great LP expectancy of a premature election rather than a plebiscite on the true worth of RCC as Malta's representative in the European Union.
Please choose the reason of your report below: