History has its overflowing bounty of great speakers who could get a standing ovation for just lip-synching their own speeches or bubble a gum in front of a crowd. Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Theodore Roosevelt, JFK, Richard Feynman had the world by its two big ears making it listen to their thought provoking speeches. More recently Paris Hilton has the ears with her candid views& interviews on mundane things that don’t make an inch of difference in a poodle’s life.
There is a new breed of speakers or quackers who grab the mike & mercilessly go on for the next hour or so. Some wise guy who didn’t have a wristwatch once said ’Time & tide wait for none’; I am not sure of tides, but time sure comes to a standstill when (Im christening this guy as) ‘Pakao’ starts abusing …the mike.
The meetings chaired by Pakao are eagerly awaited by us suckers, armed with invisible ear plugs & waiting like the desperate suicide attempter on the train tracks for the light at the end of the tunnel. Heels dug in, one hand in a vice like grip choking the pitiful mike, all ready to orchestrate another soul stirring, tear jerking performance; he just seems to have missed his ride in the BEST bus to being a rock-star. The Scots with their lilting ’Sh’s’, the Aussies with their sweet ‘Oi’s’, the Irish with their rolling ‘Rrrr’s’ give the queen’s lingo it’s colour but the growling ‘Rrrr’s’ of this ghatlander (as in BOARRRD, HARRRD COPY,PASS THE SUGARRRR, HURRRY UP WITH THE REPORRRRT) crashes through tender eardrums slamming them down on a collision course with the palpitating heart. To get a clearer perspective, imagine that I am Tom when Jerry chooses to bonk down a bell over my/Tom’s head & gongs it harder than u can imagine.
Every other day this walking disaster makes us all the more eager to learn by rote’ the Apocalypse’, ’Genesis’, ’Noah’s (ULCC**) Ark, et al. The latest in a long list of never ending catastrophes was when he chose to crash the brand new SMART SWIPE CARD I.D database which didn’t have any back-up, with all of us glued to our positions staring transfixed at ill-defined infinity or whatever lay beyond it.
POST SCRIPT: THE NEXT MAIL WILL BE POSTED AS AND WHEN I LIVE TO SURVIVE THE NEXT CATASTROPHE WHICH IS JUST LURKING AROUND THE CORNER WAITING TO POUNCE.
** ULCC- as in ULTRA LARGE CRUDE CARRIER;Noah's Ark must have been really mammoth(and all other adjectives for big included)
There is a new breed of speakers or quackers who grab the mike & mercilessly go on for the next hour or so. Some wise guy who didn’t have a wristwatch once said ’Time & tide wait for none’; I am not sure of tides, but time sure comes to a standstill when (Im christening this guy as) ‘Pakao’ starts abusing …the mike.
The meetings chaired by Pakao are eagerly awaited by us suckers, armed with invisible ear plugs & waiting like the desperate suicide attempter on the train tracks for the light at the end of the tunnel. Heels dug in, one hand in a vice like grip choking the pitiful mike, all ready to orchestrate another soul stirring, tear jerking performance; he just seems to have missed his ride in the BEST bus to being a rock-star. The Scots with their lilting ’Sh’s’, the Aussies with their sweet ‘Oi’s’, the Irish with their rolling ‘Rrrr’s’ give the queen’s lingo it’s colour but the growling ‘Rrrr’s’ of this ghatlander (as in BOARRRD, HARRRD COPY,PASS THE SUGARRRR, HURRRY UP WITH THE REPORRRRT) crashes through tender eardrums slamming them down on a collision course with the palpitating heart. To get a clearer perspective, imagine that I am Tom when Jerry chooses to bonk down a bell over my/Tom’s head & gongs it harder than u can imagine.
Every other day this walking disaster makes us all the more eager to learn by rote’ the Apocalypse’, ’Genesis’, ’Noah’s (ULCC**) Ark, et al. The latest in a long list of never ending catastrophes was when he chose to crash the brand new SMART SWIPE CARD I.D database which didn’t have any back-up, with all of us glued to our positions staring transfixed at ill-defined infinity or whatever lay beyond it.
POST SCRIPT: THE NEXT MAIL WILL BE POSTED AS AND WHEN I LIVE TO SURVIVE THE NEXT CATASTROPHE WHICH IS JUST LURKING AROUND THE CORNER WAITING TO POUNCE.
** ULCC- as in ULTRA LARGE CRUDE CARRIER;Noah's Ark must have been really mammoth(and all other adjectives for big included)
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