Comments on: Courageous warriors on Remembrance Sunday

By: Carmel Said

Carmel Said — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:13:47 +0000

In prefer to use the very simple but effective wicc il-*** (cannot reproduce the word here as I believe there already is a libel case going on regarding the use of the same word).

[Daphne – Well, actually, a gay male friend from London has just described him as one of those, but a nun’s one.]

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:46:54 +0000

[Daphne – I know exactly what qorq means. It’s just that in my part of the island we say wicc zibel, not wicc ta’ qorq.]

“wicc ta’ broxk”, too

By: amrio

amrio — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:27:49 +0000

amrio is getting angry with Mario Debono….

By: Etienne Caruana

Etienne Caruana — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:03:21 +0000

May I also recommend a fairly recent film on the subject: Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël (2005)?
Very poignant! The use of three languages simultaneously throughout the film somehow reminds me how far we’ve come with the European project.

By: Carmel Said

Carmel Said — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:37:11 +0000

He does look like Barney, they will probably put on a double act. Some irate parent might actually clobber him instead of the real Barney………..

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:35:13 +0000

Joseph Muscat would have refused to go over, citing some claptrap about social justice. But he wouldn’t have gone near the trenches. He would probably have rendered himself unfit for duty and be holed in some quartermaster job somewhere.

@Daphne. I still laugh and cry every time I see it. Two years ago I got lost in Belgium whilst driving to see a business associate. I came across a big cemetery of WW1 dead. I couldn’t take it all in. It moved me so much, I spent the whole day wandering amongst the graves. They were tended by some really quite lovely people, who have been doing so for ages. And yet, they told me they are still moved every day.

All we can do is never forget….and never let others forget.

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:26:01 +0000

On the subject of qorq. Qiegh ta’ qorq means the hard dirty leather sole of a type of sandal worn by everyone up to the late 1960s. The comparison to the face is obvious.

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:24:09 +0000

Daphne. Yes I am. I still love Meerkat though.

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:22:06 +0000

Bugger…..so brave….so fitting….so short…so to the point.

Watch it,all of you. And then you will see why all of us got so upset with Muscat.

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:13:59 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3V698JzqC0

Meerkat, here it is.

[Daphne – I remember crying and laughing at the same time when I first watched that, and now I’ve done so again. I wonder how Kurt Farrugia and Joseph Muscat would have coped in those conditions.]