Comments on: A thrill a minute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Andrea https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21345 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:33:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21345 Re Jeremiah

Brilliant!

Jeremiah, the ‘broken-hearted prophet’:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21344 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:32:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21344 I got it! maybe they’d use the horse-hair to make something like this:

http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Sant_Alfred_6508142.aspx

(Incidentally, what’ws it with the “Jeremiah” bit?)

]]> By: Anna https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21343 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:46:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21343 “The horse’s tail is the part with which he owner has the closest relationship”

Michael, can you please elaborate on this because…emmm, my imagination is starting to run wild.

[Daphne – It’s the bit of the horse that’s always in their line of vision when they’re sitting on a trap.]

]]> By: Harry Purdie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21342 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:37:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21342 You couldn’t make it up! Only on the rock.

‘the horse’s tail is the part with which the owner has the closest relationship’! Jeez, let’s get this guy in ‘stitches’.

]]> By: Michael A. Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21341 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:06:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21341 It works this way. These people develop so close a bond with their horse that there is no way that they would see it alive in the hands of a third party.

It is standard practice, therefore, for the horse to be delivered to slaugther, and for choice cuts to then be handed out to relatives and close friends.

The tail is the obvious bit to be retained, not only because it does not decompose, but because in the case of ‘zwiemel tat-trot’ the horse’s tail is the part with which the owner has the closest relationship.

]]> By: Andrea https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21340 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:30:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21340 @John Schembri

I wonder if the guy would have been as interested in a pig’s tail.

]]> By: John Schembri https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21339 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:57:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21339 “How can you sell a horse you know is going to be slaughtered?”
For the same reason one sells a pig to be slaughtered.

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21338 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:54:13 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21338 I wonder what he intended doing with the tail, anyway – turning it into a brush?

[Daphne – Suvenir.]

]]> By: Lino Cert https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21337 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:19:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21337 And where did the horse’s head end up? Not in a salad in Mater Dei, I hope. Violence is no way to settle such a dispute. They should have tossed for it: heads or tails.

]]> By: Michela https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/a-thrill-a-minute/#comment-21336 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:08:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1571#comment-21336 I would feel so much better if it were the horse which was in a stable condition. How can you sell a horse you know is going to be slaughtered? They should make that a crime.

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