Ittra minghand il-kugin tat-Thinking Socks
Here’s another one who never declares his interest. George Debono is a busy correspondent on the matter of the St John’s museum extension. But he always signs off as Dr G. G. Debono, and never as Dr George Debono, founder member and activist, Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar.
He’s another one who can’t accept the fact that there’s a clear-thinking person from Sliema who isn’t fighting in his trenches. So obviously, I must have some ulterior motive or must have stood to gain from the project coming to fruition. That’s why I write the way I do and think that the FAA is a load of bollocks.
No, George! I just have a better brain than most of the silly women you mix with. And many of the silly men, too. Also, I’m not a bored hadra with little more to do than play bridge, make lampuka pies, spread gossip and take up campaigns for the adrenalin rush that’s otherwise missing from my tedious life.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it. Somehow, I don’t think the Maltese equivalent would go down too well with you, but it’s the Maltese equivalent that I’m accustomed to using ordinarily.
The Malta Independent on Sunday, 22 February
Megalomanometer record?
by From Dr G. G. DebonoDaphne scored very high on the megalomanometer scale in last Sunday’s column “Will the Eff Ay Ay please eff off?” with no less than 22 first person pronouns.
Sadly, fewer and fewer people share her jaundiced view of things. Her shrill name-calling, her bovine ungracious persistence in the face of defeat, and now, use of the eff-word don’t do much for her credibility in the absence of substantive arguments to support her views.
Oh for the good old days… pull your socks up Daphne!
G. G. Debono
SLIEMA
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I understand that Corinne Vella is your sister. Is (number 257) your sister against the project as well?
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savestjohns/signatures-6.html
[Daphne – She is on record as saying that she never signed it. Anyone can go on on-line and post anyone else’s name. I’m surprised mine isn’t there. It is quite clear what Corinne Vella’s views are, as she has posted them all over this blog and also on http://www.timesofmalta.com.]
R Detra: No. I didn’t sign that petition. You are right, though, in assuming that if I had signed it, I would have used my real name rather than hiding behind a pseudonym.
The Times – Monday, 23rd February 2009 – 12:22CET
Bastjan Dalli granted bail
A court decided this morning that a Bill of Indictment should be issued against Bastjan Dalli, who is charged with conspiracy to import cannabis. The court, presided by Magistrate Miriam Hayman, decided to grant bail to Mr Dalli against a deposit of €24,000 and a personal guarantee of €46,000. The decision was taken after all witnesses were heard. A previous request for bail had been turned down.
[Daphne – John, this has nothing to do with the post.]
Tkellem hu Manwel….
Imma dan perit??
http://www2.l-orizzont.com/news.asp?newsitemid=51241
Ironica wkoll li huwa, li halla postu fil parliament, ghal Lijder il gdid tieghu, jitkellem fuq RCC li “qatt ma ħareġ għall-elezzjoni imma xorta waħda jmexxi l-Gvern ta’ Malta.”
[Daphne – When you don’t have a brain, you can’t use it. They’re a couple of slack-jawed dullards from Sliema’s lazy corner, hodor kemm tridhom.]
About Joe Cuschieri’s article
At one point he writes: “Jew il-qofol, jew iċ-ċavi (la din hija kwistjoni arkitettonika) tal-kwistjoni kollha …”
What on earth is a ‘ċavi’? At first I thought he means ‘ċavetta’ but, from the bracketed phrase, it must be something to do with architecture.
At any rate this article explains why Joseph Muscat sports that shy little goatee. If RCC is Richelieu, he must think he’s D’Artagnan.
“cavi” huma dak il-gebel wieqaf li jintuza flok blata (fuq tieqa jew bieb). Jekk minix sejjer zball il-gebel li fuqu zzomm hnejja ukoll jghidulhom cavi.
Joseph and Manwel Cuschieri are not from the Lazy corner. They used to live in St Ignatius Villa – Scicluna Street, Balluta/St Julian’s.
[Daphne – That’s the lazy corner; the area takes in the whole of Sliema’s less salubrious neighbourhood, from just off Dingli Street all the way round to the rear of the former Galaxy complex. St Ignatius Villa was a kerreja. M’intiex se tigi taghlimni dwar pajjizi. And it’s not in St Julian’s, though the redrawing of boundaries may have placed it there. Drive up Old College Street, Sliema and you’ll find yourself staring at it.]
While surfing on the net on the case of St John’s Cathedral’s project against FAA, I found these:
http://www.ambjentahjar.org/pressRelease/stJohns140209.htm
http://www.ambjentahjar.org/library/expertsreport.pdf
It doesn’t look like to me that they did not take any esperts’ advice.
Well?
[Daphne – You’re very late to this debate, I’m afraid. I’m uploading your comment only because I don’t want you to think I’m ‘censoring’ you. I think you had better scroll back over the past week or so of posts.]
He is an architect isn’t he?
http://www.ambjentahjar.org/articles/stjohnsbeheaded251008.htm
[Daphne – Carmel Cacopardo? Oh, please. He is 1. an AD politician, and 2. an architect. And no one takes him seriously except Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar, because his is certainly not an independent and unbiased opinion, but a political one.]
Daphne,
Has Peter Gatt answered your queries?
[Daphne – Of course not. I had a feeling he must be a Sliema boy, because the FAA only uses friends of friends and cousins of friends and children of friends. Hbieb tal-hbieb tal-hbieb. Turns out he’s about my age and from Prince of Wales Road or thereabouts. I thought the name rang a bell but I can’t for the life of me picture him.]
I used to live in Old College Street – bang opposite Queenshall or whatever it used to be called. And I can tell you that St Ignatius Villa was never part of the lazy corner. I know because I was an altar boy at the Carmelite Church and a significant portion of the parishioners (and consequently the altar boys) were from the Lazy Corner. Joseph cuschieri was one of the boys then …
The lazy corner includes part of St Helen Street, Gafar Street, Arcade Street, Camenzuli, I think … etc etc … there’s no way anyone can include Scicluna Street with the lazy corner.
If you’re from the Stella Maris area you’d be forgiven for not knowing our end of Sliema very well …
[Daphne – I repeat that the lazy corner, in the eyes of those who didn’t live there, stretches all the way from just off Dingli Street to where you grew up. Basically, it was and still is the arse end of Sliema. The only acceptable part of Old College Street is the hill up from Tower Road, where, incidentally, my mother grew up. Of course, you wouldn’t like to think of yourself as being from the lazy corner. Tough. If it were me, I would use it for street cred, in an ironic sort of way. But you obviously have a chip about it. Actually, I know your area of Sliema very well. Do you fondly imagine I sat about in Stella Maris parish and never moved, or that I drove about at the age of 12? I went to primary school in Depiro Street, for a start – St Dorothy’s, not the state school. But thank you for pointing out to our readers that the expression ‘tal-pepe’ is not interchangeable with ‘Slimiz’.]
It’s not a question of not liking the notion of Lazy Corner … I’ve moved to Fgura now and I’m absolutely in love with a house in Birgu which I’m hellbent on buying … that should give you an idea of what I think about acceptable areas …
BUT … Old College Street is not part of the lazy corner. On the oher hand, if you say it is, then it probably is …
[Daphne – Good for you, buying a place in Birgu. I had my eye on an amazing house there, but it had a sitting tenant in the basement, and a bit of the property was hived off and turned into a separate dwelling.]