Il-metafora ta' Sharon u Kevin
Kevin, gibli ftit id-Dramamine, ghax ma nistax inqum minn ma' l-art
I’m not one for dragging husbands into it, but after today’s back-page news in The Sunday Times, we’ve got to start speaking of Sharon-and-Kevin, the hot Eurosceptic team.
It’s just terrific that the names match so well, isn’t it?
And sadly for Kevin, this is not a conspiracy theory (he loves them, especially when they involve the Twin Towers and American imperialism).
Sadly, too, Kevin’s copywriting skills are not that amazing.
He and Sharon ended up having to take out a full-page newspaper advert today to explain their full-page newspaper advert of last week (‘man the lifeboats; the ship is sinking’).
Instead of the Titanic, today’s job features what appears to be a becalmed 16th-century galleon in silhouette. It begins:
Kien hemm min ma fhemx il-metafora tal-vapur tal-gimgha l-ohra.
And it continues in the fashion of Dom Mintoff at public meetings:
Il-Grajja tal-Vapur li Salpa
(The Tale of the Ship that Set Sail)
Gara li wara li kulhadd gie mitlub jghid jekk xtaqx li nitilghu fuq il-vapur jew le, dawk li riedu li nitilghu ghelbu lil dawk li ma xtaqux.
Izda kif il-vapur salpa b’kulhadd abbord, dawk li riedu jitilghu tghidx kemm ghajru lill-ohrajn li ma xtaqux. Rieduhom jintefghu fl-istiva u ma jitnifsux……Biex tghaxxaqha, l-aktar mgharrfa dwar il-vapur u d-direzzjoni tieghu kienu dawk li ma xtaqux jitilghu.
Well, what can I say? Kevin-and-Sharon certainly seem to be having a lot of fun down there in the hold, and they’re making both their livings from it, too. Imn’alla rebhu tal-Yes, u mhux tal-No2EU.
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Il-grajja ta’ Kevin-and-Tracy – sori – Kevin-and-Sharon:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090524/local/e-mail-blunder-exposes-pl-candidates-familial-push
Il-Grajja in full – http://www.sharon4malta.com/uploads/file/MT-Illum-Vapur-2.pdf
Hi missha tkanta tat-Titanic!
“Biex tghaxxaqha, l-aktar mgharrfa dwar il-vapur u d-direzzjoni tieghu kienu dawk li ma xtaqux jitilghu.”
Kemm hu smug it-tifel (for it is he). A whole campaign founded on this lie of his.
Land ahoy! …The old continent’s gravy train
Would Machiavellian conspirators be right to refer to this odd couple as “the press gang”?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8066000.stm
Can you imagine the Catholic Church in Malta speaking up in this manner? No, nor can I!
Take note that the British National Party is not the UK Independence Party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo6djywZ96g&feature=channel
I have another one: stowaway.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. – The Hacker Manifesto
You wouldn’t see the light even if a searchlight was lit in your face! Wake up Daphne! If you think you are intelligent enough and believe you are right… you are wrong :) Listen to the Truth… For it will change the World and it Will!
[Daphne – Hello, Kevin. You appear to be a little sea-sick.]
It’s not Kevin :) but we happen to be on the same boat.
[Daphne – And sharing a brain as well as a bunk.]
Your ‘Doors of Persecption’ seem to be locked, Huxley.
The least they could do is get one that works since they want to share it
Don’t bother Daphne. I haven’t been to this bottegin since the last comment you deleted. Huxley is a close associate – and you should know,
Thanks for the tasteful ad, btw. The goose just loves it.
[Daphne – Goose? What happened to your chinchilla? I suppose you fed it to those who voted Yes when your galleon ran aground and they were threatening to eat the No voters in the hold.]
on a side note…
How can you support a Government that sold all our assets, in ten years turned a 400million surplus into a Billion lira of ‘DEJN’ which now we are stuck with and struggling to pay the interest. We now have a crippled economy because of GROSS mismanagement, We have to pay for their mistakes from our own pockets! A National Bank was Sold for away with the price not even getting close to the value of the Bank’s Properties. As my favorite cynicist Ambrose Bierce says.. buying the Barrel of whiskey for the price of the Cow you cannot afford. So What are the roots of your Party? What did they actually do for this country? They Ruined Us! and its TRUE… Skond is-sigra il-Fergha! And you dont have to be Eve or Genealogist to figure it out
[Daphne – You’re cracked.]
Leave that boat, Ahab. You’re starting to hallucinate. The open sea can drive one crazy.
Huxley, as it happens, the National Bank was a flourishing private institution that was taken over (i.e. stolen) by the Mintoff government in 1974,
By the way you’d better do as kev says and “check your English”. I would have expected someone who called himself Huxley to know better than sprinkle capital letters at random throughout his writing.
Dan qed jitkellem fuq dan in-National Bank?
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2004/national_bank/index.html
Vera qed jitlef!
[Daphne – Le, ghax kieku kont nghidilha jiena. Qeghda tghid dwar Mid-Med, imma ma tafx x’inhuma ‘proper nouns’.]
Daphne, Huxley is a ‘he’. And he’s someone you urgently need because he’s one of the best graphic artists on the island.
Your taste needs some upgrading, don’t you agree?
[Daphne – I seriously doubt it. In my experience, poor creativity is all-encompassing. Somebody who can’t construct a simple sentence generally has no visual skills either.]
@Antoine Vella – Re “Huxley, as it happens, the National Bank was a flourishing private institution that was taken over (i.e. stolen) by the Mintoff government in 1974”
You took the words out of my mouth. I don’t think “Huxley” ever saw this: http://user.orbit.net.mt/fournier/MNnational_bank_scandal.htm
Miskin, il-Huxley rega tilifha.
Isa Daphne, wake up hi, ara x’qallek Gesu Kristu hej…biex tisma’ l-verita ghax din se tbiddel id-dinja. Eh bilhaqq Daphne, you are not seeing the light – no, the party that his wife’s for does…oh, they see a lot of light. Mela insejt Daphne hi li bis-sahha taghhom qeghdin fejn qeghdin.
Opportunisti, giddibin, pinnuri, zibel!
Brian 14,
my thoughts except I would have added a few more adjectives like hodor, hamalli, mimlijin lanzit, u ma jidbiddlu QATT.
Lanqas ma joghqodu hdejn sorm Gonzi. Sorry D it’s the only language they understand. DBAs ‘n’ all.
Frickin’ monkeys.
When I am king, Kev, you’ll be on a galley, not a galleon, chained to a bench with Sharon and Huxley, and rowing for dear life, towards a federal Europe.
“When I am king, Kev, you’ll be on a galley, not a galleon, chained to a bench with Sharon and Huxley, and rowing for dear life, towards a federal Europe” …
… drinking gulepp tal-harrub (remember Mintoff harping on about it?) and eating Pasta Angelus followed by Desserta or Chalait chocolate – without worms, if you’re lucky.
And then washing you teeth with Pepsodent and rinsing your mouth with water (if you are lucky to have any, oh you could always use sea water).
“When I am king, Kev, you’ll be on a galley, not a galleon, chained to a bench with Sharon and Huxley, and rowing for dear life, towards a federal Europe” …
What a waste! He’d make an incredible court jester!