Not from a Christmas cracker – somebody sent it in
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February 13, 2011 at 12:26am
And please, no anorak comments about the type and date of this gun, because that really is not the point.
Q What’s the difference between a sub-machine gun and a blog run by one woman?
A The Labour Party doesn’t think a sub-machine gun is dangerous.
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Daph, correct that to “a loon with a sub-machine gun” – a sub-machine gun is perfectly harmless and never hurt anyone of its own accord.
Oh, and that’s an Uzi, very obviously, but the year can certainly not be determined… ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi
The only three persons still alive who can talk about this sub-machine gun: il-Botom, ex- Police Inspecotor Joseph Pico and George Vella who heard Il-Pupa’s confession and feels bound by the secret of the confessional.
I’m sure there are others who know. People talk and, in those times, it was usual for thugs to boast about their crimes.
Is the nickname “il-Botom” or “il-Boton”?
[Daphne – The first. They’re from Zurrieq, hence the link with Karmenu Vella.]
George Vella is not a confessor.
Also the person who cleaned the firearm before the frame-up can say something about it. I don’t think the person who fired the sub machine-gun when Raymond Caruana was murdered was alone.
Qrajt x’imkien li Daphne ‘ixxerred l-odju’. Mela issa min ikollu l-guts ta’ veru, u ma jhallix id-dnub jorqod qed ninfamawh li ‘jxerred l-odju’?
Minflok nirringrazzjawh noqoghdu najruh. Facli taghmel hekk, imma difficli li bis-sewwa tmeri dak li tghidilna Daphne.
Just cite the source from which you got “ixxerred l-odju”. Knowing who wrote this accusation will explain it all.
Daphne qed ixxewwex in-nies kontra taghna.
You are doing quite a good job yourselves !
Didn’t realize that George Vella is (was) a priest, bound with confessional secrecy.
I’m wearing a smoking jacket and fez, and I really cannot understand these snide remarks about anoraks.
Yours in placid indignation,
Hans Peter Geerdes
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/cirkewwa-victim%E2%80%99s-family-receive-%E2%82%AC379-767-compensation
Higher grammatical standards are expected from this e-newspaper.
I really hope this does not end up in the today’s printed version. This article is definitely not of a publishable quality.
Perhaps these mistakes are due to poor transcribing out of a notebook by a third party and not a reflection upon the poor command of the language by the author in question.
“The workers were not working protective masks, and began breathing in contaminated gas, resulting in their dead, according to autopsies on the men’s corpses.”
How many mistakes can you count in one sentence! Saviour needs to spend more time checking his star journalist’s spelling than recording video blogs from his cave.
I see your ‘Compensation’ article and I raise you ‘Divorce Referendum’ on maltastar.com
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=14158
Read it and weep!
Sorry, I tried but its very difficult to understand the gist of the article. These people should perhaps write for illum or l-Orizzont.
One cannot ascribe Maltisism to these articles because not even literal translation into Maltese makes any sense. It’s a shame that there is no proper subbing before publication on the websites.
Despite the bad English, no attempt is made to correct the syntax errors that are immediately flagged by any decent word processor. A simple right-click on the mouse would eliminate simple spelling mistakes like “referendu”, “introductin”, “favourof” etc.
Then I suggest that Julia Farrugia should take this opportunity as a journalist and investigate this story.
Another difference between a machine gun and a blog run by one woman:
You can get the police to hide the machine gun in a Safi farmhouse to frame an innocent person.
“The Labour Party doesn’t think a sub-machine gun is dangerous”
Well, at least one of Saviour Balzan’s employees must think that it is just a toy that daddy used to keep in the garage, or in the bedroom closet.
That’s an IMI Uzi submachine gun, manufactured in Israel in 1950 but still used up to this day and has an effective range of around 200 metres.
In my opinion that’s much less dangerous than a blog because after all Napoleon said: a hostile newspaper is to be feared more than a thousand bayonets.
OK, here’s an anorak joke:
Q: What is the difference between a sub-machine gun and a woman running a blog?
A: The sub-machine gun can be silenced.
My boy lollipop
You make my heart go giddy up
etc etc
*ajma* baxxter, sometimes you really over egg the pudding
Eh?
At least I held back from saying that guns are suppressed, not silenced, and the thingy fixed to the muzzle is a suppressor, not a silencer. A Schalldämpfer.
What colour is your anorak?
I don’t own an anorak. I generally wear a HANDIA UBAS shirt to dinner parties, in whatever colour blends with the terrain (ok, regulation CCE). Meta Para Aramide fibre, class B flame resistant, IRR. The dog’s bollocks.
‘Well, at least one of Saviour Balzan’s employees must think that it is just a toy that daddy used to keep in the garage, or in the bedroom closet’.
I think you are wrong. According to il-Pupa, ‘Il-Botom’ , the father of Julia Farrugia, used to keep the sub-machingun in the Minister’s car. Tal-famus Perit Karmenu Vella, il-Guy.