So creepy

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1. Dee says:

   January 22, 2012 at 10:20 pm

   Looks like an advert for a Verdi Opera that ends in tragedy.

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   • Jozef says:

     January 23, 2012 at 3:52 am

     Or a requiem.

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2. Not Tonight says:

   January 22, 2012 at 10:25 pm

   Sounds like a death sentence.

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3. Grezz says:

   January 22, 2012 at 10:25 pm

   Oooh! I can’t wait to receive one!

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4. Oops says:

   January 22, 2012 at 10:34 pm

   If I get one of these on my birthday I won’t be able to sleep for a week.

   I hope Anglu Farrugia doesn’t get any creepy ideas too.

   It’s already enough that he gets his personal assistant to call me on my birthday to express his best wishes………. on Dun Ang’s behalf of course.

   And may I add that the phone call is always with an ID number withheld, which makes me think it’s actually the taxpayer forking out for the call. I find it, how shall I put it, rather intrusive.

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5. Roy says:

   January 22, 2012 at 10:34 pm

   Well, Deceduti IS all the rage with the section of society he’s trying to woo isn’t it?

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6. Dee says:

   January 22, 2012 at 10:47 pm

   Looks like a condolences card rather then birthday greetings.
   Shades of the Addams Family.

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7. Pepe` says:

   January 22, 2012 at 10:55 pm

   Had I not read it, I would have thought it’s an undertaker’s business card.

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   • FP says:

     January 22, 2012 at 11:19 pm

     Funny that. I read it and am sure that it cannot be anything other than an undertaker’s business card … to the deceased.

     Why would anyone want to convey good wishes on the occasion of “egħluq żmienu”? Jekk xi ħadd jagħlaqlu żmienu, ifisser li jkun spiċċa.

     Will someone please inform the Avukat LL.D. M.P. kelliem ewlieni għall-ġustizzja that it’s “egħluq sninek”, f’ġieħ il-ġustizzja li hu kelliem ewlieni għaliha?

     Unless, of course, those cards are accurately worded and intended to be sent to the incumbents that he and his party are thinking of replacing shortly!

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     • Pepe` says:

       January 22, 2012 at 11:53 pm

       He can just change the wording to read :

       Why go on living when I can bury you for €500?

     • Min Weber says:

       January 23, 2012 at 12:13 am

       Ezatt!

       Jose’, int imbecilli ruhi.

       Gheluq zmienek = meta tmut.

       Birthday = gheluq sninek.

       U mhux snIEnek.

       But Herrera is another member of the LOWIQ TEAM.

       X’dizastru ta’ nies. Xi dwejjaq. X’inkwiet, la jkunu fil-Gvern.

     • FP says:

       January 23, 2012 at 12:58 am

       @Min Weber

       No need for the kelliem ewlieni għall-ġustizzja to go to such expense to prove his IQ. Listening to one of his endless long-winded speeches, going off on disconnected tangents, while trying to argue a point is proof enough.

       But then, to be fair, he’s not alone in that department.

8. ciccio says:

   January 22, 2012 at 11:09 pm

   Is this sort of thing not in breach of data protection?

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   • Min Weber says:

     January 23, 2012 at 12:14 am

     Not really. Birth certificates are a public document. Electoral registers are public documents too. From an electoral register you obtain the ID card, from the ID card the birth date.

     There is no data protection issue here.

     Unfortunately.

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9. Dee says:

   January 23, 2012 at 1:04 am

   If I ever have the misfortune to receive such a greetings card, I will get an exorcist to say prayers on it to help ward off the bad luck and send the Hon Herrera a ‘thank you’ note saying gheluq ZMIENI, indeed.

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10. Paul says:

    January 23, 2012 at 7:43 am

    Why would a criminal lawyer send birthday greetings to strangers?

    Nowhere on this card does it say that Herrera is a politician or affiliated to a political party.

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11. tinnat says:

    January 23, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    I might be led to think he was inspired by professional photos of another José of Spanish operatic fame…. http://www.topnews.in/files/Jose.Carreras.jpg

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12. Francis Saliba MD says:

    January 23, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    “Gheluq Zmienek”?

    That sounds more like a “Requiescat in Pacem” than a “Happy Birthday”

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13. Anthony says:

    January 23, 2012 at 12:58 pm

    I would be tempted to answer him “ghajnejk f’s***i”.

    However it is claimed that such an answer can provoke an acute attack of haemorrhoids.

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14. daniel says:

    January 23, 2012 at 3:24 pm

    Taht min ha nergaw nigu…

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15. C Falzon says:

    January 23, 2012 at 7:21 pm

    It would be interesting to know to whom he actually sent those cards. The macabre style might not be a mistake.

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16. vicki says:

    January 23, 2012 at 10:35 pm

    Fih futur ministru tal-gustizzja Jose Herrera!

    Vera klikka avukati bla sens ghandu Joseph mieghu – Toni tal-puppet show, Anglu tat-tuks fors, Luciano Busuttil, Herrera..

    Ara min jaspira biex imexxi l-Malta! L-Bambin jilliberana minnhom kollha.

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17. michael seychell says:

    December 23, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    As a resident of Tal-Pieta, the first Christmas card I received was from Hon. Dr. Jose (Hose) Herrera.

    When I opened the card all I found was the printed document, with no written name of the person who sent it.

    It became very evident to me that these cards were sent by Herrera’s friends/canvassers, with the names taken from the electoral register.

    I threw it in the trash bin.

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