Just for the record (not that you are interested in boring things like facts) Muscat was not reading his speech, merely consulting notes.

[Daphne – Hmmmm. Very well informed, aren’t you? And yet, you’re so proud to be Labour that, UNLIKE ME, you’re too lily-livered to put your name to your opinion, not even privately to me alone. Just for the record, that is one fact which I might find fascinating, almost certainly for the very reason you conceal it. Good to know you’re an activist and not just a fan.]

The MLP mass-meeting at Il-Menqa (Marsa) in ’91 was probably the biggest ever – and the MLP still lost. Maybe there’s some sort of inverse rule.

In any case, we will not see those kind of crowds again cos ( :-) ) times have changed.

[Daphne – Yes, no thanks to your lot.]

There you go, getting personal again.

[Daphne – Personal? Hardly. I mean, the man IS particularly robotic, but that’s no reason to treat him as though he weren’t a person.]

You are wrong about EFA – he used notes ESPECIALLY when addressing mass meetings. I have seen several sets which a friend of mine – a Nazzjonalist akkanit and a collector of anything collectable – managed to acquire. I did not ask how.

[Daphne – Pathetic, Martin. Really sad. Fenech Adami, when speaking at mass meetings, was blown up large on a huge screen and filmed from close range for television. If he were using copious notes, you’d have been able to see them, and you wouldn’t have had to rely on your dubious friend. ]

Mur arak lilek, ticcelebra l-ewwel ta’ Mejju fi zmien il-glorja ta’ Mintoff, fuq it-trakkijiet mimlijja barrin, fi zmien sebghejnijiet ittambar fuq ma xi banju u tkanta MA TAGHMLU XEJN MAL PERIT MINTOFF.

U vera ta, ghax irrangakhom ghal festa fl 1998 u issa, baghat lil bintu ha tirranga ghal festa lil Joseph.

Saint Francis of Assisi was one of his writers. Remember ‘Where there is hatred, let me sow love…’?

Mhux Jon Favreau tighid.

That system has an automatic gear system. It does not have a clutch pedal.

Johnnie, four dots would have been enough. We all know what you meant to say. Putting a lot of dots can only reflect your state of mind.

And what if his foot slips on the pedal, like on the clutch pedal?