Austin was a topper student
Will somebody please tie Franco Debono down before he reads this?
No need to do something more exciting than that once you’ve clipped him to the doorknob. He’s not interested in anything other than sex with himself – if that.
Fifty Shades of W…well, never mind. A friend told me last week that her 14-year-old son is a keen reader of this website.
Anyway, after yesterday’s major scoop that top student Franco, who sat O-levels at 14, A-levels at 17 and flew high in Form IIC, got his law warrant at 26 instead of the standard 24, we have more news.
My international network of spies and informants has given me an even bigger scoop: Austin Pipi Gatt became a lawyer at 22, a full four years before Franco.
And then he married the lovely Marisa, who Franco thinks is hot because she is almost as beautiful as his mother (yes, he actually wrote this on his blokk).
As they say: x’riha ta’ hruq.
Austin Pipi Gatt, li muhiex sabih bhal is-Serduq ta’ Hal Ghaxaq
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You can be sure that there is a riha ta’ hruq in the vicinity of Hastings, Valletta.
Manwel Mallia altru li ma lahaqx ta’ 22. But now he is a top lawyer and a star candidate. Times really change.
Austin is intelligent and down to earth. He used to get flak all the time whilst sitting at Pjazza Regina enjoying a coffee with friends who had different political views and guess what? There never was animosity between them.
Honestly speaking I do not agree on certain issues with Austin, but hey…that’s the gist of it all. One does not take it personally. Franco can’t do that.
The connection that Franco makes between his mother and Austin’s wife is perfectly understandable.
I must admit that I lack the courage to elaborate.
It is also a question of ethics for which I am a stickler.
That Schlomo guy from Moravia (Google) explains it all beautifully.
“My international network of spies and informants has given me an even bigger scoop: Austin Pipi Gatt became a lawyer at 22, a full four years before Franco.”
Oh, Gosh, now Franco is in a Catch 22 situation.
And at what age did Joseph Muscat become an economist?
For the time being, not before the age of 38. He is not an economist.
Dak ġab il-PhD waqt li kien MEP Brussels b’familja ta, imbirikalla!
still not there yet
and maybe he never will
When he figured out how to break open his piggy bank without his parents noticing.
He’s still coming to grips with economics and his Professore, Eduardo Scicluna isn’t helping him much.
Ask me again in 2018.
Who care about their ‘certiffikati’? I could easily advise Franco on how to use his certificates.
The fact of the matter is that most Maltese politicians have no credentials to justify their political activity.
In Malta, politics serve personal advancement. Nobodies become gods. Empty bodies fake as oracles. As Lowell said “nies telghin mill-hama tal-partit”.
In normal circumstances, achievements could potentially project people into politics, but it does not work the other way round. Speak of a topsy turvy country!
“LI MUHIEX SABIH BHAL IS-SERDUQ TA’ HAL GHAXAQ”
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Li mhuwiex sabih bhas-serduq ta’ Hal Ghaxaq…
[Daphne – I’ll concede you the mhuwiex, but I am at odds with the insistence on bhas-, which is a contraction of bhal is-. By your reasoning (and that of the irkotta Nazis), we are not permitted to use the full form because the irkotta league never do. This is like saying that because most people say ‘don’t’, then ‘do not’ is wrong. True, it is cumbersome to say ‘do not’, and ‘don’t’ flows more freely off the tongue, but…]
Well, I’ve never heard a fluent Maltese speaker (irrespective of their upbringing, unless they’re Edwardians — they’re Maltese speakers too, but they’re by no means fluent, save for one or two rare exceptions) say “bħal is-“. It sounds too formulaic and just wrong. That particular preposition (partiċella), ‘bħal’, is always assimilated with the article. See http://www.akkademjatalmalti.com/filebank/documents/Taghrif_rivedut.pdf, p. 78
[Daphne – I am not particularly interested in what the Akkademja says. Their rules and verdicts include some veritable atrocities. And you are wrong about fluent Maltese speakers never saying bhal is-. They do so when they wish to be emphatic by announcing the words separately, in the same way that fluent English speakers almost never say ‘do not’ but occasionally do so for emphasis.]
I would never compare a verb (possibly an imperative in your example) that’s contracted with a simple grammatical rule that governs how prepositions are written when followed by the article (which is in turn governed by rules on how it [the article] is written depending on the next letter, in this case a konsonanti xemxija)…
[Daphne – Who made the rules, and more importantly, when and on what basis? The more recent ‘rules’ are made on the basis of working-class Maltese as the standard. I refuse to abide by them. Irkotta, my foot.]
I can understand why someone would want to draw attention to a word if it’s negative imperative, but not when it’s a meaningless assimilated article that adds absolutely no value or emphasis to the meaning of the sentence.
Imma nsomma.
I am sure Austin Gatt was an avid reader of books during his university days, hence his academic achievments. I heard that some of the books on his reading list included Mein Kampf….
[Daphne – Oh I see. You belong to the ‘banned book’ category of thinking. I have all sorts of books on my shelves, by all manner of people. It doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with their contents, but I still want to read them.]
Reading Mein Kampf for the sake of reading it is one thing. Bringing it along to the Police HQ to make a statement — sorry, to kill time until you’re interrogated — is another. I hope you can make that distinction, Randon.
Joseph Muscat doesn’t have a degree in economics. He calls himself an economist just as Alfred Sant did. Joseph Muscat has a doctorate in Management Research.
And Sant has a DBA, not a PhD in Economics.
Q. Who in his right mind leaves sixth form after first year? (ref. FD’s blog)
A. Someone without any friends.
B. Someone who later in life (much later) demands Isle of MTV tickets because he is a young and hip MP?
C. Someone who most people would like to have as a pinata?
I’m assuming FD went to SAC Sixth Form. If on the other hand he was a Junior College student, I wouldn’t blame him for wanting to GTFO of there as fast as he could, from what my friends tell me.
What? White Arrow was a blast.
O, sc’gioia! Ruhi tfur bil-ferh meta niftacar!
Imma Austin mil-Belt u Franco min Hal Ghaxaq ta! Mhux sew taghmlu paraguni.