What now – reconciliation between the Hal Ghaxaq mental case and Joseph Calleja?
Those who want reconciliation with a textbook mental case should know that it is possible only if you keep some elephant tranquilliser darts handy for when he next goes on a bender.
From my column in The Malta Independent on Sunday, today:
We have now reached the stage where even the tenor Joseph Calleja, in his acceptance speech when he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Malta the day before yesterday, cracked a joke mocking Debono.
“I almost missed getting this degree,” he said, “because I couldn’t find a copy of my Form II report.”
There were a few brief seconds of nonplussed silence as the audience, caught unawares, wondered whether they were allowed to laugh. Then they did.
I thought as I wrote this last night that of course Joseph Calleja would, because of his joke, become the nutjob’s fresh target, and that Debono would spend his Sunday devising ways to get at him.
And sure enough, his latest hysterical blog-post is about just that.
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Franco the audience laughed, as did the rest of Malta.
Can’t help it, but you’ve become the laughing stock of Malta.
Austin Gatt is now no.2 in Looney Franco’s hate list.
The poor thing isn’t well.
Earlier this year I was having an early lunch in a restaurant in Valletta and as I looked at the menu, Debono walked in with a woman, went up to the big guy near the oven and asked for a table for two.
The guy kept a straight face and said to him, “No, a table for three. Sit there and take your exercise book out. I am coming over to check your homework.”
I could not believe it.
In all fairness, Debono smiled.
I believe this was a case for Peter Serracino Inglott. God bless his soul.
Go on, spit it out.
Franco Debono doesn’t want to admit that he’s become a national joke. In his blog-post he’s hinting that Joseph Calleja has some sort of ‘dark’ secret.
They are all madly in love with Mrs. Gatt, that is the reason.
Watching the university elite crack up at Franco Debono’s expense was the most amusing bit of Maltese television in ages.
Joe Friggieri was really going for it.
I thought it was a bit inappropriate of Calleja, to be brutally honest.
Why ? Asking For Form 2c reports has become a national pastime thanks to Franco’s obsession with his “high achiever” report.
I agree. That’s what I also thought when I saw Calleja’s pathetic attempt at being funny.
In those few seconds between Calleja’s joke and the audience’s laugh, Calleja was the only one laughing. It was a weird moment.
Of course, we can’t have that can we?
Better still was the bit when the world-class tenor recounted that when his form 2c report was found and examined, it was not deemed good enough to be published.
Hekk, hu go fik, Franco.
Ssssssssshhhhhhhhh ………………….. you had me at reconciliation.
Simon Busuttil has done his homework very well.
He even heard the opinion of the national laughing stock before jumping into the fray.
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Really it is Franco that has become a BUFFOON not Joseph and rumours have been going around through the Courts’ corridors that he has also become the laughing stock of his workmates the lawyers.
He has been since Christmas last year, not just with lawyers, but also with magistrates and judges. The difference is that Joseph Calleja went public with his Debono joke, while the others kept it among themselves.
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The guy has seriously lost it. If he only laughed it off as intended…What’s he going to do when panto season starts?
Insist on free tickets.
He will demand the presidential box at the Manoel to watch the panto and get offended at all the jokes while pretending not to be.
I do not think it was jibe at a particular individual; more likely a subtle dig at University that tertiary education, however desirable, is not all.
And the academics did take it in surely but hesitated momentarily into accepting it.
Steve Jobs said something similar at his honorary conferment years after he missed university. And many others. Talents are not for learning.