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.

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.

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.

Insist on free tickets.

Of course, we can’t have that can we?

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.

He even heard the opinion of the national laughing stock before jumping into the fray.

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