Oxford dictionary lists the word “spichate” coined by the RAF during the war when a fighter plane was beyond repair. It gives the origin from the Maltese word “spicca”.

[Daphne – Yes, I remember it being used all the time among the English-speaking people of Malta. We even used it ourselves. It was actually ‘spicherred’. It still comes back to me from time to time.]

Either that or because The Times became the Maltese equivalent of the Daily Mail. And on page 3, we have an exclusive collage of cat photos from the internet.

Too damn right. Any straight man would react violently to a nipple-caress of that type, especially one that comes from the rear. The last thing you would do is to respond with a caress of your own.

They need working on, this lot.

Were The Times still scared of Labour thugs in 1991? I wasn’t alive then so I don’t remember. It seems to me that they are still a little afraid of them now, knowing that they are going to win the election, for example by not reporting the Yana Mintoff scandal involving her land and the MEPA permit.

Not when his mind’s on Lydia.

[Daphne – True. Stephen Ciantar was sacked and fled. The Pom Pom Girls were disbanded. Bootleg copies of the film were shown (covertly) in PN clubs around the island. And it made the front page of In-Nazzjon c. 1991, as I recall. Today, it would have made the front page of The Times, but those days were different.]

Yes, my friend. There is something seriously weird about the sexual orientation of this grope, sorry, group.

If only they will emigrate, and leave the rest of us to enjoy the peace and relative prosperity which we never had in our youth and childhood, thanks to that bloody bastard who then headed the Malta Labour Party, and whose acolytes are still very present in it today.