Comments on: Leo Brincat – his bio is blank

By: Allo Allo

Allo Allo — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:08:29 +0000

In reply to Joe Fenech. The King of the Nerds

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:50:07 +0000

Anyway – what are you expecting his bio to say?

By: Doris Debono

Doris Debono — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:05:35 +0000

In reply to aged.

Aged, not always.

Daphne I love your blog and I miss it when you are away for some time.

You make me laugh. But you also may me cry when what you report is something to worry about….tal-biża!

Nistennew u naraw.

By: aged

aged — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 06:13:15 +0000

The last two figures on one’s identity card indicate the year of birth

By: Rose Grima

Rose Grima — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 05:42:01 +0000

I remember him living in the same street as us in Bormla. An only child with a very strict mother. From when he was a young tot, he always had great dreams and his mother always encouraged him to be better and greater than the rest of us children.

He had this notion when playing with the toy church that he had at home that one day he would be Pope. He was not happy with being an altar boy and becoming a measly priest. No, he wanted great things.

[Daphne – He had a toy church? Oh my. I recall Sandro Schembri Adami (my contemporary) had one of those. While the rest of us played doctors and nurses he played priests and pretended to say mass. He ended up in jail – still there.]

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:03:42 +0000

In reply to Alexander Ball. I should write a little Lonely Planet Guide to the Real Malta. You clearly don't now the depths of shallowness (er) in which our press wallows. It's actually 3. They're too busy discussing lost cats, human interest stories, and the fantastically humble new Pope.

By: Min Jaf

Min Jaf — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:51:12 +0000

70+

By: Alexander Ball

Alexander Ball — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:37:36 +0000

In reply to Evergreen.

I have 2 theories:

1. They are scared of the knock on the door in the middle of the night and the men in coats come to whisk them off to a gulag

2. they’re a bunch of lazy c*nts.

Examine and discuss.

By: Allo Allo

Allo Allo — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:26:20 +0000

It’s true that he seems to have been around since the age of the dinosaurs, but I think he’s closer to 60.

[Daphne – Yes, by a year.]

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:23:27 +0000

No Daphne…he must be 64 or 65 years old. He used to attend the Lyceum at Hamrun with my brother.

[Daphne – So a spring chicken, then. Turns out you’re exactly right, and that I had it all along: http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/habemus-papam-and-a-gvernasaurus-rex/ ]