Coconut Kurt is not alone in being super-touchy about his stature
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October 28, 2013 at 12:30pm
A Reuters report in 2010:
(Reuters) – Theater posters proclaiming “We await you, merry gnome” were taken down from a Russian town shortly before a visit by the country’s diminutive President Dmitry Medvedev, a local website reported on Friday.
The advertisements were for a children’s theater show, but were removed from a street that the president’s convoy was due to use on his visit to Omsk on February 12, the nr2.ru website reports, citing local sources.
Russian media say Medvedev is 5 feet, 4 inches tall.
Five feet four inches is the height of most Maltese men, but in Russia, yes, that would constitute a gnome.
Our chief of government communications is 4′ 10″.
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Meanwhile, many miles away, in a country with which we have suddenly developed close ties, they’re also touchy about photographs:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-24700026
Medvedev (or Kurt Farrugia) would avoid having to meet 6 feet 5 inch, Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milo Dukanovic.
The truth is rather different than a single Reuters report would make you think.
Russia is vastly more liberal and free than Malta in poking fun at its political leaders. Both Medvedev and Putin are regularly lampooned in the press and in TV shows, including an animated cartoon show, on national TV, where their stature and close relationship are especially caricatured.
There have been no arrests, intimidation or political pressure, and the show has been going on for years now. Medvedev’s attempt at dancing along to a famous Russian 1990 hit has become a staple of humorous impressions. Putin and Medvedev are the subject of countless sketches by Russian comedians. They’ve even laughed along at live shows.
Now try to imagine Joseph Muscat doing that.
I know that the Maltese love to compare themselves with the Russians, as a consolation of sorts, still believing that the Russians are ignorant oppressed moujiks while Malta is now home and dry in the EU. But I think you’ll find we’re rather less free, and rather less liberal, than we might think.
I think Kurt requires special procedures to go through metal detection.
Those things flip when half the readers don’t get a return signal.
Ping.
How did all those suldati tal-azzar manage to get through the metal detectors?
Coconut is the only person I know with a full length photo on his passport
His wife asks him to ‘go up on me’.
So even I can call him a mezzo cazzo….anyway at 5’6″ I was the best football player ever.