Stumpy man worships at shrine of the Prickly Pear God, symbolised by large dinner fork and manure shovel

Published: December 11, 2014 at 9:23pm

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54 Comments Comment

  1. Manuel says:

    The incarnation of North Korean ideology.

    Hail, Palma tax-Xewk.

  2. Jack Beans says:

    Hilarious!

  3. nus says:

    What a perfectly fitting photo! A boat full of pigeon shit and _________________ Help yourselves to fill in the blanks.

  4. vanni says:

    I don’t want to be unnecessarily coarse, but why does Joseph seem so entranced with what looks like a phallus in a condom?

  5. kapxinn says:

    “The Prime Minister, in solemn pose, says a thanksgiving prayer before the Halfway Road Circus monument to the Maltesian Republic’s former emblem.”

  6. Charlie Theuma says:

    So get this. Joseph Muskrat started his speech by mentioning national unity, and that the country should be brought together.

    Later on: “Dr Muscat also noted that his government had provided new dignity to the Republic Day monument when it restored it – and increased its prominence – when 13 December Road was reconstructed to allow for the construction of an underpass linking it to the Marsa menqa”.

    Is it just me or does he stops practising what he preaches after a mere couple of minutes?

    Prim tal-Mickey Mouse. Lanqas minnu stess ma jisma’ ahseb u ara mill-poplu.

  7. C.G says:

    Insejta d-dghajsa, Daphne?

  8. ken il malti says:

    That certainly is Desperate Dan’s dinner fork, used to dig into those mighty cow pies.

  9. Tutti Frutti says:

    Veru qisu qallut, ha la harget.

  10. jose' says:

    If Hallmark made Christmas cards for switchers, this would be it.

  11. Watcher of lies says:

    They can add a banana bunch to the prickly pears, giant spoon and fork and of course the boat.

    This proposed addition to the now-defunct republic emblem will perfectly symbolise our (2nd?) republic, with banana Joe at the helm.

  12. bob-a-job says:

    That’s one stiff that ain’t coming.

  13. Nigar Kalfa says:

    Well, if the stumpy man has to sup with that prickly god, he’d better use that long spoon and fork.

  14. Kif inhi din? says:

    The Prime Minister is checking the boat for leaks (lijks), the latest word to enrich to the Maltese vernacular.

  15. Sonya says:

    They’re soon going to have to change those to chopsticks!

  16. Herbie says:

    Redikoli u pulcinelli

  17. Adrian says:

    The monument of the proletariat; erected a few years after China’s Cultural Revolution.

  18. Wot the Hack says:

    Ara, qed jistenna l-bajtra taqa’ f’halqu.

  19. Mk says:

    Our prime minister like many of his generation was indoctrinated into respecting this symbol representing Malta, a peasant malta.

    One thing which always caught my attention is that’s there is no reference to the intellect on It. Just rocks, spade and fork, the sun and sea and off course il-bajtar. Maybe it’s the humble ‘bajtra’ which represents the progressive Lejbor intellect.

  20. Wilson says:

    At times, one has to come face to face with himself.

  21. Lupin says:

    That’s not a large dinner fork. That’s a pitchfork. How could you miss that?

    [Daphne – Ho hum, there’s always somebody who takes it literally.]

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      Oh look, they even built a stone trough so can gorge himself. I don’t think he’ll use cutlery though.

    • Lupin says:

      Literally? I was just making the connection with your ‘crowds with pitchforks’ you love to descripe the other Malta so perfectly. And it’s all there staring at us in that symbol.

    • Neo says:

      That’s not a pitchfork. That’s a dinner fork. Pitchforks don’t have a ‘flat’ area between the prongs.

      The other implement is obviously a toy shovel, like the ones used by children in building sand castles.

  22. ta wied is sewda says:

    Why is the bajtra tax-xewk staring at him?

    Jien, int, ahna mahdumin.

  23. manum says:

    Hamallagni ghax huma hamalli.

  24. canon says:

    Do the Muscats recite the rosary in bed?

  25. Lizz says:

    He wouldn’t stand with half the gravitas shown here, if he was standing in front of a memorial of some great human tragedy.

  26. U Le! says:

    One bajtra looking at another bajtra.

  27. M.Borg says:

    Hail the stone boat that will never float.

    Labour – trying to float their stone boat since 1974.

  28. Matt says:

    He looks silly staring at a rock. Even Mintoff and Karmenu never stared at this rock.

  29. Majju says:

    I can’t see the keychain in the picture. Is he in the boat ?

  30. Gahan says:

    Ifakkarni f’Mussolini quddiem l-“Altare della Patria”.

    Jien qatt ma niftakar lil Mintoff jiċċeremonja quddiem il-monument tal-pal tal-bajtar.

  31. tinnat says:

    Is that a really bad-fitting suit, or has the Prime Minister lost weight the last few weeks?

  32. Gracecam says:

    Where the heck is this so called shrine of cactus plants and bananas?

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