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Putin’s Puppet in the White House
Frank Collins
Golden-boy Trump has renamed the Department of Defence as the Department of War which is a better name given the forever wars the US have mounted since 1945. He believes the US has never won a war since 1945 because the Pentagon had the wrong name ‘Department of Defence’. Now that it is called “Department of War”, he is confident the US will win every war from now on. It’s all the name. He won his first battle the other day against Venezuela when American fighter jets blew up a Venezuelan fishing boat instantly killing 11 fisherman which Trump claimed was a boat laden with drugs bound for the US, 1000 miles away, even though the jet engine boat only had sufficient petrol to travel 200 miles.
Trump presented as a Chimpanzee ….
The 47th PRESIDENT in USA ….. in parody …. Trump as a CHIMP
An Ingenious Engineering Prank: A Prosh ‘Hanging’ in 1971
From THE LUMEN, October 2024
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British Satire at its Most Fertile Ferment
Edward Tew, in The Sunday Times, 7 July 2024,where the title runs this: “Farewell to the Tory clown show, a true satirist’s dream”
For the last six years I’ve been engaged in a secret love affair with Jacob Rees-Mogg. This may be news to him, considering we’ve never met, but I’ve fantasised about him being given a sponge bath by his nanny, pushing women and children off the Titanic on his way to a lifeboat, as an object on Antiques Roadshow and even poking his “plonker” through a suet pudding for his premium OnlyFans customers. I’m not a pervert, I’m a satirist.
Fantastic Predictions: WORLD CUP FORECASTS from Lankan Cricketing Fanatics
A FORECAST by Errol FERNANDO, …. A Piano Player from the Heavens, 19 November 2023
After a long tournament, we reach the final that we all predicted many weeks ago, Lorenz – India vs Australia – with the obvious prediction that India will win. Millions will back India,of course.
Let me take a different path by predicting a win for the Aussies, especially if they bat first. Head, Marsh and Maxwell are dangerous players who can take the game away from India.
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Forgetting …. and Remembering
Michael Patrick O’Leary
I do not do much new writing these days but I do a lot of remembering. I have been reading a book about Forgetting by Gabriel Josipovici, but I have forgotten where I put it. Also have Ivan Illich’s H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness and Lewis Hyde’s A Primer for Forgetting and A Sivanandan’s (met him in 1968) When Memory Dies and Forgetting by Scott A Small.
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Pissu Percy is Not RIP …. Hodi Heleyi Heleyiaaaahhhh
Michael Roberts
The burgeoning news in August that Percy Abeysekera had passed away — news that spread faster than Percy’s sprints around the boundary during his younger days — is FALSE. Percy is merely in hospital.
As an Aloysian who is a tad younger than Percy, let me note that as a 14-year old I was part of the cheering squad marshalled by Percy and Royle Barthelot when the Aloysian cricket team faced opponents at the Galle Esplanade.
Surviving the Aging: Transforming Oneself
An Email Circular from Lorenz Pereira in Melbourne, 13 August 2023 …. with highlights imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
The surprise has arrived! The Director of the George Washington University School of Medicine maintains that the brain of an elderly person is much more practical than is commonly believed. At this age, the interaction of the left and right hemispheres of the brain becomes harmonious, which expands our creative possibilities. That is why among people over the age of 60 you can find many personalities who have just started their creative activities.
An Elephantine Medical Task
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…. WELL, NOW, ….. 
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