Category Archives: pulling the leg
Dog Beseeches God
Dear GOD. It’s me The Dog
Dear God: Is it on purpose that Our Names are spelled the same, only in reverse? Continue reading
The Politics in and around Cricket. In Praise of Rangana Aiyya
Rip Van Winkle, in The Sunday Times, 8 October 2017, where the title is “400 wickets”
My dear Rangana Aiyya,
I thought I must write to you to congratulate you, because you have reached the magic number of four hundred test wickets – far more than all other Sri Lankan except for the legendary Murali. This came as a pleasant surprise, as did Sri Lanka snatching victory from the jaws of defeat against Pakistan.
Nowadays, seeing a Sri Lankan team win a cricket match is as rare as holding a provincial council or local government election, so I suppose when it does happen we should all be very happy about this and we are indeed. However, I am a bit sad about it as well and I will try to explain why. Continue reading
A Classic British Farce on Stage via Indu Dharmasena
Item in Sunday Times Online = http://www.sundaytimes.lk/article/1021966/indu-dharmasenas-take-on-a-ray-cooney-classic-it-runs-in-the-family
Director Indu Dharmasena returns with another Ray Cooney comedy. This time it’s ‘It Runs in the Family’, a classic British farce, a laughter-filled cocktail of mistaken identities, fabricated deaths and even a few cross-dressing antics.
Click! Click! Instances of Perfect Pictorial Timing
With a BIG THANK YOU to http://www.worldation.com/opinions/70-epic-perfectly-timed-photos/22/
Bill Leak etches no more…. Appreciations galore
Bill Leak, the editorial cartoonist for THE AUSTRALIAN, passed away at the age of 61 from a heart attack. The VALE iin appreciation in that newspaper extends to several pages. But perhaps the best epitaph was from the cartoonist Paul Broelman in the Geelong Advertiser–showing a memorial in stone of a hand with the index finger extended as “Up Yours!!”
Canada to Build Wall to Keep Yankees OUT
BREAKING NEWS
The flood of Trump-fearing American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week. The Republican presidentialcampaign is prompting an exodus among left-leaning Americans who fear they’ll soon be required to hunt, pray, pay taxes, and live according to the Constitution.
Canadian border residents say it’s not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, liberal arts majors, global-warming activists, and “green”energy proponents crossing their fields at night. “I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywoodproducer huddled in the barn,” said southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. “He was cold, exhausted and hungry, and begged me for a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn’thave any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?”
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Lankan Lampoons on The President’s Men
BUT … which President or President-to-Be are we referring to? Obama? Hillary? Trump? PM Ranil? or Royal Ranil?
Profile :- “My life story is on my face”!! … Has a keen sense of humour – his famous song being ; “Why can’t a woman be like a man”
“Aiyo! Aiyo!” AIYO penetrates the Oxford Dictionary
News Item, 10 October 2016
Aiyo! It’s officially In Oxford Dictionary Now!
“Aiyoh”, a common expression in Sri Lanka, South India, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa. Now it is among more than 1000 newly pinned words that made it into the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary last month. Oxford Dictionary is the most widely referred book for English nuances. The Oxford dictionary is 150 years old and for people who swear by it, if a word is not included in this book that word is not English. Period. It keeps updating its list of words each year by adding some commonly used words.
“Aiyoh“, defined as expressing many emotions – distress, regret, pain, surprise, grief, disappointment, irritation and disgust.
It has been reported that Oxford English Dictionary believes that this word has originated from China (Aiyoh in Mandarin). The Oxford English Dictionary adds new words four times a year. Some scholars are believed to be unhappy with the inclusion of these words in the dictionary as they believe this takes away the purity of the English language in all effect and is offending, but they have been using these colloquial words in their daily lives. Continue reading
