CLEAN TEETH
17-Apr-2009 11:19 AM
VOLUNTEER FDP photographer, Max, reports that he has cleaned his teeth.
‘It was new experience for me’, the young scholar admitted, ‘but I did it’.
Asked which teeth he cleaned, Max pointed to his front, top row.
‘These ones’, he enthused, ‘these are the ones I cleaned’.
An inspection of the alleged clean teeth confirmed his claim.
Max further conceded to fellow reporters that he will also try ‘taking a shower’.
When asked when, he said, ‘one day’.
Man gets on bus
15-Apr-2009 11:44 AM
IN what is believed to be the first reported incident of its kind, a man got on a bus yesterday.
“It was easy,” he said.
“I just lifted one leg up and then the other and I was on”.
Fiji Daily Post reporters found witnesses willing to confirm the happening.
“Yes”, said one who asked to remain anonymous, “I saw him get on the bus”.
Another witness who also preferred to remain unidentified told this newspaper it was “the early morning bus”.
“I was waiting opposite the shop when I saw him run to catch the bus.”
What happened next was a remarkable feat – the man actually got on the bus, we believe.
Students from a local school who had been waiting for two hours in the rain for the bus also confirmed that they saw the man board.
“We are happy for him”, one student remarked in terms reminiscent of Neil Armstrong (the first man to step onto the moon): “it may be one small step for him, but it is one giant step for the people of Fiji”.
Paint dryWhy they were doing this is left as an exercise for the reader.
15-Apr-2009 11:33 AM
PAINT has apparently dried on his old couch, Max reports.
Given the job of painting the couch, Max was excited at the prospect of the paint drying.
But when asked how it dried, he was nonplussed.
“It just went on wet, but after about four hours, it started to dry”.
“That was when I realised, paint dries,” the young scholar observed.
Fiji Daily Post asked Max if he intended to do more painting.
“Oh yes,” he replied, “I like watching paint dry.”
(Via Offsetting Behaviour; cross-posted)
Weird. Sounds like a fun town. I guess that with the recent going ons in Fiji the goverment has either cracked down on local media. Another reason is that local media could be to scared to speak about what is happening in their country as the government may punish those who write bad things about the government.
ReplyDeleteThat is brilliant. Great to see the Media still has a sense of humour in these tough times.
ReplyDeletePerhaps this is an effort to demonstrate the calmness and serenity of domestic Fiji, like a foal wandering through a dew soaked clearing on a spring morning? Perhaps these are subtle metaphors for social change; the paint representing the will of the people, its drying beign symbolic of the transient nature of the cultural makeup, and Max's continuing interest in painting showing the neverending quality of this process?
ReplyDeletePlease, Dr. Marquez, you couldn't possibly let the cat out of the bag and tell us what these really have been about?
Hahahahahaha...
ReplyDeleteVery witty, and a most cunning way to rebel!!
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