MR KNOW-ALL PARTIES ON By Baba Galleh Jallow Having recruited his low IQ loyal stooges, Mr. Know-All created his hyper smart Operation See All Unit. With his strong background in Rattling Procedures, Heehawlogy, Sophisticated Cackology, Slipshody and Hot Air Procedures, Rhinehart Soberlook proceeded to give his recruits six weeks of intensive training after which he unleashed them to various locations in our little town. Knowing all about the psychology of human kind, Rhinehart Soberlook did not create new stations around our little town for his new recruits. Instead, he just pumped them back into the midst of our common townsfolk, with instructions for some to frequent their normal peer groups and ‘vous’, some to frequent popular draught corners, others to join social clubs, some to frequent entertainment spots around town and some just to roam around with hidden micro-recorders that captured the unguarded statements of unwary folks, to which the great Rhinehart Soberlook later listened with much juicy relish. Like a giant multi-headed hydra with hundreds of invisible tentacles, our gentle Rhinehart Soberlook encroached on our little town. As time went by, he drafted more and more recruits and unleashed them into all nooks and crannies of our little town. His Operation See All Unit infiltrated all organizational structures in our little town, from town and neighbourhood councils, to street and community clubs, from large families to single households, from school staff rooms to student classrooms, from public departments to private institutions. Having discovered the golden rule that he who had the gold made the rules, Rhinehart Soberlook conducted his Operation See All Unit with remarkable gusto and relished the sense of awesome power he derived from the vast loads of information he got on a daily basis. It sometimes really tickled his cheeks and made it rain in his juicy buds. Sometimes, he felt so thrilled that his head would expand like a balloon and seem to touch the skies, and make him feel like a god. Often times, he would lock himself up in his office and proceed into his special room where he would stand before his man-sized mirror, arms akimbo, and admire his uniquely handsome face. He would broadly smile and vigorously shake his head and shut his eyes and open them wide and wriggle his waist and proudly prowl around, his shoulders hunched. Once in a while, when he was really in the mood, Rhinehart Soberlook would struck up his favourite tune, and gaily rock to and fro, to and fro, round and round, to the mute rhythm of some imagined beat. He felt mighty pleased that he was just number one, when it came to knowledge and wisdom. He would frolic before the mirror for hours on end, then eventually saunter proudly out of his office, huffing and puffing to the hearing of all, to indicate just how busy he had been all day long. Many unwary staff of Jahasay Enterprise and an increasing number of our common townsfolk fell prey to Rhinehart Soberlook’s Operation See All Unit. Those staff who happened to be critical of the great guy and made some unguarded comment on his actions soon found themselves out of employment. Supposedly close associates of the power bag found themselves on the wrong side of the great divide for some passing comment they made on how difficult or petty Mr. know-All was, or why he should take a certain policy decision. But the ones who suffered most were those who dared openly question the wisdom or probity of any word spoken or action taken by Mr. Know-All. These were not only sacked, but were later stalked and manhandled by dark-street thugs or perpetually harassed by threat-ridden anonymous malicious phone calls, thanks to the unassailable wisdom and power of Mr. Know-All’s golden rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules. And so for many, many years, our gentle Mr. Know-All ran his famous Jahasay Enterprises from his sky-high pinnacle of mind-boggling power in our little town. After all, was it not true that knowledge was power? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------