Thanks Amy. Glad you enjoy these pieces.

Baba




>From: amy jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Dilemma of an Angry Doctor
>Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 20:59:47 +0100
>
>Baba,
>  Good job, I do enjoy your articles,pls keep them
>coming.
>Amy
>
>
>By Baba Galleh Jallow
>
>Dr. Maafimun Norpitek, managing director of Whatyasay
>Enterprises, was extremely exasperated. So extremely
>exasperated that he locked himself into his office,
>dashed under his executive desk, and loudly wept and
>blew his nose and pulled his ears. So angry was he
>that he opened his drawer and stuffed Chinese balm
>into his ears, rubbed it into his eyes and furiously
>rubbed finger-fulls onto his teeth. Then he squat on
>the polished floor of his posh office and loudly
>wailed and called down curses on all those impudent
>blokes who would have him dead.
>
>Maafimun Norpitek could just not understand why people
>hated him so and wished him dead. He could not
>understand why people opened their big mouths and told
>lies not only about themselves, but about his
>respectable and illustrious self. They go so far as to
>claim that they knew who was the first woman to set
>foot on the moon, or that in fact, the Americans had
>taken a monkey with them on their trip to Mars, which
>they called a red planet while it was in fact blue.
>Dr. Norpitek could not see why people told white lies
>and red lies and blue lies and green lies and lies of
>multi-colored layers, all because they wanted to be
>famous like him and would not call him Sir. And then
>when he took his valuable time to do those nonentities
>and the entire big wide world a favor by pointing out
>their errors and mapping out the way forward for their
>confused thought processes, every single one ofthem
>jumps out in their puny little coats with their puny
>little minds and midget ideas and try to call him
>fool, and liar, and all the other stupid names their
>blind imaginations could suggest to them.
>
>Maafimun Norpitek’s current dilemma arose from a very
>simple affair. An affair so simple that he saw no
>reason why he should bother explaining it, or even
>thinking about it. But his decent senses had just been
>so severely offended that he could not keep his
>computer brain from thinking about it and his soul of
>all souls from grieving at the monstrous idea. Hirsute
>hell, chimney spouts, black thunder clouds! Would he
>were in a position to get hold of all those impudent
>blokes and put them in their places! Physically slap
>them in the face and bang them in the mouth, so that
>next time before they opened their big mouths and try
>to monster him, they would think four big times! If he
>saw something written in the local media, something
>inaccurate, something wrong, something really stupid
>and petty, something likely to lead the whole world
>astray, something likely to make good honest
>folksstumble and fall on their noses and hurt
>themselves, was it not only proper that he should rush
>to the urgent rescue? Was it not only proper that he,
>Dr. Maafimun Norpitek, PhD Saachatics, MA Prating, BSc
>Pushanteh - is it not only proper that he should put
>aside all he had to do and run to the pious rescue?
>
>But then, when he took his invaluable time, his
>precious energy, his very special pen and paper, and
>set his diamond mind to work and published a
>well-researched and learned treatise on the virtues of
>truth-telling and the great dangers of lying, everyone
>- the world big wide world of fools and sycophants! -
>jumped on him and started asking stupid questions,
>making illegitimate and ridiculous demands on him, as
>if he was the only person who ever wrote. For months
>on end, big-mouthed fools and jealous midgets sent
>letters to the editor harping on what he should write
>and what not. They wrote such stupid things as Dr.
>Norpitek does not seem to understand . . . Maafimun
>Norpitek completely misses the point . . . Could
>Norpitek please explain . . .? Dr. Maafimun with all
>due respect . . . Our respectable compatriot Norpitek
>. . . Maafimun Norpitek is an intelligent man, but
>this timearound . . . Maafimun Norpitek this . . .
>Maafimun Norpitek that!!! Dr. Maafimun Norpitek!! Dr.
>Dool!! He was sick and tired of all those stupid fools
>making it their business to set him straight! He was
>sick and tired of all those intellectual dwarfs trying
>to measure their flat heights against his giant
>stature! He was tired of every Kumba, Pateh and Samba
>calling his pious name and asking him stupid
>questions! In fact, he had no time to respond to any
>jealous midgets! He was going to keep his pious cool
>and let the idiots rave and rant their sick lungs out!
>
>Thus resolved, our great Maafimun Norpitek maintained
>a stony silence and all our common folks said, where
>is Dr. Norpitek? Why hasn’t he responded to our
>queries? This is unlike the great guy? Little did they
>know that Dr. Norpitek, alias Vulture, was cleverly
>perched on top of his favorite tree, patiently waiting
>to swoop down and teach them a very good lesson they
>would never forget. Silence is the best policy, he
>kept reminding himself.
>
>
>
>
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