You welcome Haruna. Trying to do our little bit from this end always. Thanks for the encouragement. Baba >From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Realistic Guy >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:19:23 EST > > >Brilliant Galleh. I think you should consider this other genre of satire >just as you excel in non-fiction. I am enjoying Mandela's Other Children. I >want >to treasure the submissions so I am reading it ever so slowly. I want to >encourage you to become the polyvalent you can be when time permits. I >think you >have immense value to our community. And without satire, the soul of a >community cannot be fully enriched nor perspectively cautioned. Democracy >relies on >satire and journalism for sustenance. Thanx always. > >Haruna. > >In a message dated 12/17/2007 1:59:16 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > >Realistic Guy > >By Baba Galleh Jallow > >Our little town was not entirely unblessed when it came to having some >really prominent citizens. Indeed, it was in the domain of citizenship >that >most of our prominent big wigs dazzled our senses with their wit and >wisdom, >which, thankfully, they were never loathe to share with our less endowed >common townsfolk. It was no surprise at all that in our little town, there >was a common saying that at least one common folk got wiser every single >day. And this is in no small measure attributable to the great wisdom of >one >of our most prominent citizens, Alhaji Doctor Choot Choot Hapati, commonly >known in our little town as the Realistic Guy on account of his mastery of >the art and science of realism in all their loaded complexities. > >Now Alhaji Doctor Choot Choot Hapati was no little guy in our little town. >Indeed, we could safely say that he was no ordinary big wig in our little >town. We just stop short of saying that our little town is almost unworthy >of the presence of this great guy who was so wise we sometimes thought he >was the sun itself come down to earth, walking on two feet and talking >with >its mouth. For not only was Alhaji Doctor Choot Choot Hapati a great >natural >orator and myth booster, he was also an eminently learned person, a >veritable guru of ancient wisdom and a bitter cola of modern learning, to >borrow a prominent metaphor from our little town. Well versed in all the >categories of subtle wisdom with which the very fabric of our local >customs >are woven, Dr. Choot Choot Hapati was also highly educated in the wisdoms >of >the modern world: he held a Bachelor of Fats in Rope Dragging from Whig >University, a Masters degree in Swashbuckling from the famous university >of >No Teach, and to cap it all, a dazzling Doctorate of Robosophy in Real >Techniques from the world famous university of No Contest Upon Find, which >was why he was given the honorable nickname of Realistic Guy and why our >common townsfolk simply adored him. > >Fortunately for our common townsfolk, Dr. Choot Choot Hapati was not one >to >lose an opportunity to teach less endowed folks a thing or two about life. >And he found a perfect opportunity to do this by developing his own >personal >philosophy of being a realistic guy. What plopped out of the fertile mind >of >our great doctor and bloomed into the sunny airs of our little town was >nothing less than a brand new realistic philosophy of life which he aptly >called, without any unnecessary fanfare, the indubitable philosophy of >Lestek. Our common townsfolk never tired of gathering around the great Dr. >Choot Choot to hear him expound aspects of his dazzling new philosophy >with >the hope that they would go home at the end of the day if only a teeny >weeny >bit wiser than they were when they arrived. And good lord all of mercy! >Our >great doctor never failed to deliver! > >Dr. Choot Choot Hapati was a kind and generous soul, and as such, he >always >began his lectures with a wide and benign smile which never failed to warm >the gullible hearts of our simple-minded townsfolk. Having smiled every >one >into a cozy comfort zone, Dr. Choot Choot Hapati would then proceed to >deliver one of his memorable discourses on the art and science of being >realistic. And being the ultimate master of jargon, Dr. Choot Choot would >always begin by citing the ancient aphorism that of course, you could only >learn about realism if you were yourself real and that our common >townsfolk >were indeed real because he could see them with his own two real eyes as >well as his two unreal ones perched academically on his nose in the form >of >his famous reading glasses. > >“But even my glasses are real, I can say,” he would wisely pout. >“But some >of ya wouldn’t know that, would ya, because you will say because the >glasses >are not made of life and blood, they therefore are not real.” Such a >clever >statement always elicited a long drone of hmn – hmn and several nods of >enlightenment from his doting audience. Whereby Dr. Choot Choot Hapati >would >proceed to tell them what exactly it means to be a realistic guy. > >“Ya see,” he would say, tilting his head to one side. “Sometimes I >want to >tilt my head like this, or like this, or bend it like this, or look at the >heavens like this. But then I will ask myself; I’ll say Choot Choot wait >a >minute. Which of these postures do you really think is realistic? And then >I >would say Choot Choot you gotta be kidding me! And you know why I say >that, >because to be a realistic guy you have to know where exactly your head is >tilted at every single moment of the day without even asking. It doesn’t >matter whether you are sleeping or walking. If y’all sit and forget that >there is a head on your shoulders, or that it is tilted this way or the >other, then y’all are seriously out of touch with reality.” Our amazed >common townsfolk would utter shrill cries of admiration, loudly groan >their >undying approval, and shake their heads many, many times as another >invaluable piece of realistic wisdom sunk into their heads. Thus >encouraged, >a beaming Dr. Choot Choot Hapati would continue. > >“But I am not saying that to be a realistic guy you have to be arrogant >and >boastful. I actually got a masters degree in swashbuckling and I can tell >you that to be arrogant is both part of being a realistic guy and is not >part of being a realistic guy. Because you see, to be a realistic guy you >have to be able to be both here and there and elsewhere AT THE SAME TIME. >And that is crucial – the ability to be everywhere AT THE SAME TIME. >Because >this means that you have to do something that is both impossible and yes, >possible, even easy: You have to grow additional feet with which to stand >on >multiple ground at the same moment, additional mouth with which to speak, >additional eyes with which to see, and yes, additional hands with which to >shake worthy hands and slap unworthy ones. But of course, this stuff is >far >too advanced for y’all. So I will have to explain further next time. For >now, just remember this: to be realistic guy, you have to eat your bread >but >still have it, as the Englishman would say.” > >Such a dizzying analysis of his philosophy of Lestek would send our common >townsfolk staring wildly around and exclaiming heh! heh! heh! Did you hear >what Dr. Choot said? Heh! This guy is really educated! Heh! > >_________________________________________________________________ >Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! >http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > >¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface >at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] >¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ > > > > > > > > >**************************************See AOL's top rated recipes >(http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface >at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > > _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask]