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Food Prices
Hit the apple with a pithy one-liner on the issue written on it and win a prize. Please make it short and to the point.
Responses will be published daily and winners named every Friday.
Try to spare the head on which the apple rests but if readers really want to do otherwise, so be it. But, we reserve the right to edit responses to keep them within the confines of decency and the law.
Entries may be sent to
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Lips together, his mouth will resemble a large apple - a more appropriate target.
Lalith Perera
Although the food prices are skyrocketing, he’ll be as
steady as a rock.
Smile a while and while you smile make the consumers also smile a while
Who cares about food prices, as long as terrorism is not there.
Food prices going up and up and up, but the minister is getting fat and
fat and fat.
Hilda Gunawardana
Rajagiriya
Apple overhead - so food prices have to be increased
If you tickle the head the apple will stay.
.What is the connectio between the head and the apple;
Is it a nut or a gram ?
K A N Butani
Even this Big Mouth cannot swallow that Apple.
P. B. Herat
Colombo 10
The digits of the CL Index could be so long as the Minister’s Digestive Tract (normally 25 feet)
Budhaprema
Maharagama
"Curse the apple and spare the devil"
"Ha! See my popularity - captions pouring in from all corners"
"Consumers - fasten your belts! I’ll loosen mine"
J. M . T. Fernando
Negombo
Even William Tell would have been happy to miss this apple
Ranjith Liyanage
All participants in the competition refused to take part fearing possible charges of intentional grievous bodily harm.
Save the food item the doctor ordered, by aiming low.
Dr Sunil Fernando
Colombo 5
The real target is the tiny grey spot in that vast hollow area below the apple!
LPd
Nugegoda
When food prices are rising
waist sizes are falling
The ministers advice to the people "Laugh and grow fat"
Eat and not grow fat.
Mrs. K. Goonewardene
Aim at his big mouth; Food Prices will fall dramatically.
C. M. Ariyawansa
Nawala,
Discounts I give on the swings, I recoup from the merry-go-rounds.
R. R. Samaranayake
Battaramulla
Hey! Unseen hoarder, don’t tickle minister from behind, lest I miss the apple.
Ranjith Liyanage
Talapathpitiya
