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Dear Readers,
What do you think of the 2.6 billion dollar loan the government has
obtained from IMF and its fallout?
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
Editor
The Island
223, Bloemandhal Road
Colombo 13
or
Fax: 2497543
or
prabath@unl.upali.lk
featureseditor@unl.upali.lk
webmaster@unl.upali.lk
Responses
Who the devil can signal as LBW for me? (Legally Bad Work)
Let the elephants trumpet, concerned citizens shout, I am ‘Loku’, gay over my decision.
Nazly Cassim,
Colombo 13.
Thick skinned sans mother’s milk or mother’s affection, cannot be pierced.
Lakshmie Karunatilaka Gomes,
Moratuwa.
Let us hope and pray that the two innocents will not be molested and raped by the abductors.
R. R. Samaranayake,
Battaramulla.
Mahout Mahinda abducted elephants from the UNP.
‘Big House’ follows his master and does the same from Pinnawela.
M. V. Keegel,
Kandy.
As an exhibit in the Katuge (museum) will the label be Lokuge or Hokuge or Bokuge?
S. Witana,
Colombo 5.
Lokuge has a thick hide, thicker than the elephants’ (with apologies to those majestic animals).
Not even the overwhelming public anger has penetrated his thick hide, to release the baby jumbos back to their mothers.
Neil Perera,
Colombo 5.
Politicos please don’t interfere!
G. L.Wijesinghe
Katugastota
"Lokka, why are you unleashing your hatred towards the big jumbo on us, innocent babes? Weren’t you in the same herd once?"
J. Abeygunawardhana,
Homagama.
Hon.Minister, reprehensible
Diyawadana Nilame deplorable
The whole lot intolerable and no doubt
they will suffer retribution in this birth or the next.
Dear Editor, the punishment meted out to this man is negligible.
Please get an elephant mother to do the needful.
Thilakasiri T. Kasturiratne, Nugegoda
He was bottle fed when he was baby.
P. B.Herat
Colombo 10
No need to check
His hide is thicker than
that of the Pachyderm
Kingsley Goonastilake
Ratmalana
Vote for –– to hang or chain Podi-ali hora?
G. L. Wijesinghe,
Katugastota.
Return baby jumbos to the only suckers they could trust!
Jayatissa Perera,
Bambalapitiya.
Big House, Big head, Small Brain.
C. Fernando,
No point in aiming low. His "elephantine" hide is too think for the arrow!
A double barrelled gun is needed as the arrow can’t pierce his "elephantine" hide!
Ranjith Arambewela,
Colombo 08.
Chee ...! Whatever I do
Ends up in utter chaos no?
J.M.T.Fernando
Negombo
Babes from the wood, cruelty torn apart!
Nemesis will visit the Monsters fast
He who abuses his authority brief will bite the dust via a mothers grief
Perahera time when every prospect pleases and one greedy man goes vile!
Mother Jumbos tear little one’s fears
The villain will suffer dreadful years
Upali Dhanapala
Mt Lavinia
The winner
Clamp not an MP seated
It’s labour gone waste
Never can they stand up
With that sized waist
A.G.Abeywickrama
Gampaha
