

Dear readers, have yourselves heard.
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 from Monday to Friday, when the winner will be named.
Try to spare the head on which the apple rests but if you really want to do otherwise, so be it! However, we reserve the right to edit responses to keep them within the confines of decency and the law.
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Responses
Their king making job, ministerial posts are all gone and they are back to square one!
The great tragedy is their being discarded by the poor and they became IDPs in green or blue camps.
W. Ranasinghe
Anuradhapura
Don’t blame him.
He is paying for others’ sins.
"One day he will be a - great leader".
Maharoof T.
Mulleriyawa New town
"Wasn’t it an apple-pie on his face".
Q. Kurera
Ampitiya
J.V.P. DOWN and OUT
De Silva
Colombo 5
The Norwegian Noble Committee can award the "Nobel Best Loser's Prize for 2009" to JVP.
Mohamed Zahran
Colombo 3
Executive Presidency is sour grapes , abolish it.
George Wijesuriya
Colombo 5
To go back to the jungle or not to go back to the jungle is his question.
Bharatha de Silva
Ratnapura
Wimal's party is dead, the JVP on the heart and lung machine.
Fred
Angulana
Has the South forgiven these guys for shedding blood and looting jewellery?
Mahinda Kapuduwa
Galle.
When it comes to the JVP, we must be using now bows and arrows but Galkatas and T-katas.
Dumanda de Silva
Negombo
Tilvin and his comrades do not like imported apple, place a kurumba on his head.
Siva
Vavuniya
I heard Wijeweera turning in his grave on hearing SPC election results the other day.
Geetha Pathirana
Colombo
Down the pallang they go bellowing rhetoric all the way.
Vin
Nawala
He really looks in need of an apple; let him have it.
Ranjith Abeywickreme
Gampaha
Somawansa is in hiding maybe because the JVP has won and the government has lost.
Sybil
Katugastota