Well Haruna, it is according to you that Dr. Choot Choot is Yero and Suntou.
Not according to me. Thanks for the encouraging words.
Baba
>From: Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Realistic Guy - Part Two
>Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:24:34 EST
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>
>Marriasse. Or is it Marriaage.? Galleh I think you're crazy. We're only
>jovialising Suntou. Ok? Friggin Take it easy and let us improve ourselves
>together. I figure that is the value of community. Where's Maria Del Sol?
>Oh she's
>with Ehud Barak today. She has a standing appointment with Mahmoud Abbas.
>She'll make that appointment. Trust me.
>
>Thanx again Galleh. I've figured out Dr. Choot Choot is Suntou and Yero all
>rolled into one.
>
>Masoud. MQDT. Darbo. Oh and our own Ginny Schminny. Al Mu'Umin.
>
>In a message dated 12/26/2007 1:08:55 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>Realistic Guy - Part Two
>
>By Baba Galleh Jallow
>
>Dr. Choot Choot Hapati was an equal opportunity equalizer par excellence.
>No
>tree was too high to climb, no mountain too steep to scale, no river too
>deep to jump, and no head too elevated to knock if and when necessary. For
>him, all things are created equal and so much be treated equally. He
>recognized no superior virtues and entertained no higher thoughts for any
>single being. “To be a realistic guy,” he would tell our common
>townsfolk,
>“you have to able to stand shoulder to shoulder with any human being,
>even
>though he may be taller than you. And to be realistic guy, you have to
>show
>that you know what anybody knows, even when they have read more books or
>traveled more roads than you. That is one of the cardinal principles of my
>infallible philosophy of Lestek.”
>
>It was part of Dr. Choot Choot’s philosophy of Lestek that he was no
>respecter of persons who pretended to be wise or liked to show that they
>were educated by talking too much about issues that were, as far as he was
>concerned, very simple. Why should anyone consider themselves less endowed
>than others? Why should anyone give other people greater respect than they
>give themselves? Why should anyone place somebody else on a high pedestal
>while they remained down low below? Such behavior was definitely
>unrealistic
>and unworthy of his learned self. And he had the perfect plan for dealing
>with such persons if conditions become, as he would call it, “rather
>squatty.”
>
>“When conditions are rather squatty,” he would tell our amazed
>townsfolk,
>“there is a simple way of dealing with it: you simply squat and gape and
>wear an expression of great awe and wonder and pretend that the other
>person
>is sitting high on up and you are down low below. The important thing is
>that in your mind, in your own unique mind of minds, you are standing neck
>to neck or even above the neck of that person who pretends to be better
>than
>you. This is part of the reason why I told you about the capacity to be
>everywhere AT THE SAME TIME – just one part, mind you; just one tiny
>part.”
>As the dynamic force of this powerful insight hit their dazzled minds, our
>common townsfolk would open their mouths and gasp for air and let out long
>streams of Ahaaaa, nnnnnn, unhu, unhu, accompanied by slow and somber nods
>which made their heads bop like a fleet of black buoys floating on the
>distant sea waves. Thus encouraged, Dr. Choot Choot Hapati would go right
>on
>ahead with his great lecture.
>
>“Ahhh,” he would sigh. “You guys don’t even know what it means to
>be
>realistic. But one thing you must know: you must be able to say one thing
>and mean quite another. You must be able to talk about rats while you mean
>hippos, and talk about hippos while you mean rats. You have to have what I
>would call a realistic mind. Aah! What does it matter anyways? If the
>hippo
>thinks you mean the rat and the rat thinks you mean the hippo who emerges
>the winner? Is it not you – YOU – the realistic guy? Which is also
>part of
>the art of being everywhere AT THE SAME TIME. See? The pieces of my
>realistic philosophy of Lestek are beginning to fall into place, if you
>see
>what I mean.” At this point, our common townsfolk would be so impressed
>with
>the mental prowess of our good doctor that some of them would jump up and
>do
>a few steps and tap him on the back and call him master and cool eye. For
>when he was thus engrossed in expounding the complicated yet simple tenets
>of his realistic philosophy of Lestek, the eyes of our great Dr. Choot
>Choot
>Hapati would grow wide and cool, and sparkle red with the wine of ancient
>wisdom mingled with the light of great book learning that was his most
>conspicuous attribute. For Dr. Choot Choot was a great darling of Bacchus,
>the Greek god of wine, although that was one realistic piece of
>information
>he would never let anyone share. “My love affair with Bacchus,” he
>always
>said to himself, “is a realistic affair that must be kept realistically
>hidden from the unrealistic eyes of the world.”
>
>And when situations get rather squatty, Dr. Choot Choot Hapati knew just
>the
>trick to play to avoid the unrealistic eyes of jealous midgets seeing his
>great love for Bacchus: he would squat several feet away from the hippo
>rat,
>hopping from one spot to the other, always making sure that he was on the
>direction of the blowing wind, so that no one would smell the magic whiff
>of
>Bacchus that surrounded his person. And no, his wide and starry cool eyes
>never gave him away because people always knew that was the light of
>wisdom
>and modern book learning. At such realistic moments, Dr. Choot Choot
>Hapati
>would wear a kind and humble look in his eyes, his thoughtful head tilted
>this way or that, his arms humbly clasped together, humbly nodding and
>groaning, asking one gentle question after another. But in his great mind
>of
>minds, he was always standing neck to neck with whoever thought that he
>was
>anywhere above him. No one – and he meant NO ONE – could ever be
>allowed to
>stand taller than the great Dr. Choot Choot Hapati of Lestek fame. Why?
>Well, simply because he was a realistic guy. “Nyakadisse?” he would
>say.
>“Lestek.”
>
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