Thanks Baba, For deciphering the political appointment and firing of our fellow Gambians by Jammeh. Even Puhus is tired of the frogs, the lies to defend the indefensible, I bet! ----- Original Message ----- From: Baba Galleh Jallow To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:43 PM Subject: Return of the Empty Patriot: A Well Kept Secret Return of the Empty Patriot: A Well Kept Secret By Baba Galleh Jallow For a short while, Puhus the empty patriot went undercover. The hundreds of frogs he was swallowing were popping out his backside at an uncontrollable rate. Worse still, all those jealous midgets were laughing at him so hard they could not stop. Wherever Puhus popped up in our little town, funny giggles erupted as people discreetly pointed at him and whispered, “Hey guys, look, that’s him. That’s Puhus of the croaking frogs, His Emptyllency’s most favored prating nuisance!” Sometimes, Puhus did not hear these mocking remarks. But he suspected very strongly that he was the butt of the greatest jokes in town, especially when people looked at him in a funny way and said, “look, here goes Ninsihakili Falibaa!!” And so tortured by a combination of pooping croaking frogs from his backside and the jeering whispers and funny glances of our amused common townsfolk, Puhus the empty patriot found security in silence. Perhaps if he went underground for a few days, those stupid journalists would forget about him and would stop writing funny stories about him. Did our elders not say Nii mang Koo fo Koo tayla!! Unfortunately, a few days silence led to such an outpouring of ridicule and laughter directed at His fat-lipped Emptyllency that the great guy summoned Puhus and demanded to know why he was silent. Was Puhus not being generously paid to counteract anything and everything said about His Confused Emptyllency? Puhus was ordered to get his arse right out there and do his job or else go sixty feet deeper than all the others! And so with renewed enthusiasm fueled by gut-wrenching fear of His Emptyllency, Puhus the empty patriot suddenly resurfaced in our little town, armed to the nose and ready to do battle against any impudent bloke that dared to utter as much as a single syllable critical His Confused Emptyllency. To render himself invincible, Puhus the empty patriot resumed his frog swallowing. He peered into every nook and cranny and dragged out every frog he saw, sometimes bursting them open as he pulled them out, but nevertheless shutting his eyes and swallowing the busted frogs whole. After a belly full of frogs, bursted and whole, Puhus the empty patriot resumed his one-man-war against the jealous critics of His Confused Emptyllency Alhaji Doctor Chief Mooo Ikodi Mungfeng Mbeeh Medical Feninen of Ask the Dead Fame! Day in and day out, Puhus gallantly battled against the critical hordes, throwing one punch here, another punch there, a kick this way, another kick that way, baring his chest against the world, daring the very winds to blow in the direction of his embattled boss. Puhus the empty patriot rattled on and on and on, insisting on the great qualities, the infallibility, the invincibility, and the god-like qualities of His Greatest Emptyllency, the great Alhaji Purufusu Doctor Peeep Chief Ikodi Mungfeng Mooo Mbeeh Medical Feninen of Ask the Dead fame. At some point, his voice sounded like the ominous drone of a crashing airplane. And all our common townsfolk stuck their fingers into their ears and shouted, Oh shut up you frog-pooping idiot!! But of course, Puhus the empty patriot was no ordinary idiot. Not, at any rate, the type of frog-pooping idiot our common townsfolk said he was! Neither would he shut up. True, frogs did pop out his backside and croak once every while, but he was still a strategist of the sterling sort and would get what he wanted . . . come rain, come shine, come day or night! He had a secret in his heart; a secret no one knew. Not even General Doctor Chief Mooo Ikodi Mungfeng Mbeeh Medical Feninen of Medical fame knew the darling secret Puhus kept in his heart of hearts. It was the one secret dream that kept him sane. And this secret dream . . .no one would stop him from realizing his secret dream some day soon, very soon. Not even His Emptyllency, Alhaji Doctor Chief General Ikodi Mungfeng Mooo Mbeeh Feninen of Medical miracle fame! What Puhus did not know was that some of our common townsfolk had learnt of his well-kept secret and were planning on telling His Pious Emptyllency, if only to stop the croaking frogs from popping out of Puhus' rattling backside!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. 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