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De man above collecting musicians
Oct 31, 2008 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists
Some people ain’t got guts. Sometimes all it does tek to cool a bad man is a time in jail and nuff people who go to jail don’t want to go back because de conditions really bad. De Short Man was a bad man till Bharrat put he hand pun he.
Every day de Short Man would guh pun he own TV and he would talk bout all de bad things that happening in de country and when he done he gun put de blame squarely at de foot of de responsible Minister. De man he really use to blast was Bharrat but as dem boys seh, de longest rope got an end.
De Short Man had this programme and somebody mouth slip. That wasn’t de problem. Was when de Short Man play back de programme not one time but two time that Bharrat put he hand pun he.
Four months Bharrat slap pun he and that shake up de Short Man. He cry when he had to come off and he cry when he had to go back on.
Now dem boys vex. De programme ain’t nice no more; not even Joey and Walter talking like how dem use to talk. People ain’t complaining like before and de Short Man ain’t even mekking people laugh wid he Comedy Non Stop.
De man, according to dem boys, now showing movies. Before he go off he use to boast how he programme was all local.
Now he got English movies and Chinese Movies and Indian movies and African movies. He trying to get some Amerindian movies and some Portuguese movies.
That ain’t de only thing that change. De Big Market paper losing its best reporter because de Editor cuss she over some thing.
Dem boys seh that is a long time bad blood been between de two because David like de girl reporter and he wife like de editor.
When something happen to de girl David use to intervene but he get sick and when de cat ain’t deh de rat does tek over. De cat tek over and de paper gun lose this girl reporter.
When de news buss out de hard times paper smile because it really believe that it gun get another good writer; de management lie because de girl reporter claim that she can’t lef a newspaper and go and wuk wid some exercise book.
And people cussing Raphael because he start de call pun Bharrat fuh lower de excise tax suh gasoline could sell cheap.
Bharrat open he mouth and talk how dem minibus drivers ain’t gun lower de fare if dem get cheap gas but Raphael tek he a bet. Raphael holler, “Bet you five Guinness”. Bharrat tell he that he don’t drink suh leh dem bet dem four by four. “Raphael holler, “Bet”.
Bharrat now waiting fuh see when dem boys gun collect Raphael four by four which Bharrat give he duty free because all dem minibus drivers now claiming how dem got to deal wid high cost of living and how dem mechanics charging more and how spare parts get expensive and things like that.
But dem boys know that if de price of gas didn’t go down was de same money they woulda been collecting. Now dem getting a windfall and dem mek Raphael lose he four by four. Khemraj then tun and tell Raphael that de Scriptures claim that man should not put his trust in flesh.
But is de same flesh that cause nuff trouble in de AFC. De lawyer woman did expect to go and sit down in parliament after de elections but flesh mek she get shack out and she promptly lef de party.
Talking bout party, tomorrow night nuff people planning fuh de Byron Lee party wid Sparrow. De people who plan de party time it to coincide wid pay day and although people holler how times hard some women tap into dem boys fuh dress and shoes and money to buy tickets.
Byron Lee ain’t coming this time because he sick and that is something that also got dem boys talking. Is nuff people sick. VJ de calypso monarch sick and he like Byron Lee suppose to be heading to de other side.
Dem boys seh that de Man above want to form a band because he already got a cricket team.
Talk half. Lef half.
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