(Everyone present to be greeted by name as a preamble including the team that cleans the toilets):
The State of the Nation is:
DIRE
It has been decided to rename the Provinces.
Each will become a mini-State.
There will be:
Sad State (or Sorry State),
State of Anarchy,
State of Confusion,
State of Corruption,
Lawless State,
Hopeless State,
Failed State,
Terrible State,
Dreadful State.
Would you like to venture which province is best represented by each new State?
Before the address, a group of members in funny dress will utter repetitive inanities to see how long they can delay the start. They are such nonentities that this is the only way they hope to be noticed.
Their theme tune will be:
‘Send in the Clowns’
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The state of the nation aside (… we can contemplate on that master move later 😀 * …) but that is such a gorgeous song! Last heard by a student in Dawie Couzyn’s singing studio, at a master class. Incredible.
My sis had a little music box that played that song.
* actually that is how music gives perspective. Everything passes, politics come and go… but music is immortal. Thank you Col, for that piece of immortality.
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Backwards world in a recently formed state of clarity?
What a mess…(but red is always good for a power color – the problem is then everyone’s a powerful winner or whiner…I’m not known for spelling)
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Well, I thought these techniques we’re used only in my part of the world.
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Wonderlike vertolking van ‘n gunstelinglied!
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A sorry state of affairs, Col. 😱
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You should be sorry you stated that!
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Sadly stated
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With much sorrow, indeed!
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I was recently in a State of Undress. It was cold, but better than the State of Apathy.
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Is that similar to being in a state of starting a fresh song – a New Ditty?
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Leslie, you are hilarious. It is a bit like watching a circus except that a circus is planned to entertain and not to disappoint.
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Thanks. The artistes in this circus were singularly unskilled, even at clowning.
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Yip, I agree.
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Very, very clever! I miss your wit when you’re not blogging.
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Ta everso.
Unfortunately load shedding has recommenced in full force, so I will probably go missing in action again.
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Well, take care while you wait.
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