Civil servants, led by the secretary of the PMO, are off to climb Mt Everest this season. Can't blame them, they probably got bored waiting for a new government to be formed and needed some excitement in their lives. Also, they must want to get as far away from politicians as possible and to a place where the muntris can't bother them. The North Pole must have been their first choice, but why go there when we have Mt Everest right in our backyard? The Donkey's best wishes to Team Leader Lilamaniji and his mountain goats.
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And over at the Constant Assembly, the Speaker seems to have given up on the constitution being written by 28 May even though his yar, Com Root Canal, is now PM. He is spending his entire day cutting ribbons, putting in some karate practice and watching rose petals being dropped from helicopters. So when the Nashnul Colishun on Rashial Dishcrimination wrote a dummy constitution, the Speaker was more than happy to give a speech and release it at a function attended by, among others, Com Yummy. If you can't write a real constitution, a pretend constitution will have to do.
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Despite promoting political wrestling as a tourist attraction, here comes news that there are stern new travel advisories about the dangers of visiting Nepal during Nepal Tourism Year 2011. Good timing. Which leads the Asinine One to suggest that our Foreign Ministry should retaliate immediately by also posting warnings to Nepalis about visiting Bahrain (could get maimed in a jana andolan), Libya (could be shot at from helicopter gunships), UK (all non-essential families of Nepalis to leave because of the danger of random attacks on public transport), Thailand (Nepalis are warned that whatever they do they should not go to Bangkok wearing a red shirt), US (Nepalis working as gas station attendants are warned that there is a fairly good chance they will be shot at without warning), Australia (Nepalis should exercise extreme caution because they could easily be mistaken for Indians).
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Instead of moaning and groaning about Americans declaring Nepal a No-Fly Zone, we should turn that into catchy slogans for our Tourism Year. Three creative jingles immediately spring to ass:
1. Nepal Airlines: No Plane, No Problem, No Fly
2. Visit Nepal, No Flies
Above 3,200m
3. Visit the Land of Suruwals: Look, Ma, No Fly
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Which brings me to the news item in the Indian press about Nepali Maobaddies extorting the brother of a former Communications Minister in Himachal. The comrade must have thought, it is standard operating procedure back home, so why not extort the Injuns too and make them share some of the 2G scam loot? Our latest item of export: extort.
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Chairman Awesome thought he'd pulled a really fast one by withdrawing his candidacy and making Jholanath PM to thumb his nose @ India. What's he doing, then, meeting Amresh Bhai every day at the premises of Sumargi & Son, Pvt Ltd? And if you think UML is having problems over portfolios, you should wait for the mother of all bandfands within the Baddies. The Pistachio Palace erupts every night with booze-ups led by Com Awesome, with Com Horrible, Com Hit Man and Com Ugly (btw: what is Com Sapkota doing heading the Tamang Autonomous Council?) in attendance. Com Napoleon is determined to keep Com Snowball out. PKD must have been scorned once more because he went to Bardiya and lashed out at the revisionists who were trying to keep him out of power, naming a large country to the south whose name begins with 'I'. After being heckled by families of martyrs, Fearsome did what he always does at times like these, blame the devil: "We aren't sheep, but we have been forced to behave like sheep. I assure you comrades, we will roar like a lion again."
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Two papers are tied for the Headline of the Week Contest.
'UML Headed for Splitsville' 'JN-Oli Talks Come a Cropper'
The consolation prize (the Ass' favourite) goes to:'Mule Spills Beans on Fake Notes'