Wednesday, February 23, 2011

ODD NAMES

Heads of organisations and lesser officials often get unusual nicknames. During the Cyclone Carlos flap , one such person , called the “ smiling assassin”, entertained assorted favourites with drinks and finger food up in the gods while staff laboured away downstairs coping with the growing demands of the emergency. It is obvious that Cyclops has led a sheltered ,monastic life because he was told of a person dubbed “camel claw “ and did not know the meaning of the strange moniker.