# If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others #
##########################################################################
Have you heard a good, fairly original, Goan joke you'd like to share with Goanet? Here's one which I picked up from someone (forget who, think it was Jack) in the media circuit. The context is Goa of the early 'nineties, amidst the backdrop of intense political toppling-games of those times. (You need to hear this, with all garnishings, in Konkani. It sounds far better.) Maybe, current day Goa with its one-man Cabinets and palace coups by stealth, could throw up its own form of humour.
All resemblances with reality are only coincidental and unintended.
THE ILLUSIONS OF POWER
Dr Wilfred de Souza visits the IPHB (Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour... in less-enlightened times, called the Mental Hospital) when it was still at Altinho. As he enters, he sees an elderly man sitting forlorn, and apparently lost in thought.
Like all busy politicians, the good doctor hurriedly and in a businesslike-manner makes his rounds to inspect the hospital. Everything seems just fine, even if only prepared so for the scheduled surprise inspection.
But one thing is a bit worrying. By the time the visit is over, the old man is still seated where he was, in exactly the same position he was when Souza entered the hospital. Nobody seems to have disturbed him, and the man himself seems disturbed by nothing happening in the world.
So, Dotor goes up to him.
'Koso asa? Kitem zala re tuka?' (How are you? What's the matter?)
Silence.
'Tu khoi'suhlo?' (Where are you from?)
Still silence. This is unnerving. Which politician is used to not getting a reply when he speaks?
'Borem dista attam?' (Do you feel better now?)
Still more of a pregnant silence. Something's got to be done....
So, at this, there's a change in tracks.
'Maka vokota? Hanv Dotor Willie.... deputy chief minister.' (Do you recognise me? I'm the deputy chief minister, Dr Willie.)
After a short studied silence, the patience replies: 'Kaim nozo. Zatoloi boro. Hanv hanga bhitor sorlo tenna, aslolo chief minister.' (Never mind. You'll get better. When I entered this place, I was the chief minister!)
-x-x-x-
Have an interesting joke? Share one of yours! The last great one that did the rounds on the Net (and still does) was, I think, the Remo Fernandes-inspired 'When Microsoft ("Daktulo Pochpochit") Comes Out In Konkani'.
