Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Put 20 and 62 = Laughing Stock

In 1988, Onmu was split into 2. From the ashes of the old Onmu, a party created on 11 May 1946, emerged 2 new parties, Onmu (Balu) and S46. A few days ago, on 11 May 2008, Onmu celebrated its 20th Anniversary. The backdrop in the main hall of the PWTC, however, said that Onmu was celebrating its 62nd Anniversary. That is the trouble when you switch to teaching Maths in BM. The Onmu people no longer know how to count properly. We can forgive them if they missed the date by 1 or 2 years. But 20 and 62 is a very wide miss indeed. Let me repeat that. On 11 May 2008, Onmu celebrated its 20th Anniversary, not its 62nd Anniversary, never mind what the backdrop said. Let us not get confused between the figure 20 and the figure 62. R Tambichik can be forgiven for thinking that an underage girl is actually 18 judging by the size of her boobs, as what he claimed. After all, 18 and 15 is not much difference when using boob sizes as the yardstick. But to mistake an underage girl for a woman of 62 would not be accepted as a valid excuse, whatever the size of her boobs may be. 62 would certainly be 2 far off the mark and Onmu 2 can’t be forgiven for celebrating its 62nd Anniversary when the party is only 20 years old.

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