30th
January 2010
What a Wick:
the last 7 days in 19 (23rd -29th January, 2010)
 Sometimes
I wish I could exchange my dark Gucci shades
for simple rose-colored glasses because there
is so much bad news out there! It’s so
overwhelming at times, and I want to be able
to look up in search of that proverbial silver
lining, to remain sane. This Wick I’m
going all Monty Python on you as I attempt to
“… look on the bright side of life”.
Wish me luck!
1) In Haiti, a teenage girl was pulled from
the rubble 15 days after the earthquake struck.
She suffered from a broken leg and dehydration,
but on the bright side, she was alive!
2) An overworked dairy farmer from New York
shot 51 of his 101 cows, then shot himself.
But some have found the bright side by speculating
that he tried to make things easier for his
family by leaving the 50 cows that don’t
need to be milked frequently.
3) It came out this week, that the late Pope
John Paul II habitually beat himself with a
belt to remind himself of Christ’s suffering.
On the bright side, that’s not what the
pope died from in 2005.
4) In Peru, doctors mistakenly amputated a man’s
good foot. But on the bright side, when they
realized their error, they took ‘corrective’
action by cutting off the infected foot as well.
5) An Italian boy was so offended by his father’s
advice to improve his videogame skills, that
he stabbed his old man in the neck with a knife.
Is there really a bright side to this? What
should we make of the fact that after stabbing
his father, the boy went to the kitchen calmly,
washed the knife he’d used and put it
to dry?
6) Panday was defeated as opposition leader,
and current PM, Manning was busy feeling sorry
for him. But on the bright side, Trinidad could
see its first female prime minister come next
election.
7) A German who hid 44 small lizards in his
underwear to try to smuggle them out of New
Zealand got caught and punished. But on the
bright side, the lizards were remarkably well
behaved.
8) Being a soldier is risky business. The Israelis
are trying to make up for that by issuing soldiers
new odour-free socks. These socks can be worn
for a full fortnight without smelling up the
feet. On the bright side, who wants to die with
stinky feet? Right?
9) In Israel, a man threw a shoe at a judge
while in court. He used so much force that the
shoe knocked the judge off her chair. Disrespectful
eh? But on the bright side, there was nowhere
to run; he was already in the embrace of the
long arm of the law.
10) An American woman died at 100. But on the
bright side, she died just one day after fulfilling
her lifelong dream of earning her degree in
education.
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