Multipockets: Good morning, Mr. President.
Pocket Billiards: Good morning, Multipockets, good to see you. Good to see you. What is all this hullabaloo over the World Economic Forum? We usually did well in this type of fora before, didn’t we?
Multipockets: Yes, we did, but you are no longer the president, Mr. President, to send sensible representatives to such global events. Therefore, they have no one to represent Paradise Island on international platforms anymore. They have to send what they have now. As a result, they had only Mr. Baldrick to be sent this time.
Pocket Billiards: Good heavens. Baldrick!!! The stupidest person on earth! The guy who never bathes! The bloke who never washes his underpants! Is Double Pockets that much crazy to send a bloke like him? I am sure the World Economic Forum turned out to be a World Entertainment Forum. (Laughs Out Loud)
Multipockets: Jokes apart, you have to understand that his options are ridiculously limited. He had to pick up a fellow who could comfortably wear a suit and muster some smattering of English, out of his 159 clowns. Are you asking him to resurrect Dr. Samuel Johnson from Westminster Abbey in London to represent Sri Lanka at this Forum so that he could save his face?
Pocket Billiards: Of course, that is why Baldrick shouldn’t have been sent. Baldrick is no Dr. Johnson. My English is also not that good either, even though I went to the Royal, noh? (Please make that off the record, please, would you, Multipockets? People in this hilarious island are under the impression that I speak good English).
Multipockets: Well, with all due respect, that is not a secret, Mr. President. Everybody knows that the Royalists do not speak English well, anyway. Only the Trinitians and Thomians do.
Pocket Billiards: Yes! Yes!! Yes!! But don’t tell this in public, for god’s sake. Let’s come back to this ball bouncingly funny issue of Baldrick at the World Economic Forum. What has he done this time? Who has he antagonized? Bill Gates? Mark Zuckerberg? Tim Cook? He ridiculed Elon Musk sometime back.
Multipockets: The entire nation, Mr. President, he has shamed the entire nation! Luckily, he doesn’t know who the people you mentioned here are, anyway.
Pocket Billiards: Nah! If the nation had any concern about shame, they wouldn’t have voted for these idiots, would they? They deserve everything they get now. Anyway, forget about his English. What was the other criterion he was selected for?
Multipockets: Well, this is an economic forum, so Double Pockets had to select him because he is an economist.
Pocket Billiards: Oh! My… That is all the reason why he shouldn’t have been sent, because he is an economist. Did I send Harsha, our own Dr. Doom, worse than Nouriel Roubini to international forums? This is why I retained the portfolios of Finance, Economic Stabilization, and National Policies to myself, when I ruled.
Footnotes
- Baldrick – Baldrick is the name of a several fictional characters from the long-running BBC historical comedy television series “Blackadder.” All the Baldrick characters are portrayed by Sir Tony Robinson. Watch 5:50 to 8:20 in this link to understand Baldrick’s relationship to this episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzHn2H2V8N4&t=27s
- Nouriel Roubini – Roubini’s predictions earned him the nicknames “ Doom” and “permabear” (economist slang for someone who continually projects downturns) in the media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouriel_Roubini
