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Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
published: Thursday | June 21, 2007

Who is the father?

1. It was the only talk around town sometime ago and, since the elevation of one of the parties, the argument has resurfaced. Now, if you believe the argument, it goes like this: when the duly wedded husband found out that he was not the legal father of the child born to them, he quietly ended the marriage. Now, the talk is that the academically inclined one is really the father.

Spin-doctors at work

2. Spin-doctors should take care that their public pronouncements are in keeping with those for whom they are spinning. It is a case as the old saying goes: If fish come from river bottom and say shark down there, then you should believe the fish! So, if those who stand to benefit from an act of omission say it was so, no amount of spinning can undo the claim. And, if the principal is thumping his chest and exclaiming, "Not over my dead body", then it is difficult to put any different spin on his own pronouncement.

Watch those polls!

3. There are polls and there are polls. Some commissioned to test the waters! Others done to boost flagging morale and party fortunes.

Awards galore

4. Seems like everyone who attended got an award! Best way to guarantee an audience, however small!

There's room for improvement

5. They thought he would have grown in the job, but not so say the guardians of etiquette, as stories abound of ordinary behaviour and or behaviour not in keeping with the holder of the office.

'Defecting' models

6. A number of its male models are 'defecting' as soon as they hit London. Is the local entity a refugee agency?

Jungle fever

7. Remember the expat husband who came home from work one day to find the packers being supervised by his mother-in-law? Apparently the reason for the move was a case of jungle fever.

Dozens of letters

8. They have their own letter-writing department churning out 'Letters to the Editor', attacking any and all of those with whom they disagree. The department has apparently moved to a certain organisation.

The jet again!

9. Who really owns the jet?

Leave the women!

10. The glaring double standard is obvious when it comes to women in politics, or those trying to enter representational politics. Case in point - the chorus of naysayers questioning the intelligence and or capacity of Lisa Hanna; the scathing attacks on Mrs. Simpson Miller, as against the loud and damning silence that accompanies the selection of some men known to have serious questions about their character.

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