Unfolding drama

1. Hear that all the unfolding drama is to obscure and muddy the waters about a certain person's demands.

Changing course

2. The pipers have to be paid, so plans are afoot to divert the road from its originally intended course. How are the pipers paid with this diversion?

Taking bets

3. Pundits are taking odds ... will there be many winners?

Why the boycott?

4. Some find it more than farcical that the minister thought it fit to register his protest about the done deal by boycotting the official function, but found time to attend the upscale celebrations later on the same day.

Two-bit tyrant

5. The quote of the week: "Trailer-park types are asserting themselves everywhere now, but the latest utterances, not to mention behaviour, strip him of all the vestiges of gentlemanly pretensions, to which he associates himself, to expose the soul of a common thug with the disposition of a two-bit tyrant. Pity those who have to work for him."

Prized engagements

6. Some are complaining bitterly about the practice of some senior employees/ appointees who regularly check their bosses social diaries for prized engagements, especially when the bosses are out of town, then turn up at these functions, purportedly representing the boss at his behest. Things came to a head, last week when one such 'player' called to confirm her attendance, as well as that of her husband, and was told bluntly: "You are not on my guest list."

Do the math!

7. There are those who regard board appointments as an opportunity to serve and thus give back; others see it as an entrée to social circles to which they would not otherwise have access; and others see it as an opportunity to enrich themselves. Now it's time to do the math!

Attack dogs

8. The baying is not the neighbour's dogs disrupting diplomatic nocturnal rest, but the attack dogs of the 'dish towel turned table cloth', determined to besmirch his betters!

Ministerial Fiat

9. Does the Prime Minister have an opinion on the current issue of "conflict of interest" arising from the recent ministerial fiat?

Poppa dearest

10. The love child is now an adult, but in the early days, the father kept his economic and emotional distance, telling the mother: "You wanted a child, now you have one," and with that, divorced himself from his parenting responsibilities. Well, guess who is now busy trying to make contact and offering financial advice to the daughter, now that there is a financial windfall in the offing? Poppa dearest!