The village idiot

Letters

Madam, Brother Jacque was recently described by Douglas Moroney of Auckland (Sunday Times, Dec 3,1995) as the village idiot. He quoted Marshall McLuhan on the fact that planet Earth was becoming like a "Global Village”.

“So who is our village idiot?

Take a bow, Monsieur Chirac!”

The case of Brother Jacque is indeed a strange one, common sense seems incapable of getting through to his brain and the rest of the world cannot seem to penetrate his stubborn perversity in regard to Nuclear testing.

His only ally on this matter is the British Prime Minister John Major who, having to wear glasses, obviously has difficulty with his vision and is so short-sighted and one-eyed he needs an

appointment with his optician urgently!

Both of these men remind me of The Giant Three-toed

Whoop Kacker!

"The Giant three-toed Whoop Kacker seems programmed for self-destruction. These birds, if that is what they are, cannot fly but nest in trees. They lay large, irregular-shaped eggs but seem incapable of building nests that will stop them from falling to their destruction on the ground. The Whoop Kacker is so clum sy that it will often, sometimes within minutes of laying, step on its own eggs. Nature has tried to compensate in some small way by endowing both male and female birds with egg-laying abili ties, but still the wholesale carnage continues as stupidity and clumsiness take their terrible toll on the potential breeding stock.”

The source of this quote is yet again from that fount of eso teric lore The State of Waiheke by Jim Storey and the cartoon that accompanies this letter was originally drawn by his illustri ous hand.

In a recent caricature by Bromhead (NZ Sunday Times, September 10, 1995) a psychiatrist is addressing a patient who is reclining on a couch dressed as Napoleon.

"Thinking you’re Napoleon is OK, its acting like Chirac that

would be a bit of a worry,” he said.

What more can I say except, "His explosions are offensive and we all say, Phew! Obviously Monsieur Chirac needs a Water-loo!

Martin Leo

Otahuhu New Zealand