TNN 73

 

Hello again folks…. is election time….. an’…(deep voice)…This is TNN….  Not ah damn seat for dem…. Mama, dat what Chambers say….. not ah dam seat for dem… not ah dam seat on Election day… (Kitchener)….. (background music)…..

 

 

 

Jumpstation: Gimme ah play nah; Tarred and feathered; D-day; Serious as a judge.

 

 

GIMME AH PLAY NAH.....

How shameful I tell you…  Can you imagine we artistes had to hold ah demonstration in Port of Spain to address de problem of de lack of airplay on radio stations in dis country… ah mean, wey we goin’?  

Right now yuh boy almost stop listening to radio, except for ah news broadcast now an’ den…  Dem DJs an’ dem jus’ getting’ meh blue vex!   Yuh hearin’ man asking people to pick up dey telephone an’ make ah “booty call”…what damn nonsense is dat?  

Since when dat is part of we culture?  Doh talk ‘bout dem odders who feel dey cooler dan de North Pole.. is Yankee accent for days!  “To all the guys an’ gals out dere, whats heppenin’…ya’ll be cool.. ahlright.!”  “Ah jus’ wanna say dat the Man is in the house… an’ we gonna be doin’ it on the inside..”   

Illiteracy abounds wit’ dem young fellas… yuh mus’ fail English if yuh want to be ah up an’ comin’ DJ.  No commentary on social issues, no attempt to inform de population.. but den again, dat mean dey go have tuh read, instead ah havin’ ah Walkman stick up in dey ears whole day.  

Doh talk about dem clowns who talkin’ “Jamiacan” in Trinidad… yuh could believe dat…?   Who in Jamaica go try an talk like ah Trini when dey come on de radio… man big stone go fly!   But not we…we all-inclusive.. we does only exclude weself…so poor me goin’ dong de Bus Route one mornin’ an some stupid station playin’ ah setta “doom-doom” nonsense wit’ some clown usin’ Jamaican phrases right t’rough.  Ah does jus’ feel to pass by de station an’ pelt some “drinks” inside (Molotov cocktails!). 

An’ dey feel dey hot, yuh know…not one ah dem could sing de words of ah Kitchener song, but dey know de lates’ outta Rap City (yuh believe some ah dem fellas rappin’ wit’ Ehmerican accents now…?). 

Now, yuh have tuh have ah balance, eh.. because yuh know I is de firs’ man does jump up Carnival time an’ say ban all dem stupid Std. 2  level songs from de radio, so ah pushin’ meh own, but ah pushin’ QUALITY…! Yuh unnerstan’? An’ is not only calypso we have... we have good pan instrumentals (playin’ classics no less), we have ballads, Gospel, chutney, parang, about 4 types of crossover music, we have meringue, cadence, zouk, salsa, etc from up de islands.  Play Caribbean, man!  

Alyuh know when alyuh go to de States or Englan’ , yuh have to go to ah “speciality” place to hear anything outside of  “de norm”, so wha’ happen to we?  But ah bet yuh, if ah calypso hit de Top Ten in America, suddenly we go start playin’ it here.. naturally, because “they” say it good!  Is ah pity, but Valentino words  from de early 70s still true…..

Mr. Foreigner come an’ see…..
Dese people have ah Carnival mentality….

An’ in ah next stanza…

They don’t know their worth...
They are not conscious.. (This Place Nice or we know it better as Trinidad is ah Paradise)

How sad!

 

 

 

 

 

TARRED AND FEATHERED.....

Yataks!  Some fellas get ketch las’ week wit’ some Scarlet Ibis an’ dey get ah good wukkin’ over!  

De fellas ketch de birds, kill dem an’ was preparin’ tuh eat dem when de Police an’ ah game warden bus’ t’rough an’ lick dem up!   An’ hear de type ah fellas dey rope in.. Chairman of de Airport’s Auhority, senior engineer at TSTT (phone company), man who own auto place, etc.. some real big guns.. 

Fellas who could afford to eat Cornish hen going after de Scarlet Ibis an’ getting;’ caught “red handed”  (he! He! He!, dat is ah good one, eh?  J ).  Dey get dey tail soak! 

Oh gorm, ah protected bird, ah bird on de Coat of Arms of de country… dey already in trouble, dey tryin’ to breed dem in captivity’ an’ alyuh goin’ ah shoot de poor fowl?! 

Have ah heart, nah man.   Unfortunately de fine so low (TT$1,000), dat is hardly ah deterrent (which shows again how much we like we own!), but ah new law suppose to change all dat ah hear…!   

An’ ah hear is plenty bacchanal went dong… man try all how to get off, call fren to plead for dem, all kinda gambage dey make.. but is like dey say in Monopoly, “Do not pass go” or maybe in this case “Go straight to jail”. 

After dis piece ah embarassment , ah sure dey eh go want to see nothin’ wit’ feathers again… from chicken to Carnival costume!

 

 

 

 

 

D-DAY....

Well good ole Bas finally call de date of election for we in TnT… Dec. 11th 2000.  

Now 48 hours before de man was in Parliament.. yuh t’ink he couldn’t announce it den… an’ spare we all de gambage?! 

Every PM does do dat…election date eh no big secret… like Christmas, it go come, whether yuh like it or not!  But Bas dere playin’ sly, an’ tryin’ to make drama.. oh, he eh callin’ de date… it go come like ah t’ief in de night… maybe nex’ year… he have until late February…each statement more stupid dan de nex’! 

Be ah man for ah change nah…everybody in de US know when de Election day is… an’ dat is de US.  You sooooo important you feel dis mus’ be ah big secret to carry around an’ make ah announcement when yuh please.  Power doh only corrupt, yuh know, it does make yuh dotish, apparently!  

It is de right of de people to know when de democratic process will take place… ah leader cannot presume to take upon heself some kinda cloak of secrecy for election. De process is bigger dan you….SMALL MAN! Why people feel dem so important?!

So now dat he call it, so what?  Eh?!  Yuh know yuh have tuh face de polls, jus’ call ah date  an’ be done wit’ it…. no… he call ah big news conference, talk about how people tryin’ to embarrass he party wit’ allegations of voter riggin’, how he might not be able to run, because he might be bankrupt if he have to pay de libel suit he get charge wit’ (dis from ah man who jus’ give he wife ah car worth over 600,000 TT dollars for she birthday).. den he decide to give de Press ah chance for questions…tryin’ to be amiable..  Well, brudder, I eh even bodder tuh listen… no time for nonsense!  

Well, now between he an’ Pathos, de jackass... oops.... sorry, de horse race has started…..

 

 

 

 

 

SERIOUS AS A JUDGE....

Well, ah eh been followin’ dis case really, but ah glad it come to ah close finally… de Chief Justice vs a Court Registrar.  

Apparently some letter was issued which she said she was asked to sign, den nex’ t’ing de CJ ask for ah report on de matter in 2 days.  She say dat eh enough time to do de report, so she get cited and get write up for disciplining procedures.  She sue, de AG try to settle out of court, de CJ say no, all kinda ole mas.. 

Ah hear de CJ finally decide to settle outta court an’ so everyt’ing back to normal.. 

Moral: lawyers dey to create work for odder lawyers!   Ah cyah see it no odder way.   Ah simple call into yuh office, ah l’il talk, ah little settlement an’ everybody back on de job.   No, dey have to discipline and sue, an’ countersue, an’ go to court an’ all dat…. an’ den dey want de people to live “togedder as one”.  Wey de example? Tell meh!  

No wonder dem court have all kinda backlog, if dat kinda stupidness occupyin’ de court time!  But ah suppose, lawyers have tuh make ah livin’ too, eh?

 

 

 

 

Dat’s all for dis week folks… remember any queries, questions, comments, hail outs etc… jus’ write to we anchorman Cobra at ttcobra1@hotmail.com  an’ we go get back to yuh… Take care care, alyuh, ah gone….Peace….. Drunk an’ disorderly… always in custody… (background music)

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