Village boy Impressions

                                                                                                                                                                                 35 th January 2022 His Royal Miserliness, First Born of the Gregorian Calendar  Slow Motion Avenue Three Hundred & Sixty-Five One-Quarter Days. Dear January,  Last week, I wrote you a very long disturbing letter in which I chided you for your yearly niggardly attitude and wanton display of sluggish disdain for the dignity of labour and the golden rule not to mete out what you cannot countenance in others.   It seems nearly everyone has lost something since you came up: students cannot find their school fees, tenants are owing rent, housewives have misplaced the chop-money they were given in December, pubs have lost customers, a couple of drunks have lost their front teeth, the few virgins we have, have broken their vessels of honour and not a few ladies are missing periods.  As if that was not enough, many m

Ø He had only one major publication  Ø It was in Hebrew  Ø It had no references  Ø It was not in a refereed journal  Ø Some doubt He wrote it by himself  Ø It may be true that He created the world, but what has He done since then?  Ø His cooperative efforts have been quite limited  Ø The scientific community has had a hard time replicating His results.  Ø He never applied to the Ethics Board for permission to use human subjects.  Ø When one experiment went awry, He tried to cover it by drowning his subjects.  Ø When subjects did not behave as predicted, He deleted them from the sample.  Ø He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book.  Ø Some say He had his son teach the class.  Ø He expelled his first two students for learning  Ø Although there were only 10 requirements, most of His students failed his tests  Ø His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountaintop Source : Unknown       I first saw this composition in th