“Who is P T Barnum?”
“Good heaven what made you think of him?”
“I will tell you as soon as you tell me who he is?”
“Well the operative verb is was, not is. You thinking of Bill; Clinton? During his testimony to the Grand Jury in 1998 I think in the Monica Lewinsky case he famously said it depends on the definition of the word is.”
“What else can is mean? I mean there are some words that have many meanings in different contexts but…”
“When a lawyer asks for a definition then that’s a strategy, legal…”
“What about an Accountant?”
“Hey back off – if he said on the floor of the House that within 15 minutes of the US-Israeli attack on Iran he condemned the attack then know that when he calls his samdhi or the samdhi’s brother they pick up the phone right away so there!”
“So why did it take 15 minutes? I mean that should have taken no more than five minutes or at best six minutes.”
“There were some other calls he had to make, and I heard he went through the appropriate channel…”
“Shut up. To keep a daughter’s father-in-law happy you need to do a lot. See even President Trump had to appoint Ivanka’s father-in-law as the ambassador to France, and he has irritated the French twice already and…”
“Didn’t Benazir Bhutto also appoint her father in law to some post or the other?”
“I believe she did. Anyway Pt Barnum was an American showman, he set up a travelling circus in 1870 celebrated for hoaxes and he was also a politician…President Trump referred to Zelenskyy as PT Barnum?”
“Thank God for that, I thought for a minute that you would engage in the ultimate folly: that of naming a Pakistani P T Barnum…”
“I may be bold at times but never brave.”
“And the difference between the two?”
“Musharraf was brave as long as he was the head of the army, members of the Opposition are bold as long as they are in opposition, once they…”
“The party members of The Man Who Must Remain Nameless and Faceless…”
“More generic than that – opposition party members exhibit brave qualities when out of power.”
“Right.”
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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