Partly Facetious: Head or tail?

ARTICLE: "Sometimes I can't tell which end is the head and which the tail."

"Then you need an eyesight check immediately. I don't know of even a blind person who cannot tell a tiger's head from his tail or...or a cricket bat's toe from its edge or....or an arrow's pointy head and the other end...."

"Once the blind person tries to determine which end is the tiger's head I don't think he will have any life left to determine which end of the cricket bat or arrow..."

"Ah so you reckon the most lethal is the tiger hunh!"

"Don't make it political I was just taking exception to your statement of a blind person being able to determine which end is up."

"Oh OK but your statement about not knowing which end is up was kind of inane, don't you think?"

"Well there are worms, if they are not moving one doesn't quite know which end is which and...and....stop, stop lets drop this discussion - I wasn't referring to something live when I said I don't know which end is up, I was referring to a table - I mean there is the head of a table and then there is the tail so how do I know which end is which."

"Ah ha! That's easy. You have to look where the head of a household sits and that is the head."

"But what about these official tables...."

"Well there are round tables where everyone is on the same footing. And that is a no-no in our official circles; on occasion there are no tables just chairs ranged along one or sometimes two chairs and that's when you have dual chairmanship...."

"But sometimes there is one chair and you and I both know that..."

"Shush speaking of chairs Farogh Naseem has taken oath for the third time and I hear those playing satta on commodities are taking bets on how soon he will resign again to plead in a court of law and...."

"It has become a farce indeed but you know I was disappointed in Babar Awan's capacity to persuade the man sitting at the head of all tables in Pakistan to give him the Law Ministry and...."

"Hey Awan convinced the Prime Minister to appoint him as Advisor to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs without a seat in parliament, now that is much more of a challenge than getting the Law Ministry away from Naseem...."

"There I agree."

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