PARTLY FACETIOUS: Thrice was Julius Caesar offered the crown, and thrice he did refuse

“So will the twenty seventh…”

“Twenty-seven is divisible by three.”

“So?”

“So remember Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? Thrice was he offered the crown, and thrice he did refuse.”

“OK, but you need to revisit that premise.”

“Hey, that was Shakespeare.”

“Right but Shehbaz Sharif is second time prime minister, Nawaz Sharif if he ever returns to the PM house will be a fourth time prime minister, Zardari sahib is the second time president and…”

“And stop.”

“I don’t get it – why?”

“If you were going to refer to the Man Who Must Remain Nameless and…”

“Good heavens no. I may obliquely mention him when he reaches the three-year anniversary of his jail term but…”

“Obliquely? How?”

“Not as the Founder as they do on the airwaves and not as…as…”

“Fitna al…”

“Shut up. Anyway, I will refer to him as you do – The Man Who Must Remain Nameless and Faceless?”

“What if that order is rescinded to be replaced by…”

“Then I will follow it.”

“OK, so going back to twenty-seven, I was actually referring to the proposed amendment currently being debated in our parliament.”

“Well that is good, right.”

“Yep, and we have beat them Americans yet again! They succeeded in passing twenty-seven amendments after 236 years, their constitution was ratified and put into operation in 1789 while we would have managed twenty-seven in 52 years.”

“Shall we wait till the end of President Trump’s term? I mean, he has almost singlehandedly followed our lead and…”

“Don’t be facetious.”

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