“Two resignations and how many to go?”
“Well, resignations mean that there are some principled…”
“Careful as you go.”
“Some principled amendments that have finally come home to roost.”
“You heard the proverb about chicken?”
“There are a number, which one do you mean?”
“Chicken one day feathers the next.”
“That is in the realm of animal cruelty.”
“From where I am at it is a good form of protein and need I remind you that the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics has revealed that chicken prices declined by 21.52 percent last month compared to the month before.”
“But unemployment is at 22 percent, Benazir Income Support Programme’s three monthly stipend for five or six people…”
“OK, so not many out there who are going to be buying chickens at a reduced price because input prices rose — the cooking oil, the vegetable ghee, the gas prices, the…”
“Dear Lord anyway, let me quote another proverb to you: the key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”
“Cool, but our Prime Minister reminds me of Henry IV, the English King…”
“Is it because of his snazzy suits and…”
“Don’t be facetious.”
“Is it because he is fair?”
“Don’t be a racist.”
“OK, I give up what?”
“Shakespeare in his play Henry IV had the main character say I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.”
“Hey, a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”
“Samuel Butler said that, and that is a good one.”
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