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Cheers Dears: The Dog's Tale By Augusto Pinto Dears When I took my great big German Shepard Laskar for his constitutional, he told me a tale. Let him tell it in his own words. Laskar began: "The other day I saw six brown curs assault a black mongrel with murderous intent. I was with a knot of spectators by the roadside watching the dogfight. It was a one-sided show between the Blackie and the six Brownies. Blackie had long since thrown in the towel. His face was torn up and the fight was in the below-the-belt stage now. Blackie was on his back, bloody and helpless." "Abruptly the biggest Brownie went for the kill. This huge big Brownie leapt  at Blackie's throat gnashing. Its jaws snapped on Blackie's collar which was contemptuously torn asunder. Blackie exhausted now pawed pathetically as from all sides the snapping, snarling Brownies came down upon him. He was helpless, bloody and helpless." "I, like the rest, stared in revulsion and yet we were...

Cheers Dears: The Colva Street Show By Augusto Pinto Dears I love theatrical productions so I'm hugely pleased by what the Colva people did recently. I'm referring to the show they put up in response to a CD produced by their tiatrist panch. I have not had the pleasure of watching the CD as it is now banned.  But I'd love to and  I'm ready to pay four times the cover price for it. But from what I'm told the people were excited because the CD took the Mickey out of the the Colva parish priest.  But after that the whole show was a super hit  Sex! Politics! Religion! Bigamy! Adultery! Violence! It had everything! What Fun! The Colva-ites who turned this explosive plot into a street play did a fantastic job. It was a come one - come all affair; everyone could play a part; anyone could say anything; there was no need for elaborate dialogue; there was no need to sing songs;  if there was nothing else to do one could gherao some cops; or simply fling a stone or two. An...

Cheers Dears: Paklo And His Pikleleo Popeyes By Augusto Pinto Dears I asked the mirror on the wall:  "Mirror dear, who has the whitest of them all?" And the dear  mirror replied - " Paklo !!" Any niz Goenkar will tell you that Paklo or the White One is the nickname of Xavier de Moira,  who has the whitest teeth to contrast with his glorious  black  skin. The smile and the ready wit that emanates from his sparklers drive many a beauty crazy, to the despair of the husband who's slogging it out on a ship or in the Gulf. But let me hasten to add that Paklo is happily married, and the lustful longings are all in the minds of his female fans. Paklo is a drummer - and if fame came through sheer talent then today he would have been more famous than Bondo. The problem with Paklo is that he does not  know to hype himself. Still his renown has spread  throughout Goa, Bombay and Dubai. Go to any tiatr , and more often than not you will find the drummer in th...