Frequent Flyer Family Foundation…It all started like this… A good friend, who is now the Africacorrespondent for German TV based in Nairobbery asked mewhether I could “get” the man for an interview on the 2007 Nigerian elections. As usual I obliged by asking the man whether… He in turn obliged but also came back with the question whether I could help him to “burn” some of hisLufthansa miles for a relative… by using my contacts with theairline. I thought I could use my contact with one Miss Mordi at Lufthansa H.Q. in Frankfurt, only to find out that the Nigerian-German lady in question had flown to… Nigeria for vacations. In the end I did however find her there and asked her to make direct contact with the “man” by phone, warning the man…
Wole,
I told the lady not to surprised when you call her, NOT to hang up when you call her, because she might feel like somebody was springing a joke on her, by pretending to be W.S.! Hope she is very much “on seat” while vacationing in EKO– for you.
Gerd
WOLE:
Morning Gerd,
Just spoke to Ms. Mordi… so she got to work and has now produced the desired results. So the relative is now profiting from a travel grant from my FFFF…
WS
Before you ask the question – FFFF, in case you missed it in my Memoirs, stands for Frequent Flyer Family Foundation, the only one, I am certain, in the history of flying..
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Oga,
YES: I do seem to remember that FFFF – only question is: how does one become a member???
Fare thee well!
gerd
PS: NEVER (please!) forget Jakob’s idea to have SAMARKAND (or…) recited by YOU in SPEYER cathedral
WOLE:
Gerd,
Membership of FFFF. When you qualify, that makes you a member. To qualify, you must be broke and in dire need, take your place at the end of a wait-list, and be able to sing, down the telephone line, James Brown’s “Say it loud, I'm black and broke”.
No matter the colour, that makes you an honorary black.
As for Jacob’s idea: tell him I’d prefer to do “Murder in the Cathedral” if he’d agree to be the Archbishop Wole
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and what about my own role in all of this??? in view of my recent experience???
Which I condensed into a poem…
“Of recent I was in the Vatikunk
me-seemed I was a little bit drunk
I believed(!) to have heard a sound quaint:
Benedetto was going to make me a Saint!”
gerd |
