Article: Tinky Winky is not a twinky


Caribbean Today
03-31-1999
Tinky Winky is not a twinky

Tinky Winky is not a twinky. He told me so himself, in a telephone conversation late one night the other week.

I had just got home and was heading for the computer when I saw a black shape stretched out on the keyboard: my cat Bismarck, asleep on the key - again. I was stuck. Should I disturb his lordship's repose? Or should I defer my own business to a time more suitable to his sleep schedule? I decided to shift him, so I gently worked my fingers under his limp body and began peeling him off the keyboard.

He raised his head a little and gave me the evil eye, the look that says: "You've seen me kill many lizards, but you've never seen me ...

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