{"id":98926,"date":"2022-09-06T05:32:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T05:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=98926"},"modified":"2022-09-06T11:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:12:46","slug":"hooray-for-cooray-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/hooray-for-cooray-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;HOORAY FOR COORAY&#8221; \u2013 by Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;HOORAY FOR COORAY&#8221; \u2013<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> by Des Kelly<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-98927 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Dayal-Cooray-e1662442094963.png\" alt=\"Dayal Cooray\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dayal Cooray, the author of this little piece, which I thought was quite funny in it&#8217;s own way, is the only son of Denis Peiris Cooray, a &#8216;Supply Commander&#8217; of the Royal Ceylon Navy, under whom I served.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">D.P. Cooray was truly an Officer &amp; a Gentleman, as the saying goes, and I was proud to be the Supply Assistant he chose, to visit our Government Stores daily in order to procure everything our Navy needed to keep ourselves going, at the time.\u00a0 It was a &#8216;special job&#8217; and I was proud to do it, keeping out of\u00a0 trouble, which I seemed to be prone to, whenever I was not at work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Until quite recently, I knew Dayal only as a young lad, at his Dad&#8217;s home in Torrington Square, Colombo, very close to one of the oldest and most famous\u00a0 Radio Stations in the Southern Hemisphere, Radio Ceylon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dayal Cooray, who later married a beautiful\u00a0 Ceylonese lass named Rukshani who provided him with an equally beautiful daughter named Ashmeetha, came into contact with me through Facebook, visited Melbourne recently to &#8216;connect&#8217; with Ashmeetha, who graduated at the Monash University and hopes to be another Australian Citizen very soon. Dayal, (who looks the picture of his late, great, dad), &amp; Rukshani will hopefully join their daughter to become Aussies themselves in the not too distant future. I am in the twilight\u00a0 of my life, but still have plenty of time to dedicate as much\u00a0 help as I can, for would be residents in Oz., of THIS Calibre.\u00a0 Dayal Cooray and his family would be a most worthwhile benefit to Australia, and I hope that I will still be around when it happens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75857 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Desmond-Kelly160.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond-Kelly\" width=\"160\" height=\"228\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Desmond Kelly.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">(Editor-in-Chief) e&#8217;Lanka.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Nothing like a Deep Think with a Drink \u2013 <span style=\"color: #333399;\">by D. Cooray<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100023482477012\/posts\/pfbid02ZpsN6FUsK53E5PG3fBSGVaDcgwpoFUzwJy9aLDjmcFiNmifsnoZyZ6UKqnBWhX6Al\/?sfnsn=mo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">D Cooray FB<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The gazelle footed and hard tackling rugby ace produced by Trinity College in the 70s, the dapper Ajith Dissanayake is a deep thinker with a penchant for Cold Beers&#8230;&#8230; &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..!!!!!!!<img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"m_5197522526309317845Picture_x0020_5\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=96e1d185a9&amp;attid=0.0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1743191193120761813&amp;th=18310f27818d67d5&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-1pha6fADiLjKcVr-Q5x0TBkqs36xdOj9cCJ8iA07mm0Atni6k-lXLIxlYQJIlsHpptBxOat9PZtboFis0SPl4rMrNHgKZvGurJoLV74D7MP6cgcPV-KWoDdY&amp;disp=emb\" alt=\"&#x1f981;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"m_5197522526309317845Picture_x0020_4\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=96e1d185a9&amp;attid=0.0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1743191193120761813&amp;th=18310f27818d67d5&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_609SGn1sLK3ksHx9GNQs_KEP5R54JCEfyPDBWkOimLgD0_v-5mtHnVNs0vFhmPJQLEL3MlQYRKJ8Lwt6luqnWhfBwKNMzARQBQg_8fxf9-l_n_FZW_sTAuj0&amp;disp=emb\" alt=\"&#x1f981;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"m_5197522526309317845Picture_x0020_3\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=96e1d185a9&amp;attid=0.0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1743191193120761813&amp;th=18310f27818d67d5&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-fpcNga45ESY4XeVhm2sjDL6c4Y9U32j_JQE-lSnFeFli-HNkMABXkMJRurXhzfMJ-uxvJm7n0LmCEVJ3KeU9UMIcszZQtvPL40gxtHNA50ySJi1a2JuH9TW4&amp;disp=emb\" alt=\"&#x1f981;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"m_5197522526309317845Picture_x0020_2\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=96e1d185a9&amp;attid=0.0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1743191193120761813&amp;th=18310f27818d67d5&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-iRP7UxKfEhpLF0e-qr-daPubdQwfKOE_hwzamS1-Jup1G6uGOAijGOx09Y3StMMbNzYMM3cxX_XxdA7mPg7CNIUA9Tg6Ts6tTfNiZX-mi8oIETC6B1ZqutOI&amp;disp=emb\" alt=\"&#x1f981;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"m_5197522526309317845Picture_x0020_1\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=96e1d185a9&amp;attid=0.0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1743191193120761813&amp;th=18310f27818d67d5&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-BPvyMXKw_iZM5_0XmPYAGa1OlUa2QyQxwRWMY-9-Rbb8imS2aB1S6tRpGwU3lV--CFEZ1elH3tmTK6-3wj5GNCRbimhRCqBjAtKnuO-lHbs-7_GKumc_bQpI&amp;disp=emb\" alt=\"&#x1f981;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" data-image-whitelisted=\"\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing, and I said, &#8220;Nothing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The reason I said &#8220;nothing&#8221; instead of saying &#8220;just thinking&#8221; is because she then would have asked, &#8220;About what?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">At that point I would have had to explain that men are deep thinkers about various topics, which would lead to other questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Finally, I pondered an age-old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts, but how could they know?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Well, after another beer, and some more heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with an answer to that question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby, and even though I obviously couldn&#8217;t really know, here is the reason for my conclusion:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, &#8220;It might be nice to have another child.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; 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