Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey it look like dem a fling stone afta de Stone poll again, but when dem fling e nuff time e tun boomerang an slap dem inna dem wadda wadda.

What a bangarang yesterday's main story in The Sunday Herald has kicked up, with the allegation that the results of the Stone Poll showing the governing People's National Party (PNP) ahead have caused it to be given the sandal by Butch Stewart's Gorstew group. That may or may not be so, but it is not the first time that the results of a Stone poll have raised a ruckus.

My colleague in the animal kingdom, the elephant is generally credited with having the longest memory (although Jackass cannot fully trust someone with a long ole something heng down from them face), but Jackass' own is not bad either (after all, if a heng dung a dweet you know Jackass rule a certain heng dung). And Jackass remembers Michael Manley, a man who made an ass out of a whole country and took many women for a ride, promising that he was going to take the Stone poll and ram it down the pollster's throat.

And that was when Carl Stone was still alive, OK.

Now, Manley did not mean, of course, that he was going to take the paper the Stone poll was written on, wrap it into a ball and force feed it to the man, with or without juice (orange juice would have been good). He meant that he was going to prove the findings of the poll, done before the historic 1980 general election, wrong.

He did not.

But the world is not level at all, because whether it is dropped, rammed down the throat or have stones thrown at it, the poll has nothing to do with the interests of the people who have a problem with it. The poll is the poll is the poll and while people may have a problem with the outcome they should not have a problem with the pollster.

But it is just like someone harming the bearer of bad news and we should all have seen movies or read in books where a king in long ago days had the messenger carrying the news he did not want to hear put away. And not like put away for a while, but for good.

Although we may look at these rulers as extreme, think how we react to bad news. Like when we go into a bank, give the teller a book and say "some money suppose to come inna dis" and he or she says "I am sorry sir, but no deposit has been made". Who do we quarrel with, the person who was supposed to send the money or the person in front of us who is simply saying that the money that was promised has not been deposited?

You guessed it. Banking hall run red.

But, maybe it is a matter of how the news is delivered. Maybe if it was delivered with something that looks like compassion, then just maybe the anger wouldn't rise like the pastor when the pretty choir members stand up. So, maybe the most Stone Poll should have started "regretfully, the findings of the latest poll are not in the best interests of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) or people who used to run Air Jamaica. It hot but hush, we feel it for you."

Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey poll a poll a poll.