Have you ever opened your newspaper and read idiotic comments from public figures which make you gape in disbelief? Well, here is the perfect opportunity to share your amazement with our readers. Please send us your favourite dumb comment (in English/Chinese/both) and the Editor will select each month up to 3 of those which merit publication in the next issue of A45. The Editor’s decision will be arbitrary and final.

　　Public figures can include for example an anonymous “spokesman” for the Education and Manpower Bureau so long as the comment is reported. It may even include our favourite legislators. No-one will be exempt. Preference will be given to comments made in Hong Kong about Hong Kong matters but spectacularly dumb comments from abroad will also be accepted ( to show that we are an international city ).

　　Entries must be verifiable so either post or fax or email with attachment the relevant news clipping with date and name of publication in which the comment appeared to. If the comment was made on TV or radio, the necessary clip or link to the clip will have to be provided so that it can be verified.

　　If the context of the comment is not obvious, readers may state in what context the comment was made or to what the comment referred. Otherwise, no explanation should be required. The comment must be self-evidently dumb to qualify for inclusion.

　　t the end of one year, readers will be polled for their choice of the “dumb, dumber, dumbest” comments which have been published in this column and prizes will be awarded to the contributors of the top 3 entries.

　　We believe that readers will be spoilt for choice but just to give you an idea of the kind of comment which might qualify, here’s one from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in response to an interviewer’s questioning the continued ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia ( except in the desert ) :

　　“I believe strongly in the rights of women: my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.” SCMP for 15/10/05, A12.

　　Please send your comment by email:a45dumb@gmail.com or by post: G.P.O. Box 3432.

驚人高見 選中有獎

　　你每天看報、看電視或聽電台時，有沒有試過被一些公眾人物發表的高見嚇呆或逗得笑破肚皮？如果有的話，不妨分享，本報由今期開始，歡迎讀者提供心水「高見」，我們每期挑選最精彩的三篇刊載。當然，最終你的來稿是否接納，編輯部有最終話事權。

　　公眾人物包括不給姓名的某某局發言人，只要他們說的話經傳媒報道。甚至你心儀的立法會議員也不能倖免。在香港報道關於香港的高見優先考慮，但為了顯示香港是一個國際城市，屬於國際消息的超級高見，也有可中選資格。

　　請郵寄、傳真或電郵你的心水「高見」給我們，但須附有刊登該項高見的報章或雜誌原文， 並註明所登日期，以便核對﹔假如是來自電視或電台廣播，則請註明可以聽取聲帶的網址連結或附上該段聲帶。

　　本報會進行年終「我最喜愛的高見」讀者調查，由讀者投票選出三則最受精彩的「高見」，向我們提交該三則高見的可獲贈獎品乙份！

　　現在本欄先示範一則，拋磚引玉﹕話說沙地阿拉伯國王阿卜杜拉有次接受訪問，回應為何到現在沙地阿拉伯(沙漠地區除外)仍禁止女性駕車時說﹕「我全力支持女性權利，因為我阿媽係女人，我家姐係女人，我女兒是女人，我太太也是女人。」(《南華早報》15/10/05, 第A12版)

　　來稿請電郵至a45dumb@gmail.com或寄中央郵箱3432號。