"Who?"
"The Cousin. Pervez Elahi, Punjab's CM."
"Ah yes. So I guess if it's a success we have to have it every year."
"Indeed, that was precisely what he said. But you know I think it's a good sign for us Punjabis."
"To have a marathon every year?"
"Well yes. I mean our annual event used to be the horse and cattle show. That essentially meant that our streets were paved with a very odorous kind of gold."
"Yes, I do recall. Dung and more dung every where and not a nose not suffering."
"Precisely. And you know how often our streets get cleaned so we had this pervasive perfume for quite a few weeks."
"But in winter it is less than it would have been in the summer."
"The founding fathers of the horse and cattle show knew what they were doing in that case."
"Indeed they did. Anyway if the marathon comes after the horse and cattle show the streets will get cleaned promptly each year. I mean we can't have foreign runners getting their feet stuck in the dung."
"Yes, I see what you mean. But do you think we will import foreign runners every year?"
"As long as the Cousin is in power I would imagine we will but a time will come when he will no longer have the power and the next man will probably lose interest."
"And the horse and cattle show will reemerge in all its glory."
"Indeed."