The Washington Post decided to participate in word play and asked its readers to submit themselves to neologism. For those who don`t know ‘neologism` – it is a practice of providing alternate meanings for existing, common words. Thanks to a mail from Navneet Potti who was a regular blogger (Here) before he got married and … Read more
Salman Khan has been arrested. Pity, for he was one Bollywood guy who indulged in social causes. Population control for example. Yesterday, the star was convicted of poaching endangered Indian gazelles – a crime done almost a decade ago. Unfortunately, the watchman of the guest house where Salman stayed during the ‘shoot-out` has also been … Read more
If Khivraj Motors the Maruti Car Agency I am interacting with is true to its word by today evening I will be the proud owner of a silver-colored Suzuki Swift. Don`t ask Rekha, for she would say she will be the owner. From a rag-tag Yamaha to a four-wheeler has been quite a bumpy ride. … Read more
Came across this interesting link and thought I might as well share it with you. http://uncyclopedia.org – A satire site, which is patterned on the lines of Wikipedia.com. Especially liked their piece on Captain Obvious. And here is something I came across in the Indian Association for the Study of Population`s website (just kidding). It … Read more
What is life made up of? Simple: Take a lie, add the F-word and you get L.I.F.E. Cool isn`t it? Anyway, I have arrived in life. Last evening I bought L`Oreal`s Out Of Bed Long Lasting Messed Up Effect hair gel! There did seem to be a conspiracy by the sales girl manning the Health … Read more
Ok, that was a very desperate attempt at fooling everybody. When I came up with the post on how the newspapers planted April Fools Day stories, I had no intention of coming up with my own April fools Day prank. But then, somebody left a comment saying “I guess, we can expect a prank or … Read more
This is old but worthwhile. In 2002, a British University decided to find the World’s funniest joke. Laugh Lab set up the rules of the scientific experiment to find out the world’s funniest joke. After a while, the results of the study were published in The New Scientist. As a bonus, Laugh Lab was able … Read more
Indians are not going to win the Mumbai Test. If they win, well…they win. But the cricketer in me says that the English are going to square the series 1-all. To know why don`t look any further than Kumble`s 2nd innings bowling figures of 4/49 and Harbhajan`s 2/40. That definitely means the spinners are getting … Read more