Intelligent life

I found this cartoon in today's newspaper irresistible: A says to B 'My calculations prove the existence of intelligent life on the moon'. B says 'If that's true, how come they've never contacted us?' and A replies irritably 'I don't think you're paying attention'.

Grassroots wisdom... Copenhagen listening?

The other day I had gone shopping, and there was this young vegetable vendor yelling lustily at hesitant customers - dordaam korben na, ei bela ja paren kheye nin, 2012-te duniya shesh hoye jachchhe - (don't haggle, eat all you can while you can, the world is coming to an end in 2012)!

Good to see that people - especially those who have to live toughly - can make a joke out of such things.

Happy families

The young husband says over the phone he can't come home in time for tea; the workload is too heavy. The pretty wife says 'No problem, I'll have another companion today, fitter than you, more attractive...' The jealous husband, all work forgotten, comes rushing home, only to find that the wife is having tea with a particular brand of biscuits.

A gist of an advertisement feature I just saw on TV. I wonder about the tastes and I.Q.-levels of the target audience for which this sort of thing is designed. I'm sure they comprise 90 percent of our young educated population in their 20s and early 30s. Isn't India shining?

Walk while you talk

I was joking only a few months ago that perhaps people actually believe that because it is called a mobile phone, you cannot sit or stand still while talking on it. Now Idea mobile service has come to this town, and Abhishek Bachchan urges everybody in the ad. to walk while they talk. So now I'm sure...

I wonder what the Delhi Police is doing about this ad...

Wow!

I have been regularly posting on this blog for the entire course of the year, and I see this is the 43rd time I am writing here.

And yet so many people are firmly set in their opinion that I am a grumpy, grouchy old man who can neither laugh nor make people laugh...!