Save petrol, avoid girls.
What is the world coming to, when this kind of opinion has become so widely-held that it is being publicly proclaimed?
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At the risk of sounding like a moron, let me confess I never fully got the meaning of this punchline.
Is it like an universal truth - As you save petrol, so you should avoid girls - because we all know that consuming too much of both leaves none for the next generation?
Or is it like - If you save petrol, you can avoid girls - because as we all know, girls only dig boys who drive snazzy cars or dashy motorbikes. And not the smart blokes who prefer to walk or worse, take public transport.
Or is it like the other way around - You can save petrol if you avoid girls? Now this one does make sense - you don't have to pick her up or drop her off home, you don't have to go to the movies, you don't have to go shopping etc etc. Lots of petrol saved - is that what's being implied?
I'm sorry I'm at a complete mess when I try to debate the relative causality of the two parts of the sentence! Help please!
A really funny and true one-liner. The aforesaid comment was also brilliant. To avoid girls and save petrol at the same time is perhaps, too much to demand from the 'mall-hopping(in your term)youth' of today...
But I think you shall agree with me, that this one-liner also spotted on a college-goer's T-shirt, quite match their attitudes:
"I don't drive fast, I FLY low."
If people are proud to bear these motto both on their back and in front, I don't think there is any use complaining why the number of road accidents have vastly increased lately!
Talking of t-shirt quotations, I've seen my share (having even flaunted some on my chest - my idiocy!)!
Here are some quotes I got printed on t-shirts and, I must say shamefacedly, I used to worship in my college days!
1."I'm in shape - Round is a shape"
2."I'm confused.No wait...Maybe am not."
3."Next to a dog, man's best friend is duct tape"
4."I found my social skills at the bottom of a cosmopolitan"
5."I'm a bomb technician.If you see me running, try to keep up."
6."No sense in being pessimistic. It won't work anyway..."
There are more and they are best left out.
I am still not sure what many of the quotes meant, but oh boy, I was sure proud of having them! Now when I see it on others, I feel like cringing with shame.
And though I agree most girls dig snazzy cars, I am thankful that my girl digs people who dig books and just books!
Regards
Zenith.
You are hardly the type who needs to bend over backwards in order to be modest, Suvro. You got the joke (and the fact that it was rather sad) well enough, didn't you?
And Rochishnu and Zenith, many thanks!
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