Category — Humour

Sacha Baron Cohen (now famous as Borat), in an earlier avatar as the irrepressible Brit gangsta, Ali G, appeared in a movie called “Ali G indaHouse“. In this crude, rude and crazily satirical slapstick movie, Ali G got a chance to play the MP from Staines. As an MP, one of the outrageous suggestions that Ali G gave in the parliament was to rework UK’s immigration policy to grant citizenship only to “fit” women.

In a case that sounds right out of Ali G’s backyard… a couple of Swedish immigration officers have been maintaining a photo collection of “exceptionally beautiful” women who have passed through the immigration checkpoint that they were manning!

The officers, who were working at a ferry terminal near Stockholm, made photocopies of the women’s passport photos and placed them in a binder. They also noted the date of birth next to each entry, the Stockholm police department said. [Source: MSNBC via an almost month-old entry on Metafilter]

While I am amazed at the diligence shown by these officers in keeping a meticulous record of the influx of beauty, I wonder what good is a photo, with a date of birth recorded alongside, going to do?!

Any ideas?!

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I’d think, no, actually I’m a giraffe.
- Richard Gere (June 2002)

[Source: The Quotations Page]

Errr… I’m not sure whether that is zen philosophy or good ‘ol gibberish?! But I dare not laugh. After all, his is the ‘profession that deserves respect‘!

Creating a Shanghai in Mumbai is much easier than you might think!

How so?!

Well… director Subhash Ghai just has to adopt singer Shaan! :-P

As I was just reading Amit Varma’s take on the relevance of the term “Glued to the crease” with respect to Virender Sehwag, I was reminded of a term that the Pakistani opener Salman Butt used in an interview today morning.

As a ’steady’ drizzle in Chandigarh steadily poured water over enthusiasm all over the country, the commentators analysed Day 1 to death. In the midst of all the analysis, Ravi Shastri interviewed Pakistani opener, Salman Butt. The young batsman was critical of his own self as he blamed his poor footwork for his dismissal. He said that the ball did nothing special (Irfan Pathan might have other ideas about that, though). He went on to say that his feet were in the toilet when he played the shot that got him out.

Eh?!

Butt on the ground and feet in the toilet! … no wonder he was clean bowled then!!

Suddenly, there seems to be a proliferation of bad jokes in the Indian blogosphere… more so amongst the cap-wearing, pomegranate-consuming members of an infamous cartel.

Even though I’m not one of the Cartelian sub-ordinates… I have, in my time, come up with some groaners. And so, from my archives, here are a couple of such lame-ass jokes guaranteed to cause indigestion!!

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