Goli soda ? Codswallop !

Yesterday, I read Amardeep Singh's post on nonsense and then felt that "Codswallop" was a worthy addition to the list of synonyms that he had listed.

When I started to look up the etymology for the word, I came across this:

The story goes that a gentleman by the name of Hiram Codd patented a bottle for fizzy drinks with a marble in the neck, which kept the bottle shut by pressure of the gas until it was pressed inwards. Wallop was a slang term for beer, and Codd's wallop came to be used by beer drinkers as a derogatory term for weak or gassy beer, or for soft drinks.

A visit to Wiki gave me an image for the Codd-bottle. Imagine my surprise when I found that it was our good ol' goli soda !

Whats in the handbag ?

Groping about trying to locate something in a ladies handbag ? Try this.

Personally, I always thought that a Google appliance would be more useful for this !

Kushboo vs Thankar Bachan : 1 - 1

Incident 1 - Thankar Bachan reportedly makes denigrating statements against women. Faced with outcry amongst from the film community, especially the ladies, Bachan apologises. Kushboo is among those who is not satisfied with apology. Political parties such as Tamil Protection Movement, PMK, DPI side with Bachan.

Incident 2 - Kushboo reportedly says the pre-marital sex is fine for women as along as they take steps against AIDS. This remark causes outcry among TN women especially those belonging to the Tamil Protection Movement, PMK, DPI. No such reaction is seen from Congress, BJP, DMK and AIADMK, who presumably have no women members (!!) or agree with Kushboo's statement. Kushboo apologises for remarks.

Final score : One-all

*bong* May the next round begin !

India was discovered in 1492

Pakistan is a Fourth World country somewhere in between Texas and White House.

Parvez Musharraf (born August 14, in the Third Age) is a kindly goat currently roaming the Islamabad-Rawalpindi areas. The name "Parvez Musharraf" was later adopted by the current overlord of India and Pakistan.

James Bond, or 0007 (pronounced luxury-yacht-boomerang) is a Welsh secret agent, in fact he's two secret agents.

Sherlock Holmes is a famous author who wrote many mystery novels starring his fictional protagonist Sir Arthur Conan O'Brien.

Evidence of a parallel universe ? Nope..entries from Uncyclopedia.

Chocolate and Gajini

In the space of a week, I have found out that two of my most favourite movies - The Usual Suspects and Memento have been "inspirations" for 'Chocolate' and 'Gajini' respectively.

I had suspected that 'Gajini' was inspired by 'Memento' ever since I saw a hoarding of Surya sporting a tonsured look with tattoos all over his body, but when I saw the trailer with Surya taking pics of people using a polaroid, my suspicions were confirmed. The presence of Asin and Nayantara in the movie means that the original script has been customized for Tamil audiences. Also, in the movie, Surya is supposed to be one of the richest men in India - another departure from the original.

While Sudhish Kamath describes 'Chocolate' as "shop lifted and shopworn", 'Gajini' is yet to be released.

I have seen the noodle

and it has defined the purpose of my existence.

All hail His Exalted Noodleness - The FSM !

Trying times for Ganguly

Saurav Ganguly has certainly been in the thick of things recently and for all the wrong reasons. After the 6-match ban was reduced, he joined the team for the triseries in SL where he scored a scrappy half-century.

Intense speculation prevailed as to whether he would be retained captain for the tri-series and test series in Zimbabwe and I must admit that I was rather surprised when Ganguly was indeed retained skipper.

Now, a day after he painstakingly put together a century against a pedestrian Zimbabwe attack and managed to "take" the wicket of Laxman "(run out Ganguly)" in the process, he revealed that he had been asked to step down from captaincy. He claimed that this had given him the determination to make a sizeable contribution to the Indian total. But it appears that the century has done little for Ganguly's future as captain or even player of the Indian cricket team. Ganguly's detractors are now baying for his blood.

As Kannadasan put it, "Uyarntha edathil irukkumbothu, ulagam unnai madhikkum. Un nilamai konjam irangi vanthal, nizhalum kooda mithikkum". (When you are on top, the world praises you. But should you slip, even your shadow will not heed you).

iPod Nano

Cute, but tough.

Now, how do I get my mitts around one of these babies ?

Karuppu MGR

Kaliyuga Karnan, Manitha-neya semmal - just some of the monikers for "Captain" Vijayakanth that his admiring fans have put up on his website.

Vijayakanth kicks off his party's first political conference on Sep 14 in Madurai, where he will reveal the name of his party and its ideology.

A glance at his profile reveals that he "is having nearly 45,000 Vijayakant fans welfare association...for the poor welfare"(sic), "is young lot of social works for the past 25 years"(sic), "has donated Mis. Sageetha for teacher's training" (sic).

Interestingly for someone who is gung-ho about Tamil and Tamilians, the Tamil link on his website doesnt work; only the English link does.

Yet another film star joins the political bandwagon in Tamilnadu hoping to do a MGR, as if there werent enough contenders already. Ah....the "magic" that is multi-party democracy !

Freudian slip ?

Current Objet d'desire...

....is the iPod Nano.

Its a pity that Amazon doesnt ship these to India :-(

Discovery of the day....

...was Tilotamma's blog. I loved some of the posts that she had made and it led me to dig up a lot of posts from the archives.

Not only were the posts informative, but also the comments on the posts were hilarious(like the "Ramayana pic" post).

Some info bytes that I got from Tilotamma's blog:

1. The origin of the Starbucks "Siren" logo
2. The secrets of the FedEx logo
3. Poems of "Love and War" by A.K.Ramanujan (looked up Kuruntokai 27 which figures in the 'Theendai mei theendai' song in 'En Swasa Kaatre')
4. Senthalir and Sharanya, two minor planets in our Solar System. Also school students from Avila, Coimbatore
5. Barbers and Surgeons

All in all, a very productive morning(not something my boss would have approved of, though) ! :)