Buckets
People are funny. And then there are funny people.
There’s this gentleman at work, the kind who goes around spreading cheer, and once in a while strews around his pearls of wisdom. I ran into him on the stairway the other day, and he decided to give me one of his pearls –
“Mr. M3, do you know that there are 2 kinds of effects in this world?”
I’m obviously impressed with the Bachchan-esque simplicity in classifying the entire freakin effects the world could possibly have in just two buckets (Remember “Is duniya mei do tarah ke keedein hote hai...”) My eager eyes gave him an open invitation to floor me with his philosophy.
“First, there is the ‘Saree’ Effect and then there’s the ‘Mike’ Effect!,” he says, unable to withhold the hurricane he’s been brewing in an oyster shell. At this point, I’m all ears.
“Saree effect is when people lose their senses on seeing a lady...and end up saying things they don’t mean. They show off and project an exaggerated image of themselves!”
I thought to myself...hmmm, man does have a point, though I’d have gone for the ‘Mini skirt’ effect given the fact that we’re ten past the millennium.
“Similarly, the Mike effect, Mr. M3. The mike effect is when you hand somebody a mike, they start being someone else. They say things that sound good, even though they don’t mean it at all.”
Aha! Seems like the two buckets are in fact one. Thanks for embellishing the truisms so! If only Prof. Ulfat Sultan from FM94.3 were around, his punch line “Iski bina handle ke balti mafik!” would’ve made perfect sense.
There’s this gentleman at work, the kind who goes around spreading cheer, and once in a while strews around his pearls of wisdom. I ran into him on the stairway the other day, and he decided to give me one of his pearls –
“Mr. M3, do you know that there are 2 kinds of effects in this world?”
I’m obviously impressed with the Bachchan-esque simplicity in classifying the entire freakin effects the world could possibly have in just two buckets (Remember “Is duniya mei do tarah ke keedein hote hai...”) My eager eyes gave him an open invitation to floor me with his philosophy.
“First, there is the ‘Saree’ Effect and then there’s the ‘Mike’ Effect!,” he says, unable to withhold the hurricane he’s been brewing in an oyster shell. At this point, I’m all ears.
“Saree effect is when people lose their senses on seeing a lady...and end up saying things they don’t mean. They show off and project an exaggerated image of themselves!”
I thought to myself...hmmm, man does have a point, though I’d have gone for the ‘Mini skirt’ effect given the fact that we’re ten past the millennium.
“Similarly, the Mike effect, Mr. M3. The mike effect is when you hand somebody a mike, they start being someone else. They say things that sound good, even though they don’t mean it at all.”
Aha! Seems like the two buckets are in fact one. Thanks for embellishing the truisms so! If only Prof. Ulfat Sultan from FM94.3 were around, his punch line “Iski bina handle ke balti mafik!” would’ve made perfect sense.
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