Wheretofores and hithertobys and other such stuff
Where the frigging hell do the legal department cronies get their words from? What the f does hithertoby mean?
I met a dude recently, at a party. Looked sane and all, spoke quietly. Somewhere along the way he learned I was an advertising person – possibly I had let that fact slip, in a moment of indiscretion. The dude latched on to that. Since then, whenever he bumped into me, or chatted with me online, he would mention how great advertising was, why copywriters are the best people on earth, and also something about markets and stuff. Every damn time. Every conversation. And it is easy to see he has absolutely zero knowledge about advertising. In many ways, he reminds me of myself. Except. I wouldn’t annoy me so much.
Let me see, things seem to be in working condition.
So, somebody just sends me a message, asking, very seriously and all, ‘Are you alive?’.
What do I answer?
On the one hand, I am touched somebody cares enough about me to wonder about my life, or even my death. Especially for the person who sent me the message is someone I don’t know. For sure, the phone number is something I didn’t recognize.
On the other hand, I probably should take offence that people, anonymous people at that, assume, very easily, that I am closer to the grave. Positivity, people, is a good thing. You should try it. Would it have hurt, really, to ask ‘Hey, long time since I heard from you. Hope you are doing well!’ ? (notice the exclamation, folks.)
Oh well, one lives and dies, I suppose. Except, in the words of Woody Allen, I wish I wouldn’t be around when I do die.
A question
Let’s take a statement like ‘The sex’s fucking good’
Is the word fucking in this context a verb or and adjective?
Coolness
[via this incredibly cool site called PutVote.com. You folks ought to check it out]
Yabout PutVote
(I seriously can’t write funny If I need to)
To prove to you folks that we, Kingsley and I, take PutVote seriously, he, Kingsley, has created loads of cool widgets, scriptets, badgets and what-not-ets to promote, take high, make popular the site.
1 -> There is now an RSS feed for the whole site – accesible easily at http://india.crispynews.com/xml/rss
2 -> In return, you can feed us with your cool, important like posts. So the community can put vote. Do this here
3 -> You can now make cool things with PutVote. For instance – put in a little Javascript on your blog sidebar that will display the latest headlines from PutVote.com. The code is here
4 -> PutVote, ok? Like now. As we’ve mentioned
Each time you put vote, article score made big by a number of points. This score shows how well-liked the article is, like good Indian girl. The more well-liked the article, (like Dream girl Hema Malini) the higher on the headlines page it goes.
In other words – You putting vote, computer selecting winner
All ye pervs
Friends, morons, perverted assholes still looking for Silk Smitha photos (you won’t find any on this blog, not now atleast)
Listen up. If you do need some reading material, I sincerely suggest you check out Son of Bosey – which as the title suggests, is the son of the hugely popular (now sadly domain-outleased) Bosey.com
Even before I read, or heard, even, about Onion, Bosey was getting me to spill my guts (along with half digested food) on computer screens, as I laughed. Friends in the next room, and those who didn’t get humour, would wonder at me, wonder at what makes me kill myself laughing.
That was how good Bosey was. It was a sad day indeed, (fuck, I am now writing like a public speech-maker) when bosey had to shut down, for some dumbass fuckwit took over their domain name.
Which is cool, really. For we now have the son. And he promises to be a chip of the old blog. (get it? block, blog, chip etc… multiple fucking puns on multiple levels)
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Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan is a copywriter, photographer and goofball from Chennai. He is also an archaeologist, historian and a city lover. He is currently a documentary film-maker and desk-monkey for a film production house.
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