Teflon: Not what you think it is.

Chenthil and I, in what is now practiced ease for us, came up with a new addition to the modern English dictionary.

Teflon.

We are still debating the nuances (finer nuances?) of this particular word, but I hope the following chat transcript makes its meaning clear for you good folks.

Chenthil: enna sir – where now, dumeel kuppam?
me: yes
Chenthil: went to movie?
me: no. haven’t
need to
Chenthil: so which agency in delhi now, another WPP?
me: nope
I can’t announce this till it actually happens, so sorry.
Chenthil: so what I heard is true. You are going as media consultant to Sonia Gandhi
me: No comments
Chenthil: all the best, if HE catches Naidu, you can catch sonia
me: seen the big group blog recently?
major heart burn and all
allegations, thick and fast
and tempests in tea pots
Chenthil: what allegations?
me: read read
Chenthil: i saw lot of links to hindu articles
me: Dude is on board
Chenthil: mail thread or blog
me: blog
no more threads
I am not n threads
Chenthil: I still get the threads. sounded very silly in a reaction to a commenter, in the thread

....

me: well, a good king is succeeded by a bad one. so I am not very heartbroken at that
Oh wait
I am sending you mails
and the one teh man sent me when i moved to dubai
Chenthil: reminds me of a story written by that thief valmiki about a brother holding place for another who goes on a 14 years trek
I would have been dehydrated with puking if I received such a mail
me: hehh!
I wanted to reply with a little more sarcasm to his mail
but it would have been lost on him
absolutely lost
Chenthil: brilliant man – he is more teflon than HE
me: super word that
teflon
Chenthil: you can even coin an adjective – he is a teflonic man
me: and verbs
perhaps not verbs
wait
whatever you tell him, it teflons off
I tefloned his accusations
Chenthil: his brain is like teflon, nothing sticks on to it
me: he tefloned his way to the top
there are some people whose only occupation is to teflon
I teflon, you teflon….why you middle middle dosa-kallu?
Chenthil: their relationship was like a teflon embracing another, both trying to slide away
me: :)
our opinions were mutually teflonish
we spent the evening tefloning at a coffee shop
Chenthil: that is brilliant
this comment is not teflonic thought
though
me: we are on to something here.
My job was tefloned. (like bangalored)
A boardroom of teflons. (like gaggle of geese and flock of sheep)
Chenthil: teflon group blogs
me: Our annual general teflon meetings
I teflon, therefore I am
Chenthil: I am teflon
me: Profession: Quality Teflon Architect
Chenthil: or a teflon writer
me: I run a small teflon agency.
Chenthil: Manager, International Teflons
me: ROTFL
TFL – Teflon Founders Limited
heh, no
TFL - teflon fixers league.

Chenthil: post post this

There you have it. Teflon – the verb, the adverb, the adjective, the noun and the gerund. And, if I may say so, a brilliant gerund.

P.S. Unfortunate as it is, I had to take His Name in vain. The He in this post is not Him, but his representative on earth.

Posted by Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan on October 17th, 2007 | Filed in Blog World, Random Writings |


4 Responses to “Teflon: Not what you think it is.”

  1. Anand Says:

    Teflon is a Beeb collective noun for ADs. Like in, “There go a teflon of ADs”.

  2. Lalita Says:

    Sheesh! Missus em shakes her head sadly and exits blog left.

  3. Krish Ashok Says:

    So in Tamizh, that would be
    “Ayyo, en velaiya teplaanittaanga!”
    “Sariyaana teplaan party pa”
    “”Ei. Enna. Eppo meet panninaalum teplaanitrikka?”

  4. Lavanya Says:

    >> we spent the evening tefloning at a coffee shop

    hee hee. priceless!

    If only the Gods understood words!

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