Friday, February 09, 2007

Eavesdroppers Inc.

Heard from the bell tower of The Cathedral in Notre Dame/Somewhere from inside The Swamp/ The basement of Opera Garnier/ The Ball Room of the Palace in the Enchanted Forest

"You give us courage. You give us hope. And you give us the confidence that women sometime do make really hasty decisions. Go on, Brother"

On top of an electric pole 100 metres from a well lit building on Outer Ring Road

Crow 1: Scarecrow !! Scarecrow !! (violently jerks and falls into a coma)
Crow 2 (looking at the audience at large): Yes, that is what 'Arunthur and his shirt-tucked-in look' does to us.

Somewhere deep in space

An invisible spirit: So, do you finally concede defeat Mr. Rao ??
An invisible Narasimha Rao: Yes. I do. I did smile once during my marriage reception. This kid here is a piece of art.

The Board Room, Van Heusen Headquarters

Chief Economic Officer: Sir, our plan worked. We clandestinely made Arunthur wear a Louis Philippe suit and now, no one would touch them with a barge pole. I hear the spectacle was quite abominable.

The Idioms Committee, Oxford Dictionary

Data Entry Operator: Are you sure you want to do this ?
Chief Editor: Yeah, yeah. Change "Fish out of water" to "Arunthur in a panchakacham"

In the neighborhood

Earnest Aunt : "All my friends told me that my son-in-law reminds them of someone they know, someone familiar, someone who plays ...."
Smug Arunthur : "Yeah, many say so, especially if they had watched watched Mission Impossible or Mr. & Mrs Smith recently"
Brutally Honest Aunt: "the evil (fill in much-maligned blood relation here) in (fill in generic ekta kapoor's 'K' serial name here) that comes on Star One in the afternoon "

Nalaguraidhoo Island, Maldives

(On watching a sunbathing Arunthur)
Wolfgang Gunther: I wud keill to haav da tan dat guy haas. Ja.
(After a few minutes of patient observing)
Olivier Platini: Monsieur, lookz likez ze waz bornz tannedz.

At the Grand Buffet in The Maaniya Restaurant

"Can you pass me that tuna salad"
"The grilled beef was brilliant"
"Did you try those golden-fried chicken popsicles ?"
"Believe me, I was full after trying two servings of the minced lamb sausage"
"Excuse me, could you help me find out where the bowl of yellow dal is located ??"

A Coral Reef few nautical miles from said island

Nemo: Daddy, what is that thing curled up like an orange furball with fins, all dehydrated on the deck of that boat ?
Marlin: That is over-enthusiasm wrapped in a life jacket, Son. Dory, what should you avoid when you are sea-sick ?
Dory: I know this, I know this. Ermm, uhmm, ahem.

Taped conversation between a legal luminary and a determined wife

"I have double checked it. You do have complete legal immunity if you smother him with a pillow next time he wakes you up at 5 in the morning on your honeymoon trip to celebrate an Indianapolis Colts Touchdown, Superbowl or not".

8 comments:

Just Me said...

LOl!! I see married life is giving you more material to write about :P

Hope you had a great trip :)

PS: My regards to the missus :)

Vetty Max said...

Ha ha ha. Totally agree with the Narasimha Rao bit, you were really very serious, acceptable actually given that you were getting married.

Was originally surprised when you got married on the Colts met the Patriots in the semis, playoffs rather. Waking up the missus at 5 on a honeymoon is a good response.

Tyler Durden said...

@Just Me
Thanks mate. I would have tried the tried "you should have come" thing, but the riots gave everyone a valid reason to stay indoors.

@Max
The superbowl match actually had quite a bit of "shake-the-surroundings-violently" moments with some 7 turnovers (fumbles and interceptions). As for the pats/colts match, check out this real life story .
By the way, from what I hear, everyone becomes 'N. Rao' eventually, whether they like it or not ;-).

Heidi Kris said...

Lol.. waiting for the anyonymous comment for this post.. :P

and yeah why that serious looks on ur face.. valid if it had been on Mrs.Arunthur's. or was she all smiles going with the proverb "Idukan varugal naguga" ;):P

"Excuse me, could you help me find out where the bowl of yellow dal is located ??" Poor you!

Waking up the missus at 5am is really too much and its wrong only if she had failed to give u treatment :P.

Vetty Max said...

Good one the Pats-Colts episode.

Labakku Das said...

ROFL :))
I thought your creative juices had coagulated after your marriage. I am glad I was wrong.

EnGeetham aka "My Song!" said...

:) When Dan Quale was the VP of the US, you know who were the happiest - the cartoonist ! :) So, hopefully, marriage gives you more material... Btw, dont say you weren't forewarned!!!
Good one, btw. And thanks for the link...

Tyler Durden said...

@heidi
No more anonymous posts. Inime straight forward attack dhan. Enakku yen vambu.

@rajeev
Hows you been doing ?? Been a while :-)

@G
Marriage gives me enough material to clean, iron and cook every day. Thanks for reminding and Thanks for the link ;-)