morning boy's letters on serious matters and commentary on funny things aplenty
What Justice Gautam Patel means:
STRAY DOG = MOVING DOG
That means:
NON-STRAY = SLEEPING (effectively, Stationary or Non-moving dogs. Or, Show-pieces)
Now I get it.
STRAY DOG = RAPIDLY REPRODUCING DOG
High Court guys feed the dogs to keep them sleeping. Dogs sleep and go astray and reproduce. That is why they are STRAY DOGS.
Am I so out of tune with fashion!
Horror!
I just come across this headline: ELEVATOR SHOES FOR MEN.
Please don’t tell me it’s a thing. 🥱
From an early morning ad shown by FB…
How boaty?
Or, how very full of boatiness? 😂
Do you see what I see?
Whatever made this process of marketing to be called ‘branding’. Of course, even burning money in repetitive advertising for the purpose of branding often doesn’t make branding happen.
Suppose we leave aside the ‘burning money’ phrase and focus more on messaging. In that case would it be worth calling the process ‘etching’.
Then the language changes weirdly.
I own the brand.
I own the etch?! Oops!
We don’t have to be poorer.
Imagine that folks need to informed, and advised about the ‘benefits’ of walking?! And since there are ‘benefits’ of walking, so we should walk?!
The headline would read: Science says Walking has 7 Benefits.
Really? And then we have the audacity to say we are educated?!
And if your time goes into reading such stuff, would you have the time to read anything better?
Wait, there’s a Youtube video with another 9 benefits of walking?! O, wow!
I don’t want to read your s***. Bye!
Dear Shoe-lover,
Found this on Quora. Copy-pasting as it is.
Question: Why are (almost) all shoes at the end pointed and not shaped like a foot?
Answer: When shoemaking with soles began, pointed toes were easier to make than the other shapes. In earlier civilization, people walked and hiked more through vegetation areas, so pointed shoes helped to part the way. It’s also easier to put these shoes into stirrups when riding saddled horses. The point became the traditional look for most soled footwear made for the general population, mainly because of the cost and the type of work they did. The points have varied in length, some being so long they had a strand of leather attached to hold the points up by tying the strands to their belt. The shorter the point, the closer to the shape for the toe area. Today with all the toe box shapes available, the point still seems to be the preferred, which also comes in length factored choices.
That’s one account. Here’s another by a bot that Quora has deployed to offer ridiculous answers. But ridiculous has truths for you. Here you go:
If an ad crosses the usual few seconds of running time, it might feel like a short film. Such are the times.
If an ad is paragraph of 48 words, it might not be called an essay or a book. Long ad one may call it.
Sometimes they call it advertorial as if it means anything at all.
The long ad has to battle with the variety that scrolling on the mobile screen offers. Also has to battle the dance videos and silly videos.
Why am I writing about the long ad!
Sorry, good morning! This was such a long essay. Thanks for reading.
Woman puts in a lot work to prepare some luscious food. Family enjoys the food but fails to appreciate and compliment her. Woman feels bad.
Woman wants to look great. Wants to go to gym, wants to buy lovely dresses and jewelry.
Pays the gym for her own effort.
Pays the boutique for designer’s and tailor’s efforts.
Wants to pay for silver, but not for the effort to turn silver into lovely jewelry.
We’ve interacted with thousands of Indian women like that in the course of running Mississippi Earrings.
I wish some Indian shoe offers what a shoe should really really offer. The most basic thing.
I will not repeat myself. Have a look at this anyway.
This ad appeared in my FB feed.
If you read, first it says, Shoes for Indian feet.
Then it says, Same comfort on Day 365 as Day 1.
Then it says Durable Shoes for Indian Feet.
My questions to you are, what does Indian Feet mean? And therefore what do Indian Feet need?
What is comfort dependent on when we are talking about shoes?
Dear Shoe-lover,
I can even address you as Premium Shoe-lover; am sure you’ve spent a bomb on your shoes.
Now I have something for you, in case you feel like putting your mind to it. Or your silly shoe to it.
Your disagreement with my understanding is unimportant to me. But if you’ve read and tried to understand, you are important to me.
And if you’ve commented, God bless you with amazing shoes and compliments from everyone who notices your shoes. Paisa vasool, you see!
I got an idea that theories available in books should be converted into dances. Outrageous, no?
Bullet points got converted into Youtube videos.
Folks are watching Youtube videos like mad and bullet-point channels are doing so well.
Are you good at bullet-points? You can become a Youtube sensation.
Just noticed that on Linkedin you can add Leadership as a skill in your profile.
I would be wary of anyone who writes such a thing, especially an MBA.
Grammatically, I would still accept Leading as a skill.
Think about it, I might even take Leadering as a skill.
I might even accept Leadershipping for once.
What is Falana? That is a bad question. In fact, I can master the art of bad titles too.
I sense these decisions are typically and heavily influenced by doctors’ diagnosis of the situation. So what is this ad with Dhoni’s face attempting to do?
Mutual Funds Sahi Hai! Treatment Zaroori Hai!
Shoe shape par dhyan dena bahut important hai!
Pull-up bar lagakar hang karna interior design ka part hai!
Oh God, my punchlines are so long and taxing on the readers’ mental faculties!
I don’t even have money for one such insert in TOI.
Huh! Your posts are pathetic! Tumhara treatment zaroori hai!
What’s the full form of MRP?
Your question is so dumb.
Never mind, the full form of MRP is Maximum Retail Price.
Huh! What’s the big deal?!
The deal is that MRP is the maximum that can be charged. And that the seller can charge less than maximum too. And that most sellers charge you the maximum.
So?
So, your foot!
MBA = Master of Business Administration
After completing the MBA program, youngsters in India, when they bag some jobs, they get designations and titles like Management Trainee, Sales Executive, Customer Service Executive and such.
So after one studies business administration in such a way that one secures a ‘qualification’ and a certificate that reads Master of Funniness, one becomes a trainee or executive.
There’s nothing wrong really in becoming a trainee or executive. It starts somewhere. It’s the name of such education and certification that spins my head.
Every situation has the potential to attract its own dumbness.
– Sid Soni
And humans are just carriers of dumbness. Anyone could be such a carrier. You, myself, anyone.
What do I mean?
I wrote an essay for Women’s Day. Obviously, I want friends and acquaintances to read what I’ve written. So I shared the essay with some of them on Whatsapp.
The essay is titled Platform To Think. Upon receiving the pdf file, a lady responds, “this is for?”
I said, “This is for reading.”
This blog is also for reading. Books are also for reading.
Interested in reading that essay? Here you go.
Aggregation in the head makes a man great.
That sounds good?
I am doing this now and I will do this for some time and see how it goes. When I do search on Google, I am going to start with the results on 10th page of Google listings first. Then 9 and 8 and 7 and so on…
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