Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Hand of a dog ...

If you're a soccer fan, you surely must have heard of the '86 World Cup when the great Argentinian player Maradona knocked out England in the quarter-finals with a controversial goal called the "hand of god" goal.

"Maradona said that the disparity in size between himself and England goalkeeper Peter Shilton meant he was never going to head the ball as it was played into the area. The Argentinian maestro scored the goal by punching the ball into the net during a jump as Shilton leapt into the air towards the ball."

The referee didn't see it, many did. There was a lot of confusion. But the goal was ofcourse granted as the ref's didn't see him use his hand. So some dumb jerk decided to call it the "hand of god" ... which I rather prefer to call the "hand of a dog"

Why? 'Cos Maradona basked in the spotlight generated from all this "hand of god" hype & never admitted to actually punching the ball in.

But finally ... a few days back he admitted!! Yeah, the dog admitted that he punched the ball in. Here's what he said "I don't for a second regret scoring that goal with my hand"

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Thendi alert!!


Offer valid in Canada too for all you fat bacon-loving Canadians!! (jk)

... if you're worried about your weight, then make the drink a Diet Coke :p & mail me the chips :P

Thursday, August 18, 2005

In just 20 minutes ...



P.S. Ashish, don't worry this isn't the one we discussed about making earlier. We'll do that later on.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Indian thendis were there too ...


"... thousands showed up at the Richmond International Raceway to purchase $50 used laptops (i-Books). The Henrico County school system was selling 1,000 of the 4-year-old Apple iBooks to county residents."

Wow!! Now isn't tat a great deal? But how far would you go to get yourself one??

Okay ... so people found out about it and there were more than 5000 people at the grounds. Some of them camping from 3 AM.

But some dumb official sees the crowd and decides to prepone the 9AM opening time to 7AM. What happens next??

"Mothers clutched their children for protection, people screamed as they were knocked to the ground, a stroller was demolished, cars inched through the crowd."

"In the crush, people were trampled on, a chair was thrown, an elderly man was pushed to the ground, a baby's buggy was crushed and one desperate buyer tried to drive his car through the crowd."

It was shocking to read some of the accounts from people. Here at work, I even heard one of the Indian guy give his first-hand experience. He backed out on seeing the crazy mob.

Anyways, now since I am in the Henrico county ... I am sure that atleast 30% of this county is filled with Indians. Now an Indian by his genetic nature is a THENDI! Yeah, I don't care if an elderly parent reads this or not ... but we are all THENDI's in nature. We look for the cheapest way to live our lives. I don't know if any other word summarizes this trait of ours ... if there is ... let me know & I'll use that word ...

Coming back to the point ... so after this happened I was poking around online for photos of this incident, just to see if there were Indians. And YES!! I found a picture ... and there were Indians in it.

Now this picture was clicked as soon as the gates opened. So the people you see are the first ones to get through out of the crowd of 5500 or so. So in other words this is where it all started! I circled the Indians in red. The people already on the ground, I circled in green.

How far do we go to get something that we so badly need?

Monday, August 15, 2005

Now that is one smart call-center operator!

User: If you don't turn my cell phone back on today, I'll tell the families of my patients and their lawyers that you are responsible for the patient's death, because I couldn't be reached!

Call center operator: Sir, if you are expecting your patients to die, perhaps they should switch to a different physician...



(c)

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Trivia time

Did you know there is an airport which has a runway with a street/road running right across it?

Look closer ... there's something like a hockey ground & a stadium right next to the runway too!!

I wonder if the Pakistani terrorists know about this one?!?

Friday, August 05, 2005

Why Lord? Why?

So I come to work on a beautiful Friday morning, looking forward to doing some good for my client and getting out of there for another great weekend. But right after I take like 10 steps away from my car towards the exit ... I see ...

I mean seriously!! If you drive a Lotus that can touch 60mph in nearly 4 secs why the hell do you bring it to work or even come to work in the first place!?!?! ... all of a sudden I lost the urge to work ...