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Due apologies to everyone with some artistic skills. This is all I could do - but then that simple game from the days of the 286 PC was always addictive once you start playing it. Give it a shot and you might remember the good old days. Press Spacebar to shoot.


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And here is proof.

Boobies, as we know, are pretty wonderful to look at. Masked ones go one better, and while I personally have not held a masked boobie in my hands, I can take one look at these pics and see the enormous potential for visual simulation.

More about masked boobies from Wikipedia

Masked booby image

Another masked boobie

Be happy, and always love boobies, or any other birds for that matter.

You don’t mess with the real BigFoot, baby!

Just for fun, I made these ones on Cafepress. Take a look, there is also a woman’s version http://www.cafepress.com/babychen . This is the first time I have done anythng on Cafepress - and maybe its the last time too!

Do you totally adore him, and wear one of those Modi masks when you go to sleep?

Do you dream of Modi on a khaki horse, riding away with you into a saffron sunset?

Then bharatmatrimony.com can help you. With a little help from Google Adsense. Take a look below.

What you see is a screenshot from this page on our site. There is a bit of keyword matching going on there as you can see. The page contains the word Modi (which is a caste name), and therefore, Adsense displays an ad which says “Marry Modi” next to the text!

Update: Someone from Bharatmatrimony.com has commented on this post, explaining that it is a caste name. I have added one paragraph above the pic explaining that. It is still hilarious for me to see a text ad which says ‘Marry Modi’ next to a pic of the most famous Modi of them all. For a lot of us, we do not instantly connect the name Modi to a caste (the new liberal generation, you see.) Hence its funnier.

The great young hope of Congress has been pretty unremarkable so far. General Secretary, and before that the face of Congress in UP, nothing much worked in any substantial way.

But the recent CWC, he made a speech asking for some semblance of practicality in the requirements for becoming a congressman. So he suggested, get rid of all those rubbish about wearing khadi, not drinking alcohol, subscribing to party periodicals etc.

This makes a lot of sense. I understand that the requirements were put in place when Congress was still a nationalist movement for independence, when it was still Gandhian. Getting rid of them would be like finally abandoning Gandhi.

But as every Congressman knows, that has already happened.

This is not Gandhi’s Congress anymore. Congressmen drink, smoke and do much worse quite similar to other partymen. They have been involved in rioting and violence the same way every other party has. They have been implicated in scams and scandals like everyone else.

But why not insist on these stuff, and make some kind of a token resistance, some may ask.

I say that insisting on khadhi and no-alcohol policy is, in practice, nothing but a dishonest beginning. Why ask a young man or woman to start their political career in the party with a lie? Starting off on a such a bad note is anything but auspicious. More than an ideal, now it is an open suggestion to lie and be dishonest from day One.

Keep them as guidelines or something. Let the few who want to follow them do it. For me, I will be happy if those Congressmen who went around murdering people in 1984 are punished. And the nasties from Gujarat BJP are not allowed to enter the party.

Come to think of it, that’s too much to ask from the Congress. Stick with the alcohol ban. Much easier.

But Vedanti ko gussa kyun aata hain?

Thing is, North of the Vindhyas, Ram is da best. No two ways about it. South of the Vindhyas, things get a bit confusing. Andhra Pradesh is too dry and hot to bother about all this; Karnataka prefers Rajkumar anyday, and Keralites are too drunk and having beef fry, laughing at their local Ravana Pinarayi Vijayan. That leaves Tamil Nadu.

In Tamil Nadu, Ram faces serious competition from Men in Black Glasses. MiBG is currently headed by MK (M Karunanidhi), whose most important criteria for admission are dark glasses, though having an interesting set of initials (MGR), a cape (Jaya), the ability to use a blade to slice a bullet in two (Rajni) also would be considered adequate.

The thing is, for a long time, Tamil Nadu used to go bonkers if anyone mentions anything from the North. Till sometime in the 1990s, you could just walk up to a Tamilian and say “Hindi” and he would go *bonk*. Other examples of such powerful words were “Brahmin” (Bonk!), Hindustani (Bonk!), and of course “Ram Ram” (Bonk! Bonk!).

Its a long time after all that now, but the propensity to go Bonk! remains. That is what happened to Karunanidhi. A lot of noise that percolated down to South India about Ram, Ram Setu and all that. One morning, when MK removed his black glasses to read the day’s paper, he saw Ram all over it and he went Bonk!

Anyway, the problem is that Rameshwaram, the place from where the Ram Setu begins, is now in the land of MiBG.

What is to be done? For those who have seriously considered the title of this post as an option, NO. Tamilians are too much in number, and they have Rajni. You don’t. Okay, you have Ram, but Ram takes a lot of time to get going. The Setu took a dozen years to build. Too long. Bachchan and Mithun have stopped competing with Rajni a long time back, and the current filmy heroes do their action sequences in Singapore, New York and LA.

There is a sweet idea that just occurred to me: A duel! Let Karuna and Vedanti have a duel, fultoo puranic ishstyle. Vedanti has his trishul, and Karunanidhi has his super-powerful MiBG eyewear. Pretty-evenly matched, aren’t they? A super-duper battle that can be televised live, sponsored by special saffron underwear from Rupa, and Ray-Ban. Time to end the suspense, and see some action!