That Life and Art thingie, again

Von Bork pushed over a telegram.

"Will come without fail to-night and bring new sparking plugs. Altamont."

"Sparking plugs, eh?"

"You see he poses as a motor expert and I keep a full garage. In our code everything likely to come up is named after some spare part. If he talks of a radiator it is a battleship, of an oil pump a cruiser, and so on. Sparking plugs are naval signals."

- His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Now reading this, I can think of only 2 options:

1. Somebody in ISI read “His Last Bow” and came up with brilliant idea for ciphers.
2. Somebody in ISI read “His Last Bow” and came up with brilliant idea to mislead everybody else.

Which one do you prefer?

Sorry Astronomers

You don’t need a brain faster than a supercomputer to know that this just means Sabu got angry over something.

Mystery solved. Next one please…

 

Great minds… and all that

“We took this on Pune station before leaving”, thus starts the story. Each photo carries with it a 5 minute long, crawling commentary. Not running commentary, mind you.

…

In short, the tourists bore you by showing you their photos and souvenirs. The album looks like just one single photo repeated over and over again. With different description.

“Check this out. We had trekked near Joshimath.”

The photo showed some ten people. Any newspaper could have carried that photo with caption, “Drug runners caught in police action”. Or possibly, as a group photo of some local village politicians with Party’s district president.

This description from the aptly named, “मी आणि माझा शत्रुपक्ष” (Me and My Enemies) (collection: Hasavnuk) makes me think Pu La Deshpande would have empathised with Stephen Fry in here:

 

Well, except at the end.

Superheroes never die…

… they are just reborn-ed.

 

On the other hand, it is hard to make a commercially successful film about a Superhero who died four years before the film, isn’t it? ;)

P.S. Does that mean Stephen Colbert has to give back the Captain’s Shield now?

Umm… Actually, I didn’t

 

But then, if I knew that, why exactly would it be a “news”?

 

 

P.S. Previously on unfortunate news placement, politically incorrect news.