Whoops Award

It's award time again on Talons. And just when we thought the first month of 2009 would go by without a nominee presenting himself/herself, the Whoops Award for January 2009 goes to...

Barkha Dutt and NDTV team.

I think everybody on blogosphere knows the story by now. A blogger called Chaitanya Kunte wrote an article criticizing the conduct of media, specifically Barkha Dutt during the 26th November attacks. NDTV sent a legal notice to Kunte following this "utter and total rubbish" and forced him to take down the post and post an apology.

But why does this qualify for Whoops Award, you ask? NDTV team had to scramble to get down an older news story (brought to you by the magic called Google Cache) on NDTV.com which quotes the "utter and total rubbish".

Now tell me if they don't deserve the win...

 

P.S. Previous Whoops Award winners - Nov'08: Ricky Ponting, Oct'08: Adam Gilchrist and Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Who needs Comedy Central…

…when you have online news headlines? (And I am not even talking about unintended(?) double-entendres. Double… get it? Yeah, that was a bad one.)

So, I am getting my daily morning dose of news, when I come across:

Metro breaks through the tunnel

I click on the link, getting all my “breaking the barriers”, “light at the side of tunnel” etc. jokes, and what do I find out? It’s some news about how Metro Corporation completed some tunnel. RIP my jokes, they never saw the light of the day. (Who said “Thank God”? Stand up now)

And while we are on the subject of headlines: I know the screen space is a commodity not to be wasted, and often you have to put two headlines next to each other. But when you do this:

Now that’s just…

Un-balanced movies

Observed while browsing for new movies:

 

That’s some scary cemetery symmetry in there.

Say Hello To The Unending Fuel Source

3 step process to fuel your car indefinitely:

1. Turn your car or other vehicle to run on biodiesel made from body-fat.
2. Use the vehicle to get everywhere. (Little/no exercise = more body fat)
3. Liposuck and repeat.

 

 

P.S. The doctor may just have killed two birds with 14 lbs.: solution for obesity and fuel crisis.

P.P.S.  Did he take it literally when his fellow plastic surgeons were talking about “that patient who paid for my trip to Florida”?

L.P.S. I promise that is the last of post-script joke (a.k.a. PSJ a.k.a. PJ) about this topic from me.

News You Just Can’t Make Up

From Indian Express:

After a 12-hour long power cut, … on Wednesday morning all the lifts and water pump motors in their buildings started running in the reverse mode.

In short, you are running late for office, and find out that there is no water for shower (the pumps are sucking water out of overhead tank into the ground tanks). Somehow managing that, you rush into the elevator on the way to the underground garage. You get off on the terrace.

Given the date of the news, I posit somebody had a wild night.

 

 

P.S. While we are on the topic of “making” something (up), what is the meaning of: film producer starring Zaffar and Nikki?

Recipe for a perfect evening

…if you are a war buff:

Peppermint mocha with

 

Followed by:

 

And then, watch in to taste.

P.S. Why doesn’t he “spell” his name like that now?