Feisty Fatwa on hackneyed Humour
November 6, 2008 at 1:46 am | Posted in arbit, Bengaluru, criticism, Ethics, humour, nostalgia, sarcasm | 6 CommentsTags: barrack obama, cheap humour, george carlin, khushwanth singh, mickey mouse, nostalgia, pt teachers, sad jokes, sarah palin, stupid fatwa
I, Sheikh Abhi, ( who’ll be known as Sheikh Abhi-Dulha at the time of marriage), decree the following fatwa. This fatwa aims to radically improve the ‘Post-Nehruvian Indian Humour quotient’.
Editor’s note: “Nehru bit” added for extra scope, and does not suggest the writer’s extensive political repertoire.
Abstract:
Its a surprise, and deep shame, that generations after generations have endured shoddy satire emanating from rusty retired maamas,as pale as Stalin. Or athletic Aaanties, as stale as Palin.
They did not rise up to them, or flip ‘em the bird. They didn’t chuck these jokes out of their humour vocab. They didn’t. No. No.
They instead chose to tell it to us. Oh, the Humanities!!!
But, enuph is enuph. Its time for Change.
Background:
These jokes are easily identifiable with any Indian kid’s disturbed childhood. To avoid lethal exposure, I will be jotting down only some of them. Feel free to add more if you’re itchy.
The List, and its interpretation:
- “Which is the most dangerous city?” asked Master Maams. What ? What ? asked we, in full awe of Maams’ general knolij. “Electri-city”. Get it? Ha ha ha. Maams used to reply.
It’s a pity we weren’t using WTF back then.
- A particularly putrid, bengalurean variant would be the dreaded, “ Which is the biggest stick”? Maje-stic, maams would say, hardly caring about the kids writhing in agony.
- Or its perverse inverse verse from the alternate universe. Which was worse. “Which is the smallest stick”? “Lip-stick”, apparently. No one would have dare guessed.
I’ve not heard these for nearly 5 years. Hope they decay soon.
- And there used to be this mother of all J-bombs. I’ll provide a short recap. For the uncut version. Run ‘line 1 – line 2’ some 5 times in a loop.
Ramu:- “BJ.Franklin discovered Elecktri-kitty”.
English Teacher:- “No, Ramu. It is pronounced as ilek’trisitee ”.
I still don’t get the morbid fascination about electricity in so many of these jokes.( There are more like these, believe me) Probably that was the most happening thing back then. Positively shocking. The joke continues….
Ramu’s Dad:”What seems to be the problem, Teacher?”
Teacher:”Your son can’t pronounce ilek’trisitee”.
This joke’s punchline. Boy Oh boy!!!
Ramu’s Dad:” What to do teacher. That is his Kapak-itee.”
So, basically suggesting ramu and his dad had some kind of speech impediment was supposed to knock your socks off, in times yore. Man, George Carlin would have created an 8th swear word, if he’d heard this joke.
- And of course, the ever so popular, and recurring, “I don’t take any decisions, My wife is the home minister” joke. And all its mutated variants.
Khushwant Singh protested in vain,in some of his books, against this genre, and then for some reason, started vacillating between Sardar Jokes and chaddi-ke-neeche waala humour.
- And we all know that it was your P.T Sir who was the stupidest man in the entire universe. And only he made the, “Stand in a straight circle” joke.
Now, If your P.T teacher was involved in a love-triangle, it offers some interesting punning propositions, of geometric proportions.
Results:
Here is an irrelevant experimental graph.
Conclusion:
I’m putting these and any that I may receive from fellow victims, in permanent quarantine. And I ‘umbly request you, not to pass on these family heirlooms to your kids. And one more fatwa – All future fatwas must always be in the paper publication format. I want to see the exact reasons behind the Mickey Mouse one.[1]
And, ya, I’m one of them.[2]
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fatwa in paper format. why do i get a sneaking suspicion this is just being done so that you can boast of ‘international publications’ in your SOPs?
Comment by priya— November 6, 2008 #
Aargh. That was supposed to be a secret. A plan to take over the research world, sort of.
Comment by Logik— November 6, 2008 #
which is the smallest gate?
colgate.
which is the tiniest bridge?
the bridge of your nose
Comment by wanderlust— November 6, 2008 #
I am tempted to add:
Which is the most redundant logic in the world?
A:THE NITKLOGIK!
But i will let that pass…
Comment by Akshay N R— November 6, 2008 #
A mark of a true gentleman, I must say.
And speaking of names, there happens to be a band called Dry-Kill-Logic.
I’m scared. about the dry bit.
Comment by Logik— November 6, 2008 #
[…] Feisty Fatwa on hackneyed Humour I, Sheikh Abhi, ( who’ll be known as Sheikh Abhi-Dulha at the time of marriage), decree the following fatwa. This fatwa aims to radically improve the ‘Post-Nehruvian Indian Humour quotient’. Editor’s note: “Nehru bit” added for extra scope, and does not suggest the writer’s extensive political repertoire. Abstract: Its a surprise, and deep shame, that generations after generations have endured shoddy satire emanating from rusty retired maamas,as pale as Stalin. Or athletic Aaanties, as stale as Palin. They did not rise up to them, or flip ‘em the bird. They didn’t chuck these jokes out of their humour vocab. They didn’t. No. No. They instead chose to tell it to us. Oh, the Humanities!!! But, enuph is enuph. Its time for Change. Background: These jokes are easily identifiable with any Indian kid’s disturbed childhood. To avoid lethal exposure, I will be jotting down only some of them. Feel free to add more if you’re itchy. The List, and its interpretation: […]
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