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Fraulein forehand begum backhand

Updated on: 09 April,2010 08:51 AM IST  | 
Hemal Ashar | hemal@mid-day.com

Now, that summer is here and the living isn't easy, Shoaib Malik especially has learnt this the hard way, it is but natural that all that heat affects the mind in a crazy, insane way.

Fraulein forehand begum backhand

Now, that summer is here and the living isn't easy, Shoaib Malik especially has learnt this the hard way, it is but natural that all that heat affects the mind in a crazy, insane way. So, that is why this columnist is wondering...
Whether a bottle of perfume when it dies has this Lata Mangeshkar song played at its funeral: 'Rahe na rahe hum, mehaka karenge.' Whether industrialists, their wives and actors would all be a part of the T-20 World Cup think tank for India when it takes place in the Caribbean this month.

Whether a bowl of jelly would be advised to do abdominal crunches and cardiovascular exercises to get rid of its jelly belly Whether cheerleaders will now dance and hop around the meeting table at the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Whether Mumbai's beggars might form a consortium and buy an Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team one of these days.

Whether one grave asks another: I am sure you have several skeletons in your closet, err, coffin.

Whether multiplex movie tickets would be charged in five figures in the near future, with a bucket of popcorn at the theater going into Rs 1,000 and more. Whether one milk bottle tells another: Hey you're one cool doodh, really.

Whether you know that Steffi Graf was once known as Fraulein forehand for that devastating shot in her tennis artillery, which brings one to the fact that Sania Mirza, also had a good forehand. Wish she had a lethal backhand so that she could have been dubbed begum backhandu00a0Whether Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik has heard of the phrase: Hell hath no fury like a woman (Ayesha) scorned and knows that it comes from a play by William Congreve with the original quote 'Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned; nor hell a fury like a woman scorned'

u00a0Whether one steam iron tells another, hey, don't overstep that crease or it would be a no ball.

Whether Leander Paes would call Martina Navratilova to express his morale-boosting best wishes on her battle with cancer, since she was Paes' doubles partner earlier.

Whether two knitting needles decided to get married because they both kind of clicked.

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Why filmmakers do not cry discrimination against radiologists as an X-ray film does not need to be passed by the Censor Board, even though it may be 'x-rayted'?

Why are you reading this tripe, anyway?




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