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Penne is mightier than the sword

Updated on: 22 August,2011 08:59 AM IST  | 
Hemal Ashar | hemal@mid-day.com

With the anti-corruption fervour bubbling within all and Anna Hazare the flavour (oops! is that the wrong word, with the crusader on a fast) its weight loss time

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With the anti-corruption fervour bubbling within all and Anna Hazare the flavour (oops! is that the wrong word, with the crusader on a fast) its weight loss time. Meanwhile, with all that talk of girth, here's one for some Monday mirth. So, even as sloganeering followers shout their lungs out, this columnist is wondering
Whether you have heard of this one: Team Dhoni is supporting Team Anna, they have decided not to win any match until the Jan Lokpal Bill is passed.

Whether a sugarcane on a fast at Ramlila Maidan is known as Ganna Hazare?u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0u00a0
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Whether dahi handiu00a0 will go virtual, one of these days with Govindas forming pyramids and competing to break it on the Internetu00a0

Whether all those boats that seem to mysteriously wash up at Juhu beach these days sing shore mach gaya shore

Whether one paan seller tells another ufffdwatch out or I will give you a supari

Why a gaggle of geese that surfs the Internet cannot become a google of geese

Whether a kidney bean can ever get renal failure

Whether Peddar Road residents opposing a flyover, smile to themselves when they take the JJ flyover

Whether yoga guru Baba Ramdev has the courage of his contortions

Whether an Arab who owns a gym and has a health food business can be called a Protein Sheikhu00a0u00a0u00a0

Whether if Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC) president Gul Kripalani misplaced his lunch box, would the phenomenon would be known as Dabba Gul

Whether Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) chairman Vivek Jain ever thinks to himself, You Tarzan, but me Jain

And talking about turf clubs, would one horse tell another, where there is a will, there is a neigh
Why our Sea Links, bridges and other infrastructure and institutions cannot be named after slain war heroes instead of politicians?

Whether any Mr Singhal would use the corny pick up line: I am Singhal and ready to mingle

Whether chess champ Vishwanathan Anand and wife Aruna groove to Saturday 'Knight Fever' or to Michael Jackson's It don't matter if your black or whiteu00a0

Whether one piece of toast tells another, tapori style, abhi toh butter baaki hai mere toast.

Why a group of Italian chefs do not get together and claim, the penne is mightier than the sword?


Why dear reader, do you insist on reading this tripe, anyway?u00a0u00a0



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