funny and punny

Silly Point – so thought BCCI Funny: Back then in 1983, it was the minion India facing the mighty West Indies in Cricket World Cup final. No one gave India a chance. Punny: Come 2016, it was the wiry Lodha wearing an innocent smile taking on the ‘pawar’full BCCI. Many thought BCCI would bulldoze Lodha F: Silly of BCCI to have not seen the point P: Now Supreme Court has literally and figuratively ‘swept’ away BCCI F: 70+ score in Cricket and you look for century P: Here, it is ‘obituary’! F: They thought they could ‘swing’ the decision in their favor P: What they didn’t reckon was it could be ‘reversed’ F: BCCI even tried to ‘spin’ a yarn quoting a comment allegedly by no less than ICC president labelling the Lodha Committe recommendations as ‘government interference’ P: SC read the ‘wrong-un’ well and countered it by ‘perjury and contempt of court’ F: It left BCCI running for ‘cover’ instead of ‘running between wickets’ P: Lodha ‘squared them up’...

                                                   99 run-out V/s 80 batt(l)ing! Funny: The Guj(rat) race has ended Punny: Win or lose, don’t write-off ‘RaGa’, screamed Swaminathan S Anklesaria in his column in The Times Of India F: Absolutely, from ‘Pappu-to-Pidi’, RaGa seems to have come of age, going 'ga-ga' over 'RaGa' P: What with enormous ‘development’ in his tweets to counter speeches bordering on hate and acrimony F: Laced with ample dose of ‘dinner diplomacy’ with (alleged) border and neighbourhood P:Recklessly raking up (imaginary) issues oblivious to real ones F: Regardless of how tough the road ahead is, the ‘HAJ-yatris’ shouldn’t give up P: You mean to avert ‘democracy’ being at the mercy of ‘NaMocrac...

                                                   Being (In)human Funny: For a (Sal)man who is ever ‘ready’ to bare his ‘body’ to drop his ‘guard’ for a tongue-loose remark that lets all hell break loose, shouldn’t we remind him it is ‘time-now’ for him to not just carry the slogan ‘Being Human’ but be actually that Punny: For a (...)man who is spending every ‘buck’ to erase the ‘black-spot’, he badly needs a ‘kick’ to bring him back to some sense of sanity F: But then, he is famous for his one-liners! P: Precisely, he is a man of many words. His one-liners are laced with many words. Not interested in ‘one word’ F: You mean ‘economy of words’ contributing to our economy P: Yes, look at the effect of one less word on en...

                                                   Verbal War Funny: it will take a lot of time – in fact ‘mani (Ai)years – to heal! Punny: Political discourse has hit a new ‘low’. F: Mani Shankar Aiyer has carved for himself a ‘niche’ with his ‘neech’ comment P: Script writers are having a field day – coining phrases to ‘suit’ the occasion F: If it doesn’t ‘suit sarkar’ it will ‘boot’ it P: Quite right. Oldies are fast losing their might swarmed by ‘termite’ F: From (9)AM-to-(5)PM, everyone is engaged in verbal war. P: These tongue-in-cheek comments will leave you ‘tongue-tied’ F: By calling him ‘fascist’, they ‘left’ a scar on the czar! P: Didi sees ‘demon’ in him for his ‘demo’ F: He isn’t ‘cow’ed down...

                                                   The Guja’RAT’ Race Funny: Imagine a political novice giving deca’yed’ old party an ultimatum! Punny: I have strong ‘reservations’ though. F: A ‘hard’ bargain later, you find every RaGa, Hardik and Hari ‘PAAT’ting high fives P: From people-darshan to mandir-darshan, these are changing times F: Singing a different ‘RaGa’ P: And hoping to defuse dy‘NaMo’, a roaring lion, in its own backyard? F: Despite being surrounded by men, you find ‘RaGa’hissing that some are missing. P: A few ‘thoughts’ later, he managed to find these missing men – of course ‘middlemen’! F: Very thoughtful - Grand and Stupid P: In the middle of all this ‘roaring’, the voice of people is ge...