03-31-2007, 08:51 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Thank God, we're out of the Cup <!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    K P S Gill has thoroughly screwed up Indian hockey. But be happy that he is not in charge of Indian cricket.
    A T Rajendher film maybe unbearable. But the good thing is it ends in under three hours. <i>(to the uninitiated, T Rajender is a brilliant director, who also writes the story, dialogues, screenplay, lyrics and music to his movies, which were pretty good until he decided to act as hero in them! affectionately called karadi, bear by his non-fans.)</i>
   <b> A stern-faced Sonia Gandhi maybe difficult to countenance. But you will find it comparatively acceptable when you see her smile.</b>
   <b> The point is we must learn to count our blessings.</b>
    That is why we present an entire roster of reasons why we should be happy with India crashing out from the World Cup
    1) You will not have sundry experts like Srikkanth, Yashpal Sharma and Chetan Sharma, who will, when queried about what India should to do win the next match, pipe up and say that they <b>'should bowl to a plan and score runs fast to put pressure on the opposition.' With such 'experts', no wonder the lay Indian fans are like what they are.</b>
    2) <b>You will not have Bollywood beauties whose IQ is higher than even Petronas Towers (we are talking about Ignorance Quotient, mind you) to pout pathetically and then parrot </b>'<b>come on, India, You can win it</b>' while sponsors' logos are seen all over in the background.
    3) <b>The monstrosity that the Pepsi ad, in which Indian cricketers are shown transmogrifying into tigers, will be out</b>. By the way, was it an ad for Indian cricket or Bangladesh (they are also tigers)? <b>The removal of this ad, along with the one in which Sachin and a few young boys make a fool of themselves for a packet of biscuits, from air is good reason for coming back from the West Indies even without a wooden spoon.</b>
    4) Useless cliched terms like 'men in blue' and 'blue billion' will be thrown to where they should have always been � in the dust bin. Overworked sub-editors can now move on to other colours in the rainbow.
    5) <b>You will not be called to participate in stupid smses competitions where we are asked whether Agarkar will take 3 or 4 or 5 wickets. Agarkar and five wickets, never heard anything funny since the last Cabinet reshuffle.</b>
    6) You will not have any channel claiming that it is the official vehicle for the Indian cricket fans.
    7) <b>Greg Chappell will no longer let loose his bag of basement bargain management terms, saying that they were preparing the team for the World Cup.</b>
    8) <b>You will not have some idiot sidle up to you in train and ask for India's and Sachin's score, and then carelessly enquire in the same breath whom we are playing against.</b>
    9) You will now not unduly waste pejorative adjectives on the hockey team alone when they written from Olympics or the World Cup several days before the closing ceremony.
    10) You can now watch cricket and really appreciate it. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[/I]
    K P S Gill has thoroughly screwed up Indian hockey. But be happy that he is not in charge of Indian cricket.
    A T Rajendher film maybe unbearable. But the good thing is it ends in under three hours. <i>(to the uninitiated, T Rajender is a brilliant director, who also writes the story, dialogues, screenplay, lyrics and music to his movies, which were pretty good until he decided to act as hero in them! affectionately called karadi, bear by his non-fans.)</i>
   <b> A stern-faced Sonia Gandhi maybe difficult to countenance. But you will find it comparatively acceptable when you see her smile.</b>
   <b> The point is we must learn to count our blessings.</b>
    That is why we present an entire roster of reasons why we should be happy with India crashing out from the World Cup
    1) You will not have sundry experts like Srikkanth, Yashpal Sharma and Chetan Sharma, who will, when queried about what India should to do win the next match, pipe up and say that they <b>'should bowl to a plan and score runs fast to put pressure on the opposition.' With such 'experts', no wonder the lay Indian fans are like what they are.</b>
    2) <b>You will not have Bollywood beauties whose IQ is higher than even Petronas Towers (we are talking about Ignorance Quotient, mind you) to pout pathetically and then parrot </b>'<b>come on, India, You can win it</b>' while sponsors' logos are seen all over in the background.
    3) <b>The monstrosity that the Pepsi ad, in which Indian cricketers are shown transmogrifying into tigers, will be out</b>. By the way, was it an ad for Indian cricket or Bangladesh (they are also tigers)? <b>The removal of this ad, along with the one in which Sachin and a few young boys make a fool of themselves for a packet of biscuits, from air is good reason for coming back from the West Indies even without a wooden spoon.</b>
    4) Useless cliched terms like 'men in blue' and 'blue billion' will be thrown to where they should have always been � in the dust bin. Overworked sub-editors can now move on to other colours in the rainbow.
    5) <b>You will not be called to participate in stupid smses competitions where we are asked whether Agarkar will take 3 or 4 or 5 wickets. Agarkar and five wickets, never heard anything funny since the last Cabinet reshuffle.</b>
    6) You will not have any channel claiming that it is the official vehicle for the Indian cricket fans.
    7) <b>Greg Chappell will no longer let loose his bag of basement bargain management terms, saying that they were preparing the team for the World Cup.</b>
    8) <b>You will not have some idiot sidle up to you in train and ask for India's and Sachin's score, and then carelessly enquire in the same breath whom we are playing against.</b>
    9) You will now not unduly waste pejorative adjectives on the hockey team alone when they written from Olympics or the World Cup several days before the closing ceremony.
    10) You can now watch cricket and really appreciate it. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[/I]