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Laxman-Ishant Partnerships
Once in a scarce while, Google, brisk, blithe and positive of its omniscience, gets struck in the eye with a particular pair of words for which, it realizes with a jolt, it can hand back but one...
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Dealing With Me
Inside your idle brain, come shine or come rain,All work and no play all night and all dayNot even half a moment of sleep, you see!Look for me in the details (or check in the fai retails)When you're...
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Parting Words
[Words behind an asterisk do not belong to this lexicon, strictly speaking.]adorationSpeech of praise given by a company, directed toward itself, in a commercial breakaltercationA situation that, due...
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Strips II
Mixed Signals---------------------------------------------------Press Charges[Excuse the image size]---------------------------------------------------Sharp Tongue(Title inadvertently suggested by AJ...
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Morse Code Mnemonic
Based on the (auditory) length of each monosyllabic word. Wikipedia lent the idea:In the United Kingdom many people learned the Morse code by means of a series of words or phrases that have the same...
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An Unimperial Union
Ms. Patrick, of pornographic renown, and Mr. Iyer, the travel writer, entered wedlock. They were driving back from their nuptials in a -9 when the vehicle ran over a -2pede. Iyer let a yelp of joy...
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The G.P.S. that Misdirects
(Just some grammatically correct sentences.)With Monty Pythonesque airspeed velocity, the unladen swallow shoots supplied by the knights. The elf who sees the inconsolable snake shedding tears it.In...
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Little Mortinsen
Now Mortinsen saw an octopusShe behaved very oddPray, boy, and make no fuss,Said the cephalopodSee the pistol in this tentacle?You, young man, I've been sentacleMortinsen scowled, Mortinsen sighed...
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A shy cry is a meek shriek, and a fast mast is a quick stick. Then again, a rum bum is a queer rear. If to dine fine is to eat neat, then to feign pain is to fake ache. A tight fight is a stiff tiff --...
View ArticleForked Flicks
The missus and I noticed that movie titles in Tamil and English reflect each other. Often in a well-polished mirror --Azhagi : Pretty Woman,Mugamoodi : The Mask,Aaranya Kaandam : Animal Kingdom (both...
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Inspired by the classicsசி வா ஜிவா யி லேஜி லே பிand க ர டிர யி ல்டி ல் லி,I added these to the Tamil wiktionary -- ----------Old out, new in.ம ர புர த் துபு து மை---------Reaction on learning...
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Neeraj Chopra Cricket Facts
We all know that Usain Bolt was a cricketer first before his coach, noting his manic running on the field, suggested a change of career. Much less known is how Neeraj Chopra took a similar, er,...
View ArticleMissive to Morpheus
As written a few years back. Dear dream-making studio in my brain, (a) Yes, I spent 14 years at SBOA. But it's been 14 years since. I no longer need to worry about preparing for XII Std board exams....
View ArticleParse under the yoke
Walruses that foxes tease taunt ostriches in their turn.Walruses foxes tease taunt ostriches.Fish that deer tease taunt sheep in their turn.Fish deer tease taunt sheep.Berlin fish Tokyo deer tease...
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Walls Have Mouths
Sometimes the universe folds in on itself.Some time later he sent the mural.
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May the 4th
To be sung to tune of The Imperial March.-------Make way for Lord of Men, Darth Vader.Darth Vader -- here he comes, make a bow.He has scarcely a lower jaw,But once froze his son-in-law --You all...
View ArticleIf needed, whitely add a complacent drop of milk
A transferred epithet is a literary device that sneaks a human adjective next to an inanimate noun, like a "sleepless night" that follows "greedy portions" at a "tense dinner". Or like "human...
View ArticleNote Well
The teachings of ஆத்திசூடி that down the ages ring.ஆறுவது சினம். Rage is like a river.ஈவது விலக்கேல். Do not swat away flies.ஐயமிட்டு உண். Add "I am" before "yours".ஓரம் சொல்லேல். Enunciate.ஒளவியம்...
View ArticleA ;ial moment
It has come to light that on this day 76 years ago, shortly after hearing Tryst With Destiny on the radio at the Viceroy's bungalow, Lord Mountbatten made the following impromptu remarks.That damn fine...
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Without giving away big spoilers:The story of a star scientist and his interstellar connections, whose central tenet is tested following the inception of a mega-project; its memento was not the...
View ArticleJulius Caesar from Memory
SoothsayerBeware the ides of March.CaesarHow now! I wouldst thou couldst.Soothsayer Beware the ides of March.CaesarPrithee, a tide in the lives of men, which taken at the flood, slings them on to...
View ArticleNow Screening
Guess the movie. It's hidden in the clue. E.g., clue: If you don't halt it an iceberg will hit it. Answer: TITANIC (If you don't hal TITANIC eberg will hit it).1. Everyone on that bus peed in their...
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Baahu Selvan, Ponniyin Bali
ஒற்றுமையை கண்டீரா? இரண்டுமே ஆற்றில் குழந்தையாக காப்பாற்ற பட்டு, கஸினையும் நாசரையும் எதிர்த்து, சிம்மாசனத்தில் ஒரு குடும்பத்தை "குந்தவை"க்க முயலும் கதை. ஒன்று மணிரத்னம் என்றால் மற்றொன்று மரகதமணி. என்ன,...
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