The Slacker’s Dilemma

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There’s a scene from my all-time favourite TV show “The Wire” where one of the drug kingpin’s lieutenant grabs hold of a sheet of paper that one of his underlings seems to be writing on and asks incredulously – “Don’t tell me you are writing the minutes of a meeting to discuss criminal conspiracy!” and then proceeds to shred it to pieces. Well, the actual words used were a little more colourful, but you get the picture.

Ah, but the online world is distinctly unshreddable.

So if you are a slacker, a member of that noble breed of creative individuals who refuse to let the burden of something as trivial as work get in the way of focussed inactivity or alternative non-value-adding hobbies, you need to be aware of this

The fact that most managers dont use the web to cross check excuses comprehensively proves that all managers are n00bs

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164 responses to “The Slacker’s Dilemma”

  1. Anand Ramachandran Avatar
    Anand Ramachandran

    This is FREAKIN briLLIANT

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  2. Rahul Jauhari Avatar
    Rahul Jauhari

    he he 🙂

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  3. chutney Avatar
    chutney

    Your boss is an Iyengar. What else did you expect? 😛

    Reply
    1. Sriram Murali Avatar
      Sriram Murali

      You 3 chutney ? 😛

      Reply
  4. Gradwolf Avatar
    Gradwolf

    Brilliant!

    Reply
  5. gkarthy Avatar
    gkarthy

    Attaaasam!!

    Reply
  6. uberVU – social comments

    Social comments and analytics for this post…

    This post was mentioned on Twitter by krishashok: The Slacker’s Dilemma: http://wp.me/p4d5d-it…

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  7. Raman Avatar
    Raman

    OMG!! You have the most amazing blog ever!!! Hilarious post! 😀

    Reply
  8. Sudhamshu Avatar
    Sudhamshu

    Pant Nagar becomes Veshti Nagar, LOL! Hilarious post indeed!

    Ashok: My current favourite hobby. Watching blog readers unearth hidden, vague and highly obscure references. 1 down, many more to go

    Reply
    1. Shashank Avatar
      Shashank

      F.A.R.C.E
      7074L-8ull = TOTAL Bull
      The House TV series… and many others that are ‘hidden, vague and highly obscure references’ but still in your face LOL!
      Thank you.

      Reply
  9. Balaji Avatar
    Balaji

    awesome! as usual !!

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  10. Meow Avatar
    Meow

    hahah.. hilarious one….. technology creating soo many problems na?? 😛

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  11. shreeny Avatar
    shreeny

    hehe..super! 🙂

    Reply
  12. Chittaranjan Avatar
    Chittaranjan

    Highlight!!!

    This is so frikkin hilarious and I sincerely hope it ain’t circulated widely so that the SNOBS (Social Networking Oblivious Bosses) get to know of the means to track errant employees.

    proceeds to change username on blog/twitter/facebook/whathaveyou

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  13. Mahendra Avatar
    Mahendra

    Thanks for the weekend dose of humor!

    Reply
  14. Sindhu Murthy Avatar
    Sindhu Murthy

    LOL! You are a riot!

    Reply
  15. naren Avatar
    naren

    Totally awesome brilliance! Sublime stuff. Take a bow, sir. You have no equals!

    Reply
  16. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    The only thing you and Godhra have in common is that you’re both freakin’ riots.

    Reply
  17. rads Avatar
    rads

    heh, getting harder to play hookie with the whole world capable of spying on you eh? 🙂

    Just for argument’s sake, won’t your co-brother (your wife’s sister’s husband)’s wife be your sister-in-law (wife’s sister) and her bro-in-law (sister’s husband) be actually umm.. you? :p

    Ashok: 🙂 You found out aah. You must be web-savvy 😉

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    1. rads Avatar
      rads

      family-web-savvy 😉

      Visual proof ellam pannitteney flickr ley! http://www.flickr.com/photos/kowthas/4197403210/ *yesyes, me vetti only*

      Ashok: as the Roman saying goes, Veni Vetti Vici. The vetti shall inherit the earth, and I wholeheartedly endorse the use of time for such purposes. It is the mark of a true geek

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      1. Nagaraj Avatar
        Nagaraj

        Veni Vetti Vici as in Cut off the pig tails and throw away?

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    2. unmaya solraan Avatar
      unmaya solraan

      same thot… 🙂

      Reply
  18. wineye Avatar
    wineye

    And they say .. technology has made life much simpler..

    Good stuff !!!

    Reply
  19. jnarin Avatar
    jnarin

    Excellent 🙂

    Reply
  20. rAAmA Avatar
    rAAmA

    ROTFL ! Its the best cartoon that I have read this year 😀

    Reply
  21. Pushkar Avatar
    Pushkar

    EPIC.

    Reply
  22. Vishal Avatar
    Vishal

    ROFL!!ROFL!!!ROFL!!!!

    Reply
  23. ramaaramesh Avatar
    ramaaramesh

    Adadadada! Whatey, whatey.

    Ashok: Did you notice that you are featured, albeit highly subtly, in this post?

    Reply
    1. ramaaramesh Avatar
      ramaaramesh

      WHAT??!!!!

      a. I just expired of shock. My ghost types to tell you that it is still on a Krish-Ashok-replied-to-me high.

      b. Is it the RRase clinic thing? Is that it? is that it???
      Ashok: Unfair. I always respond. Also, I copied your facebook Farmville status abt fertilizing your farm 🙂

      Reply
      1. Ramaa Ramesh Avatar
        Ramaa Ramesh

        HAH! (and let that sting.) This is my first response from you.
        And idhellam romba damage a theriyala? I have never said ‘Pour mud on me’. I am not a buffalo. Also, my Farmville spamming has reduced greatly. It only perks up with unfair allegations such as these.
        Ashok: Well, I did take some creative liberties

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  24. Merin Avatar
    Merin

    Hahaha! Genius!

    Reply
  25. Pal Avatar
    Pal

    ROFL! We invited this upon ourselves!!

    Reply
  26. Idling in Top Gear Avatar
    Idling in Top Gear

    I am sure your boss also really likes you drawing him as an Iyengar Hitler. 😀

    Reply
  27. Nimmy Avatar
    Nimmy

    Ha ha haaaaaaaaaahahahaaa! Loved it! ROFL! 🙂 FARC-E? and a smudged STD code among other things!! What brilliant thinking! :-))) The best thing for me was this chap joining the group with two kidneys! LoLzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! We want more Sir!

    PS: Er, does RRASE stand for something in particular? Have I missed something?

    Ashok: Goody, more vague references unearthed 🙂 RRASE Nursing home is actually a real place in Chennai. http://wikimapia.org/2160513/Rrase-nursing-home .It’s one of those Numerology poster boys. It used to be “Rasi Nursing Home” at some point in the sensible past

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    1. Nimmy Avatar
      Nimmy

      aah…ok….gotcha. BTW, if the manager used Bing instead of Google…what would he type in, instead of “is ashok lying?” Ans: “Where did ashok go today?”

      Reply
    2. ramaaramesh Avatar
      ramaaramesh

      I was born there, I think. Good Lord Above.

      Reply
  28. Anoop Avatar
    Anoop

    Total Bull and FARCE stand out…but hello Saar..I feel you shouldn’t be doing such posts again….managers should never be enlightened of all these :- )….

    Ashok: Awesome, so finally someone gets the 70741-8u11 reference. As for managers, don’t worry about them. Reading blogs is not one of their daily habits. If someone slips this into a weekly status report, then perhaps we might have a problem

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    1. Mohan Avatar
      Mohan

      No manager worth his tie reads the weekly status reports.

      Reply
  29. saranya Avatar
    saranya

    Brilliant stuff!

    –S

    Reply
  30. Shyam Avatar
    Shyam

    Amazing !

    Reply
  31. maxdavinci Avatar
    maxdavinci

    Dr.Amit Arora
    MD, F.A.R.C.E

    watay idea sirjee! somewhere you going wonly!

    Reply
  32. Aajay Avatar
    Aajay

    Awesome Post machan !
    Keep rocking 🙂

    Reply
  33. RaWMaN Avatar
    RaWMaN

    amazing post..this is probably the best followup to the mail that went around about a boss catching his employee lying and catching him dressed like a joke in a halloween party on his facebook page!

    Reply
  34. Nagesh Avatar
    Nagesh

    Freaking brilliant 😀

    Reply
  35. Jithin Avatar
    Jithin

    The truth indeed. Left me Rolling On The Floor Laughing! How people have changed! How hard it has become to tell lies!

    Reply
  36. gauri Avatar
    gauri

    Aha, so this Amit-y goes back at least a couple decades!! This is begging for a Cyber-Golmaal. Time to create that clean-shaven-twin web persona ðŸ˜

    You had more fun planting those total-bull / farce / home rest “till further notice” gems than writing up this post itself, didn’tcha? 🙂

    g

    Ashok: Ahem. So you discovered my hidden agenda. Yes, once I post, I sit around with a checklist and tick off items as commenters notice them. Once all of them are noted, I make an offering to the Sun god by burning aforementioned checklist. Then I snack on Bhakarwadi

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  37. Tastemaster Avatar
    Tastemaster

    Gregory House being a nephrologist, likes the 2 Kidneys group .. hilarious.

    Ashok: As quizmasters (or hopeless addicts) like to stay – “Great crack!”. I did not expect anyone to pick the House nephrology reference. Connoisseur at Large, indeed 🙂

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  38. Tastemaster Avatar
    Tastemaster

    Also like the XKCD style alt-text!

    Reply
  39. Kusum Rohra Avatar
    Kusum Rohra

    Haha awesome, my boss follows me on twitter, is on my gtalk list so you can understand how tough it is becoming for me to remain true to my online self 🙂

    Reply
  40. Tastemaster Avatar
    Tastemaster

    Pour some Mud on me – Reference to Def Leppard’s “Pour some sugar on me?”

    Reply
  41. RukmaniRam Avatar
    RukmaniRam

    Ouch! That hit very perilously close to reality. oh hush please!

    Reply
  42. Tantanoo Avatar
    Tantanoo

    I guess the Twitter timeline should be in reverse chronological order but then, managers never read reports correctly. Also the vague resemblance to Hitler(the Hitler mustache, the tripping to the right hairstyle) is just a co-incidence and not the effect of too many Hitler-finds-out videos! 😀

    Brilliant stuff, I guess this will soon become a case study at some obscure management institute.

    Reply
  43. anon Avatar
    anon

    lol.. most references found already or any left to dig for? phone number, amit arora, rahul.. all look suspicious, but can’t figure anything..
    🙂 Nope. Nothing in those. But, there’s the slacking of one’s professional duty to play um..Call of Duty.

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    1. anon Avatar
      anon

      haha.. good one.. you should really make this a more regular feature in your blog.. those tiny references made a post that was otherwise, er how to say it, nothing but wind, the reverse. ahem, ur sick my saar

      ok terrible.. its the first time im attempting such stuff

      Reply
  44. somebody Avatar
    somebody

    i’m confused! why did a heart (human) cost nothing in 1989?
    Ashok: It’s a buy-a-transplant-get-heart-free deal

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    1. gauri Avatar
      gauri

      LOL. I swear, I thought because it was much easier to find a human with a heart back then. It’d now cost a lot more since you find one in every 753 humans. #feellikeadorknow #fail

      Occam’s razor is more complicated than they have you believe ðŸ˜

      Ashok: Now, if that was the reference I wanted to make, I would have stopped writing and started patting myself on my own back for the rest of my life. But unfortunately, the zero price was just a BOGOF type deal 🙂

      Reply
  45. y=x^2 Avatar
    y=x^2

    Great Post!!!!!!!

    BUT!!!!

    Subtle iyengar bashings will not be tolerated!!!!
    What next???!! Hitler finds out Srirangam Temple Elephant ran way??

    Reply
  46. Arun Avatar
    Arun

    brilliant!!! i like that killer look in the boss’s face.. hahaha

    while my boss leaves anonymous comments in my blog :-/
    a junior of mine smartly blocked me in gtalk !!!! 😀

    Reply
  47. Anuradha Kushwanshi Avatar
    Anuradha Kushwanshi

    brilliant 🙂

    Reply
  48. s w a t Avatar
    s w a t

    Brilliance! 😀

    Reply
  49. SM Avatar
    SM

    This is so good! Our life has become tough, indeed!

    Reply
  50. Sriram Murali Avatar
    Sriram Murali

    Lol.. Excellent 😛

    Reply
  51. Prasanna Avatar
    Prasanna

    Hiliarious!! 🙂

    Reply
  52. Rohit Avatar
    Rohit

    Brilliant 🙂

    Reply
  53. Karthik Avatar
    Karthik

    Awesomeness man !! 🙂

    Reply
  54. Mithani Avatar
    Mithani

    Absolutely Hilarious ! Brilliant portrayal of the plight of us ‘busy’ and hassled netizens 🙂

    V.A.T – LoL ! Ya, with a hospital bill like that no doubt any patient would have been ‘shok’ed !!

    Been reading your blog for sometime, but my first comment here… very nice.

    Reply
  55. yeskay Avatar
    yeskay

    boss.. great imagination.

    ‘naaney baadhikka patten…neradiyaaga baadhikka patten’ effectla irukku…

    in fact… these days young managers already use this tech to follow their subs…

    cheers

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  56. amareshswain Avatar
    amareshswain

    Excellent….
    too creative.

    Reply
  57. AT Avatar
    AT

    LMAO…!!!

    Amit Arora M.D. F.A.R.C.E. lolz…

    Reply
  58. karsun Avatar
    karsun

    awesome is simply not the word…

    Reply
  59. Srinivasan R Avatar
    Srinivasan R

    My boss also follows us on twitter and we even had Reddit blocked for half an hour bcos one guy tweeted “getting paid for reading reddit”.

    Reply
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  61. witsnnuts Avatar
    witsnnuts

    Your boss is a web worker . .yeah !!

    Reply
  62. Ramesh Srivats Avatar
    Ramesh Srivats

    ROFL. Too funny. “Krish Ashok joined the group : People with two kidneys”, made me laugh out loud then and again now as I am typing the comment. Awesome.

    Reply
  63. Deepak Avatar
    Deepak

    Hidden Jalsa alert:

    Guys, don’t forget to hover your mouse over the pic, and read the caption!

    Reply
  64. Baidik Avatar
    Baidik

    Every time I think ‘This is it! This is the benchmark!’ you come out with a kicker KA. I dont wear a hat. But if you’re running past KNKR Nungambakkam I’d love to buy you some Kapi.

    Oh btw, last month’s Forbes India edition carried something on ‘How to get a business class upgrade’. For a moment I thought they’d unearthed your gem. Of course, was a sad led down.

    And next time you leave the subtleee clues, wait for a full 48 b4 you unleash the sabhasshes!

    Reply
  65. Swaminathan Jayaraman Avatar
    Swaminathan Jayaraman

    It took me a full 10 minutes to stop laughing!

    Reply
  66. Ajai Avatar
    Ajai

    ROFL. This is brilliant.

    Reply
  67. gyanban Avatar
    gyanban

    ..when you wanted to connect it was un reachable, and when you reach it is un-connectable… such is life.
    nice post.

    Reply
  68. Burp Avatar
    Burp

    The guys under you when you become boss … I pity them 😛

    Reply
    1. Nash Avatar
      Nash

      Ahem he already is 😛

      Reply
    2. krishashok Avatar
      krishashok

      I will let those guys respond here 🙂

      Reply
      1. giridhar Avatar
        giridhar

        sir.. we are ur shishyas… and sure we have evolved ourselves to adapt and manipulate the web 2.0. 😀

        u taught us the knack to handle this double (2.0) edged sword… *bows*

        Reply
  69. Deepak Avatar
    Deepak

    Here’s something that everyone has missed…I think they’re called tool tips (Some s/w engg I turned out to be). But if you hover around the image (onmouseover?) you’ll see this…

    “The fact that most managers dont use the web to cross check excuses comprehensively proves that all managers are n00bs”

    Subliminal I say!

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  70. Nisha Avatar
    Nisha

    This was so funny…sent it to everyone @work. Should eplain why i dont add them on my facebook 😛

    Reply
  71. saurabh somani Avatar
    saurabh somani

    good one!
    and the gregory house liking patient with two kidneys was the best of the lot!

    Reply
  72. Ms Taggart Avatar
    Ms Taggart

    I loved the whole thing, especially – joining the group of People with two kidneys ! 🙂

    Reply
  73. Nash Avatar
    Nash

    oh…a highly unimportant one…011 became 044 by making 1 into four…overwriting

    Reply
  74. Rithish Avatar
    Rithish

    Nice post! Thanks for the heads-up. 😛

    Reply
  75. Zahra Avatar
    Zahra

    Brilliant!! 🙂

    Reply
  76. Neela Avatar
    Neela

    Surely, this post makes me smile broadly. Having said that, the comments that stop short of deifying the writer and “oh, you found that out? how cool is that” responses are funnier.

    Reply
  77. KP Avatar
    KP

    Brilliant. Creativity. Love the references.

    I tried to read two references. Let me know whether they are correct.

    1. Doctor name is Amit Arora. But signature starts with “N” 😛

    2. O’RLY –> This refers to the “complete reference” series by the famous author O’Rielly.

    Reply
  78. Nivy Avatar
    Nivy

    WOW! Brilliant! (yet again)

    Reply
  79. Rangarajan Avatar
    Rangarajan

    Already Iyengar boss has put naamam 🙂

    Doc’s degree = MD, FARCE was super.
    People with 2 kidneys – ha ha …. reading again and again to see hidden gems.
    as always, brilliant post, very very funny!

    Reply
  80. Hari Avatar
    Hari

    Nice one. I noticed that the phone number is 8 digits, but the “2” at the beginning doesn’t seem to have been added later. The 11 STD code got changed to 44. But in 1989, Delhi numbers were surely only 7 digits 🙂

    Reply
  81. Hari Avatar
    Hari

    And btw, I did this exact stunt in 5th std, when I used to wear slippers to class for 1 whole month, but had a letter from my father dated a month earlier (justifying said slipper because of some small foot injury). When the PT Master asked for the letter, I changed the date (in 2 places, DUMB!!!!) and gave it to him. He figured it out (for a PT Master, he was smart, I suppose), and insulted me in front of the entire class 😀

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  82. suresh Avatar
    suresh

    munnadi vayaru daan valichadhu,ippo kidneys kuda vallikiridha appa,thaanga mudiyala sirippu…danks romba danks 🙂

    Reply
  83. harish Avatar
    harish

    this is brilliant, awesome creativity :-))

    Reply
  84. uma chandrasekaran Avatar
    uma chandrasekaran

    LOL … tonsils removed thro nasal cavity ….. a DIY kidney donation and VAT slapped on it too …. and your boss needs to google ….. oh whatta n00b :)) laughing like mad as usual 🙂

    Reply
  85. DenialRevisited Avatar
    DenialRevisited

    Wow. I like to think I have a fine sense of humour and I have to say your blog is some funny stuff dawg. I just came across it 2 weeks ago and I have read every one of your posts. You are like the Jug Suraiya of the net or even better. Keep rocking

    Ashok: Thanks man 🙂

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  86. vv Avatar
    vv

    bestest post!! wow!

    Reply
  87. subbu567 Avatar
    subbu567

    Suuuuuuuper……The missing element is kinda ‘pazhuppu’ color in those medical certificates:)

    Reply
  88. bee and jai Avatar
    bee and jai

    MWZ? is that Men With Zipper?

    Reply
  89. King Vishy Avatar
    King Vishy

    😀 😀

    “People with two kidneys” was awesomeness!!

    Came here after a long time.. Short but supreme post, in your style!

    But underneath all the humour, I think you are making a really profound statement. Not sure if that was intended, but did really make me think a lot. (And that happens very rarely :P)

    The thing is it shows how we have succumbed to our voyeuristic tendencies, with the advent of Web 2.0 (damn, reads like a thesis title! Anyway, glad people will land here now on after Googling for “Chennai Voyeur” or “Jalsa Voyeur” or “Vo-Iyer” :P)

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  90. Shwetha Maiya Avatar
    Shwetha Maiya

    WOW! Words fail me 🙂 Keep it up. . Will keep visiting. .

    Reply
  91. Venki Avatar
    Venki

    That was riotous… Lol… 😀 “is ashok lying?” in google to unearth twitter and facebook… rotfl stuff… take a bow…… take a bow…

    Reply
  92. sp2hari Avatar
    sp2hari

    I must have seen this page more than 100 times and even now, it makes me laugh 🙂 Awesome 🙂

    Reply
  93. Koundachi -> Aachi Avatar
    Koundachi -> Aachi

    Krish !! Sooper post !! esp the “^ 2” date change 😀 Hilarious ! Guess wut, i think i saw u at Citicentre recently ? But wasn’t sure it was u, so didn’t come talk.. Now wishing i had 🙂

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  94. pv Avatar
    pv

    thalaiva! you found yet another fan for life….rock on, thanks to cricinfo for getting me here! HAHAHAHAHAH!

    Reply
  95. Ashirwad Bahukhandi Avatar
    Ashirwad Bahukhandi

    Nice piece on Cricinfo and more interesting was the footnote that mentioned “Krish Ashok” and “humourist” in the same sentence. Didn’t realize the transition but the post certainly didn’t make the two look incongruous. Took a while to connect all the dots but a pleasant surprise to locate you this way.

    Ashok: Ashirwad ji, good to connect after all these years 🙂

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  96. Nandi Varman Avatar
    Nandi Varman

    ROFLMAO!!!! 🙂

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  97. gulshan Avatar
    gulshan

    Man u r hilarious…waise bosses have to be really blind not to see that obvious forging….wish i lived in that era..sigh!!!

    But no worries….my boss is a born original one fo a kind dumb on earth…he ll never find out that…

    *Gosh! hope he does find out this*

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  98. viswajithkn Avatar
    viswajithkn

    hey just read your article on cricinfo about how you did not become the next kapil dev…:D the article has awesomeness written all over it…nice one! 😀

    Ashok: Thank you man 🙂

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  99. Rohini Avatar
    Rohini

    Co-brother’s wife’s brother in law… LOL

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  100. Venkatesh Avatar
    Venkatesh

    Ketappittel pongo 😀

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  101. Venkatesh Avatar
    Venkatesh

    Kelappittel Pongo 😀

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  102. meenu Avatar
    meenu

    The Bill no. was a nice added touch. So many subtle lines of humor.

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  103. kasi Avatar
    kasi

    Very interesting post! Reminds me the popular hutch/vodaphone ad, “Wherever you go, we follow you”..Literally!

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  104. Sirpy Avatar
    Sirpy

    He. He.. Tried following your hobby and it is gaja-brilliant!! The comments section almost becomes an extension of your post.

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  105. adarsh Avatar
    adarsh

    hehehe.. very funny .. and infact thats true.. this face book is crazy.. deactivated it for sometime. but had to come back as everyone almost stopped using orkut 😦

    Reply
  106. ×”×× ×” מונטנה Avatar
    ×”×× ×” מונטנה

    very humoristc.. this is a nice piece of loughter all the way down the page.

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  107. sruthiradhakrishnan Avatar
    sruthiradhakrishnan

    Lol! Loved it!

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  108. somebody Avatar
    somebody

    Did bosses of yore really used to say ” Go home at once so that perumal can heal you”?
    Old people had it easy, the darned geezers

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  109. Desigirl Avatar
    Desigirl

    OH MY GOD! This is super awesome!!! Dude!!!!

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  110. cram Avatar
    cram

    EPIC AWESOME!!!

    Don’t the references start right at the top? Ode to Pirate’s Dilemma. And RRASE clinic charges for UNits!!!! Numeromumbojumbology madness!

    indha kalathula thillu mullu seyyaradhu remba kashtam!

    I’m yet to see such incisive and witty social commentary! <>

    Ashok: Tanks maams

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  111. cram Avatar
    cram

    — shashtangam —

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  112. Nish Avatar
    Nish

    Love it…took me ten mins to stop laughing 😀

    Ashok: Thank you 🙂

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  113. songsofangels Avatar
    songsofangels

    wish i were your boss 😉

    Reply
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  115. G Avatar
    G

    Perumal lives in the details! 🙂

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  116. Ashwathy Avatar
    Ashwathy

    omg!!! hahaha! so true!
    looks like u’ve had a lot of experience 😀

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  118. Bullshee Avatar
    Bullshee

    Hilarious! Now,let’s just hope MY manager is just too much of an oldie to figure this out!!

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  119. Sanjeev Priyam Avatar
    Sanjeev Priyam

    Good!

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  120. jayakrishna yachamaneni Avatar
    jayakrishna yachamaneni

    i think your boss is an networking engineer

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  121. Grammar Nazi Avatar
    Grammar Nazi

    Co-brother?
    That’s not a real thing.

    Of course it is a very real thing, at least in South India. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/08/14/stories/13140376.htm

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  122. Sue Avatar
    Sue

    ROTFL!

    I actually had to work out the co-brother’s wife’s brother-in-law’s relation to you. You couldn’t have given your kidney to a needier dude, btw.

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  123. Ashwin Avatar
    Ashwin

    Freaking ly good…. Guess the assumption of the fact is that Boss is Techsavy and has time to search really about you !!! ..

    Reality sucks mate… Most Bosses arent so!!!

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  124. Karan Arora Avatar
    Karan Arora

    hiLariOus 😀

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  125. rishi Avatar
    rishi

    Exceedingly funny.

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  126. Rya Raghav Avatar
    Rya Raghav

    lol

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  127. Anindya Sen Avatar
    Anindya Sen

    Brilliant stuff. You make us MIS’ians (is that what we call ourselves?) proud.

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  128. liberalcynic Avatar
    liberalcynic

    Simply awesome!

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  129. leonidus Avatar
    leonidus

    Krish,

    I was given the URL of your website by a dear TamBram buddy a few days back… this was one of the first blogs that I read in the site… S-W-E-E-T!!! Amazin stuff… and thanks to you my work’s come to a standstill. I’ve been reading every single blog post after that (currently am at Oct ’08 – Veni Vedi Macchi), and having been scrambling to finish my work!
    The worst part is bursting out laughing in the middle of the day coz I work on a very quiet floor with just my boss n a coupla other teammates, its hard to justify why something in a Java IDE (which is the screen open on my monitor 2) suddenly seems so hilarious.

    Tremendous writing my friend, keep it goin!!!

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  130. sadananda Avatar
    sadananda

    ROFLMAO!!! amazing work saar..

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  131. cooker Avatar
    cooker

    Re your earlier comment
    ” Ahem. So you discovered my hidden agenda. Yes, once I post, I sit around with a checklist and tick off items as commenters notice them. Once all of them are noted, I make an offering to the Sun god by burning aforementioned checklist. Then I snack on Bhakarwadi” ,
    I thought u would find this interesting –
    Article by Bachi Karkaria

    Likewise u can have a competition in every post where u indicate in advance, the no. of items that the readers have to spot… & then u have a prize for the reader who can spot all of them :-).
    & as in the last para of the above article, u can add 1 item more than what there really is & then watch the fun as your readers try their best to spot that non existent joke while u bow to the Sun god & chew on Bhakarwadi , chuckling evilly all the while LOL .

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    1. cooker Avatar
      cooker

      Sorry the article does not seem to be available so I will copy/paste it here FYI.
      Sorry for occupying so much of your space 🙂

      http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/erratica/entry/punctuated-with-laughs
      Punctuated with laughs
      Bachi Karkaria, 12 January 2010, 08:00 PM IST

      Laugh or you might be replaced by an icon. Or, more precisely, by an emoticon. Or, even more precisely, by a smiley :-).

      This generic term covers a multitude of synergies. These can be summoned with the help of varying punctuation marks. A really happy one has two closed brackets instead of just one, like this :- )).

      The same emoticon also denotes someone with a double chin, and if you want to show them quivering with laughter perhaps you could replace the ordinary bracket with a curly one, like this: -}}

      Your friendly search engine will come up with all the possible permutations, and then some. But, today, I would like to present another use for this versatile icon. My proposal is prompted by something that’s not at all funny. In fact, it is the eternal bogey of all self-styled humour writers. It starts as a nagging doubt and, before you can say ‘Evil Empire’ it has ballooned into a primordial fear. The end-of-our -world question is: “Is anyone out there laughing?†Or smiling? Or — cringe –even as much as twitching their lips?

      You write a funny line, and then you throw it into the vast dark void. Is it greeted with a resounding roar of awe and appreciation? Or does it sink without even a little gurgle of recognition. We bravely bask in the former presumption knowing full well that the latter is the more correct assumption.

      So, should the grin-and-tonic brigade be perennially condemned to an illusory euphoria? Its labour, like the Marxist view of capitalism, carries within itself the seeds of its own destruction. The moving cornea reads, and having read, moves on without the teeniest indication of eye-grin coordination. People continue to react to a piece of general hilarity as if it were a physics chapter on specific gravity.

      So, should we just wring our helpless hands or resolutely take matters into them? Is there a way to throw a lifeline to the humourously challenged reader, and, in the process, save ourselves?

      Yes there is. If television sitcoms can fill your drawing room with more canned laughs than there are baked beans in a tin, why shouldn’t the reader of humour get a similar prompt? Why not coopt the little yellow fellow, and insert a smiley after every clever play on ideas or words? With the help of this visual bell, the reader will deliver the Pavlovian response, and life will again be ‘all ha-ha, he-he’.

      But, it could be quite crude — to say nothing of distracting – to be confronted by a weekly column which looks like a condomless galaxy of 🙂 s. It might also be insulting to suggest that readers are as so wit-less that they cannot recognise a joke even if it plonks itself on their lap, and offers them a pun-a colada.

      So, instead, how about something a little more sophisticated such as lining up the requisite number of smileys at the bottom of the piece, like this :-):-):-):-):-)? It may look like a star rating, but that’s not the purpose. The idea is to put as many smileys as there are chuckle-points in the piece, and let the reader see how many s/he can spot — and smile, grin, guffaw or roll in the aisles over.

      The ploy has an added advantage. Print has been congenitally disadvantaged vis a vis the electronic media in an age when e-nabled audiences refuse to be passive consumers of news, but demand to be active participants. The smiley line-up can propitiate that deity called interactivity. You could even slip in an extra little smiley and have them hooked for hours as, refusing to admit defeat and humour-deficiency, they keep re-re-re-reading the article to catch the elusive joke.

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  132. Sameer Avatar
    Sameer

    pour some mud on me…a la def leppard …good one

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  133. Alter Ego Avatar
    Alter Ego

    Amazing blog you’ve got here. Should be blocked in my office because it makes me forget about work :-)Are you an IT geek or what? You certainly dont sound like one. Keep up the entertainment..

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  134. eightbeats Avatar
    eightbeats

    I’ll get a 3rd bucket rating this year around because I read your stuff all night and doze all day at office….You’re too good to be true!

    Reply
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  136. Shanu Avatar
    Shanu

    Came here through an email that I got from a frnd. I am sure u already know that your post is doing the rounds thru emails. Gr8 job. Respect.

    Reply
  137. bala Avatar
    bala

    have been visiting this place for quite sometime now. everytime i come here, i take away an easy and different take on life. may the glacier of endless jalsa and jilpa never dry up!

    Reply
  138. syed Avatar
    syed

    I like the clever execution of wordplay on Pant/veshti Nagar…Simbly Suber…

    Reply
  139. Raja Avatar
    Raja

    That was brilliant….but i doubt whether my boss is socially intelligent

    Reply
  140. samjosh Avatar
    samjosh

    I dont say it usually.. but this is Awesome!!

    LOL 🙂

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  141. Nikhil Bhagia Avatar
    Nikhil Bhagia

    Coooool………….Hillarious……Well Done!!!

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  142. Jane Avatar
    Jane

    Super Duuuuuuuper :))

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  143. praveen kumar Avatar
    praveen kumar

    Awesome!! Hilarious post…

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  144. Web 2.0 at work, chapter 1:The Meeting | Hub Tank – True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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  145. professionalclick Avatar
    professionalclick

    Haha! A wholesome laughter riot. A real humorist you’re, Krish! 🙂

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  146. Ryan Menavusar Avatar
    Ryan Menavusar

    Giving something away and hoping someone will pay for something else somewhere down the road looks more and more like a business model that†s both cynical and hopeless.

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  147. Jake Warren z Avatar
    Jake Warren z

    Have you seen what it has done to the cost of a box of cereal In the meantime we must deal with the problem.

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  148. Nagaraj Avatar
    Nagaraj

    One other clue missed is Krish Ashok was found at “Satyam Theatre” on the Google map.

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