Got this in my inbox. The spam filter must have thought that it was helping me by not flagging this as spam ;)
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Subject: Hey you ! Blind date on hold fw
Hey there bad boy! !! !!!
Hope you remember me! Erika!!!!
It’s been a while I know , but how funny, here I am again hehe!
Well well , I left to South America for 3 months. Me and the girls did a bunch of crazy stuff. Wanna see my pics, I’ve only got about 1000 of them!. Three of us got implants hehe!.
Ok OK!
See search for nickname: WetDesire
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The link was to a website on geocities.com
Almost believed it ;)
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Saturday, December 30, 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Where is clean comedy?
Androidparanoid complained that most stand-up comedy shows do not have any clean comedy in them here
This is what he says about one particular show:
* 60% of it was on sex or sex related.
* 35% of it was on the race, origin, ethnicity... most of it derogatory.
* remaining was what I would say normal jokes.
I agree completely. My issues with comedy not being clean and above the belt started in my undergrad years. Being very active in the inter-college competition scene, I would take part in numerous public speaking competitions and also would try to participate (and try to win) in stage competitions like 'Mad-Ads' etc.
But...but ...but alas, to win in stage competitions like MadAds, one HAD to be dirty. All the jokes had to be below the belt or at best on the belt. No clean funny jokes! And the worse part is that the audience and the judges enjoyed such stuff ! The fact that the judges were also students or from a comparable age group segment did really influence the way these competitions were judged and what it took to win in them.
I believed that to be able to be above the belt required real talent and a great sense of humour. To make jokes which were not clean was the easiest thing to do. I tried at times to win a prize based on clean jokes, but that never happened. I also grouped up with the best teams of other colleges to learn how to go about this whole thing, but would then drop out since all their jokes would be dirty.
For example, lets take the popular humourous stage event 'MadAds'. During my college days, the other colleges and their jokes for MadAds can be categorized as follows:
* my college - NIE -> we did not participate a lot in such events. (so did not win prizes in such events, so missed being the overall winners) I was personally against making dirty jokes on stage and wanted badly to believe that the event could be won based on clean jokes alone (talent where are you?).
* our rival college - SJCE -> they wouldn't mind being dirty on the stage. In fact they would go to such extents that their quiz teams would have explicit/dirty words in them, just to sound 'cool'.
* the medical college - MMC - well, what to expect from my Doctor friends, who read about human anatomy day in and day out!
And my BIGGEST complaint and point of frustration with MadAds was that the majority of jokes made would be based on feminine hygiene product advertisements !
I don't know what the scene in such inter-college competitions is these days. But I sure do hope, a bunch of really talented guys have changed the direction and steered it away from being dirty to good clean homour. I believe to be able to do so requires real talent. I hope the competitions are not swayed by the antics of the less-talented ones, who will always take the short-cut to success.
Or should humour be always dirty to be fun?
No, we just have not seen much of real talent. Most of the chaps have just followed the crowd.
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This is what he says about one particular show:
* 60% of it was on sex or sex related.
* 35% of it was on the race, origin, ethnicity... most of it derogatory.
* remaining was what I would say normal jokes.
I agree completely. My issues with comedy not being clean and above the belt started in my undergrad years. Being very active in the inter-college competition scene, I would take part in numerous public speaking competitions and also would try to participate (and try to win) in stage competitions like 'Mad-Ads' etc.
But...but ...but alas, to win in stage competitions like MadAds, one HAD to be dirty. All the jokes had to be below the belt or at best on the belt. No clean funny jokes! And the worse part is that the audience and the judges enjoyed such stuff ! The fact that the judges were also students or from a comparable age group segment did really influence the way these competitions were judged and what it took to win in them.
I believed that to be able to be above the belt required real talent and a great sense of humour. To make jokes which were not clean was the easiest thing to do. I tried at times to win a prize based on clean jokes, but that never happened. I also grouped up with the best teams of other colleges to learn how to go about this whole thing, but would then drop out since all their jokes would be dirty.
For example, lets take the popular humourous stage event 'MadAds'. During my college days, the other colleges and their jokes for MadAds can be categorized as follows:
* my college - NIE -> we did not participate a lot in such events. (so did not win prizes in such events, so missed being the overall winners) I was personally against making dirty jokes on stage and wanted badly to believe that the event could be won based on clean jokes alone (talent where are you?).
* our rival college - SJCE -> they wouldn't mind being dirty on the stage. In fact they would go to such extents that their quiz teams would have explicit/dirty words in them, just to sound 'cool'.
* the medical college - MMC - well, what to expect from my Doctor friends, who read about human anatomy day in and day out!
And my BIGGEST complaint and point of frustration with MadAds was that the majority of jokes made would be based on feminine hygiene product advertisements !
I don't know what the scene in such inter-college competitions is these days. But I sure do hope, a bunch of really talented guys have changed the direction and steered it away from being dirty to good clean homour. I believe to be able to do so requires real talent. I hope the competitions are not swayed by the antics of the less-talented ones, who will always take the short-cut to success.
Or should humour be always dirty to be fun?
No, we just have not seen much of real talent. Most of the chaps have just followed the crowd.
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Saturday, December 02, 2006
He feared the night - 1
He feared the night, really really feared it.
He would get into the safety of his bed early, as early as he could once the sun had set and would step out of his bed only when he was sure it was daybreak.
This had started out a long time back. As a kid his teacher had tried to explain about the stars that we see at night and what struck him was the falsity of the whole view. His science teacher had told the students in the class that the stars that we see today are the stars of yesterday and we could never see the stars of today, today. The star that he saw in the night, might not even exist at that moment. As a kid he was learning to believe in what he saw, now he was told that it was not always true. This scared him a lot.
This was the first instance which sowed the seed for the fear of the night. As he grew up and as he learnt and experienced more, his fear only increased.
He had asked his parents, questioned the many times to know if they too feared the falsehood of the sight of the stars. His Mom and Dad would get irritated and would brush him off. They would only say that it was nothing to be worried about. His little kid sister was too little to know the answer to his question. She had not learnt enough truths, that she could start recognizing the lies.
He had to find the answer himself and so many a nights he would go to his rooftop and would gaze at the stars for minutes. He would try hard to convince himself that what he saw was untrue. But that would be impossible, how could what was visible be untrue? It was visible, he could see it, others could also see it, then how can it be untrue?
It was the night, he assured himself, that was evil and untrue. It was when the bad magic would rule the world. It was a dangerous time, yes that is what the night was. In the darkness, when warm light was missing, the untruths would come to life. Magic, mystery would reign while logic and reason would die. The night which mocked at his sense of reality was a scary beast. He learnt that and he grew to scare the evil dark night.
(c) Deapesh.
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He would get into the safety of his bed early, as early as he could once the sun had set and would step out of his bed only when he was sure it was daybreak.
This had started out a long time back. As a kid his teacher had tried to explain about the stars that we see at night and what struck him was the falsity of the whole view. His science teacher had told the students in the class that the stars that we see today are the stars of yesterday and we could never see the stars of today, today. The star that he saw in the night, might not even exist at that moment. As a kid he was learning to believe in what he saw, now he was told that it was not always true. This scared him a lot.
This was the first instance which sowed the seed for the fear of the night. As he grew up and as he learnt and experienced more, his fear only increased.
He had asked his parents, questioned the many times to know if they too feared the falsehood of the sight of the stars. His Mom and Dad would get irritated and would brush him off. They would only say that it was nothing to be worried about. His little kid sister was too little to know the answer to his question. She had not learnt enough truths, that she could start recognizing the lies.
He had to find the answer himself and so many a nights he would go to his rooftop and would gaze at the stars for minutes. He would try hard to convince himself that what he saw was untrue. But that would be impossible, how could what was visible be untrue? It was visible, he could see it, others could also see it, then how can it be untrue?
It was the night, he assured himself, that was evil and untrue. It was when the bad magic would rule the world. It was a dangerous time, yes that is what the night was. In the darkness, when warm light was missing, the untruths would come to life. Magic, mystery would reign while logic and reason would die. The night which mocked at his sense of reality was a scary beast. He learnt that and he grew to scare the evil dark night.
(c) Deapesh.
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