(Because I have nothing else to write about)
Part of gtalk conversation I had yesterday with my friend Tista:
me: anyway, koschen
tista: yes..
me: is it just me or do you also like it when men carry pens in their shirt/kurta pockets?
tista: i like men carrying pens in kurta pockets.
me: kurta pockets better definitely
tista: yep
:)
Now you know.
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18 comments:
what if the kurta pocket came with a shirt? or.. you know.. a detachable kurta pocket..
Huh?
so pseudo.
@eyefry
Can you define "pseudo" for us and the world, please?
Eye: Of all things, pseudo?? Why?
pen+kurtapocket=psuedo. has that whole desperate 70s counterculture groove to it. all the image needs is a khadi jhola and a footlong beard. and kolhapuris. bleah.
Oh, and I'm also riffing on the fact that you guys are brainy phd-types digging on kurta'd men with pens in their pockets :P
Oh Kolhapuris! Thanks for completing picture! And since you recognize the fact that we are the brainy PhD-types, our powers of distinguishing pseudos from the real deal should be apparent too :P
Also, other than the hair and the "going back to nature", I don't see anything wrong with the 70's. The doobies, the music, the 70's must've been a blast!
should brainy PhD types actually be socially inept and unable to.. well, while splitting the genome be unable to tell apart Converse from kolhapuri?
just saying. :)
The accepted image of the PhD, of course, is that of the congenitally spectacled scholar and intellectual toiling away in some dusty library on his/her thesis (which may, alas, never emerge into the light of public knowledge), conscious only of the next conceptual leap to be accomplished in whatever the highly esoteric subject in question may be. There are mild variations to this theme, of course (such as a predilection for leather whips and corsets).
But it seems I've been mistaken. It turns out, in contravention of all conventional wisdom, that PhD's are really hoop-laden, flare-wearing closet disco-nuts who really just want to boogie with guys who wear pens in their kurta pockets (and Afros? do the lovely ladies have a Sai Baba fetish too? do let on!).
Pardon the grievous error of my judgement, ma'am :P
Eye:
such as a predilection for leather whips and corsets)
ROFL
And knowing my friends, not inaccurate :)
@ Nina
*Ahem* :P
@ eye
I pardon thee. I don't blame you for being unaware of all the treacherous activities in the uninhabited retreats of the library, to which the dusty shelves alone bear silent witness. The congenital spectacles are a mere facade.
As to the thesis never seeing the light of day- Mendel's work was waning away in some corner till 20 years after his death. One day, V, you'll see. :P
Nina: I'm beginning to think I've been hanging out with all the wrong people...
Tista: I'm afraid I might not live till 20 years after your passing. Maybe you could break from convention and get yours published 20 years before your death, what say?
Eye: Haha, quite possibly.
Btw, some of Tista's work has already been published.
Well, that's a relief. Anything someone with an average number of working grey cells can access?
More arcane than anything else. You'd be bored to tears, besides.
Please to update. I walked in here and what I thought was a wet rag in my face turned out to be a bunch of cobwebs sagging in the humidity. It's not a pleasant feeling.
For 8 years, I wore kurtas and always carried a pen in the pocket. (I must hasten to add it was not the same kurta for all those 8 years. And not the same pen, come to think of it.)
Where were all the women, then, who thought pens in kurtas were sexy? Che! And double che too.
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