Abt Cricket, Controversy and the Nano...

Reading the papers, now a days, leaves me feeling delighted.Its only once a while one may read about our country, the dormant India, standing against racism and being so united and everything. I never expected this, atleast from us. We, the people who love our foreign counterparts soo dearly, are standing up against them. How cool is that!
I totally agree with the following forward i received in this context:
PLZ FORWARD IT TO ALL THAT ALL SHOULD KNOW THE RULE…
….. BAAD ME KEHANA NAHI, RULES NAHI MALOOM THE...
Hi all,
After watching the test match, I feel some rules have to be incorporated by ICC to give the other teams a perfect clarification
(1) Ricky Ponting – (THE TRULY GENUINE CRICKETER OF THE CRICKET ERA AND WHOSE INTEGRITY SHOULD NOT BE DOUBTED ) should be considered as the FOURTH UMPIRE. As per the new rules, FOURTH UMPIRE decision is final and will over ride any decisions taken by any other umpires. ON-FIELD umpires can seek the assistance of RICKY PONTING even if he is not on the field. This rule is to be made, so that every team should understand the importance of the FOURTH UMPIRE.
(2) While AUSTRALIAN TEAM is bowling, If the ball flies anywhere close to the AUSTRALIAN FIELDER(WITHIN 5 meter distance), the batsman is to be considered OUT irrelevant of whether the catch was taken cleanly or grassed. Any decision for further clarification should be seeked from the FOURTH UMPIRE.
heheh!!

These days, the Nano has created sufficient buzz apart from the cricket controversy. This TATA promise seems to be the solution for the' four-member-two-wheeler' dilemma. Where else but India can be the birth place of such an innovation.{I mean excluding China}. Hope the Nano lives upto the everyone's expectation. The days of the middle-class car dream now may actually be tangible! GO-INDIA!!

"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies"

The pun...its the ultimate one can use to avoid an embarrassing situation...or to increase the curiosity around a boring topic. By definition, A pun is"A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words."In today's world its usage however is being limited only to funny one liners. But in its heydays, there were "pun users" everywhere. Though I love using them myself...I've found my collection to be quite limited.

Quotations:

"The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." — Edgar Allan Poe.

Puns in the passages of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', by Lewis Carroll are my favorites though:
“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
“Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle, “nine the next, and so on.”
“What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice.
“That's the reason they're called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.”

Some other masterpieces are:

"Not a pun less, not a pun more".

"No pain, No gain. Know pain, know gain".

"I grumbled that I had no shoes, till I saw a man without feet".

And my all timer:
"Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies"

However, I would love to add new ones to my collection, especially eccentric ones. So feel free to comment.
Yours truly.