Bloody Indians in Vegas
Bloody Indians in Vegas As mentioned in the previous post, here’s another twisted tale of telephony. First, the disclaimer: Unlike other incidents on this b...
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I Still Don't Know
I Still Don't Know When I died, I wasn’t surprised to be escorted in to the gate that read: Welcome To where else Hell. Death leaves one with the bittern...
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It Really Doesn’t Matter
It Really Doesn’t Matter If you are the kind who admires confidence and decisiveness, I am afraid I won’t be leaving a great impression on you if you happen...
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Stupid Tit-Bits
Stupid Tit-Bits 1. Phantom Fetish Long ago, when there used to be not more than a single hit per day on this blog, I would check each visitor’s location and...
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How To Live
How To Live Lately I've been wondering a lot about, well, how to live. In the quest to understand life, I‘ve read a lot: philosophy, evolutionary-biology, ne...
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Tooth-Fairies And Soap
Tooth-Fairies And Soap Yesterday I helped the cause of a budding barber. Although my right ear still hurts, I am satisfied with my readiness for an impromptu...
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My New Place
My New Place I am moving into a new house this decade end. It’s a little duplex, an independent two-bedroom house, not far from where I stay currently. At 90...
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Trip Home
Trip Home Lull is a funny word. And that’s what this place has been going through for a long while now. I have forgotten how to structure a post to the level...
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Things a man endures every morning
Things a man endures every morning [Original Post](https://brownphantom.blogspot.com/2010/08/things-man-endures-every-morning.html)...
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The Restaurant
The Restaurant I picked up the menu card. The first page said ‘For Gents’. A bit odd, but you never know with these upscale restaurants. “Can I have My Yout...
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The Usual
The Usual So this guy walks into this pub. With swagger and all. Looks around. Three chicks drinking. None good enough for him. Goes straight to the bar....
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Unborn
Unborn Before she died, she had one last look at the sky. She has been sleeping since then, only to keep waking in another dream. Now she found herself on a...
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All Apologies
All Apologies I did this guest post here at Preeti's blog last week. And then Atrisa has tagged me with honest scrap here. Thank you Atrisa :P. The post fi...
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Hello World
Hello World This poor thing has been starving for months. And so, here’s an update on what I was up to during this time. Not that I expect/wish/accept that a...
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Facebook Agony Aunt
Facebook Agony Aunt Pokers Q. I am being poked and tickled a lot. Yesterday, a classmate I haven’t met for seven years pinched me. How do I react? A. It woul...
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The Trip to Chilka Lake
The Trip to Chilka Lake Couple of weeks ago I went to my friend Chitto’s wedding in Bhubaneswar. Yes, another man down. Back in Kharagpur, his room number wa...
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Facebook Status Messages If Your Boss Is In Your Friend List
Facebook Status Messages If Your Boss Is In Your Friend List You can’t escape having colleagues and bosses in your Facebook friend-list. Why not make the mos...
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A Tree, A Lizard, And A Dementia
A Tree, A Lizard, And A Dementia This is not a “proper” post, in a sense that it is being done just for the sake of discipline. Am working on something inter...
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The Oversight
The Oversight “The Consultant”, read the board. An arrow mark on the board pointed to the first floor. One might mistake it to be an arrogant declaration of...
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Riders On The Storm
Riders On The Storm I had a shocker today morning while driving. As soon as the radio was turned on, these were the words that fell on my ears: Into this ho...
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Four Whatevers And A Song
Four Whatevers And A Song Saying Hi To The Dead Get yourself a plain sheet of paper and a pen. Find an ant if the dead was a nice fellow. Else get a tiny sp...
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Six Whatevers
Six Whatevers Tete-a-tete “Nice wig.” “Takes one to know one.” “Mine is special. All hair in it belongs to my clients.” “Same here” “I know all the barbers h...
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Mother
Mother Mother, do you think they'll like this song? Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls? Mother, should I build the wall? [Original Post](htt...
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Five Whatevers
Five Whatevers 1. Object Thou shalt not steal. Else, you are a thief. And the object, Stolen. 2. Work Rose, “I shall have the glory”. Thorn, “I too, will...
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Three silly, but very short stories
Three silly, but very short stories 1. Droplet "I would prefer a blackhole to a sponge", said the suicidal droplet. A river devoured it. 2. Shoes Twins. Bot...
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Eight Seconds
Eight Seconds “Not much of a hobby mate.” Johnny whispered loudly through the bushes. “Ummm?” said Pete distantly. His eyes fixed on the sky, as always. Alw...
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So kid, what do you want to be when you grow up ?
So kid, what do you want to be when you grow up ? [Original Post](https://brownphantom.blogspot.com/2009/12/so-kid-what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you.html)...
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Her Diary
Her Diary Everyday life for a female is never easy in a conservative society. Being a werewolf doesn’t help. Waking up naked beneath the park benches, even...
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Cheerleaders in T20 : An analysis of poll results
Cheerleaders in T20 : An analysis of poll results Following are the results of a poll conducted on RCB blog : If I were Pratibha Patil, I would invite the W...
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Breaking the Jinx
Breaking the Jinx Image : Dale Steyn & me chatting with the fans during the RCB vs Cape Cobra Match Friends, Royal Challengers must win in tomorrow's match...
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In Top 9 For Chief Blogger RCB
In Top 9 For Chief Blogger RCB Just saw the results here. and I am shortlisted in top 9 for the post of chief bloggers. Extremely relieved and happy right n...
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Please Vote For Me
Please Vote For Me I need your votes for the 'Chief Blogger' Contest for Royal Challengers Bangalore. The 'Chief Blogger' gets to travel with the team and bl...
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Tina
Tina Damn the vulnerabilities of daily existence. Just when I was going to coin the term Pseudo-Swines for those who were cashing in on the flu-mania to stay...
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Men In The Mirror
Men In The Mirror Everyday as I drive to office, I dread that one minute, the time to be spent in the lift. The lift in my office has reflecting surfaces on...
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Brought To You Bai
Brought To You Bai My maid is on leave this week. Her absence is becoming noticeable day by day. Apart from executing her designated duties, she also acts a...
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Ghanshyams vs Fairbrothers, and Bala goes to Singapore
Ghanshyams vs Fairbrothers, and Bala goes to Singapore The Ghanshyams are at it again.Dark fat bastards. The barbarians hit each other harder and harder. Eac...
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The Alchemistress
The Alchemistress Stella was on the hospital bed. Her left leg plastered. This had to be the worst day she has had in years. She slipped over the stairs as s...
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Rage Against The Tags
Rage Against The Tags I have been busy doing nothing for the entire week. As a result, the blog suffered blatant neglect. Time to make amends. First, a few i...
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Truth in Wine
Truth in Wine A life’s work continues to conjure questions well past the funeral. Take Arthur’s case. His son was convinced that trash-can is the rightful pl...
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Behavioural Inefficiencies
Behavioural Inefficiencies 1. Here’s a puzzle with straightforward answer but many come up with incorrect solutions in real life: Imagine yourself seating on...
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Short Story Contest and An Indecent Ending
Short Story Contest and An Indecent Ending Here’s an entirely useless piece of information for more than 6 billion humans and the entire Ostrich species. I a...
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Good Old Days
Good Old Days After every seven years, you are a new biological person. Defining the boundaries of a new generation is a difficult question and doesn’t have...
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The Profound Lie
The Profound Lie A solitary word spoken for the entire day and that too was a lie. Optimizations, in daily life, have been stretched too far I guess. Probabl...
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VAT 69
VAT 69 Centuries ago, strange events occured in abundance simply because there was no one to report them. They laid the foundations for many anomalies we obs...
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Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Careful With That Axe, Eugene Carla, the cat, was having a bad tail day and to top that, no one had noticed how well her new green nail polish went with her...
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Valid Excuses For A Pseudo-Break
Valid Excuses For A Pseudo-Break I would be relatively inactive in blogosphere for the next fifty days. Various reasons are listed down later in the post. Ha...
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So Far Away
So Far Away Beautiful Joanna lays naked on the beach, sipping her Pina-colada from the crystal glass. Sky is blue and the water green. Waves come and go, and...
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We The People
We The People Scenario 1 : Two kids with their Mom Mom : Sonu, Monu ! Come let's go to the Tagore Academy. There's an exhibition on Chola dynasty sculptures....
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A Word Game
A Word Game I’ve got almost three hours left, as these very words are typed, before I default on the grand promise made to myself of writing at least one pos...
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Handshakes, Dating And Succumbing
Handshakes, Dating And Succumbing Observing last few posts, I felt that the blog is getting too analytical and didactic. So the second part of the previous p...