Quid agis, medice?

Here’s a nice one from LimerickDB.

That the woman who’s running for president
would desire again to be resident
at the stately abode
where some slut blew Bill’s load
makes her memory lapses quite evident.

The BCQC is organising two open quizzes this coming Sunday (30th March).

The Boat Club Quiz Club is organising two quizzes on Sunday, 30th
March 2008. Entry is free.
Venue: Dewang Mehta auditorium, Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati
Bapat Road, Pune-16
See http://bcqc.org/?q=mar2008 for directions

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Preliminary Details:
Quiz 1: The “LAME” quiz – Entertainment quiz (Music/Films/Literature)
Time: 9.45 am to 12.45 pm; reporting at 9.30 am
Teams of 2, 6 teams in the final.
QMs: Yash Tamaskar and Suvajit Chakraborty

No prior registration. Open to all.
Prizes for all finalists, as well as for best all-school team and
audience prizes.

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Quiz 2: “QuiZeitgeist” – General Quiz
Time: 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm, reporting at 2:15 pm
QM: Samrat Sengupta
No prior registration needed. Open to all.
Prizes for all finalists; Prizes for best all-school, all-college, as
well as for audience
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Prizes sponsored by Landmark, Pune and BCQC.

Contact:
Email: contact (at) bcqc (dot) org
Phone: Aditya Gadre (98811 01291), Ramanand (97642 58560), Salil (98231 12258), Yasho (99705 19559)

It seems that someone really doesn’t want Barrack Obama to be his new bicycle.

Check it out.

Everyone knows the result. Man Utd have just thrashed Liverpool 3-0 . Most Liverpool fans are bound to blame it on the referee , but really ‘Is it the referee’s fault?’  . I will try to answer that questions in a completely unbiased manner. Well maybe mostly unbiased.

Man Utd had more chances on goal , more shots , better possession  and in general were playing better. So I don’t think there is any doubt that United deserved to be in the lead through he Wes Brown header. The matter in question is the Mascherano sending off. The first tackle was a double footed lunge , he didn’t touch the ball. Didn’t really make enough contact for a normal yellow card foul but the intent was definitely there. If the tackle would have connected , Scholes would have had at least a few broken bones. I believe Steve Bennett did the right thing by giving him a yellow there.

Yes , I agree the Torres booking was unfair ,but it was total stupidity for Mascherano to go and back-chat the ref when it didn’t even concern him. A person who is on a yellow card should have enough sense to not go and antagonize the ref.  So the second yellow card was thoroughly deserved.

It did spoil the game but it had to be done. No two ways about it.

But whose fault is it really? During the course of the match you may have noticed that United players were on their best behavior. Rooney promptly apologised when he crashed into Reina ; Ferdinand didn’t argue at all when given a card for absolutely nothing really. Why? Because they were told to. Sir Alex seems to have drilled it into their heads that this ref gives cards like no-one’s business, so keep away from him. Whereas Benitez seems to have told his players to fight for every decision with the ref …right or wrong. So its really Benitez’s fault. As a manager it’s his job to tell his players how to behave in which match. In a high profile match like Man U – Liverpool , keeping your head is probably the most important thing. Liverpool lost the plot very early on and this lead to their defeat.

Getting back to actual match , one point I have to touch on is the return of Paul Scholes. He played brilliantly today. Not one miss-pass . He totally controlled the midfield from start to finish. Gerrard was nowhere to be seen . It’ll be great to watch him in action against Chelsea and Arsenal.

Hirak in this post says :

” God is the ultimate stick and Heaven the ultimate carrot. We all know that incentives work!”

Kunal’s Law  works!

Avnish has now outdone himself and come up a word that is so pointless that it makes  ‘orrery’  look very very useful.

boustrophedon: written from right-to-left and left-to-right on alternate lines.

on the  Flashy Cars  website . Whohooo!

The chap who wrote it had called me Murilee Martin and I have to logged in to tell him I’m not Murilee Martin which I’m not. Eh… what the hell .

Avnish gave me this word in the comments for the earlier post.

I feel it is pointless enough to have it’s own entry.

orrery  : clockwork model of solar system

GPSs can tell you to drive off a cliff. Don’t trust them blindly.

If you are the intellectual type who likes punch up every now and then this game is for you.

Now that I’m so confused with what I want to do in life , I’ve decided to give everything a shot. That means that I’ve recently started looking through material (my mom would have preferred the term ’studying’ here) for both CAT and the GRE. This means that I come across many words of whose existence I had no clue previously(because my vocabulary sucks ). During the course of going through this material I often come across words which really piss me off for their total pointless-ness.  When I see these words and realise I have to mug them up I feel ‘ Why the <insert four letter word starting with ‘f’ ending with ‘k’ with a ‘u’ and a ‘c’ thrown in here> would anyone coin this word??’

So I’ve decide to share my frustration with you and have created this new category entirely dedicated to pointless words.

Here is the first one in the list :

 sternutation : the act of sneezing

I challenge you . Use that in a everyday conversation.