I loved the copy on this jolly old website. The original, I am told, was something like
"Other Games
For the lovers of indoor games we have Table Tennis, Chess, Carrom, Billiard/Snooker, Card table, Carrom, chess, Brain wizard Scrabble, Table tennis, Table Tennis, Chess, Carrom, Billiard/Snooker, Card table, Carrom, chess, Brain wizard Scrabble, Table tennis, Table Tennis, Chess, Carrom, Billiard/Snooker, Card table, Carrom, chess, Brain wizard Scrabble, Table tennis,Table Tennis, Chess, Carrom, Billiard/Snooker, Card table, Carrom, chess, Brain wizard Scrabble, Table tennis etc."
but some diligent editing did the trick. Brevity, they say, is the soul of wit.
And here's my holi limerick
(The rhyme scheme works best with a mallu accent - joe-lee for jolly and foe-lee for folly)
I like the good old festival of holi
It can be very colorful and jolly
As I watch it from afar
From the seclusion of my bar
Because participating, in my opinion, is folly
It's kind of like in smaller restaurants in Tamil nadu, where you to ask for what's ready during breakfast time, you'd hear the waiter go, "idli, vada, pongal, poori, dosa, idli, pongal, vada, poori, etc..." :)
ReplyDeletePS:In my old age, I find composing limericks mentally taxing. So, please to assume that I said something funny in limerick form. :)
Ah, looks like we spent and identical holi.
ReplyDeleteWhat joy to stay colorless, golly.
Oh no saar, you're varry wraang
ReplyDeleteTo stay away from the colors and bhaang
Though I haven't had that latter
But that's another matter
May the ishpirit of the feshtival live laang!
rofl@ idling's PS
Nice one -- if you cant join them, watch them ! :-)
ReplyDeletewhy this holi er than thou attitude? its not fun to watch from the sidelines..
ReplyDelete'Tis a drag and a bore
ReplyDeleteTo dress up in a white chador
Only to get spattered
And pretend it mattered
To celebrate a festival of yore :p
you are becoming a fashionable poet. Lord Naren Byron?
ReplyDeleteMe not too impressed with this Holi
ReplyDeletewhere ppl drink thandai with bhaang ki goli
Me much prefer that dandiya raas
where 'items' whom we term jhakaas
dance away in shiny little chaniya choli!!!
There was once a man called shenoy
ReplyDeleteA man, I very much liked to annoy
So in his blog i typed many rhymes
Which made him pull his hair at times
And finally pack his bags to Hanoi
Happy holi :D
A holi carol :
ReplyDeleteDeck the halls with bowls of holi
Falalalalalala
TIs the season of rangoli
falalalalalala
Gonna hit you with pitchkaaris
falala lalala laalaalaaaaa
Merry holi to you, sire :D
Seclusion of the bar?!
ReplyDeleteNo taking off your shirt and singing bhang bhang bhang, bhang bhang zamaana bole ala Sallu bhai?
Holi a Folly? Folly??!
ReplyDeleteOh golly,
So solly,
You just a jolly old fogey
beautiful clean limerick :D
ReplyDeleteyou'll are funn!
hey shenoy garu - u seem to hv got the poet out from all of us with ur limerick..it was fun reading it. btw i follow your advise scrupulously, though we never got a chance to play holi though we all play holy) for a long time..
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