Count your chicken before they get bird Flu
Bird flu, cutely referred to, by guys who want to pick up 'chicks' for closer examination as 'Avian Influenza', has taken the nation by storm. The devastating effects that this disease has had on the collective conscience on the consumers of chicken and the flag-bearers of non-vegetarianism is a case study to behold.
The extreme misery that people have to undergo due to bird flu, has been much more severe than the effect that a lot of natural calamities have had, mainly because this has been such a pan-South Asian phenomenon.
Count your chickens before they get Bird Flu, by Haridumb Chowdree is a book that examines this whole issue from a very partisan perspective. The author chanced upon this shrewd eventually-to-be-popular title while making fun of someone whose name he dare not mention, in case he gets sued himself, like a lot of other smart and well educated people have.
The book, which will be published if the author manages to make some time out of signing autographs for coming up with such a wonderful title, promises to be something that heralds a paradigm shift, in so far as mixing up poultry and strategem and management theories and coalition politics and coffee brewing is concerned. The author wants to have this cool concept of saving paper and pretending to be an insufferable-know-it-all about five topics instead of the usual single topic that most people generally write advice books about.
Haridumb doesn't want to be profiled any further, because it would be 'detrimental to his persona as an upcoming know-it-all-author', and wants a shroud of secrecy to envelope his being, so that people can get more curious about him, being an anti-thesis to 'empty vessels make more noise'.
Conforming non-Conformist ass.
Apart from incubating such stupid authors-to-be, another grave effect that Avian Influenza has had on the world of publishing is its impact on the "chicken soup for *.*" series, by Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen. Chicken soup is popularly termed as Jewish penicillin (a quizzing funda done to death), and hence the series. You have a whole range of chicken soup books, supposedly acting as an anodyne for people hurt, depressed, requiring motivation or for people who are losers with just enough money in their pockets to buy one of these books.
The sales of these books, whose target market segment is not too bright, as can be obviously seen, have plumetted downwards, after the outbreak, with people wanting to stay away from anything 'chicken'.
No wonder nobody watches Fear Factor Pakistan specials nowadays.
The following lists the actual titles of some of the Chicken Soup books:
1) Chicken soup teenage trilogy. I am suddenly getting morbid visions of teenage chickens being subjected to a matrix like environment, with tubes through them, drawing their energy until one fine day, they end up dead on a plate.
Wait.
If some urban legend mail is to be believed, thats exactly what KFC supposedly does.
2) Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul part 2.
Go figure. 'Horse Loving'? Part 2??????????
3) Chicken Soup for the Latter-day Saint Soul.
Whatever.
Now, on popular demand, here are some chicken soup books that might become in vogue in the future, if someone actually takes the trouble to write them:
Anyway, until next time, cluck cluck!
The extreme misery that people have to undergo due to bird flu, has been much more severe than the effect that a lot of natural calamities have had, mainly because this has been such a pan-South Asian phenomenon.
Count your chickens before they get Bird Flu, by Haridumb Chowdree is a book that examines this whole issue from a very partisan perspective. The author chanced upon this shrewd eventually-to-be-popular title while making fun of someone whose name he dare not mention, in case he gets sued himself, like a lot of other smart and well educated people have.
The book, which will be published if the author manages to make some time out of signing autographs for coming up with such a wonderful title, promises to be something that heralds a paradigm shift, in so far as mixing up poultry and strategem and management theories and coalition politics and coffee brewing is concerned. The author wants to have this cool concept of saving paper and pretending to be an insufferable-know-it-all about five topics instead of the usual single topic that most people generally write advice books about.
Haridumb doesn't want to be profiled any further, because it would be 'detrimental to his persona as an upcoming know-it-all-author', and wants a shroud of secrecy to envelope his being, so that people can get more curious about him, being an anti-thesis to 'empty vessels make more noise'.
Conforming non-Conformist ass.
Apart from incubating such stupid authors-to-be, another grave effect that Avian Influenza has had on the world of publishing is its impact on the "chicken soup for *.*" series, by Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen. Chicken soup is popularly termed as Jewish penicillin (a quizzing funda done to death), and hence the series. You have a whole range of chicken soup books, supposedly acting as an anodyne for people hurt, depressed, requiring motivation or for people who are losers with just enough money in their pockets to buy one of these books.
The sales of these books, whose target market segment is not too bright, as can be obviously seen, have plumetted downwards, after the outbreak, with people wanting to stay away from anything 'chicken'.
No wonder nobody watches Fear Factor Pakistan specials nowadays.
The following lists the actual titles of some of the Chicken Soup books:
1) Chicken soup teenage trilogy. I am suddenly getting morbid visions of teenage chickens being subjected to a matrix like environment, with tubes through them, drawing their energy until one fine day, they end up dead on a plate.
Wait.
If some urban legend mail is to be believed, thats exactly what KFC supposedly does.
2) Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's Soul part 2.
Go figure. 'Horse Loving'? Part 2??????????
3) Chicken Soup for the Latter-day Saint Soul.
Whatever.
Now, on popular demand, here are some chicken soup books that might become in vogue in the future, if someone actually takes the trouble to write them:
- Chicken Soup for the soul who has got the video ipod but is now broke because he/she cannot buy the quicktime player advanced version that converts his/her videos to itunes format
- Chicken Soup for the Real Madrid fan's soul
- Chicken Soup for the Call Center employee's Soul (who has the misfortune of having to put up with a desi at the other end of the line in the US, with the desi switching to his/her vernacular to bug the poor employee some more)
- and finally, Chicken Soup for the Chicken's soul (Bird Flu afflicted chicken special edition)
Anyway, until next time, cluck cluck!
posted by Hari Shenoy @ 2:17 AM
8 Comments:
"bird flu sucks"
nice one. do write a book on " chick soup for no longer bachelors soul".
keep them coming.
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author: if you're the guy acutely short of a quicktime license, i could share my quicktime pro license with you. for reasons of privacy and being watched for my ip address by piracy police, im leaving this post anonymous. but your hit counter will tell you where im from and with the time stamp on this comment, you can figure who i am. ask me for it.
ha ha ha ! nice post.
kutty gave me the link to your blog. awesome post! and the blog surely rocks.
Wah. Wah. And what about
"Chicken soup for the Tifosi"?
It will apply to a certain bird flu afflicted character also.
Talk about killing two birds with one stone. :D
Perhaps there are more than 8 people in our country who actually access your blog.
Aaarrrggghhhhh.... As always simbly suber.
May be after sometime i'll have stomach problems after laughing through the roof after reading each of your blogs.
look look.. chicken soup for the undescended testicle... this post is bhery phunny.. beri beri pbhuni.. incidentally, beri beri is a disease caused by vitamin b deficiency
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