How to pronounce EA Sports like the guy who says it in the games?

For starters, it is "EA Sports <no problems with that> it's in the game". It does sound like "to the game" (the loading process is over, now we go to the game) and sometimes like the guy is gargling the catchphrase "sinthegaaa". So, next time you start a game and try to join him in saying the catchphrase, do not remember "it's in the game" because you are never going to get it. "sinthegaaa" is much better.

Eeee Yaaay Sports.. Ittt isssu inn tha game!

And, if you are enunciating "E  A  Sports" too, then there is a strict procedure on how you say it. By the way, the one who does that in the games is Andrew Anthony - "The Voice of EA Sports". So, here is his tutorial on how you do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcw_G0oK6Ns

I tried imagining an Indian version of the same. "It was veeery funny.. A thouzand apologies! ". It would be best delivered by Ranjeet Singh from Mind Your Language I guess.

A thaauzand apologies.. But I yum not getting the Gist of this sentence.

Or probably a full fledged FIFA 13 commentary by the cast of Mind Your Language? Nice idea.

kutta

Philip Roth and Wikipedia

The American novelist Philip Roth found an error about an article in Wikipedia about his own book. He tried to edit it but Wikipedia wanted citations to confirm it. That's a sticky situation I would say.

Roth : "I'm the author of the book 'The Human Stain' and you see, those facts   there are wrong!"
Wikipedia :"Good. But, how do I believe you? Ha. Gotcha!"
Roth : "But.. "

Roth in hell, REJECTED ! Muhahahahaha!

Philip Roth would have been stumped by it. "Blurrrdeeeee fellows, not trusting my owns words about my book!" So, what does he do? He writes an open letter to Wikipedia, stating his situation and his inability to correct the mistake in the article  (which gets published in The New Yorker) :

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-letter-to-wikipedia.html

And what does Wikipedia do?



Great!

kutta

Make Good Art

A must watch speech by Neil Gaiman at the University of Arts in 2012. A very apt one for many of us who have been forced to do things we don't like instead of trying to do something different, something we have always loved to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI

Also, here is a really good website maintained by Gavin Aung Than who transforms inspirational quotes to cartoons. Here is the link to his cartoon version of Neil Gaiman's quote from the video.

http://zenpencils.com/comic/50-neil-gaiman-make-good-art/
I love the "Cat exploded?? Make good art" part!

kutta

Happens... #1

One day...

My friend and I once found a cell phone lying on the ground, unnoticed. We noticed it only because it chose to ring when we were walking near it. So, I picked up the phone. Apart from the colour display, it had no resemblance to being a phone at all! Imagine picking up a mini predator's mouth (from the film the predator).

Just the mouth probably. Yeah. Perfect.

I picked it nevertheless and a tough time trying to locate the call history because it had four sim cards with absolutely no buttons. So, it was more of a probabilistic phone. This might be a very probably conversation between the phone's owner and a random guy.

Guy 1 : Hey, can I make a call?
Owner : Uh.. I guess so.
Guy 2 : Thanks... How do you press the number 9?
Owner : Try touching the bottom right portion of the phone, vertically but don't press it too hard or it might break, don't hold the phone firmly, do not eat too much before making a call,try standing in one feet for better results and also try to close one of your eyes. If you do all that, then, by Tchebycheff inequality, after the 126th try, you might have a probability of more than 0.378 that you press the number 9.

Eventually, I did find the call history just to find one of my friend's number in the list. I call him up using the cell phone and assuming that the context has been set, I ask him

Me : Deei.. Whose number is this?
The other guy : This is mine only. Why you asking?
Me : <stumped> No. I meant.. The number from which I'm calling. Whose number is that?
The other guy : Oh.. ok. This is John Doe's number. <Yeah, generic name used>
Me : Oh, John Doe ! Ok.

When I utter that, one of the guys I am walking with screams

"Oh, John Doe ! I know him very well. He is my friend. I even have his number. Wait.. I will call him up on his number and inform him about his lost phone ! "

Call his number and what? Talk to me?

There.. there..
Happens..

Kutta

Another First ... Post ?

There are two entities to this blog . One, the cricket deviant , waiting for the sport's downfall -which seems to be any moment now - hoping for other sports to see the light of day . The other , contemplating whether to join in , seeing that the sport has been cast as entertainment rather than sport . Very bland beginning that .

I'm not gonna lie , first blog , first post , no idea what to Ramble on.

How to survive being a casual drinker in a highly highly conservative peergroup ? Getting more Likes on Facebook / Upvoted on Quora / +1 'd on G+ ? Get a girlfriend ? Rather get a girl to chat with you on Facebook ? Well , these are the things I've been doing for sometime now . Being  intern-ally (internet -socially ) conscious these days I guess .

So , yeah , that sums up the first of what is hopefully going to be a long Blogging , lets call it , shelf life if you will . Trying to stop being bland , might become a blonde .

That's it ! No more . Next one , I promise will be better .

And thus it begins ... again

Natta / Country .

Birthday.. boy?

Here is an interesting post on Thiyagesh Vishwanathan. We thought it would be a nice way to begin this blog. Towel Day, Ladies' birthday, Jordan's Independence Day, Kind Servius Tullius celebrated his victory over the Etruscans on this day, also the birthday of one Miss Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic model, actress, lawyer, and anthropologist, Miss World 2005 and also the day of death of Mr. John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer. Guess you didn't know all that. Neither did I till I wikied it just now.

Here it goes,

"He is great.

None in the history have ever managed to get close to his greatness. None ever shall. Never has anyone seen such grit and will power to accept all the kalaai and move on happily( and of course, sometimes vent all the anger on a poor little drunkard country kid.)

He spreads happiness everywhere he goes by the sheer act of presenting himself in that location. Any passer by stops, admires his intelligence in worldly affairs, salutes to the great one and continues his work. What more can anyone achieve?

Time and again has he proved worthy of his nickname by clicking photos like the one shown below. It is now pretty clear that he is the new face of India. We are all "blonday" before him. Even when little kids died in the "Bo-stone" marathon, here he was rewriting people's history and the world's geography too. He simply couldn't see "Brazil" in its current place, he badly wanted it in "South Africa" (there is another story of how he pronounced Brazil which we won't pull here). And so, "Pele had to play in the 2003 World Cup" (Cricket, I guess or football?). "Too far", said the brave one and moved "Manchester to London" so that there can be more London "Durrrbees".

He's a real thug people, the pic again being a testimonial to my statement . We are lucky enough to live in the same era as our very own budding pole dancer. We are luckier to walk along with her, literally..

Happy birthday ... "Laaaadiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeesss".

#pottathanampersonified
( Hash tags used to pay tribute to the great one)

---- Conceptualized by Country ----
"

Doesn't that cute blue doll add to the scary foreground pic?

"And so it begins..."

 Kutta