Used to be you could get traumatized. Although the exact meaning of that is unclear one can sort of begin to understand if one were to say witness a shoot out at your local pizza parlor leaving everyone including the cook bleeding or dead. More sauce than you care for. That can leave one traumatized I think.
These days I am betting that people are feeling tabletized. Not in any small part due to consumption of all manners of tablets (or pills or gels or capsules or berries or the next wonder drug) but because of all these pieces of glass that suddenly everyone's uncle from Haiti to Vietnam is manufacturing.
I mean have you seen the crop lately? From the quintessential iPad and its various incarnations with or without lightning striking your fancy there is simply way too many jolts from the all the advertising surrounding these fancy new screens.
On the Surface it would appear to be good old fashioned competition but by the time you actually understand the Playbook its quite the Galaxy of idiocies.
For one I am a big fan of PAD Thai amongst other things Thai but with the onslaught of the new Pads I am not sure I can take the heat. It seems without one (Pad that is), one is left without a 'Pad'dle up shit creek.
Your old PeeCee is Passe it seems. Add to that the wonders of the Cloud and you get a brave new and yet cloudy world where Big Data is more important to mortals than say Anna Data (food provider in erstwhile Indus languages) and a Pad in hand is worth more than one to sleep in.
Babus in the Indian government are seriously thinking of redoing the titling for people that achieve extra ordinary fame in a subject and calling them iPADa and iPAD2a and iPAD3a instead of PADma Bhushan et al... along the lines of PrabhuPada..
Here is another essay on the subject of first names. As in birth names. Or names provided to an offspring at birth. While the developed world tends to shy away from the exotic like Refrigerator or Coca Cola for their new production there is a plethora of Jims and Johns and Bobs or Robs. Speaking of which I do not think there is a categoric decision point at the time of birth if a child will be hereafter called as Bob. I mean have not yet met a toddler called Bob or Rob for that matter. At some point though the parental instinct to mouth out multiple syllables runs out and they switch from calling the crawler Robert to simply Robbie to Rob. Now speaking of - it is strange that the name sounds like something you would not want Rob to do - i.e. Rob anyone. Then why call someone that? After all Rob Peter to Pay Paul is not exactly a maxim to live a young life? Is it? Perhaps Peter or Paul might want to have a say in it? Then there is this matter of going to the John. Why degrad...
Pads were earlier asset-boosters for some Bollywood beauties who lit up the screen. At least they have come out of the closet now, in the form of the forbidden fruits of the Eden Gardens..the Apples.
ReplyDeleteBonglas and others I agree (outside the gardens)
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