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..
I like chocolates. Godiva Dark with Almonds - not sure of the naked woman on the horse to be the icon of some choice cocoa based products but tastes good. Started in Belgium but now owned by some Turks. Cadburys - Fruit and Nut Milk Bars - awesome combination of dried fruit pieces along with a medley of nuts makes your toungue dance - started by a Brit now owen by Kraft USA. Lindt Hazelnut spheres - made by a Swiss confectioner are divine balls that melt in your mouth with a lingering nutty taste Ghirardelli Milk Crisp Squares - crunchy and light these milk squares are easy on the palate but pack some serious calories - all good I say! Originally founded by an Italian who moved around till he landed in SF Bay today also owned by the Swiss Lindt empire.
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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