Obscure news from the Times of
India:
Nashik, India – Seventeen women,
who had been taken into custody during a raid at a dance club escaped from a
government hostel in Nashik where they had been lodged. The bar girls escaped after overpowering the
hostel’s watchman. The women, who had
apparently planned their escape, rushed towards the gate as it opened, threw
chili powder in the guard’s face, and escaped.
In the U.S. the White house
spokesman, asked to comment on this event, said “in order to avoid similar
tragedies, the U.S. should ban the manufacture and sale of chili powder,
especially high capacity packages”.
Knoxville TN: An 84 year old nun, along with two other
peace activists were convicted of breaking in to a U.S. nuclear weapons complex
and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium. (A
NUN?? Who is she, Sister Mc Gyver? Did she deface it by spray painting the wall
with a sad face? The
security people are the ones who should be convicted of a crime.)
Emma Roberts, reports that she
had a reality check when she moved out of her parent’s home at age 18. The actress, now 23, was horrified that she had
to buy her own toilet paper when she moved out.
“I was like, wait, I have to buy my own toilet paper? And I have to wash my own clothes? Being an adult is not glamorous.” (Gee, I
can’t wait to hear what she thinks about global warming.)
Bangalore, India – At the age of
108, a man has undergone angioplasty for two blocks in his heart at Bangalore’s
St. John’s Medical College Hospital, making him the world’s oldest to undergo
this medical procedure. (The man, who remains under treatment, was
first admitted to the hospital for chest pains after being viciously attacked
with chili powder and overpowered by bar girls.)
Times Book Review: An Ode to Oysters - Mary Frances Kennedy
Fisher, “considered one of America’s foremost food writers” (I guess I did not know there were less
foremost writers in competition with her) wrote an entire book on the
subject of oysters (76 pages), first published in 1941. (I seem to recall that in 1941 there was something else going on in the
world that was a bit more important than a book on oysters. But maybe this book was a welcome diversion
from WWII. But the first sentence of the
book): “An oyster leads a dreadful
but exciting life….” (Exciting?
Compared to V2 rockets bombing London? ).
Chinese scientists gave
environmentalism a boost by inventing a printer that uses water instead of ink
on rewritable paper. (I am glad the Chinese scientists are staying
occupied with stuff like this and not thinking of ways to accomplish world
domination.)
A recent editorial in the Times
of India laments the fact that Artec Group, a Russian firm, developed a product
that allows a “selfie”, a photo one takes of oneself, to be transformed in to a
statue. The editorial says: “it is disquieting to see the extent of
self-centered behavior…converting a selfie in to a statue is a symptom of a
growing malaise undermining social cohesion”.
(I can only conclude that the Times of India Editors must have too much
time on their hands if this is something they need to editorialize on. Maybe
we can get those Chinese scientists to invent statues made of water.)
Speaking of too much time on my
hands, I guess I need to stop reading the paper and pack for my trip home.
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