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#HappyBoredDay 13. (August 13, 2008 - :))
Showing posts with label happy bored day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy bored day. Show all posts
Doh! Happy Bored Day Shri Honorable Bored Member Homer!
Have you ever squirmed in anticipation of taking on the best debater in the first round of a competition? Knowing he will dissect your argument with ease, expose weak links in your suppositions, tear to shreds your examples by putting them in a different context, expose your ignorance in several areas of the topic under discussion, demonstrate his own expertise on the subject and craft the perfect speech based on his meticulous research, send you home packing in a wail of tears?
Well, Bored member Homer has felt like that several times prior to engaging me in a discussion!
Just kidding... Before he was an exclusive bored member, Homer ran the most thoroughly researched cricket blog on the internet. I don't know how he does it, but give him an example of unfair reporting and within a couple of minutes he will dig out a link that shows the offending writer/reporter contradicting himself ala Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. Erudite and with a photographic memory, you would much rather argue with him than against him, as I have often discovered when trying to convince him that the new BCCI are actually overlords of darkness trying to crucify Lalit Modi and Test cricket. Rather than hold any of that against him, the only thing I am really annoyed with him about is that he ended his blog "Do Paise Ka Tamasha" or 'Homer's Two Cents' after correctly predicting the result of the last Ashes (did I mention his deep and keen insight in the game of cricket?). Maybe he could give us all a birthday treat and deliberately predict the result of this Ashes wrong and then start blogging again?
As Mumbaikars go, Homer is right up there in the Raj Thackeray league. He would fight tooth and nail for Rohit Sharma's inclusion and is rumored to be behind the revolutionary movement "The Peoples Front For Ajit Agarkar" (well, not really, but a little exaggeration never hurt anyone) , and for some odd reason keeps reminding everyone how well Munaf Patel set up Kyle Mills in New Zealand. The silver lining though is that he has deep knowledge of the domestic scene and was among the first Bored members to spot Che. Then there is also his quite brilliant analysis of several core issues that have cropped up in recent times in cricket, from WADA to UDRS to the Howard nomination, Ijaz Butt's claims that the Pakistan were ignored from participating in the Champions League and so many more.
Bored fans, might I present to you the Hon. Shri Homerji, Bored Member, Bored Cricket Crazy Indians, so that you might salute him today as I do, on the occasion of his birthday.
Happy Bored Day Homer!
Happy Bored Day Purna Hassan Cricket Minded
I look at the Bangladeshi team and think "GODDAMNIT why don't they ever take a shower"???? Well, one conversation with Purna and I think to myself "GODDAMNIT I need to cleanse myself of all the evil thoughts she's put in my head".
She loves her Saffas and ofcourse her fellow countrymen. She's also a major fan of Mohammad Ashraful, so much so that she coined a lovely nickname for him "Crashrafool". If you think that's not funny she coined one for AB de Villiers trying to play the Dilscoop (And horribly failing to execute it). She calls it the "Shitscoop".
Cricket runs in her blood as her father is a big fan of cricket. He also looks a lot like Zaheer Abbas. She claims Mushfiqur Rahim is her son but it's hard to believe her considering she's in her mid twenties (Or so she says). She also has plans to have the bebbies with Dale Steyn and has been devising an evil plan to get rid of his supermodel girlfriend.
Outside of cricket, like most Bengalis, she loves her football. Sadly she roots for the wrong team in Real Madrid although she makes up for it by being a fierce Spanish supporter. Her blog is a nice getaway from all the serious stuff we cricket fans gorge ourselves on but make sure there aren't any minors around you when you go to it. I swear she swears like a Pirate from the Caribbean.
Here's wishing you a very Happy Bored Day Purna Hassan Cricket Minded. May you continue to stink up the blogosphere with your nasty posts!!!
Catch Purna take the piss out of the world at www.cricketminded.blogspot.com
Oct 6th : Happy Bored Day Naked Cricket !
Hmm , now after that game if you thought Oct 5th , 2010 was the big day in Indian cricket , boy , you're off by a day and , hmm , a few years.
As old Bobby Dylan might have had it , i nearly sat down and wrote the best words i could write - but i didn't. Because between BCC! and taking Boredom to a state of grace , the best words have already been said. And between fandom and the divine game , the best deed has already been done.
You're there. And so are we all .
To : the founding father , my Bored brother like no other , the one way ticket to the Uncommonwealth wicket , the epic anthemic , legendary blogthemic, Sultan of swingseamspin , the Always-In, Don cool of cuthookpull , the Absolute A -List , pitch evangelist , the mighty mbps missionary of the 22 yard thicket
Happy Bored Day , Naked Cricket !
To a superlong innings of much more Boredom.
Why Cricket is no more a gentleman’s game…
Suraj Randiv, the latest reason for all of us to dive deep into the Old Testament of Cricket which contains incorrigible words and phrases such as “Fair play” , “Spirit of Cricket”, “Cricket is a gentleman’s game” et all. Before we proceed further, let me say what the world is saying… What Randiv and Dilshan did was criminal, especially denying a century for a beloved Indian cricketer. They should ideally have tried these guys at The Hague, than these hogwash fines and match bans.
As we keep fanatically persecuting the Sri Lankan cricketers for this dastardly act, I asked myself, “Is cricket really a gentleman’s game?”
You might see an answer to that question in this post. If you don’t, let me know your point of view.
1993, was the year when this famous word “recusal” was added to my vocabulary thanks to one Prof. Rajagopalan. This man was a cricketer of some repute during his youth, at 50+ he was a decent bat yet. He could famously win 3-point basketball challenges against the best of the basketball players from the college. He was the chief selector of our college cricket team. The man stood down because his son was in the fray, an aspirant for a place in the college cricket team. He made sure the others didn’t know who his son was, he wasn’t selected in the team that year although he came back into the B team next year flaunting his connection (or was that talent ?) to the Prof’s annoyance. That for me was an introduction to the “Spirit of cricket” and “a gentleman’s game”. But unfortunately that also was the last time I heard about those words or phrases.
1994, it was an intramural tournament and I was batting on 47 (I was sure). I glided the ball down the fine leg and ran 2 to hear & see my teammates standing up and applauding. They were sure that I had made my 50 and I played to the gallery, celebrated and promptly got out the next ball. As I was walking out, I could hear my captain telling the guys around “Come on we did well, this guy wouldn’t stop talking for eons had he made it to 50”. I didn’t quite understand it till I saw the scoresheet “R Baradwaj, Runout 49”
1996, many of the guys I knew were abusing a particular parent, the father of the guy who captained a cricket team. The accusation was that he interfered in selection, the toss, the field placement and the batting order. Why should he do it ? He always wanted his son on top of things.
1997, we were playing an intramural cricket match. It was the semifinals, a closely fought one. Our opponents need 33 with their last recognized batsman shepherding the tail. We needed to get “Srinivasan” out. He was having a ball in the middle, but still he was tense. After every ball he was rushing out like a mad man to speak to his partner who was playing snooker on the cricket field. The wicketkeeper (one Mr RajaB) took advantage of this attitude of Srini and ran him out, he knew Srini wasn’t trying to steal a single but still he put him out of the game. And his team won.
1999, I lived in a lodge (what they call a mansion in Triplicane, Madras) near the famed MAC stadium in Madras. Every morning as I went for a jog I could see kids, as young as 4-5 buried between the kitbag and the stepney of a slow moving scooter as his father ferried him to his cricket coaching camp. For want of space the kid invariably had his helmet on. One day, the curious I went in to see what happens in the nets. I could see parents standing behind the net and barking orders “put your leg forward”, “Drive that one straight”, “In the back foot”, “Fool, don’t commit yourself there” etc. I also saw fathers arguing with the coach about the time their kid got to bat vis-à-vis another
2000, I befriended a dad, who was an officer with SBI. His 9 year old son was too small even for that age. His kid had a problem, he was what we call the “Rabbit on headlight”. Every time he was put in a match situation, he had a problem running between wickets. He would freeze the moment he saw the fielder throwing the ball, endangering himself and his partner. The dad was livid as we spoke about this particular shortcoming of his son, “That idiot doesn’t change. Have told him many times… At least you don’t get out, I have tried to reason… but he doesn’t understand the value of his wicket… It is a minimum 30 runs”. I didn’t quite understand the 30 run logic till one of my friends confirmed that 30 is the minimum on board in your name you require to see your name on the next day’s papers.
There are many parents today who think cricket brings them easy money and hence goading and prodding their kids to take the game up. At one point they come to a stage where they do anything for their kids to get selected, to be in the playing 11 and to score and get seen. We have heard stories of parents gifting the selectors with televisions, mobile phones, mopeds and cars. There is also this nauseating story of a mother sleeping with a selector to ensure her sons selection (the fact that the selector found that the dad had tricked him by pressing the services of a prostitute to proxy for his wife is another story)
The expectations of the parents, the pressure they put on their kids, their greed for seeing their kids name on the scorecard and in the newspapers & television, the lure of IPL and the monies it offers, the endorsement contracts it would bring in and most importantly the urge for being on top at any cost have made this game a business.
No one cares anything about being a gentleman or about spirits, all they care about is the scorecard & winning, how they or their wards and their teams fared.
So, let us not recite the Old Testament and fool ourselves. Cricket is no more a gentleman’s game. The only spirit cricket and the cricketers have is Ethyl Alcohol !!
PS: Heard NC is upset with me not writing my two lines to commemorate the two years of BCC!, “Sorry NC, I’ve never wish myself on my birthday”
Freedom 2010
Commitments to you, commitments to who?
Commitments to another India Sri Lanka series that’s who
Commitments to a tri series, yahoo!
Commitments to a Hi! Hi! Series
How low can it get
How low can it get
Let’s go to the paradise island below, again
And again, and again, and again
Let’s go, again, and again, and one more time,
Again…
The people change, the board stays the same
The people change, the board stays the same
Shame, shame, the board stays the same
And same, same, the board stays the shame
Hardened men in white safari suits
If they bowled a ball, or batted an eyelid
It wasn’t in this lifetime
No, no, not in this lifetime
For
Cricket is commerce
It’s terse and it’s dirty
Cricket is commerce
Commerce, commerce
Terse, terse, commerce, commerce
I’m above India Sri Lanka, Dhoni was once
I’m above India Sri Lanka, Sachin is
And Gambhir and Bhajji
And you and me
And Viru and Raina for the weekend
Why can’t we all be
Free of India Sri Lanka
Happy Bored Day India.
Here’s to freedom from India Sri Lanka series
They're bad, they're bad, I know it they're bad!
happy bored day – the day after…
bored could not see tears in the eyes of bored fans so they decided to throw a party on their 2nd happy bored day... although it was a 'rushed' affair after the 'grueling' days of being bored... surprisingly everybody turned out...
here is some inside stuff bored fans might be interested in...
afridi came with so much of zest and hoopla... but to everybody's surprise... announced he can’t take it anymore after just one hour into the party... declaring ‘i wasn’t good enough’ to attend it for five hours... and left abruptly...
pakistan team came to the party but were ‘out’ before anyone could notice... although no official statement was issued but apparently they could not handle the swinging beauties...
although invited... MoYo could not attend the party coz he was too tired...
broady was game for it... ‘I liked this idea of bored ‘throwing’ the party on 2nd bored day as they call it...’
pricky looked bit uncomfortable throughout the party... he kept elbowing fans to create his own personal space on the dance floor... once he settled into the party after a good patiala peg or two... he started ‘pulling’ one joke after another from his hat but for all his jokes he could not ‘pull’ any laughter from the audience... he seemed in denial mode and kept on pulling them till he realised he was alone in his own personal space...
finally after 'grueling' test series parties in sri lanka... dhoni and his troops arrived late into the bored party and seemed a little upset as soon as they stepped on to the dance floor... the floor appeared too ‘spongy’ to them... although they refused to offer any excuse for ‘tossing out’ so early (from the party)... some bored members saw dhoni complaining to BCC! president for the ‘rushed’ scheduling of bored party... but before leaving... he thanked BCC! for arranging the helicopter to the party venu...
watch this space for more details...
Happy Bored Day: Get Bored !!
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| Bored is celebrating its second B'day Today |
The first time I visited Bored, I actually thought it was a site by the official BCCI. :-) Only later did I realize it was something far more important - the best online community of cricket bloggers with the best variety of opinions and writing on cricket today. Long like BCC!
- Krish
2 lines about myself: I talk nonsense.
And I will never stop.
2 lines about cricket: Cricket is a way of life
If you don't watch cricket, you have no life
2 lines about Bored: Fact: We are all bored
Fact: BCCI just does it in style
-Purna
Cricket has begun to border on boredom. And there comes in Bored for me.
Bored Cricket Crazy Indians has come in as my savior, for bored makes cricket bearable.
-Ankit Poddar
Two lines for two years, 4 lines for four, 2635 posts and counting, coz we want more
-Homer
First, I liked the name. Then I liked the cartoons. Then the songs, the Bored game, the opinions, the quips, the debates, the favourites-lobbying and the philosophy of bored. This here is the one outlet of our voices and our thoughts on the game. Who are we? We are all Bored Cricket Crazy Indians!
- Crownish
About Me,
Socially awkward techie in normal life. expletive-spewing, shadow-searching, butter fingered fast bowler on the cricket field
Cricket,
is not my religion, sachin not God. but its something which has given me great memories, good friends
Bored,
Is a fun place to be in. To say one thing in a thousand different ways, that we love cricket
-Prafs
For me, cricket and Bored have merged, reckon I watch more Bored than cricket. 2 years on, it's still the bored anthem for me. Who's gonna be the next bored member, what's his cricket story?
-naked cricket
About me and bored…
I don’t know for sure whether bored reflects me or I reflect bored… but the one thing I know for sure is that the moment I know the answer to the question, that started it all… ‘what is cricket to you’… I won’t be bored anymore…
- sp
In a nation where those who are powerful and those who have most listeners have indoctrinated the masses and cricket lovers with most biased and self serving notions-- Bored has shown how bored talk can be more powerful than most listened to notions and opinions. I still say, before anything else; I write for Bored.
--A Bisht
I had been stalking BCC! for awhile till one day I got the courage to walk up and ask it out for a date. BCC! agreed and let me wine and dine. I had an interested "member" while being a "bored" guest. In the end, we just hit it off and we are going all the way! Yeah baby, Yeah!
-the cricket couch
Achettup: Assumes cricketing harbingers enlightened the totally unassuming perfunct
Cricket: 'Coz running in circles keeps everybody tired
Bored: Because our readers enjoy discussion
Happy Bored Day Bored - Bored for two years, here's to being Bored forever!
That's all from me for now; if u thought that was brief, you obviously missed the Indian innings against NZ the other day. Well, no worries, the Indian batsmen did too.
-Bhaskar Khaund
The first time I came across BCC! was during the 2009 T20 World Cup. Ironically, it was the banter of a Pakistani and Sri Lankan that was the rage at that time. Going deeper into the dark dungeons of the blog one could see it didn't spare any cricketer of criticism when it was called for, but it also did so in a very good-natured way. None of that effigy burning, expletive spewing rubbish. No, the criticism was registered through screenplays, cartoons, tapped phone conversations and khufia reporters. Reminded one to be sincere about the game but not take it too seriously. Happy Bored Day to all Bored Members.
-Mahek
I had this sneaking suspicion that cricket was invented to facilitate and justify the existence of Bored Cricket Crazy Indians and two years down the line, I stand vindicated.
-Som
Stranded halfway around the world with no TV meant I had to look elsewhere for the cricket I could not do without. Bored has been filling just that void for me and then some. Between Homer's didactic rendering of the laws of the game, Mahek's trenchant critiques, SP's straight points, NC's many many gems and all the others, guests and members alike, it's been an experience to savour. And one that I will continue to enjoy in the years to come.
Happy Bored day!
-Rohit Pillai
The enthusiasm and fervour with which Bored members write about the game and the intricacies they point out is just amazing and cannot be found anywhere. Have been hooked on to Bored for an year now. By the look of things will be hooked for life as well..
-Aditya
Bored is an adda; come, hang out, shoot the shit with fellow Desis. Check all reverence at the door; kick off your shoes. Wait, keep them on, coz' there's nothing holy about this place and we want to keep things secular. Like Good Desis, dontcha know? Indians often don't make sense to each other; cricket brings us together. Bored is where it comes together.
-Samir Chopra
I started blogging roughly 3 years back using my internet persona (VM, VMM, Victoria, VMMinerva, either way is fine). Some very nice folk stumbled on my blog and then more followed. With time, we are all buzzing at each other's virtual homes. Most of these folks joined BCC! on NC's request and it has been a lot of fun ever since.I still vividly remember that day 2 years ago when NC had mailed us very excitedly about his thoughts on Bored. It's wonderful to see that it has blossomed into a very entertaining site. When I'm bored and not so bored, I check by. Thanks to everyone here who's made it a great place to visit! Cheers!
-VM
MoYo, Malik, Afridi, Asif send their best (and worst) wishes
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| Malik measuring the distance between him and the team, MoYo contemplating if he should retire for the night |
Shoaib Malik - Mix politics and cricket, players will be shaken and the fans will be stirred
MoYo: 2 years is long enough to retire for now
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| Afridi strikes a new angle to the pose |
Afridi: Boys should be confident...and blog only on T20 and one day cricket from now
Mohd. Asif: Detained in customs, can't make it for yr bored day party.
Ijaz Butt: On 2nd birthday...I offer myself to be the honorary president of BCC! for smooth sailing and professional governance...
-SP
Kamran Akmal : I might 'Drop' in for the Bored Day treat!
-Ankit Poddar
(we will add more birthday greetings from Pak players to BCC! as they trickle in)
Happy Bored Day Damith
Those were the days of liberalization on Bored, there was a Sri Lankan, Damith, and a Pakistani, Q. There were others from across the border and NRIs who were more Indian than the residents. Those were the days, almost like Beirut in the 60s.
While on Bored, Damith took on Q in a Master Debate, he then took himself down under. Unlike the dodgy deals between the BCCI and SLC, that ensure the teams play each in their sleep, no such arrangements between BCC! and Damith. Does that explain Damith’s absence from Bored? Oh well, Happy Bored Day Damith.
You can read Damith's posts on Bored here
Happy Bored Day Mahek!
Mahek actually won the first major Bored Game, in addition to much easier ones on cricinfo. He can be more of a Delhiwallah than me, and he’s not even lived here all his life. He can swing from hardcore street Dilli to an articulate, dispassionate cricket fan in the blink of an eye. For me, those are the most mast cricket fans, guys who are not one-dimensional or holier than thou cricket snobs. Happy Bored Day Mahek, lage raho!
You can read Mahek's posts on Bored here.
Happy Bored Day Megha and Ankit
Due to a fluke error in the Bored files, the Happy Bored Day inventory was wiped out only to return unexpectedly today.
First, a belated Happy Bored Day to Megha (July 24th). Megha is from a cricket family, her Dad Mukesh is a bored guest while cousin Samir is a bored member. Megha is big on Dravid, which explains why she doesn’t watch ODI’s anymore. You can read Megha’s posts on Bored here.
There are two Ankits on Bored. Today it’s Happy Bored Day Ankit Mishra. Ankit desperately wanted to play cricket for India. Here’s his cricket story. You can read Ankit’s posts on Bored here.
How was your cricket?
My cricket uncle, I call him that as that was a connect I had with him, asked his grandson, in September, 2009, among other things, how was your cricket? To me, that is all encompassing – in three words, Grandfather connects with grandson, friend to friend, man to man, boy to boy.
I chance upon this as I waft through facebook, see the birthday alerts, it’s his on June 1st. Happy Bored Day Madan uncle, I’m glad we talked all that cricket.
Who else but Thank You Sachin!
Almost a year back, Ankit Poddar’s post at Bored was featured in The Week. That was by all available accounts, the first time The Week or any other mag featured Bored. Here are the excerpts dug out by Homer:
Perhaps the highlight of IPL 2 has been the number of blogs and websites commenting on it. One site calls itself the BCCI-Bored Cricket Crazy Indians. And its predicted report for IPL 2014 begins thus: "IPL chairman Lalit Modi thanks the government of Afghanistan for providing them with the best security measures and brilliant hospitality throughout the IPL. Che, formerly known as Cheteshwar Pujara, the captain of India and IPL Saurashtra Team, thanked Sachin Tendulkar for inspiring him to lead his side to victory…."
Ankit’s always been big on Thanking Sachin, today too, he looked right through his parents when they wished him – needless to say, he Thanked Sachin instead. Happy Bored Day Ankit, and Thank You Sachin! for the boy's bright ideas.
For AB baby!
Whenever I chat with A Bisht (high time we call him The Bisht) about cricket or cartoons, I usually get a cartoon idea. So if you have no idea of either cricket or cartoons, Anil is a good one to speak to – it works for me, it could for you.
Anil is one of the early settlers on Bored, and he’s always been open to thrashing the hell out of a cricket idea. This may seem like a post without a cartoon or an idea but I’m yet to speak with Anil. Catch up soon, Anil – god knows this post needs a toon, and if I don’t do it, you might have to.
Happy Bored Day AB, and as we say for your toons, have a 'ABulous day!
What we forgot during the 37th IPL match
1. It was April 6th
2. There was more to it than CSK v MI
3. There is life beyond the IPL
4. It can be a Bored Member’s Bored Day
5. It was a Bored Member’s Bored Day
6. He is a teetotaller, he can forget
7. But I am not, how did I forget?
Som, we forgot, but then so did you. It is the duty of every bored member to update, remind, write their own Happy Bored Day message if it does not appear by a goodly time. Happy Bored Day Som, 7 up to you.
Once upon a time
He will often brag about his self goal, but his cricketing highs far outweigh anything football in the mouth. These were the heady 90s, Tubs in aviators, stubble, the drinks’ boy, bag and pre-mixes in hand and always a good sledge away from you – Birdy on strike, Tubs keeping, but before that, a brief background – Birdy was unemployed, a corporate hippy. Tubs behind the stumps, enquiring about Birdy’s pay-package, how many figures? Do they even pay you? Weak grin from stoned Birdy. Pink slip, salary slip, more slips of the mouth – how does it feel to be unemployed?
Birdy was stoic enough, he never spoke much, more grins. And drinks happen, swigs, Pussy partakes, Freddie, Keith, Bhaskar, Sajith, Kartik did you? One thing’s for certain, Roop did not partake. Those was rummy cricketing days, daze, yeah.
Through Delhi, Bombay, Hyderabad, we talked cricket, dirty, filthy, abusive cricket – Maninder-Saba Karim imitations…kehna parega, Saba; I even mailed Saba Karim, (the only cricketer I’ve ever mailed); years later when I ran into Saba at a bookshop, we finally got closure on that episode, or did we?
Tubs spent most of his adult life imitating Imran Khan, you can hear him Immu away here. It’s in print, but if you listen close enough, you’ll hear him alright. Maybe you can put your ear to the screen.
Phone call, looks like I lost the thread. But we did talk some cricket, which beats writing cricket – Happy Bored Day Tubs.
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