Sunday, July 18, 2004

Captain Stupidity and Unstereotypical Quizzers



Firstly, on Captain Stupidity, Sourav Ganguly. This man loves to experiment. Now, experimenting when the chips are down is a great thing, and I approve, but what in gods name is the point of sending in Parthiv Patel to open the innings when you have not one, not two, but THREE of the worlds top openers in your squad.
Then, of course, there was his dismissal, you have to love that.
Ganguly is the only player in our team who doesn't perform consistently, and the only reason he has a place in the side is because he's captain, and we kind of keep winning, no ruddy thanks to him.
Secondly, me all braced for maths monday test, and pray for no silly mistakes come tomorrow.

Ah, thirdly, a topic that my brother was going to take on, but didn't, so I thought I'd offer my two cents on the matter.
See, here's the thing. Quizzers in our fair country, and specifically, in a very Punjabi Dominated Delhi, are almost exclusively Bangaali, South Indian(specifically Tams, but not always), and occasionally, Biharis. One thing quizzer's are not, is Punjabi. (Another thing quizzers are not is girls, but that is a completely separate and unfortunate story in itself)
So this is the strange bit, DPS's school team, which I am a part of, is completely Punjabi, if one includes Anurag, who is pretty much Punjabi, owing to the abscence of a great Multani community. And like my brother, we also get quite lost in a group dominated by Bangaali quizzers, and Bangaali quizmasters. There are all sorts of questions in there that simply cannot be answered unless you are Bangaali, or in love with Bengal.
Along with this, we get pretty funny stares a lot of the time, well I do, because quizzers generally aren't used to the kind of brashness and lack of social decorum that Punjabiyat provides you. Quizmasters, especially, are quite taken aback, but hey, thats my fault.
On top of this, Punjabis are openly perverted, and this gives us an edge. As a team, we can answer every single dirty question that comes our way, to the surprise of the quizmasters who set them in thinking no acche bacche kids are going to be able to answer this. A typical example of this happened at Kanpur, where the QM was very very surprised that a bunch of school kids knew that J'Lo and Brad Pitt's asses in Madame Tussade's had been made sqeezable(don't ask me why).

Hehe, so such is the nature of things in our little world.

Match is looking in doom like situation right now, and me needs good nights sleep types. If miracles happen, I shall know in the morn.

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