Robin Hood and the Miracle of Nottingham Castle, Part Deux

One basic realization I had about PJs was that the build-up is as important as the punchline. You gotta build up the anticipation, build up the sense of impending doom, as is with most listeners, or should I say, victims! That is why this joke is unique, it's the sequel to the original Robin Hood joke. In case you haven't read it, you can find it here. I would advise you to read the previous one because otherwise there's no point reading this sequel..

So Robin missed the first time. He wasn't happy about it. After all, he was supposed to be one of the best archers in the country, couldn't he hit a guy on a wall?! So he thought, 'I'm not letting this guy go, where are my arrows??'. He was out, so once again the Bengali merry man comes up and offers a female, unmarried arrow to Robin. A quick roll of the eyes later, realizing he had no choice, he aimed at the guy. The previous miss came flashing back to his mind. He was angry. He wanted the sentry dead. He fires. Unfortunately, there was a sudden gust of wind, which blew the arrow way off course. It headed away from where the sentry was standing, towards the outer walls of the castle. There it went, but as fate would have it, there was a guard who had just got up and was on his first round. It hit the guard square on the head but since he was wearing a good helmet, it bounced off, apparently without causing much damage. BUT, from the shock of the arrow hitting the guy's helmet, the guard instantly dies. The arrow, a light supple arrow, which didn't pierce the helmet, killed the guy. The question... HOW?!?!




[ Answer coming up ]




The arrow was female. Tiri.
The arrow was unmarried. Mistiri.
BUT the arrow had no AIM (read M). Istiri.
So if an Istiri comes at you from that far out and hits you on the head, it's not good news man, you have little chance of living.

!!

More weirdness later.

Champions' League

Another season of the UEFA Champions' League gets under way tonight. It's not as fun as it used to be when they showed it on ESPN and Star Sports with the good Sky Sports commentators though. TEN Sports sucks, they bring random people as 'experts' who clearly know less about the technical aspects of the game than you and I. I mean, people with vague claims to fame, like 'John Doe, lives next door to the groundsman of Old Trafford' ... COME ON!! Get some proper people to analyze the game, geez...

Anyway at least they're not gonna show just the English clubs' games this time, much to Agent Zero's surprise who had been fearing that they would show 'something like Liverpool vs Debrencen in stead of something like Real Madrid vs AC Milan'. This is the beauty of the tournament, European superpowers clashing at any stage of the tournament truly meant for Champions.

Funny thing, my mind suddenly drew a comparison with the over-hyped 'Champions Trophy' of cricket coming up in October. WHY is it called the Champions Trophy?! Who are the Champions?! With all due respect, West Indies might have won the World Cup a couple of decades back but they are NO champions. Neither are England, New Zealand, Pakistan and 4 other teams out of the 8. There's no logic behind calling the thing a "Champions Trophy", it makes no sense. Then again, much of what happens in the cricketing world makes no sense. Over-hyped teams, over-paid players, I could go on and on about how cricket is ruining Indian sport especially football and hockey but let's reserve that rant for another post shall we? This one was about THE REAL sport, ie football..

Enjoy the season maties, and to a particular matie, don't get too carried away with Fantasy Football...

Comptine d'Un Autre Été

This is an impromptu post.

I've been listening to this track for a while now. It's 2 minutes and 19 seconds long. There is many an occassion when I've just put my Windows Media Player on repeat and listened to this track for 20-30 minutes continuously, like now.

It's part of the Amelie soundtrack, by Yann Tiersen. Amelie is the best Romantic movie I've ever seen, definitely in my top 5 list of favourite movies. You should watch it if you haven't already.

The strangely wonderful thing I discovered right now may seem normal to some, weird to others but I find it unbelievably soothing, relaxing, addictive and maybe that's why I've been at it for the last half an hour. It's nearly 1am in the morning and I have an early class the next day.

The thing is, I found a Flash Piano on a site and liked it. This was a while back. Sometimes boredom made me try out songs, tunes and stuff there and I even used it to tune my sitar loads of times. The thing is, I figured out which notes the guy was playing in this song. Knowing those, I tried to add my input to the song. That doesn't mean editing. The song's playing on WMP, I'm playing the flash piano. There is a slight time lag but that doesn't really make much of a difference since I'm not playing the real thing. I've been adding my rhythms and to hear the result is simply awesome. I didn't want to stop, but *sigh* I have to go to sleep now. Maybe I'll listen to the song a couple more times on my mp3 player in bed :)

PS. There's no way to measure how much you like something, a song say but the 'Play Count' column in WMP is a good indicator. Needless to say, this, being my all-time favourite Western music piece, is on the top. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th entries have been played 29, 28 and 26 times since July/August last year. This is the 191st time I'm listening to this track.