The other day when making another one of those oft made journeys back to Jawahar, I noticed a couple of sophomores I was acquainted with having an animated discussion about something. Thought the topic of conversation was something that would arouse a passerby’s curiosity, but fourth yearites are immune to such stuff. The only thing I could think of was going back to my room and then bug the hell out of them once I got hold of them online. (Ala Murtha style).
This begs the following question: Why would anyone like myself, who has to contend with so much work on his hands ; namely: Following Man Utd, Surfing Chickipedia, Folowing Man Utd, Surfing Chickipedia and so on and so forth, bother to take time of his busy schedule on the comp and talk to people?
The answer is that a fourth year is added to the curriculum for precisely for this reason. All the jackasses who you haven’t caught upon are talked to with renewed vigour and you have insane amount of time to yourself. Since the first three years go in teaching you that any free time is to be used as uselessly as possible, you cannot expect any fruitful activity can you?
Cutting to the chase I will add that surfing Chickipedia is probably one of the better uses I have seen. You will see why in the following paras. The batch of Mechanical 2010 had taken upon itself the seemingly lightweight task of getting a T-shirt printed for themselves. That’s a combination of 56 brains plus myself who have a combined IQ in double digits (including my own this time.). And this is where the story to be recounted in this post begins. Allow me some time as I go into the depths of my Trash folder and get all the mails on that thread out.
Faltu Fact: The previous sentence was typed out in this fashion because I was reading The White Tiger yesterday.
Now that I have done that, let me present to you some quotes from the threads, verbatim, so that the you get the real taste of the scoop and the fiasco that is the batch of Mechanical Engineers 2010.
The thread was started with much fanfare after being preluded in the class with discussions not less entertaining themselves.
Message 1: I Suggest we should have a jersey printed for everyone with thier
names on thier bak. It wud be slightly costly but then i think wud b
gud!
After a couple of messages people realised that T-shirts look better if they have some awesome tagline. You know the types of: “Fck ths sht: This is the IIT Attitutde”. So 54 brains now started thinking of coming up with something equally legen-wait for it-….
Message 6: are ye danger waka tattoo kya folky hai bhai.mast lg riya hia.
Message 20: I go for “From screwing to manufacturing , we do it all.”
I realised this was getting out of hand and the time saver that I am I immediately gave them something to think upon, my message being:
Message 40: kela hoga kela! bada waala!
Needless to say, the trick backfired and the usual chaos resumed.
Message 50: Ppl..y do we need a tagline at all..wat i am thinkni of is..justa pic in the front...danger vaali..peeche mein mechanical enginner @ iit roorkee..with mechanical engineers wo blue vaali tee jaise font mein..aur iit roorkee written with things related to mechanical..jaise i mentioned earlier..O ke liye gears...I aur T ke liye Screws and nuts..
Some people meanwhile had heeded the penultimate message and unjoined the group. Having recently read a couple of Wodehouses, I wasn’t one of them and hence was privy to this:
Message 70: ladon aur ladon!!! end mein evrybody make u'r own design nd print u'r own tshirt.....
With some intellectuals chipping in as
Message 80: hello all. well i agree with maya's opinion. the thing is,how many t-shirts r there that u might have seen with a big/main design at the back side??(not much i s'pose).and also u all must have seen the branded t-shirts which have the main design at the front side only and don't have any tagline but still looks gr8. that's wat
The message actually did end with “that’s wat” and in no way has been censored. Meanwhile
Message 85: abe wo haddi wala sign to ana hi chahiye... wo nai hoga to mech engg kaise lagega...i mean gears wagera to sab bohot hi basic si cheezzien hoti hain mech ki t shirt pe us sign mien sab kuch hai....
Message 95:Kela hua kela!! sab aaj is khushi mein ek ek kela khaana!
The reply was prompt
Message 96: ABE YR " U have to risk it to get the Biscit" :P
Things were heating up and you could sense a climax when the resident bodybuilder pumped up his online image and
Message 117: The last post from ninja is d final design. This thread is no more open for discussion. Thank you all for your ideas and ass-istance.
The design “agreed” upon was the image you see on the top.
Epilogue.
Its 0100 hrs and there is someone knocking at my door. I get up and there enters the greatest of em’ all with the following line: Kya ch***** tha who sab? Hum Mech-D thode pehenenge. Abe you are supposed to be intelligent right? Tu kuch soch aur jo tu bolega wahi print hoga.
In the words of the batch of Electrical 2010: Mechanical, Hila ke rakh de!
