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April Fools recap

By: Santosh :+: Under: Humor
On: ⋅ April 2, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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The idea for my April Fools Day posts was hatched last year in the comments of this post on Sepia Mutiny. Two things are for certain:
1. Regular readers of ÜD are too smart
2. I’m not smart enough to fool ÜD readers
So I came up with the idea of running headlines that sounded like they were straight out of “The Onion” - 100% desi ishtyle, of course.

The first one - McCain picks Jindal as running mate was perhaps, the most believable of the headlines until one glanced upon the source, FU Times. The part about people celebrating in India was drawn out of other headlines where people in India celebrated Sunita Williams’ return to earth by doing the same.

Of course, no event in ÜD history is complete without a reference to Sanjaya Malakar. Bollywood fans seem to share a similar love-hate relationship with Himesh Reshammiya. So why not have them collaborate on an album? And desi albums seldom ship without a bhangra number or a remix. So a bhangra remix of Stevie Wonder’s “Signed Sealed Delivered” would be just what the doctor ordered.

Michael Jackson touring India for Children’s Day was just too hard too pass up. So why not invite him to Bal Thackeray’s house, feed him khaanda poha and chai and have him use the “western toilet”?

As for Kal Penn playing Gandhi in a Oliver Stone movie which also implicated Nehru in the Gandhi assassination, honestly it would be interesting to see someone come up with some desi movies that have some weird conspiracy theories on historical events.

Although we may have seen the worst of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and it may take years to recover, for a while it did look like the White House and Capitol may get foreclosed on. Ok, that was a reach but still an entertaining thought.

Other ones that did not make the cut:

1. Obama wears lungi/veshti, Limbaugh calls him LTTE operative/Hillary calls him Tamil Nadu(D) (I actually started that one but could not complete because of time contraints)
2. Mars rover discovers crumbs of chivda on Mars
3. CNN fires Lou Dobbs, outsources show to India, Shekar Suman to host
4. Edison, NJ to be renamed Ramanujam, NJ
5. Mike Huckabee denies making “earth is round” remarks
6. George Lucas to direct Ramayan: The Ravan Menace
7. Bachchan denies allegations of Aishwarya marrying telephone pole
8. Modi retires, to release Hindu devotional R&B album
9. Rudy Giuliani to quit reminding Americans of horrors of September 11th
10. Sunita Williams to do item number in Bollywood movie”
11. Jindal renames Louisiana to Ludhiana
12. GEICO lizard visa expires, deported
13. Life discovered on Mars, India signs bilateral peace agreement
14. Musharraf to quit politics, to manage Pakistan cricket team
15. Uber Desi acquired by Desibaba.com (my personal favorite)

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