Poll poll din ke paas
Sat sri akal and a copy to all, this is your friend philosopher and guide Baba Bangali along with our resident reporter Munna Mobile coming to you live from our bunker in the hinterlands. We’re stationed in a bunker because of the nature of information we deal with. You read the regular stuff in the papers and news channels but our constant endeavors are always to go beyond the headlines. With the election fever dying down and the IPL at it’s closing stages, it’s time to take a breather. The elections also fondly called the ‘Great Indian Tamasha‘ has provided us with loads of entertainment and has kept the psephologists busy. With news channels trying to get ahead on exit polls in the race to be counted as the most accurate, they think they can fool us by calling it as statistics when it really is good ol’ sattebaazi. This Election was even more interesting as it was not only fought at the so-called grassroots level but also on the web with social media as a powerful weapon. There were therefore a deluge of ghost blogs and twitter accounts that were set up by representatives of the candidates.
We decided to cash in on this lunacy to reach out and offered our consultation services on twitter. Thus began the journey
of hashtagsthe journey of hashtags and 140 character limited fistfights. Words have never before been so judiciously used owing to the the limit, maximum potency with minimum characters was the mantra. Today we decided to do a poll retrospection and announced a tweetup, with invites being sent out to the big names. Our aim was to look back at the results and get some feelers on future steps from the movers and shakers of lok-sabha. Within 20 minutes we were flooded with tweets and below is a snapshot of what took place. For the twitter-illiterate and everyone else, read from the the bottom. It goes without saying that all references are in jest so don’t come chasing us with a lawsuit, however that would atleast get us some publicity.
PS: Title of this post inspired by this song
Lol, you beat yourself with this, max babu! Loved the Mamta, Jaya and Singh tweets. Missed MK. And felt you were bit too harsh on Rahul. Lol.
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me: mailce is my middle name!
im still ROFLing on bangla girl
ur hilariousest so far!
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me: he he danke!
i luved the lalu thing..where he says ” i will threaten global warming courtesy my cattle farts ”
i was rofl…..
andhraceo and nanokiller simply superb…
I dont follow politics as much as u do but then i cud relate ur sarcasm with their work…
i do follow lil politics
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me: Good, you’ll learn this way!
OMG, that twitter page ROCKED! A was shown this post and he laughed his guts off.
I’m sure no one can give you a better compliment. This is the quintessential you. Brilliance, Max!
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me: honored!
Wow…brilliant! I love it! 🙂
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me: thnx!
Wonderful, loved it! Loved the tweets and hashtags too! I think you should have included DMK’s MK and MKA too 🙂 But then they are atheists, so it make sense that they wouldn’t want to talk to Baba!
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me: I noticed they didn’t swear on god during the swearing-in ceremony
ROFL!! Advani bashing was awesome! Should’ve taken on Chiru too!!
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me: was targeting only national players
Clever, sharp and smart post! Cheers!
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me: I’ll drink to that!
Bahut maaza aya re. Tum to politik kye liye bahut fit ho. Rajnathji, jara suno Pramod Mahajan ki baad, yeh hey chokra hamara kamal ko flhelya sakta hai…
Jai Sri Ram