Lord of PJs
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Subject: Lord of PJs
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:14:54 +0530
From: Ameya Vaidya
To: h4@cse.iitb.ac.in
Part - I : Fellowship of PJs
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Once upon a time not very long ago, normal students were leading normal lives at IIT Bombay. They would wake up early in the wee hours of the afternoon, go for tiffin, chat around a bit and exercise their playing muscles in the evening. Post-dinner, the normal work-hours would commence with everybody running helter-skelter trying to beat the 12:00 midnight submission deadlines. Post midnight would be reserved for movies, Friends and sundry other entertainments, till the end of the day at sunrise. Life was quiet and charming, punctuated by an occasional birthday bash or a treat.
But, as you must have already guessed, for any story that begins with a "once upon a time...", the cute picture painted in the opening paragraph cannot subsist beyond the second. And at this point, must, enters our story, the villain, the notorious Kedar Godbole. With all his wit and humour, he laid a systematic trap of PJs into which, were drawn all the unwitting people of the land one by one.
Like all men of honour, they prefered to fight their battle alone and paid the price. The first to fall was tiny Vaibhav Gupta. He was followed soon after by Naval Vaidya. Even the indomitable Saurabh Joshi could not resist the growing power of Kedar's PJs. All hopes now rested on the MLC. Can the MLC redeem the lost cause of sanity and restore the world to order?
Part II: The Two Towers
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The MLC was the last hope for the World of Sane People, the last vestige of freedom, the last ray of moonshine. The battlelines were drawn, the forces amassed. The world braced itself to witness the mother of all battles.
The two stepped on to the battlefield, weapons drawn, eyes red. As expected Kedar fired the first salvo -- a PJ about the Earth being "flat". It hit the world like a whirlwind. Everyone was watching the MLC expectedly. What would its response be? Surely, such a drab PJ will not go unpunished. The MLC raised its head; its eyes were red; its nostrils swelling. It opened its mouth and ---
--- and fired a PJ about the Earth being a "bungalow".
For a long time the world could not understand what hit it. What was happening? Did we hear it correclty? The MLC, the Guardian of all Sane Men, had joined forces with the Enemy! All hope was lost now. Everything was ruined.
And thus were born the "Two Towers of PJs". Together the two towers would rein the world for decades to come. The world awaits; awaits a hobbit who can free it from the evil ring of PJs.
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Once upon a time not very long ago, normal students were leading normal lives at IIT Bombay. They would wake up early in the wee hours of the afternoon, go for tiffin, chat around a bit and exercise their playing muscles in the evening. Post-dinner, the normal work-hours would commence with everybody running helter-skelter trying to beat the 12:00 midnight submission deadlines. Post midnight would be reserved for movies, Friends and sundry other entertainments, till the end of the day at sunrise. Life was quiet and charming, punctuated by an occasional birthday bash or a treat.
But, as you must have already guessed, for any story that begins with a "once upon a time...", the cute picture painted in the opening paragraph cannot subsist beyond the second. And at this point, must, enters our story, the villain, the notorious Kedar Godbole. With all his wit and humour, he laid a systematic trap of PJs into which, were drawn all the unwitting people of the land one by one.
Like all men of honour, they prefered to fight their battle alone and paid the price. The first to fall was tiny Vaibhav Gupta. He was followed soon after by Naval Vaidya. Even the indomitable Saurabh Joshi could not resist the growing power of Kedar's PJs. All hopes now rested on the MLC. Can the MLC redeem the lost cause of sanity and restore the world to order?
Part II: The Two Towers
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The MLC was the last hope for the World of Sane People, the last vestige of freedom, the last ray of moonshine. The battlelines were drawn, the forces amassed. The world braced itself to witness the mother of all battles.
The two stepped on to the battlefield, weapons drawn, eyes red. As expected Kedar fired the first salvo -- a PJ about the Earth being "flat". It hit the world like a whirlwind. Everyone was watching the MLC expectedly. What would its response be? Surely, such a drab PJ will not go unpunished. The MLC raised its head; its eyes were red; its nostrils swelling. It opened its mouth and ---
--- and fired a PJ about the Earth being a "bungalow".
For a long time the world could not understand what hit it. What was happening? Did we hear it correclty? The MLC, the Guardian of all Sane Men, had joined forces with the Enemy! All hope was lost now. Everything was ruined.
And thus were born the "Two Towers of PJs". Together the two towers would rein the world for decades to come. The world awaits; awaits a hobbit who can free it from the evil ring of PJs.
posted by Rik @ 2:47 PM
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