We will have to accept that our English periods are one of the "lightest" and "happiest" periods, just because of the fact that it is the only period where the teacher does not reprimand us for talking. The recent class on poster making proved just that. There were all kinds of verses being thrown into the air when the teacher asked us,"Come on beta ! Tell me what are the essential features of a poster for the inauguration of a new gymnasium !"

A nice boy sitting right behind me shouted, "The photo of Arnold Shweinsteiger ! . " Right ! Who is going to take pains pronouncing the Austrian name - Shwarzeneggar when the German pronunciation of Shweinsteiger seems much easier. Still, that would really be a nice idea - the football fever intermixed with the craze for becoming a pro body builder !

A lots of other routine things were answered - Name of the gym, when is the gym going to be inaugurated, locality and the like. People get all excited by this time and all one could hear were random textbook answers for the question. Suddenly out of nowhere is this booming cacophonous harsh voice of someone which when reduced to frequency range of human hearing sounded - "MA'M !!! OFFER GIVENS !!! OFFER GIVENS !!!". Sriram (after mourning and observing silence for a few seconds) rightly remarked,"Dei, namma classukku veleela oru signboard podalam. " He drew it for me. It had a tombstone with the words - "ENGLISH - RIP". Seriously, everyone does make mistakes but it is so much fun to learn out of them instead of just rebuking at the person who laughs at you. I for one, pronounced bureaucrats as bu-ree-aa-oo-crats but that was just the first time.

Basically, these classes are fun. We ended with this slogan writing section for the posters. One of the topics was AIDS and I kept thinking what would happen if people start following the Accenture Tagline in their day-to-day life - disastrous !
I knew this one on water conservation - "Save Water ! Shower with your girlfriend !"
But, considering the censor board standing right in front of me I was forced to keep mum.

If you have slogans which seem funny to you, do post them.