Sunday, March 27, 2005
Holy eggs
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*emerges out of her rabbit hole and looks around nervously* That last blog got mucho too seriouso, eh? Methinks me scared off half my readers. So enough with the highfalutin soapbox-climbing. Instead we return to the pointless drivel that is traditionally expected of us. But first — a Happy Holi to all my readers! Hope your day was colorful and full of joy!
Aao sikhaauun tumhein ande kaa fundaa
Yeh nahiin pyaare koii maamuulii bandaa — Jodi No 1 (2001)
(Translated: Come, let me teach you the basics of the egg. This, my love, is no ordinary dude.)
“Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday. The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chickens eggs, but the general modern custom is to substitute eggs made from chocolate. In computing, Easter eggs are messages, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behaviour, that occur in a program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other similar stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits” — says the Wikipedia. Oh well, I’m too lazy to say it myself anyway.
So why am I giving you ande ka fundas? Several reasons actually.
- Easter is here so it seems like the right time to share some knowledge about eggs. Main nahin kehta Wikipedia mein likha hai yaaron said Amitabh in Laawaris (1981). Um, something like that.
- I love eggs. Scrambled, fried, boiled and as an omelette, they’re worth all that they’re cracked up to be.
- I was watching the Hindi movie Eggs Our Our (1994) starring Aamir, Salman, Raveena and Karishma, earlier today. *ducks to avoid the rotten eggs thrown at her*
You’re probably wondering if there’s a point to this blog? Yes, there is, and we’re coming right to it. Patience is a lost virtue, I tell ya. So .. I have an Easter egg hidden in my blog, and you’ve been looking at it for almost two months, and yet not a single soul has acknowledged its existence! *sniffle* Of course, nice person that I am, I shall conveniently assume that the sparkling wit and charm in my writing has kept you so engrossed that you never had a chance to look around for eggs. No worries, here’s your chance. It’s got something to do with reading the blog without being bothered by the goodies in the sidebar. C’mon, you don’t have to be a eccentric genius to figure it out. Enough hinting. Now start hunting.
Ah yesh, the prize. Hmm, lets see. How about a dozen farm-fresh jumbo-sized eggs? Not just any ordinary eggs. Eggs laid by hens on an organic high-protein vegetarian diet. Time for a tangent here. Don’t know if this is true in desh too or if it is a US-specific thing but I don’t understand this. Nor do I get why chicken in the grocery store is marked as being from hens raised on an all-veggie organic diet. So you first eat the eggs and then the hen as well, but the poor hen who lays the egg and is then turned into tikka masala has to remain a pure vegetarian through it all? Doesn’t get to have a last supper of its choice even? Bah! That’s a ‘fowl’ sense of justice, I tell ya! And I thought we lived in an egg-alitarian society and all. Tsk tsk.
Okie, I promise. No more nasty puns on eggs, chicken, ducks or any distant relative thereof. But have you ever wondered what is Bruce Lee’s favorite breakfast food? Egg-jacket-lee!
Happy egg hunting and a Happy Easter to all!
LOL! ROFLMAO!
You are hillllllarious! I think after finding your easter egg, I should go count the number of puns that are hidden in this Egg-statically funny post here!
*clutching my tummy, and beginning the hunt*
(No, no, my digestive system is okay, it’s the laughing)
Can’t stop grinning! :D
Sunday, March 27, 2005 @ 11:37 PM
Yaaay! Found it!
Mighty proud of myself. I won’t ruin the hunt for the rest of your readers by revealing the secret in the first hour of your post going live, but I found it first :) So the prize is mine!
(Ok. I know what you’re saying. “How do I know you’ve really found it? How do I know you’re not bluffing?” Aww, come on. Don’t trust me? :P)
Egg-stremely egg-cited about my first ever Easter Egg :) Holding it up in my right hand and waving it about, doing little magic tricks with it. :)
And oh, yes. Happy Holi and Happy Easter to you too! :)
Monday, March 28, 2005 @ 12:05 AM
Easter eggs ! so many ads of the eggs have been on the national television …on dd and all ..post reminds me of all that. Cools puns thrown around too :). And yea…the easter egg in ur blog :) easy one that was …as you said…you don’t have to be a scientist to figure that out :). Antha brama !! ok apart from easter egg this always grabs my attention ..how come u post egg-jacket-lee at 11pm or 12pm or u know… at times like that wonly ..and not at 11.42, maybe? not all posts..but atleast all the posts on the homepage rite now are like that.
Monday, March 28, 2005 @ 12:44 AM
Relatively easy…
Monday, March 28, 2005 @ 2:28 AM
You guys are the best. You gals are the best too. Didn’t mean that in a gender discriminating way, of course. All of you commentors are the best, I mean. Not only did you catch the easter egg and reply indicating you found it, you did it with nice li’l hints, so as to not spoil the hunt for the rest of the readers who come by after you. In the process a post full of eggy puns gets responses full of puns too. Brilliant! The pun-dit in me is maha-khush. Thankoo! Hope the other commentors follow your fine example!
[Rajesh] Glad you liked so much :) An easter egg hunt for puns? What more can I ask for! *wiping tears of joy*
[pingoo] Oh yes, I remember the variation of the original C Ramchandra number from Shehnai (1947) that was part of the National Egg Coordination Committee ad! It went something like this, I think -
Singing voice - khaana meri jaan, meri jaan, murgi ke ande
khaana meri jaan, meri jaan, murgi ke ande
omelette khilaoon, fried khilaoon, boiled khilaoon ..
khilaoon murgi ke, murgi ke, ande hi ande!
Talking voice - Sunday ho ya Monday, roz khaayen ande!
Enter Satish Kaushik in the end saying - Fun-tash-tick!
As for my egg-jacketly timed posts — I post approximately around those times, but I tend to round it up to the closest hour for neatness. I’m just picky about silly things like that, what to do. I like seeing 11:00:00 as the post timestamp as opposed to 11:26:15 for instance. Does that make me obsessive-compulsive? It probably does. If it had to be a more random time, something like 12:34:56 would be cool too. Yes, I have fundas for everything, even this. They don’t call me fundamental (full of fundas + very mental) just like that, you know? ;) Blogger introduced the xx:xx:00 timestamp thing only earlier this month, so you’ll notice this tendency even more on my more recent posts. Hope that explains my madness a little :)
[thelearner] Touche! Like I said before, you guys are the best :)
Monday, March 28, 2005 @ 3:39 AM
:( Okay, methinx somethings wrong with my perception of the problem; Coz now I’m seeing eggs everywhere, and I don’t mean just on your blog. I know its a Monday morn and all, but I think I need a chota p-egg from my beer k-egg to snap out of this egg infested parallel egg-sistence. Seriously, not egg-saggerating.
Lovely post, as usual. :)
Monday, March 28, 2005 @ 11:27 AM
Yup, that was the ad I was talking about.
Thyanx for the kind words *bows*. You know, to comment on this kind of post its not enough if you are a good hunter but you also have to be a good pun-ter :)
Monday, March 28, 2005 @ 2:32 PM
[Devdutt] Ah, the egg-xeptional puns continue :) Another p-egg? Methinks you’ve had too much eggnog over the weekend. And by the way, thank you! :)
[pingoo] Wah wah, well said! You are deserving of it! *bows and arrows as well in reply* :)
Monday, March 28, 2005 @ 4:20 PM
LMAO!!!
This is funny!!! I’m bad at egg hunting but this wasnt bad at all. :D
Hey How was ur Holi/Easter??
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @ 4:12 AM
With Apologies to The Mirza..
hain aur bhi duniyaa mein sukhanwar bahot ache
kehte hain ki Megha ka hai unda-ze-bayaan aur
The hardcore purist in me would never appreciate any distortions whatsoever with Mirza’s creations but i guess a cracking post like this would result in all kinds of breaking of rules which may be for the good or the bad or the eggly..am sure Ghalib would andastand and not stand down under, in protest.
Keep’em coming! The posts too.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @ 6:43 AM
Whats with your blog and my ability to comment… I think I just end up coming here and ooogling at the wonderful design.. and half forget what I wanted to say. The other half being stuff that ain’t worth saying in the first place !!
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @ 8:09 AM
hey belated happy holi…and guess what i spent mine in rishikesh on a white water rafting trip… kewl huh? :)
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @ 8:15 AM
[missnupur] This turned out to be one egg-xeptionally easy egg-hunt! My Holi and Easter were good fun! Hope yours were too? So what if it was with sketch pens, it is the thought that counts :)
[oxy_moron] Not fair. I write a desperately-trying-to-be-punny post, and you come along and effortlessly top it with your highfalutin Ghalib-quoting and all. You big showoff :) Glad you stopped by after eons! Hope to see you around more often!
[Vignesh] First of all, you’re way too kind in your praise for my template, but thank you! :) And somehow, you manage to say the ‘I don’t know what to write in my comment‘ bit, a different way each time. Its a real skill, I tell ya! ;)
[shantanu] Totally cool! Post some pictures for the rest of us to admire and feel J about too? :)
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @ 11:32 AM
egged AM I ?
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @ 10:26 PM
#I was talking to myself.
#Should I comment on Megha’s post?
#Oh yes… why not?
#You must be kidding.
#Why kidding?
#Dude, how on this earth are you going to match the elegance of Megha’s posts?
#Hmm… but still, not everyone can have a way with words as she has right?
#Yeah true, but dude, there has to be *some* substance in your comments to gel with the extra ordinary pun and wit flowing out of the post!
#Hmm… may be you are right. May be I should postpone commenting till she writes a not-so-exuberant post?
#Dude, you are going to wait forever in that case.
#And I decided to post this comment. (well almost a post actually!) :D
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @ 11:06 PM
[Hirdu] Egg akela is blogger pe .. Glad it egged you to post a comment! :)
[Fun_Da_Mental] Don’t see any signs of el-egg-ance in this post, but you as usual, are too sweet and generous with your compliments. Glad to see you back in action! :) And i’ll try to not be so egg-xuberant in the future! :)
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 @ 11:54 PM
eggcelently eggskvisit as a mallu would say! :-)
http://ribbidrock.blogspot.com
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 @ 12:30 PM
Nice blog, came via http://jdk.phpkid.org/. Megha could you please tell me how you put the [Wiki] link on the date hearder. Please email me the code on for_blog@yahoo.com
Thanks. - SV ( http://sv.typepad.com/forsv/ )
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 @ 12:30 PM
I’ve lost sense of time, perhaps i’m the only one goin back eggless. aft so many eggstatic puns, i’m eggog to go n have some omlets for breakfast, lunch n dinner.
The leggacy continues!
Happy Holi n Wester!
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 @ 4:28 PM
‘Andaz apna apna’, they say, and youve got plenty! I mean, just look at all the andaz in the post ;). Loved the post(so, whats new, SOxy?) and wishing the Easter Punny got you lots of eggciting things.(He’s got you a lot of pundaz in the comment page, I see).
But you know what I hate about Easter? None of my neighbours are Christians :(.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 @ 8:59 PM
any more egg-static comments and u’ll have a whole egg-osystem running so i’ll keep it low
ova-all, you have a nice space set up… :) Just passing through
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 @ 10:43 PM
Hmm, am too late here.. but, i did find the egg without reading the comments….
and i had already noticed that once recently… but, didn’t comment on that cos u do everything so precise and neat that i felt its jus one more addition to that ;)
oh.. I can see u flying up on Cloud 9 :)) come down now….
Thursday, March 31, 2005 @ 9:27 AM
[Sumit] Ahh ‘eggskvisit’ — I learnt a new one today, thanks to you :) ‘We’ll’ be sure to visit the frog. Glad you liked and thank you for stopping by!
[SV] Thank you! It’s a Javascript hack that I modified slightly. I think the original hack is listed on the Bloggerhacks page. Here’s the code I used, pasted for everyone’s benefit. Will email as well. Hope this helps.
This is the Javascript to include somewhere between the <head> and </head> tags of your template :
<script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript”>
function WikiOnThisDay(dateToMangle)
{
var dateChunk_array1=dateToMangle.split(”, “);
var dateChunk_array2=dateChunk_array1[1].split(” “);
if(dateChunk_array2[1].charAt(0)==”0″)
dateChunk_array2[1]=dateChunk_array2[1].charAt(1);
var Wikipedia =
“<a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/” +
dateChunk_array2[0] + “_” +
dateChunk_array2[1] + “”>[Wiki]</a>”;
return Wikipedia;
}
</script>
This is the actual HTML you need to include in your template, somewhere between the <body> and </body> tags. I’ve added the ‘[wiki]‘ text right after the date header of my post, and enclosed it within the <sup> and </sup> tags so that the text is superscripted.
<BlogDateHeader>
<$BlogDateHeaderDate$>
<sup><script type=”text/javascript”>document.write(WikiOnThisDay(”<$BlogDateHeaderDate$>”));</script>
</sup>
</BlogDateHeader>
[Mustang] Wester — nice one :) I am happy to have contributed to the annual income of egg producers worldwide. If only I had the forethought to ask for a commission. Tsk tsk!
[SmartOxymoron] Thankoo. And you should be complimented for your andaaz in complimenting the andaaz. I mean the eggs too, of course ;) Yes this post sure brought out the punsters in everyone! Warms the cockles of my heart , I tell ya! :)
[J] Just when I thought all the egg puns in the world had been cracked, you come along and attack us with new ones :) Egg-cellent! And thanks much for stopping by. Do visit again :)
[Prasad] Thank you! And c’mon, I *am* a cloud, so it’s only fair that I live amongst them no? :)
Thursday, March 31, 2005 @ 7:11 PM
*wiping eyes and blinking hard* Unbelievable!!. AFter such a long time (which makes eternity seem a little short), you’ve managed to comment on my blog. Awesome-o. no more bad voo doo for you (*crosses fingers and grins*)and as for the egg hunt, i was eggs-asperated that what i had already seen was an egg. but i am eggs-tremely surprised that everyone has been using the word “egg” for puns!
Thursday, March 31, 2005 @ 9:02 PM
Since, its common trait for most people who read your blog to feel speechless and comment-challenged, I reckon I am in safe territory! :)
Confession: I have mostly been a psycho-silent-stalker-type reader of your Blog; but now thanks to a lady/man who doesn’t approve of your life and my washing fabric habits, all of that is changed forever! :)
And while I hate to say candy-floss like stuff, but you have a fabulous-much-envy-inducing Blog! :)
Oh, and since I hate eggs and am a promoter of all things vegetarian I am unable to think of some sufficiently eggy thing to say!
Friday, April 1, 2005 @ 9:26 AM
Come to think of it I thought i saw eggs sometime, but cant seem to see them now…Am I stupid? :((
Friday, April 1, 2005 @ 12:43 PM
[Sriram] Yesh I did it and I am mighty proud of myself too :) And since nobody bothered to say anything about the poor egg even though everyone had found it a long time ago, the egg felt negl-egg-ted, so I felt obligated to write this blog about it. Glad you found :)
[Primalsoup] Very flattered and many thanks, Bug! But very unfair too! My blog make one comment-challenged, she says. Oh the horror! It is all a grand conspiracy, I tell ya. The ‘foreign hand’ as our trusted politicians used to say. But if the whole lack-of-life/dirty-fabric-washing saga is what it took for the silent stalker to break her spell of silence, I’d say it was worth it and I have a certain man/woman to thank for it. Wot say? ;)
Thanks much, once again. Hope to see you write more often henceforth! :)
[aNTi] Aww nothing stupid about not finding it. But as I said before, you don’t have to be an eccentric genius to discover it :) Now that clue and the clues from fellow commentors might help :)
Saturday, April 2, 2005 @ 12:13 AM
Wow! This is SOME Blog, very very nice. And so many puns, just about made the Monday Blues, less bluey! :)
Monday, April 4, 2005 @ 6:15 AM
[Gautam] Aww, thank you! Now you’ve gone and inspired me to pun more often! Am not sure how much the other readers of this blog will appreciate that, but it makes me so very happy :) Glad you visited. Do come again!
Monday, April 4, 2005 @ 8:27 AM
Nice blog..my first time here..will come back for more.. right after my egg-jhams :P
Monday, April 4, 2005 @ 9:03 AM
[Sangeeta] Ah, the puns continue! Nice :) Thank you and hope to see you around again!
Monday, April 4, 2005 @ 10:04 AM
Was just remembering that I once had an AIM handle called eggsistential. Must scramble over and see if it still responds to my password. Maybe it’s been poached.
:-p
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 @ 7:17 PM
hey megha..on reading such a cracker of a post and those eggstra comments…who wants to search anyway. what an egg-straordinary post and super comments make it a heavy b-egg-age(v.bad pun I know, but what to do..when all the good ones are taken).
Finally, for the benefit of late eggnoramuses like me, can you pls crack that hidden egg ..or is it some kind of heggemony amongst the *knows * to keep the *knows-not* out
:)
ps: yrs is one of those blogs, where ppl can make an utter fool of themselves, and yet hope to be famous :)) love it.
Thursday, April 14, 2005 @ 10:41 PM
[zigzackly] Scrambled, poached, eggsis .. *wipes away a tear of joy* Mogambo khush hua! And what is with you always finding old blog posts of mine to comment on? :) Glad you dropped in though!
[Suhail] Aw, so what if you arrived late to the party, you still brought some goodies and that’s what counts! :) And no no, there’s no ‘knows’ and ‘know nots’ over here. If anything we are all clueless ;) The easter egg was not revealed explicity only so that people can continue reading the puns and try and figure it out for themselves. However if it helps, look at the Einstein quote at the top right corner of the page and look for some sidebar tricks!
And your comment that this blog is a place where people can make an utter fool of themselves made me soo happy! To be told that that this blog lets people feel comfortable enough to be their silly, kooky, crazy selves, is by far one of the best compliments this blog has received! Thanks so much! :)
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 @ 10:37 AM
Does the egg still exist? :-)
Thursday, June 19, 2008 @ 5:21 PM
Or more apt would have been - does the egg stil eggsist?
Thursday, June 19, 2008 @ 5:23 PM