Long Beach (California) Society of Couch Potatoes has codified a ten-point exercise programme for members - 1) skating on thin ice, 2) casting aspersions, 3) throwing caution to the wind, 4) bending the truth; 5) digging up dirt; 6) flogging a dead horse; 7) going the extra mile; 8) jumping to conclusions; 9) lashing out, and 10) marching to a different drummer......... It is my firm belief that Coonoorians (and many of us in Mysore) are in no way less accomplished than Californians on any of the ten counts.
My own favorite is flogging a dead horse......And we're one better than Californians; we are much too lazy even to organise themselves on the lines of the lazy ones of Long Beach....Read more (if you are inclined and aren't too lazy to exert yourself) by clicking on Recycled Writings.
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3 comments:
Mysore does not need a society for couch potatoes. We are born that way. They will claim that they do exercise, cerebrally! Not much comes out of that, or at least I haven't seen too many good ideas coming out of Mysore yet. They'll need someone from the outside World to come in an do good to them or to implement their bright ideas!
See, Mr. GVK, you have to even provoke Mysoreans to write, blog or get involved. Some one should think that Mysoreans are running the whole planet and thats why they are so busy all the time! Poor chaps.
Call me an escapist Mr. Vijendra, but if that got me out of the Mysore mindset, I'm happy to be galivanting around the World, coming back to Mysore to R&R.
I would probably want to do, when I retire, what Mysoreans are doing today (young ones not exempt). Laid back is one thing, laziness is another. This is what I wrote once when one New Jersey based person wrote as a comment that Jersyites are laid back, just like the Mysoreans.
For the benefit those seeking to further this interaction on work Vs idleness I would like to plug in here another zine5 piece of mine - Screw Work, Embrace Leisure
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