Maybe they should print the headlines on the last page. Would certainly serve me better.
Anyways, one of the last things I read in the paper is the popular Opinion Poll on some issue or the other. You know. Stuff like, " Should Lalu be given free train tickets?" or " Should Obama marry Oprah Winfrey on the Chandrayaan?" and such like.
Ok, I made up those questions. But its not the questions that are the issue. Its the answers. The answers are basically a multiple choice type.
A. Yes
B. No
C. I Don't Know
Please send an sms to 58822 with your answer. For Eg; If your answer is 'Yes', please type Choice
So everyone sitting on the pot, in the morning, send an sms or two with their choices.
And we get to see the results the next day in the paper.
Yes- 72%
No- 22%
I Don't Know - 6%
This is when I start having difficulty in understanding people. If you ahve a definite answer and you text it, it is understandable. Why the f**k would you want to send an sms saying, " I don't know" ? If you don't know, then why dont you just save that rupee worth of sms? You might use it to text your lover that one last cootchie-coo. Or maybe give a missed call when you are low on balance. Seriously. I think it should be made mandatory that everyone who sends an sms saying "I Don't Know' should be made to send across their names and phone numbers as well. And we can all bombard them with texts ranging form sympathy to abuse.
2 comments:
oki true... we guys should like start a club or somen... "cant read the newspaper from the first page" hehe.... n th post ws quite hilarious esp th oprah winfrey marrying barrack obama... u hv a very wild imagination... but honestly, ut hink anybody wastes their time and money sending these smses??? maybe other than the ppl who work for th newspaper????
I thought so too, till someone from a paper told me that people do send responses to this kinda stuff. It takes all kinds to make a world. But what is interesting is they might be getting low number of responses, but since its in %ages, we will never know just how many people sent an sms. But however low a number, I would still want to know who sends those 'I Don't know' responses!
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