This blog will attempt to highlight the humourous aspects of actual news stories and events from around the world. The contents can be funny,stupid,bizzare and sometimes downright disturbing. Hopefully, it will be more interesting than anything you are likely to read in THE HINDU editorial column.

Surely You Gotto be Kidding Me !

Monday, December 25, 2006

25th December, Monday : Christmas Day Special Post

Been a while since I posted anything. And Christmas day is as good a day as any to make a comeback. We all know what Christmas is all about – celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ with your whole family by buying each other a lot of expensive gifts that will be most probably exchanged for something else the next day. I love it. Today’s post is about the gifts some of our favourite celebrities received. Read on…..

Kavya Vishwanathan: A new copying machine……..or, as she calls it, a Laptop.

Saurav Ganguly: He got his place back in the team. No more gifts for him!!

Osama bin Laden: A hardbound edition of the illustrated Koran. Bigger and better than ever. All drawings by Pope Ratzinger.

Sanjay Dutt: He was hoping for 72 virgins. I don’t know what he got. But he did not get THAT.

Mel Gibson: ( from his daughter) - 2 front row tickets to ‘The Holocaust damn well happened’ Conference to be held next week in Auschwitz.

Zinadine Zidane: ( from Materazzi) - An early edition CD of the hit cartoon show ‘Beavis and Headbutt’

Madonna: (From Angelina Jolie) - Home delivered parcel with baby Kim Jong II wrapped in cotton wool. ( with a note that read – You’re welcome).

Santhi Soundarajan: ( from the CM ) - 15 lakhs, a Plasma TV and John Gray’s bestselling book – ‘Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, Santhi is from …………South India?'.

Rafael Nadal: ( from Federer ) - A brand new ClayStation 3 gaming console where Wimbledon is played on clay.

Ariel Sharon: A ‘Get well soon’ card from Fidel Castro.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad : ( from Kofi Annan ) - An invite to play ‘Deal or no Deal’ with the UN Sec Council members at the upcoming Toronto session.

George Bush: ( from Tony Blair) - Free coupons to a Spa in Germany with massages by Angela Merkel.

Robert Gates: ( from Donald Rumsfeld ) - A copy of Kiran Desai’s novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’.

Michael Richards: Membership to Anger Management classes conducted by Toni Soprano.

Lindsay Lohan: ( from Paris Hilton ) : DVD version of the movie 'Crash'.

Salman Khan: He got nothing. Santa was worried Salman might shoot his reindeer when he was busy handing out the gifts.

Merry Christmas everybody !!! :-)