Arms and the Man (or dinga dinga dinga dinga dee)

Well, when The Man wants to sell Arms he too must advertise - and use all the predictable gender tropes advertisers are accused of, keeping textual analysis academic types in ecstasy for at least a year.

I got this in the email from my friend Sanjay Kak, as a Holi greeting. You cannot fault it for not having colour.



And read more from those who think it deserves an award.

Comments

pooja said…
i love it! i would say more but i am already ecstatically writing a paper about it!
March 11, 2009 at 11:31 AM
parotechnics said…
that paper done yet Prof.Pooja?
March 23, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Manak said…
is the paper available to read????
April 28, 2009 at 4:55 AM
parotechnics said…
Manak we must wait to see if Pooja was jesting or actually means it. But meanwhile surely someone else has begun this dastardly job?
April 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM
brian said…
take a dead sparrow that's smashed against your windshield, place it next to a rose, take a picture and call it wildlife photography...

it certainly deserves an award...for a new low.....is this guy mocking indian cinema, does he think indian cinema song and dance is cute, is he trying to emulate it......or...maybe he's just an idiot who went in for toe surgery and had his brain removed by mistake and replaced by a patronising attitude
......next thing you know, they'll be giving slumdog 8 oscars....
June 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM
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