When HBO releases a brand new Game of Thrones trailer, you just know it's going to amass 21k retweets and 17k twitter likes in a matter of 36 hours. We get a few nice close-ups of Daenerys Targeryen in captivity, a clear shot of the touted Tower of Joy flashback, more of Khaleesi's dragon casting massive shadows on the ground below, a new red priestess walking away in Meereen after having said something smug, and the Freys looking too happy to not have a comeuppance in the offing.
But the mic-dropping moment comes, as usual, from the impish imp Tyrion Lannister, courtesy this three-line exchange:
"Dragons do not do well in captivity."
"How do you know this?"
"That is what I do. I drink, and I know things."
If you missed Pakistani singer Taher Shah's music video "Angel", you have probably never seen a middle-aged curly-haired stocky man wandering around a golf course in flowing robes and a tiara singing cloyingly about "mankind, angel". That video was received... with some amusement. But when Pakistan Prince of Pop Ali Zafar gave a breathy poetic rendition of the same lyrics, the web has lapped it up for amusement... of a different kind.
Meanwhile, Taher Shah came up with a rationalisation of his lyrics. The ideology behind the ideas, so to speak. He explained on his blog the following:
Not a bad or wholly irrelevant message for our times. Guess it's the chest hair cleavage that undermines the message.
After Madras became Chennai, it set off years worth of memes featuring nostalgic plates of idli, tumblers of filter coffee, and Mylapore neighbourhoods. But no jokes as such.
But within hours of Haryana government renaming Gurgaon as Gurugram, a torrent of derision and comedy was unleashed on Twitter:
What do IT guys who lived in Gurgaon call themselves? Programmer, Gurugrammer. >#Gurugram
— Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) >April 12, 2016
Gurgaon now called >#Gurugram . When will Telangana be called Telegram, Digboi be called Diagram,Anand called Anagram and Monohurpur Monogram.
— Harsh Goenka (@hvgoenka) >April 12, 2016
An infusion of some IPL-related humour...
After Gurugram It'll be really wonderful if somehow they rename Bhubaneswar to Dale Steyn.
— EngiNerd. (@mainbhiengineer) >April 13, 2016
