People cannot jokes the way it should be taken because everyone of us are not sardars!
A Sardar joke is just that — a joke You will find more Sardars in jokes than in the entire state of Punjab — or so goes a Sardar joke.
And a very good one at that! There are very few communities in the world that have the courage to laugh at themselves. The Sikh community is one of them. It is not easy to laugh at oneself and also share the same joke the next instant — it is the result of self-realisation.
Amandeep Singh in the HT.
People create unnecessary confusion when they misquote or misunderstand ’straight’ and ‘plain’ statements by politicians. It’s because politicians are the best jokers in this country and also have intellectual level higher than normal Indians. This exactly happened with George Fernandes when he claimed to the media that Mr. Vajpayee asked him not to touch the Bofor files. It seems that Mr. Vajapyee’s erudite joke was only understood and acted upon by Fernandes. He tried to share the same joke and make us laugh but alas! our mental ability doesn’t allow us to appreciate this ‘joke’.
So just when the media thought they had something interesting to delve into, Fernandes broke their heart. Perhaps the greatest controversy of 2007 was sadly a joke.
A DAY after his controversial remark on the Bofors issue that shocked the BJP leadership, NDA convenor George Fernandes on Sunday said that he had been misquoted and that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was “joking� when he told him not to touch the Bofors file.
Replying to a television reporter’s query in Dharamshala on Saturday, Fernandes said that the then PM had asked him to keep his hands off the file. However, a day later, he told mediapersons at his residence that his words had been taken out of context and he had actually referred to the file on purchase of new Bofors guns and spare parts in the aftermath of the Kargil war and not to any file related to investigation into the alleged payoffs in the Bofors deal.
The line in bold and italics is the joke. If you are not laughing now then there is some serious problem with you. Go get politicized or start taking laughing therapy.
BTW don’t link my first statement with my next paragraph or else you will end up making fool of yourself as the media did.
Source- HT
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