Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Amos- the mouse


Balbir Pasha remember the famous add .The Baadshah of Aids Campaigns in India, spoke about a public message campaign undertaken by PSI, an NGO, with the objective of giving information about high-risk behaviors to groups that are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

Not sure how effective the add was but I can gurandamtee that the name Balbir Pasha took off like any thing.People started calling other with that name jokingly and over nite that name was there on every kids lips.
It was really funny to see how much that name became popular.
Well Iam not here to talk about this character but the one who became very famous in our school and in our colony..It was AMOS.

We had this lesson in 8th or 9th grade I guess where this scientist has this mouse named Amos on whom he tries all his experiments.[keeping my fingers crossed hoping my memory is serving me well].
Ne ways this character became a famous personality specially in lecs other than English.Obviously as other teachers weren't aware of that character :-P

When ever something wrong happened or any mischief was played in the class and the teacher would ask us who it was.
All the guys would unanimously say it was "AMOS" and there the prof be standing thinking Who is the hell was that. hahaha.
This Hindi prof was our fav lec as Amos would get real active in this lec..She was a new prof and always use to ask who this Amos was..

After some time Amos turned to Amosgiri.We started saying to others "kya re amosgiri kar raha hai"
i mean we our self dint know what Amos did but still it was fun to say that.

Iam sure that these kinda things would have happened at your end also suddenly a character coming into existence

8 comments:

Devika Jyothi said...

Interesting..
sounded typical of boys...
and my class-mates came to mind :)

wishes,
devika

Manish said...

Interesting, indeed. Lucknowites have huge penchant for giving unusual names and using juicy lingo. Mumbaities have it too. In Lucknow, we would use words like 'Charas bo di" (lucknow hinterlands have big opium farm,maybe that is the source)-- it means..give him good lessons. then "gadar ke zamaane ka"--means very archaic stuff.
Then jhakas,/ kantaas--- meaning wonderful.
Some books-based characters also evolved. cant recollect right away.

AB said...

Well to add to this, I see a cartoon character in every human being...
They look more funnier, less disgusting, and it becomes easier to handle them!

Interesting!

Rakesh said...

@ devika: yes this one is typical of guys....

Rakesh said...

@ mannnu: Charas bo di LOl sounds neat ,jhakas yes this term is even polular here...

Rakesh said...

@ Abninav: cartoon character..hmm havent heard that here

Nidz said...

ncie psot Rakesh.I wanna meet Amos. Wo toh margaya hoga bichara. Amosgiri .. lol.
m i never heard of BAlbir pAsha. ... :P where do i live in ya?

Rakesh said...

@ nidhi: well mumbai this was a very famous character....just search for balbir pasha on net and ull get the details