Who Should Judge The Judges?

By John B. Monteiro

The hungry judges soon sentence sign,

And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

- Alexander Pope, English poet and critic (1688-1744) in Rape of the Lock.

Now jurymen are becoming extinct, but judges remain hungry, not necessarily to More….

Inflation: Death of Eight Annas..!
The Aatt Anna is dead!
“What’s that?”
“Eight annas!”
“Who?”
He’s dead! Nobody saw him die, no government officially cremated him; he just disappeared. One day he was here, reigning supreme:
“How much for a loaf of bread?”
“Eight annas sir!”
“Two tickets to town!”
“Eight annas, next!”
“Coke!”
“Eight annas please!”
The list was awesome! What couldn’t you not get for More….

Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements

Shearing English Sheep..!
“Oh no!” I cried.
“Heart attack?” asked my German- Shepherd looking expectantly in my direction, ever hopeful I’d be put away for sometime.
“No!” I cried looking at the morning newspaper hopelessly, “its worse, England says she’ll allow only engineers and sheep shearers into the country! There goes my chance! I’m More….

Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements
Most everybody, including my children, seem quite embarrassed with cell phone I carry. “Dad, put it back in your pocket, don’t let the others see it!” they whisper whenever I take it out. “It’s too big for my pocket,” I earnestly explain, “It bulges like a hernia!”
“Then put it somewhere else, More….

Today’s Highlights

I Phone is becoming the buzz word by the day bob’s banter takes a humoures stand on it in the article titled "And Now The I Phone..! "

The laughter CD is now on the website for you to view/ download.
The CD on laughter is thrown in the archives of this website for free More….

European employers are legally allowed to refuse jobs to smokers without being accused of discrimination under European Anti-discrimination Law. This has been clarified recently by European Commission after the issue was raised following a job advertisement by an Irish firm which specified that smokers need not apply. This would be grist to the mill More….

Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements
It was my father who suggested that morning many moons ago that we visit Manhattan, “I want to show you the tallest building in the world Bob,” he’d said and off we went, taking the R train from Brooklyn, then changing to the M which took us into the heart of More….

Today’s Highlights
Global warming is one of the foremost concerns today, with various solutions surfacing by the day. The latest one calls for giving up meat. Its implications are highlighted in “Can Vegans Cool the Globe?”

Bob’s Banter has a humorous take on traffic police in “Tall Policemen Wanted…!”

The laughter CD is now on the website for More….

Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day,
He cannot live like woodcock, upon suction,
But like the shark and tiger, must have prey;
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your labouring people think beyond a question,
Beef, vial and mutton for digestion.
– George Gordon Noel Byron, English poet More….

Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements
This morning’s paper informs me; Mumbai traffic police to reduce accidents by increasing height of signals!
Well done commissioner sahib, and as I look into sky searching for new signal and take eye away from scurrying pedestrian, zooming car and zipping motorcyclist I hope your men will understand and not pop out More….