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As the mercury climbs up like a mountaineer in a hurry to summit the Everest, threatening to touch the 40 degree centigrade mark, the heat, does funny things to people. Like making this columnist wonder...

Whether mice nibbling on a piece of cheese ever sing, 'Yeh cheese badi hai mast, mast.'

Why the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) who claims it has disciplined Indian Premier League ousted commissioner Lalit Modi on a number of charges, including that of behavioural problems (read: high handedness, dictatorial attitude) forgets the ruthlessness with which it crushed the original T20 format the Indian Cricket League?

Whether the postal department would do away with national heroes and freedom fighters on our stamps and introduce Page 3 perennials considering they are the new celebrities these days.

Whether Mumbaikars should collectively do the Michael Jackson moonwalk on the city's mushrooming skywalks

Why were Bipasha Basu and Shahid Kapur wearing sunglasses at 8 pm during the IPL closing ceremony prior to the Chennai vs Mumbai match?

Whether all the eagles in the sky hold a conference and talk about how confused they are about why the media labels eminent lawyers as legal eagles.

Whether a group of geologists get together in a laboratory and shout, 'Well, now, let's rock together.'

What Shayan Munshi, the key witness who turned hostile in the Jessica Lal murder case is thinking, now that the Supreme Court has sentenced Manu Sharma to life.

Whether one telephone says to another, 'I heard you were engaged yesterday.'

Whether a bag of popcorn might cost four figures at pricey multiplex cinemas one of these days.

Whether one banana wafer sings to the other, 'A-kele, a-kele kahaan jaa rahe ho.'

Whether an Arab who takes protein supplements for body building can be called a protein sheikh.

Whether the arrest of Indian spy Madhuri Gupta who sold her country to Pakistan would see escalated interest in female espionage and the phenomenon of honey traps.

Why a bowl of jelly does not join a Mumbai gym and do cardio along with crunches to lose its quivering jelly belly?

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