Too Funny To Handle. Review on Five Most Funny MouthShut IDs

Of the several things that decide how seriously you are going to be taken in a group of social equals, the seemingly most insignificant but in truth the most profoundly influencing factor is your name. The truth is that it is the name and the general sound to the name that plays a critical role in deciding what sort of a social environment are you best compatible with. While a Tim or a Dick can mingle in the zaniest lots (the latter name mentioned to be taken purely as a proper noun), a Bartholomew or an Alistair would find it difficult ripping off the lower halves of his Monte Carlo T-shirts and wearing the polite look of the honeymoon getaway of African bull frogs. Apart from the entry in the society itself, the position you shall have in that social environment is also decided by your name. I have, for instance, never heard any Ulysses Mehta make a point that mattered, or a Mortician Gupta having any friends to speak with.

The disadvantages of nonconformist nomenclature are many. One can have a gentleman by the name Horse Choudhury discussing the effects of tectonic movement over a period of centuries on the geographical face of a region, but the cover page of his thesis would be too equine for any reader’s taste. At the same time, a certain Palio Shankar Roy could discuss the effects of globalization on the rural economies in the twenty-first century, but his first name might delegate his book to obsoleteness far too soon for his liking.

The effect of nomenclature goes much deeper than just deciding your social standing. Often, it is the perception of the self itself that may get morphed because of an unwisely christened name. It would be extraordinarily brave of a Pandora Dutta, for instance, to find herself opening her make-up kit without flinching at the sight of the box, or a Mona Lisa Pandya smiling at herself in the mirror without fantasizing about being stuck in a glass case at a snobbish London art gallery, being ogled at by people wondering if she depicted the urgency of renaissance or the ill effects of exaggerated alcoholism.

I would also like to note a few things that might interest the reader. I remember the case of a certain Tinka Mehra, a seventeen-year-old boy, being denied a place in the aeronautics club with “miscellaneous” reasons being cited to justify his rejection. I won’t mind letting you know, as well, that, as Amol Phansalkar, I was disallowed from entering the classroom with my first name stamped on my trousers. You can’t have my name splashed right over the rear, can you? It won’t make all that good an impression.

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Humor is created when a seemingly logical sequence of events is thrown amongst a bunch of ridiculous contexts. Humorists rely on a single underlying principle—incoherence is nice. It is essential for an aspiring humorist to understand the basic things about ridiculousness. Why are we interested in that just now? Well, this review is going to name the five funniest user-names on this forum. So I reckon it will be necessary for me to point out why they are so funny, right?

A good humorist can make efficient use of his audience’s tendency to read between lines of his essays to create effective humor. Therefore, he slips in his punch lines subtly. A good humorist will also not need to point out to his audience that a particular joke of his was over…

Excuse me? You may laugh now…

Good humor would be, prima facie, mixing two unconnected events together and creating a ridiculous scenario—for instance the idea of “orgasm” and “female tree frogs” could mix to create good humor. However, “nausea” and “Priyanka Chopra” don’t make a good joke together at all (I’m getting just too suggestive). The reason I am going to name the IDs for what they are is just this—they are attempts at humor all right but they somehow simply missed the point. Read on…

== Five “Most Funny” User Names on MouthShut ==

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(5) vishal_is_billa

It took me some time to realize that I was indeed looking up someone’s profile and not a Municipal Corporation request to register your pets to prevent them being rounded up as stray. I realized it was not that simply because I am yet to encounter the name “Vishal” in such canine circles. What a dog-gone coincidence!

(4) ZuluDancing

(I hope Aditya won’t mind). When I first ran into his profile, I was making a conscious effort not to try and imagine the kind of photograph that would be displayed. To my great relief, it wasn’t a picture of a bunch of pygmies dressed in eagle-feather Frenchies around a bonfire but a jovial, friendly young man grinning sweetly behind a well-kept French beard. Ha-Hoo-Hwa-Hi-Ha-Ho-Ho-Ho!

(3) Donkey

I am told he asks people to read his reviews. I’m not surprised.

(2) Darethisdevil

I was a little apprehensive when I first took a look at Ashi Didi’s profile. After some acquaintance with her, every time I read her user-name “dare this devil”, my mind instinctively blurts out—“I’d rather not”. (Didi, you don’t mind, right?)

(1) Juggernaut

(I’m not trying to play pacifist). The meaning of the word “Juggernaut” is “a phenomenon that is rolling out, which cannot be stopped”. Is it a comment on the person’s attitude? Is it the general ego that he harbors in his comments and reviews? Or is it suggesting what would happen if he were to tumble down, given his tailor measurements (that run into uncomfortable hundreds)?

BUT! I’m not alone at the top. There’s competition!

(1) Nikamma1112

No comments. (You mind, Raj?).

= The End =

Brickbats, bouquets—all’s welcome.