Looks like Bombay Sapphire just recalled their gin. Apparently, it has more alcohol than the label would suggest. (See https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2017/05/04/gin-recalled-being-too-boozy/101278218/ )

I just have one question. Who the heck complained?

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Uber and Google both announced this week that they will have a working flying car by 2020.

On a related point, the Mexican President called up Trump last night and asked “Ah! Yeah! When were you thinking of finishing up that wall?”

🙂

In the past, you probably have read about my team mate Bob Hickey and his really, really funny comebacks. He is a guy with an incredible sense of humor and presence of mind.

Early this morning, I called him up from the West Coast and went..
Me: “Was it your anniversary yesterday?”
He: “Yes”.
Me: “How many years?”
He: “32 long years”.
Me: “I did not realize that our anniveraries are so close. Mine is tomorrow”.
He: “Oh! How many years for you?”
Me: “Not as long as you. 24.”
Perhaps touched to the quick on that “not as long as you”, in about half a jiffy, he came back with…
“Hey! Rajib, only if my wife agreed, I would be more than happy to step aside and let you catch up to me”.

Again, all you could hear is both of us guffawing on either side of the phone!!!

After three days of coast to coast meetings, finally dragged myself to the Portland airport (with no help from United Airlines, if you needed to know 🙂 ). After checking in, went thru security and dropped down in a chair at the Delta Skyclub. There was one more hour long video meeting to be done before I could walk into my flight.

Somewhere during the meeting, as my team mate Anand Iyer explained something that has been a practice for quite some time in our company, I asked, rather impatiently – “But that makes no logical sense, right? Why would anybody do it?”.

Anand, much smarter than I – and who obviously agreed with my premise, instead decided to answer the core thesis behind my question. “There have been four Nobel prizes given in recent times to people who have proven that we all behave irrationally”.

I had to take a time out for a few seconds to laugh my heart out.

“Well played, Sir, well played!!”

Sometimes I wonder why do I foxtrot to office every morning – is it because I am surrounded by very smart people or is it because I am surrounded by very funny people…

“It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.”

– from “The Girl in Blue” by P.G.Wodehouse

Statistics has shown that 3.14% of all movies are Pi-rated.

#mandatoryPiDayJoke #tooTiredToComeUpWithABetterOne

Yes, I am that bored in a coast to coast flight 🙂

Took  me a second to get it… 🙂