Facebook: A social networking site whose users increased threefold this year alone. (perhaps due to Zynga and the recession). A site so popular, a movie is being made on it starring Justin Timberlake.
Farm Wars: What you’re really doing when your boss thinks you’re slogging away at work.
Gay Pride: What the GLBT community felt when homosexuality in India was finally decriminalized.
A Hole in One: The state of a certain golfer’s pocket for being a Tiger…in bed 
‘I dream of Jinnah’: The unpublished Memoirs of Jaswant Singh on the death of free speech.
It ain’t over till the fat lady sings: Susan Boyle
Jai Ho Ho Ho: What a Slumdog Santa sings.
Kan ye be any Swifter in making an ass of yourself? : The VMA’s
Michael Jackson: The result of a media that is schizophrenic enough to give you hell while you’re alive, yet glorify you posthumously.
Moonwalk: A jig performed by Indian scientists after they discovered water on the moon
Nano: Not just an i-pod! Do note that pronunciation of this little fella is ‘naa-no’
Obama: A very Nobel Change Management Specialist.
Piggy on the railtrack: A nursery rhyme that is actually a euphemism for the the mass slaughter of influenzed pigs.
Pink Chaddis: A cocktail you do not get in Indian pubs.
Rakhi Sawant: A wannabity who first makes you her saiyyan, then makes you her bhaiyya.
SchuMACHer: Out goes the Woods, in comes the racetrack.
Twitter: What made Ashton Kutcher happy, Jennifer Aniston sad, put Shashi Tharoor in the spotlight, and shut down the day Michael Jackson died.
Viagra: What Tiwari is clearly using.
Web 3.0: Web 2.0 that you might just have to pay for. Starting with Wikipedia…
December 31, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Hahah really cool… except I’m quite sure zynga was never a word or was it?
Liked the VMA one the most
December 31, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Oh yeah I have another one for ol’ woody.. apparently he likes to play all 18 holes
December 31, 2009 at 8:47 pm
woody allen too, specially 18 year old holes
January 1, 2010 at 7:13 am
Nice!
Methinks Tiger loved the ‘In the forest of the night ‘bit.
Completely unrelated, but interesting nevertheless : A restaurant in Cochin has something called ‘suk mi thong’ on its menu.
January 1, 2010 at 11:51 am
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January 1, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Related news: What words have been banned from being used this yr? (Tweets, sexting, unfriended, chillaxin, stimulus, czar, app, bromance and my favourite, “transparenttransparency”
January 1, 2010 at 12:42 pm
buwahah nice this is.
Happy new year!
January 2, 2010 at 1:22 am
Ha ha! Good one. Happy New Year
January 2, 2010 at 6:32 pm
That was fun! Some of it was too Indian for me (though I looked up some of it; that Jinnah-book thing is crazy; I guess that would be like an American politician writing a book in the ’80s reflecting on how wonderful Russian help against Hitler was, though; it’s true, but you can’t actually say that in the U.S., even now; so sad). I hope you are well.
January 2, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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