Almost nobody knew about them, until Wednesday. When five "Plane Stupids" somehow got onto the roof of the House of Parliament, and unfurled two banners ..
Now, besides the obvious questions ( How the hell did they get up there, and what does BAA-HQ stand for) a third question cropped up in my idle mind...
Don't they know it's difficult to read when the wording of the banner is at right angles to the man on the street?? The banner was made to be hung horizontally, not vertically...
They were up there for three hours. Surely they could have pulled it up and hung it across two of those spires on the roof??
How easy is it to remove a banner? Especially when it's hung over the side of a building? Newton's laws of gravitation also applies to cloth, boys!
At least they tried. A nice stunt, albeit not at the level of notoriety that made the Sex Pistols famous... maybe a more serious name will do the trick, instead of one suited more for a quiz team from around Bangalore...
Oh, it just popped into my mind - The banner would be more effective if it said
"PLANE STUPID"
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But the real joke was what their PM had to say about it -
"Decisions in this country should be made in the chamber of this House and not on the roof of this House."
That's stating the obvious for you... but then again, this is apparently what he told other MPs.
Can you 'planely' intelligent readers come up with any more funnies on this thing? I'd surely like to hear :-)
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I claim the right to use "Plane Stupid". But it'll only be after I use "Midnight's Summer Dream" or "Midnight Summer's Dream" first in NIT-K.
Here's to more crazy quiz team names for teams from Bangalore (Bengaluuru). Cheers.
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