Matchbox witticism!

As a child a few of us that is me and my frinds use to collect match box covers. They had a great appeal in terms of their tacky designs and logos. Then Star Trek happened on the telly and match boxes were randomly converted into fliptop communicators! We were so innocent and had no clue that telecommunications was going to see a revolution of a kind which would change our lives for ever with a handheld device in colours, sizes and design of all kinds! Leave alone the i-pod, the i-phone was not even a distant reality but a fantastical one. So my respect for the match stick box still remains as genuine today as it was in my childhood.

Nowadays a am reading between the lines of the witticisms on the back of a regualr match box! I am sure these pearls of wisdom will stand me in good stead in the future and this faith of mine is only sceonded by what S&G wrote a million years ago (metaphorically speakin!). Just to refresh your memory and for all those kids who just might click this page by mistake (Although chances are very slim but nonetheless a thought for one the greatest American song written in 1900s)

And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence

Well some of the latest witticisms that I have garnered from these match boxes are as follows:

• Success is relative - the more the success, the more the relatives
• Judge: Why did you hit your husband with a chair? Lady: I couldn't lift the table.
• If Practice makes perfect, and noboy's perfect, why practice?
• I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way!

Dear readers on the face of it they might seems very innocuous but mind you if you read between the lines you will see how everything around us is reflected in these neither innocent nor clever lines.

The first one we all agree to and think is age old but look closer and you will see the seeds of post -modern terminology called "net-working". A word which I totally abhor from the core of my heart.Never could do that and find it extremely laborious to live in such a world where true friends are not to be found but every one is a "good friend".

Line two will draw attention to our temperamental swings and how relationships have become mundane and dead over the years and meaningless.

Line three sheer procrastination and the willingness to apply oneself as little as possible while making hay.

The last line does not need any explanation but warns us about the fact taht we might just lose our sleves completely very soon and resign to Fate!

Anyway these are just Sunday ramblings of no particular value. Hope the prophets of today leave some fresh positive notes too in the future, because from where I am at, the picture of human kind does not look too rosy. Well I saved the best PJ (as we are totally aware of losing acute sense of humour poor jokes rule the roost!) for the last, "A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well"! I rest my case here readers.