Insomniac musings (multilingual)

Trilingual haiku

मस्त with इश्क
मस्तिष्क decides
इश्क is a must.

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Otters and rotters

May Trump, Modi, Bolsonaro and their ilk be consigned to their Rotterdämmerung, where they can sing their Libelungslied!

Do bad otters have their Otterdämmerung? And lousy ceramicists their Potterdämmerung? Lotterdämmerung to go around!

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Mother-in-law's refrain?

জামাইs jamais!

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Uma manuelbandeirinha

Lixi-via (荔枝)

Oral-mente

Mata?

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Vegetarianism is coming to the USA

When the last Amish dies

America becomes Nir-amish!

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Noyce on Tik-Tok

Heart aches,

Lungs pant,

Kick bucket

Life scant!

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Война em Dimashq

Como damas?

Да!masco!

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Reflections

Daulat Beg Oldi?

Given pension levels

Oldi Beg Daulat!

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Romi-fications

Xixus make xixi

Xikxoks make TikToks!

(with apologies to Chico Science, who wrote Computadores fazem arte/Artistas fazem dinheiro!)

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Categories a la Asit Niyogi

বুদ্ধিজীবীs

Heebie jibis

হাবি জাবিs

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Rapper version of Itmad, ittefaq, kurbani:

I'm mad, Wotthefaq, kurbani!

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Miscellenea

Stages of life as perceived at 60:
Past the supercali*
Entering the fragilistic**
Soon upgraded to expialidocious***

*Cali IIT slang for Calibre, or from Kalos = beauty, or Kali as in জয় মা কালী।
**Bones or anxiety: will you still love me when I'm sixty four?
***Expire, in a manner that's utterly atrocious!

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बहुत ज़्यादे हरामजादे ।
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Supercilious DMIK
DMIK = দেখলেই মারতে ইচ্ছা করে।
In the superciliary area.
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Insomniac & dipsomaniac: neither is much good the day after.
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Need to hear the Kurd-বাণী and stop the कुर्बानी। In fact, मेहरबानी = Mehr বাণি (Deutsch-বাংলা)
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If Sukesh has a bad/smelly hair day, is he called Bukesh for that day? And if his hair curls in ringlets (=Greek hair day), does he become Mu-kesh (μ-kesh)?

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Hardly fools rush in where the foolhardy fear to tread.

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Bilingual rude and crude neologism. मुद्दा -fucka: someone who screws up every issue s/he is charged with (to solve).

Insom(a)niac musings during a corona(ry) attack

My insomnia was the result of drinking a flask of organic Darleeing Kalimpong tea (see pic) late at night. The tea I was drinking has the brand name Mighty Leaf, which is a pun (on My Tea Leaf?) and was part of the inspiration for the multilingual punning rant below.

When your ToDo list becomes longer than its creator, it's clearly because of procrastination. Deal with it by subjecting the lista toda (the whole list, in Portuguese) to a Procrustean transformation. For those who are wondering, Procrustes was the Greek dude who, when asked to make a sentence with the word fiddlestick, came up with "If you sleep in a bed that's too small for you, your fiddlestick out!" (To give credit, where it's due, this wonderful line came from The Little Book of Outrageous Puns, a mainstay of my father's comfort books, which began thus: Two old ladies went for a tramp in the wood, but, in the end, he got away ).

Was John Bunyan aware that the Slough of Despond was even worse than he thought (Slough of [Mr.] De's পোঁদ )?

Def: ভাজপাওয়ালা, ভক্ত = যারা খা মোষ  ( অর্থাৎ মোষ খাওয়ার আদেশ  ) কে খামোশ করতে চায় ।

Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی) -- a great Iranian actress who played Elly in About Elly (Darbariye Elly, an Asghar Farhad film). Her name can be parsed as follows: 

From Persian گل (gol) meaning "flower" combined with شیفته (šifte) "loving, amorous, infatuated". A known bearer is Golshifteh Farahani (1983-), an Iranian actress and musician. 

 But in English the name reminds one of shifting goalposts?