Wacky Humour

Jagmohan Papneja regales the audience with his couplets 

Today, Jagmohan Papneja took a leaf out of Santosh Tyagi’s book. Immediately after the exercises, he gathered everyone around and delivered the day's ‘breakfast’. But it was more in the nature of poetry – couplets laced with dark humour that sought to draw clever parallels between a betrothal ceremony and the burial of a corpse!
Earlier on, during the exercises, the group had its share of laughter with members wondering why Shekhawat was absent for the second day. Jagmohan informed that it was because of the cataract operation (check ‘comments’ yesterday) when Nahid Khan butted in to announce, “Shekhawat had two eyes. Now he will come back with four.”
Many disputed the statement, saying that Shekhawat already wore spectacles – evidently reading glasses. “Well, in that case he had four eyes and now he will come back with eight,” Razia Khan concluded.

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As the conversation drifted to Shekhawat paying the price for first, “giving his dil away” and then, for “aankh lad gayi kisi se”, Khatoon Baig inquired if there was any news of Arora. Like Shekhawat, he too had gone missing for two days. “His ears are out of order,” declared Nahid. “He must have gone to show his ears.” Does he wear a hearing aid?” asked Harbans Kaur.
The exercises wore on while discussions veered around Arora’s hearing disability. Before long, attention shifted to Ramila Mistry, the third notable absentee of the day. “Her mouth is shut,” said Geeta Sardhana. “She is on maun vrat for three days, till Shivaratri!”
Nahid got her chance: “Buss, one person’s eyes have gone. Another’s ears have gone. And a third’s speech has gone. Nothing more needs to be said!”
She did not utter the m-word even once. But the obvious analogy did not escape anybody. That all three were absent from the exercises today was no small coincidence.
Jagmohan Papneja:
Our friends Arora-ji, Shekhawat-ji and Ramila are indisposed and facing hearing, seeing and speaking problems respectively. In spite of these handicaps, if they go for any deal together pertaining to the Club, they will bargain successfully. Nothing is impossible for them!