PC

The revolution of the Power Couple (PC) Bill Gates and Steve Jobs gets computers to become Personal Computers (PC). Thus comes the freedom to roam the word from the Personal Couch (PC) and hence comes the issue of PC – Political Correctness. With easy access to the Personal Computer (PC) while keeping Political Correctness (PC) under control, now comes memes, images and photos on social media, and we have the issue of Photo Credits (PC), aka, PC III. That is if we are kind enough to acknowledge the fact that some Poor Character (PC) did the Picture Capture (PC), while the rest of us are Plottingly Clever (PC) enough to not being Politically Correct (PC) and thus let the world make the assumption by my Photoshopping Cleverly (PC) the image to get rid of the identity of Photo Creator (PC) that I am the one deserving all the Proper Credits (PC). After all, if I can take all the credit, why bother acknowledging?

Thus, with Bangladesh's spectacular win against England in the second test, we have memes galore on social media. The cake is taken by a regal Nawab Miraj-ud-Dowla turning around history in beating the English (Raj). The meme goes viral. I put it up on my Facebook wall stating "PC (Photo Credits): Unknown, Facts: Now known to the world, Brain of meme creator: Exceptional".  I soon discover who the actual creator is and edit my post with due credits.

Introducing the Plagiarism Con – yes, another PC. But of course, the act is brushed under the carpet as no Punishable Crime (PC). After all, we grow up with the definition of acing an exam when it's Proshno Common (PC), i.e., the questions have been 'seen' before. I don't mean 'seen' in the 'question leaked' sense, but that the question has been encountered during Preparatory Classes (PC). Needless to say, the Prepping Crew (PC) has supplied with environmentally friendly recycled 'notes'. Thus a 5.0 GPA is a guaranteed recipe for success in life, assuming of course that life comes with Problems Common (PC). And of course, while we are preparing for this PC (wait, which PC? Oh, Problems Common…), we push the envelope of our eye balls to master the art of taking a Power Catnap (PC) in class during lecture while keeping the eyes open. Having mastered that, it's exam time with those same eye balls now rotating a full 90 degrees sideways with the head anchored at the zero degree bearing so as to Perfectly Copy (PC) the answer sheet of that of my neighbour during finals.

All done, we high five and Pound the Chest (PC) like King Kong at acing in life's Premier Cheating (PC). With time, we are Principled 'Correctly' (PC) that it is ok to Photo Copy (PC) and that it is a Politically Correct (PC) act when it's Penitence-less Cheating (PC). And Plagiarise with Class (PC) while Post san Credits (PC)? That is nowhere near any morbid sin. And why should it be – if land grabbing is legit, plagiarism is as sweet as the Philharmonic Choir (PC).

Meanwhile, I will do comedy on stage only to be heckled that I took the joke from a meme, the latter never acknowledging that the meme took the joke from me.

Welcome, Pirate Champs (PC)! You are now a Permanent Citizen (PC). But thank you, thank you and thank YOU Tigers and the Lions, the Perfect Cats (PC) that we STILL have Perfect Cricket (PC). . .

The writer is an engineer at Ford & Qualcomm USA and CEO of IBM & Nokia Siemens Networks Bangladesh turned comedian (by choice), the host of ABC Radio's Good Morning Bangladesh and the founder of Naveed's Comedy Club. E-mail: naveed@naveedmahbub.com