Monday, December 10, 2007

Cyber Grime

The other day I go to the cyber cafe closest to my flat.
It's on the first floor of a fairly dilapitated building and you can reach it via a dark, curving staircase, when you reach the top the words 'INTERNET in bright red point towards the left and you walk on to a small room with 5 terminals and many stories that began and terminated on each one ;)
I sit on a system sandwiched between a kid who's playing NFS and one who's looking around to see if anyone's looking at him, looking at things he's not supposed to be looking at in the first place :)
I open Google. I'm searching for a bus that'll connect me from Mysore to Bangalore at a specific time so that I don't miss the flight I plan to take from there onwards. So I type Mysore Bus Services, KSRTC etc. Interestingly, the auto-remember feature is on, on this machine, and as soon as I type 'Mysore Bus'.. all you need to add is a 't' to that last word to know of the other more 'interesting' options that came up.
I got curious, it's interesting to know what all people wouldve searched for on this system in this quaint, palace city of Mysore.
I type Mysore and scroll down.. 'Mysore jobs, Mysore artworks, Clinical Psychology Books in Mysore, Paintings in Mysore, Mysore Gay, Mysore Dance Classes. Hold on..!!!! Mysore Gay?! ok.. Fascinating. I think about the person who made that search. Even more fascinating :)
Then we have 'Baoobs', followed by 'Boobs'. I'm guessing the searcher didn't find the former search keyword of any use.
There were a whole lot of other inappropriate searches made there, and mentioning them will not be appropriate either.
But my personal favorite, the simplest, the shortest and possibly the most desperate was a word that summed up all the desires of that person who was making the search: "Female" :))

6 comments:

Shantanu said...

hahahahahahahaha this one is hilarious, this is a good idea, next time I visit a Cyber Cafe I too would try this thing good time pass!!

anyways are you coming for the Ultra??

Shantanu

SRK said...

ah, the cyber cafe days...
too much fun, it was...
never knew that there would be other aunties who would sit at the same comp after one's turn and find out what all the poor kid searched for :(

Priyanka said...

Shantanu: Ya, let us know if u unearth more jewels such as these! :) Ultra.. Now I'm a reasonable human being and I know my limits so I guess I'm going to give this one a skip :)

SRK: I didn't know u too made searches like 'Mumbai/Palakkat Gay' in shady cybercafes ;)))
In case i'm wrong, please don't elaborate on what u did search for! :D

SRK said...

i won't respond to that below the belt PJ...

btw, recommended reading, from one of my fav bloggers:
http://greatbong.net/2006/05/23/the-passing-of-a-friend/

Anonymous said...

lightened my moood.........keep up ur social research.....

Anonymous said...

Your kids will call u "Peeping Mom" if u continue to peep into the computer screens of kids...and u're already in the criminal list of spider community :)
They r saying...an eye for an eye ;)