The Black Sheep

 

What is bored, annoyed, has no worthwhile business, spends 13 hours a day online and watches 4 movies a day?

1. Superman
   
2. Dr. Manmohan Singh
   
3. Captain Vijayakant
   
4. A EEE student in his semester holidays
   

 

An easy question to answer, if one can see through the twists, I would say. At first look, the choices may baffle the slightly lesser brained, but this question should pose little difficulty for the brighter specimens of our race. One only needs to employ the process of elimination to arrive at the right answer. The process can be explained as follows:

Let us consider the first choice, namely Superman. Superman, as we all know is...well, superman. He is generally considered to be, in addition to other things such as America's best underwear model, a superhero. You know, those chaps who go around the place doing all sorts of useless stuff such as protecting the world, saving aeroplanes that are about to crash, capturing bank robbers, and the like. These chaps are helpful indeed, but all they end up doing is work, which honestly speaking has to be done by law enforcement agencies worldwide, and as a result they are only making people lazier than they already are. Coming back, the point that is clear from the above description of a standard superhero's activities, that Superman has more important things to do than to spend 6 hours a day on orkut. Hence choice 1 can be eliminated.

The second choice, now. Dr. Manmohan Singh (The Dr. Manmohan Singh) as we all know has a rather important government job, that of the Prime Minister. While there strictly is no law that restricts him from watching 4 movies a day, and do all those things that are mentioned in the question, the voters wouldn't be very pleased if they come to know about it. Also, the man has opposition parties to answer to in the parliament, and hence we can assume safely that he isn't the culprit.

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Ok...alright, Captain Vijayakant, the One Man Army of Kollywood. He is, in the words of Vivek, the man who has fought terrorists from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Best known for his bullet-dodging action sequences (in one of which the bullet bounces off his chest and goes back to where it came from), he is the man who has provoked many a "Enna kodumai Saravana!" from his audience. He is, undoubtedly Tamil cinema's reply to Superman. He is usually busy fighting Pakistani terrorists and dodging their bullets while bashing up a couple of rowdies during his break hours. Added to that, he now has a political party to take care of. So it is rather unlikely that he should be guilty of the activities mentioned in the question.

The last option: The EEE student in his semester holidays. It would be impossible to justify his watching 4 movies or being online 13 hours a day saying he needs a well deserved break after working hard during the semester exams as evidence points otherwise. But when you delve deeper into his mind (he has one, just that it doesn't work most of the time), one can see that he has nothing else to do. Perfectly Vetti, to quote my Mechanics of Solids lecturer. Hence by the process of elimination we can conclude that the culprit is the EEE student... Which is me, as far as this blog is concerned...sigh...time to start my third movie for the day...signing off here...

 

P.S. This was the answer I wrote for the 14 th question in my Science of Creativity paper. Tell me if it was creative enough.