Positioning a MOO point!!!

Witty comments are not easy to make. Ofcourse, it requires wit to deliver such comments and people with such a blessing are tough to find. Fortunately (or unluckily, because the wrath of such comments are also targeted at me) I am surrounded by a bunch of such people and it’s clearly a delight to be present when such moments arise.

Before I move on to such an incident, let me explain to you what a ‘MOO’ point is. I came across this term in the famous sitcom FRIENDS, in one of the rare episodes where Joey was considered to make a sensible statement. A MOO point is a Cow’s opinion, which has no significance and hence it is never counted (obviously by human beings). I liked this term a lot and hence thought of writing something about it (I hope it is not copyrighted).

Anyways, so the incident goes like this. One of my mono-syllabic friend (he actually speaks only in mono-syllables...in Marathi- Ho, Yeto, Alo, Jato, Nako , heh – a mono- laugh...so on and so forth) was talking absolute non-sense about a foreigner calling him in the early hours while he was sleeping and talking with him in a heavy accent...to be frank the story was going nowhere and Mr. Mono was still talking his head off and turning ours OFF! Realising that this fellow is not going to give us a break, one of my other friends threw a random comment stating that ‘Chunky Pandey has got a NEW HAIRSTYLE!’

Now none of us considered it as useful information, because it was as irrelevant as mono-syllabics jabbering, and we all (including mono-dude) stared at him for quite a period which made him conscious.

Finally we realised that it was a MOO point, and it had no relevance whatsoever. Who cares what hair style Chunky Pandey is wearing! But the comment was targeted at Mono so that he could stop his non-sensible yap-yap! And it really worked, coz the moment we realised what has actually happened we all were ROFL!

Now comes the best part. When you complete reading this, you will realise that the entire non-sense of 387 words was a big MOO point! I hope this word will now be registered forever in your mind. In marketing we call this registration as Positioning :oD