DID CINDERELLA HAVE DEFORMED FEET?

Well, the title of the post is self-explanatory. Take a medium-sized town. Considering the law of probability and plain common sense, there are bound to be at least a couple of hundred women with the same shoe size; stands to logic, doesn’t it?

However, the story goes something like this- after Cinderella runs off at midnight, she leaves behind her glass slipper. The prince and his guards after searching for a long time, finally find Cinderella on basis of shoe-size. The explanation can be given by one of the foll.

Scenario 1
The guards already knew where to go. They just roamed here and there to get the extra pay for over time. Who would pay them if the very first house they visited was Cinderella’s? The harder the job, better the pay!
However, this scenario is unlikely as it assumes the guards are capable of coherent thought.

Scenario 2
The prince was a stalker. He knew all the details about the girls he liked. Hence he knew who had that particular shoe size. He asked the guards to roam around aimlessly so that no one would get suspicious. Who would like a future king to be a stalker?
Unlikely--> with a name like Prince Charming, I highly doubt he would be stalking LADIES, if you get what I mean....

Scenario 3
The guards, not the brightest of the lot, tried jamming the slipper on the wrong foot. Obviously the slipper wouldn’t  feet fit anyone! After doing this job for a long time, the guards were tired and let Cinderella try on the slipper herself. Voila! A perfect fit!

Scenario 4
Magical slippers. Need I say more?

All the above cases were a matter of chance or else the information was known before hand. The result could very well have been different. However, the following case leaves nothing to chance or magic. Also the answer need not be known previously.

Scenario 5
Cinderella had deformed feet.

Since the chances that anyone else in that town had the exact same deformity is extremely slim, it was only a matter of time before Cinderella was found. Hence proved!

Astounding logic, isn’t it? Sometime I dazzle myself by my sheer brilliance!

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I agree, the post was completely crazy and a total waste of time. But hey, don’t blame me- you read the entire thing even after seeing the title.

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The high standards of news agencies

The following article is purely the product of my over-crazed imagination and total frustration. If you get offended by this article, you probably deserve it!

 The news channels (and occasionally the odd papers) which thrive on sensationalism and breaking news are at the pinnacle of the information gathering process. Operating at the highest standards of moral and ethical integrity, they impart information right from alien cows to medieval instruments of torture, often in the same ‘news’ story. What more can anyone desire?

 A recent example:

 

Its no longer about what’s true, let alone important; its more about what makes a better story, a better read. So, an 11 year old sitting on facebook and sending chain mails about a perverted ghost gets more attention than, say, a flood which killed thousands.

 Here is how the above case will be broadcasted:

 Why does the child sit on fb and not orkut? Who is the ghost? Does the child have psychological problems? Is fb safe for YOUR kid? Is fb run by ghosts? Stay tuned- interview with the perverted ghost coming right after the break!! Oh yeah, there has been flood in an insignificant part of the country which no-one really cares about. Breaking news!! Priyanka tweets about her new shoes!!

 To be fair,  it’s partly the users fault as well. People watch such broadcasts with a kind of horrified fascination, asking themselves- ‘can they really show this? Do they actually think we want to watch this?’ and just to be sure they are not hallucinating, they keep on watching. This apparently increases the ratings of the channel and induces them to sink to lower depths.

 News that the common man would actually find important and useful is blatantly ignored and fluff pieces are shown—who cares about strikes bringing the entire city to a halt?  But a blind bull, whose shitting habits foretell the future; now THAT is a story. (taking bullshit to an entirely new level.)

Apparently bollywood writers of hit movies such as ‘Desi Daru’ and ‘Roadside Beggar’ are now turning to journalism since it is a long-term job (News never gets old) with a higher pay-grade, more suited to their unique talents and also has the option of a pension!

Stay tuned, more to follow!

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