Bob’s Banter

  • The Most Beautiful Women..!
    They were the most beautiful women I had ever seen together!Oh yes, I have stared unashamedly at calendar collections of beauty queens gathering at some resort, with some famous photographer cunningly revealing
  • Lashing Out and Losing Out..!
    Being an avid watcher of crime movies, I’ve noticed that whenever a member of the police force has a relative involved in a crime, that particular officer is taken off the case as his or her judgement would b
  • A Healing for Sudden Death..!
    Feel terrible as I see the dead bodies of Israelis and Palestinians. I know that one moment they were alive, the next moment dead! It’s terrible when a loved one suddenly dies. There is no warning, like you h
  • Missing Gentlemen of India..!
    As I heard about the very rude and crass speech by a member of Parliament, hurling abuses on another member because of his different faith I realised what’s missing are gentlemen! And so, at this time when we
  • Down from the Blessed Mountain..!
    Robert ClementsThe car ahead moved forward, I followed and there was a screech of brakes as a vehicle from the right narrowly missed hitting me. I looked at the signal, it was still red. I had followed the car
  • Do a Self Appraisal..!
    Robert ClementsMost of us go through life, thinking we are God’s gift to mankind or is it woman kind? We strut around, swagger and feel we are indispensable to home or company. “What would my family ever do
  • Learning to Respond not React..!
    This happened years ago when my dog Jeff was alive: A moth, one of those huge ones with big eyes, flew from somewhere and sat on my wife’s side of our bed, a little away from me.She screamed out of fear and w
  • Why Should Tears Be Shed?
    And as the Hamas terrorize Israel and Israel retaliates with unparalleled fury, one knows that those laughing their way to the bank are the weapon manufacturers. To keep a war going, a country has to spend heav
  • Insuring Your Assets..!
    Holly Madison, the former girlfriend of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, insured an attractive part of her body for 1 million dollars. She said that she insured her famous assets with Lloyd's of London to protect t
  • Sweetened Tongues..!
    "Oh Bob!" she said as she held my arm, "where've you been?""Bbbut, bbbut," I stammered, "I just missed coming here once!""I missed you," she said and just as I was getting ready to fall into her arms I saw her
  • The Problem Could Be You..!
    A friend of mine called me desperately, “You’ve got to help me, Bob!” he pleaded, “My wife has started becoming very cold to me. I suspect she is having an affair with her boss. He’s a very moneyed ma
  • Facing the Unfamiliar..!
    Facing the unfamiliar is not something we love, especially being children of routine, but it could turn out fun, as mine did, a few years ago, when there was no lunch laid out for me that day:It’s a habit of
  • Gestures of the Heart..!
    Even a small gesture impacts us, doesn't it?African-American poet Countee Cullen spent the summer when he was eight in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after he arrived he noticed a little white boy staring at him.
  • The Mahatma’s Cleanliness Drive...!
    “Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but change ourselves,” …… Mahatma Gandhi.And as the nation went on a cleaning spree yesterday, with most everyone taking a broom and sweeping
  • A Joker and His Jokes..!
    There’s not a day going by when we are not bombarded with jokes through Facebook, WhatsApp or other social media outlets. Billions of such gags, funny yarns and wise cracks travel cyber space tirelessly round
  • The Mouse in Your House..!
    Spent some time this morning listening to a podcast, “Shut Up!”Now that’s not a nice way to start a day, but quite often that’s what we need to do, to have a successful day and lead a good life, simply,
  • Absolute Surrender...!
    Read the headlines this morning; that one of those who had masterminded the 26/11 terrorist attack in Mumbai, and who is now in a prison in the US, has had a charge sheet filed against him by the Indian governm
  • The Priest and the Pianist..!
    A couple of years ago, I was asked to conduct a wedding. Now I’m no priest, but since the couple had already had a registered wedding, I was asked to give a blessing. So I did. I stood in front as the couple
  • Boredom, the Wise Man..!
    The wise man who could easily have been a preacher said to me, “The best part of your day is when you are bored!”“I’m never bored,” I told him happily, “I’ve my phone, filled with stuff to keep me
  • Parliamentary Banter..!
    T’was friendly banter taking place twixt the new Parliament building and the old one, as they stood opposite each other, one empty and about to be converted into a museum and the other spilling with elected m
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