Monday, October 27, 2008

After smoking ban, Anbumani Ramadoss goes after 'Passive Drinking'


After his widely publicized nationwide ban on smoking, health minister Anbumani Ramadoss has now decided to go after another so-called evil, 'Passive Drinking'. “Science has established that passive drinking is even more harmful than drinking, so we are calling for a complete ban on drinking in public places, such as parks, railway stations, pubs and bars.”, said Dr.Ramadoss, simultaneously demonstrating his compassionate nature by forcibly using his stethoscope on bemused bystanders.


When someone questioned the logic behind banning drinking from pubs and bars, the minister was quick with his reply. “ Because that's where it happens the most. What is the point of banning drinking in places like hospitals or places of worship, where it doesn't happen anyway?”, he asked, quite sensibly. “Hey, don't I look a bit like a young verion of that actor Suman?”, he asked suddenly, changing the subject with the dexterity of a practiced surgeon.


The minister also announced that the next initiative would be some sort of ban against those pesky people who claim to be 'high on life'.

12 comments:

Unknown said...

I vote for a ban on this drug called 'life'. Clearly way too many people are high on it, and it will not do at all.

maxdavinci said...

ROFL at the suman reference

Ravages/CC said...

I axshully will support a ban on life-high-ers. Too many bloody tag lines with high on life. Cheh!

... said...

death to the high on lifers, lets see how they work around that!

Logik said...

People who tend to drink heavily from the cup of life, might get high on it. Ban them fools.

What happened to the oh-so-witty by-lines?. Please get them back,

" By Anand Ramachandran - who is hung over from life"

visesh said...

Its getting to that brilliant state of existence when you will have cigarettes and alcohol on display only with a special "DO NOT TOUCH" sticker.

How about banning the usage of the words "smoking" and "drinking" in public, that will be wild, hahahahaha

Anonymous said...

He actually looks more like that actor who played Shalini's father in 'Alaipayuthe.' Is that guy also named Suman?

Anand Ramachandran said...

logik - oh-so-witty-bylines? What are you talking about? ;)

evilemperorzeb - yeah. let 'em get high on death! serves 'em right!

Logik said...

Ramdoss bans all forms of ***king activities in public places, starting with......

well, " No Parking", of course :)

Mahadevan said...

Anbumani may soon ban using left hand in public places.

Left-hand has always been unhygenic, the health minister would argue. Unlike the north, there are very few left-handers of eminence in down south, the Minister's statistician supplements. After Milkha Singh, there is no left hand batsman of Test Class from Tamil Nadu, a ten year old traces from Wisden. The 'left' is now with them and not with us, his sagely father sermonises.

Ramesh Srivats said...

Ramadoss is going to leave us cleaner, healtjier and really, really bored. You can read my post on this at http://www.rameshsrivats.net/2008/11/ramadoss-meets-devadoss.html

Mycotoxin said...

OMG you can see the future!!!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Drunk-driving-Co-rider-liable-too/articleshow/4115445.cms

On a completely unrelated note, what stocks are you buying these days?