!! Stop the Peter/munna/munusami !!

Peter or petering is a slang that is widely used to denote those who love to show off their knowledge (or ignorance) in something that is totally alien. For eg., I was somebody who did not know a thing about the computer, net, middleware etc etc. After marriage, I started petering about CORBA and middleware (thanks to the evil of continuous checking of emails and writing code by my husband). The boyz/galz who drank tea from the local potti kadai till yesterday, say today, " you see, in the US where (pronounced whezh) ..." Thats petering for you. Guys who want to fit into a crowd try stuff like seeing vonly inglis philims and hate anything that has to do with bollywood, tollywood, kollywood, follywood and any other letter you can add at the beginning.

Munna is our hindi peter. Despite not having crossed the borders of Tamilnadu, our munna loves to sprinkle his speech with accha, nahi yaar, and chalte hain... She sees sirf hindi philims. Her favourite is Shah rukh, Aamir, Rani and Kajol. "Who will see tamil movies? I am a city bred gal."

Munusami/tamizh peter is a bit complicated. "We see tamizh movies but only those Mani Ratnam". "Saratkumar, Prabhu? no way. Kamal? definitely yes." They are the intellectuals who think every movie has to be of Satyajit Ray standard. Magazines like kalki and kalaimagal satisfy their curiosity and the rest (kumudam, kalkandu etc) are trash.

So today, by the power (of expression) vested in me, I hereby solemnly decry the parupputhanam of Peters, munnas and munusamis of the world.

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P.R.Gayathri said…
ha ha ha .....If a girl does petering we call her 'Mary' ..........
20/1/09 10:39 AM
Saraswathan said…
Very humorous!
10/11/09 5:24 AM
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