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'Don't like being called The Wall'
- Thread starter Sehwag309
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luckyeddie
Cricket Web Staff Member
Shouldn't have bought that album by Pink Floyd then.
Slow Love™
International Captain
"It reminds me of the inevitable coming down of a wall," Dravid said in a chat with women journalists here on Saturday. "I can see you people (media) giving headlines like 'The Wall is crumbling' a few years from now."
How could he see THAT ZINGER coming?
How could he see THAT ZINGER coming?
krkode
State Captain
It's a thing with nicknames that people find. Whenever someone has a nickname/title, people always find ways to modify it to suit its bad side.Slow Love™ said:
I read an article on this a while back, that gave, for example a computer game that left itself open to journalist condemnations. XIII, I'm sure you heard about it. The magazine that the article quoted said something like "XIII is so named because there are XII such games like it, that are better."
It's basically the kind of name with twistability to it.
Dravid, perhaps in a hint of insecurity, saw what might come up several months/years from now when he isn't in as great a form. Much better to see, "Rahul Dravid losing form," than to see your people-given nicnname now working against you, "The wall is crumbling."
I have a feeling some uncreative journalist will, without a doubt, use that phrase in his article some day in the future...
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Neil Pickup
Cricket Web Moderator
I'm calling it first.krkode said:I have a feeling some uncreative journalist will, without a doubt, use that phrase in his article some day in the future...