R U a Stud Muffin?

ALLEN O'BRIEN / TNN / Oct 17, 2005, 21:44 IST

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Urban dictionary is the latest trend in Hollywood. We create a desi counterpart.

Urban dictionary is the latest trend in Hollywood. We create a desi counterpart
Verbal graffiti - That's exactly what the urban dictionary is all about. In other words, "slangs, catch phrases and sarcasm to define a celebrity who is synonymous with a certain kind of behaviour," says John Ayto, author of The Oxford Dictionary of Slang.
So is this here to stay? Says ad guru Alyque Padamsee, "every name is supported by a phrase." A case in point is the "SRK Phenomena" to describe the "process of an unusual success story" or "John Jock Look" (stud muffin).
Adds VJ Gaurav Kapoor, "It is pop culture. What is in shows what is hot; what is out is definitely not hot!" What makes this dictionary special is the ability to add as many meanings as possible to a particular name.

Explains linguist Arindam Sen of DU, "Numerous slang terms pass into informal mainstream speech.
Hence it is important to keep updating the dictionary." For instance...
... Michael Jackson earlier meant a process in which a black man becomes a white woman; now, it refers to a made up creature that parents warn their kids about!
VIDESHI DICTIONARY
Paris Hilton: Someone who features prominently on Internet porn
Pamela Anderson:

A dumb blonde that's too old to pose nude... and that practically eats silicone for breakfast
Mariah Carey: A great singer who is beautiful on the inside as well as the outside
Tom Cruise: Exremely soluble professional couch-jumper and squinter
(According to...
... the Urban Dictionary)
DESI DICTIONARY
Mallika Sherawat: The story of the exposed silicone
Salman: The outcome of institutionalising people to give them electric shocks till they take their clothes off
Shah Rukh Khan: The unusual success story
Saif Ali Khan: Movie star with just two facial expressions: smiling and not smiling.
Preity Zinta: Ebullience
Aamir Khan: Perfectionism to the point of being retentive
John Abraham: Stud muffin (As views expressed by ad gurus Prahlad Kakkar, Alyque Padamsee, VJs Cyrus Sahukar and Gaurav Kapoor, Mahesh Bhatt)

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