9 Responses to “International Touch a Stranger Day”

1. San says:
   March 9th, 2006 at 3:49 pm

   this is a comment to your extra bits on the right hand side…

   ‘After all, isnt the giving of aesthetic pleasure to others the reason why we make ourselves look nice in the mornings?’

   i disagree,one can make oneself look pretty just ‘cos its beats the alternative…but ina sense i agree too and suggest that>
   can we apply that to blogs too…I would like to read moe but have attention span of a 5yr old so pics may help me and you..i dunno,just throwing that out there…

2. Original Sin says:
   March 9th, 2006 at 5:29 pm

   Who wrote the original post?

3. Saleem says:
   March 9th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

   Oscar de Clavier, genius. Translation: Oscar of the Keyboard. Oscar is the Neocrats’ very own mask, our way of saying something too risky, or too grand - anonymously.

4. Saleem says:
   March 9th, 2006 at 10:33 pm

   So part of the fun of having an Oscar de Clavier is guessing who it is, in any given anonymous entry. This inaugural post is clearly the work of Mogogo, given the hidden perversions and desires to molest people on buses. Anyway, you’ve apparently forgotten riding on London buses during rush hour: everyone molests everyone, without anyone wanting to.

5. Mogogo says:
   March 9th, 2006 at 11:09 pm

   Interesting diversionary tactic Saleem, accusing me of posting as Oscar on this occasion. However, the more discrening reader will see this tactic for what it is. You remind me of what i would do when, at the age of 7, i had inadvertantly farted in class: i would pre-emptively announce the fart, complain at its smell and accuse a classmate of having been the perpertrator. Sal, the sage words of my classmates still ring in my ears, as they should in yours: “he who smelt it, dealt it”.

6. Saleem says:
   March 10th, 2006 at 7:53 am

   Brilliantly rejoined, but regrettably incorrect. Sarmad? This is the anti-ornithologist in you, isn’t it?

7. Saleem says:
   March 1st, 2007 at 8:20 am

   Somehow upon revisiting this post, it is clearly, indisputably, the work of Mogogo.

8. Sanisha says:
   March 1st, 2007 at 8:39 am

   its interesting and unexpected how this new site design is causing some of us to review and reflect on what we have thought and said over this past year.

9. nemoDreamer says:
   March 1st, 2007 at 10:01 pm

   yes, i love that too! unexpected result…

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International Touch a Stranger Day
Oscar de Clavier | 9-3-06 | 9

This happens to me from time to time in public places.  Public transport in particular.  I see someone interesting - beautiful, or with a kindly face, or dressed well, or with nice hair, just interesting in some way.  And i want to tell commend them on whatever it is.  They are invariably of the opposite sex, but its not a question of wanting in some way to exchange bodily fluids. More an honest desire to say: “hey, you look great. Goodbye.”

Whats wrong with doing that? Or even of going one further - “you have nice hair - can i touch it? thanks. Goodbye”. After all, isnt the giving of aesthetic pleasure to others the reason why we make ourselves look nice in the mornings? Yet if a stranger were to congratulate us on our aesthetic charm, we would consider him/her a stalker or otherwise unbalanced.

So i hereby declare tomorrow to be International Congratulate or Touch a Stranger Day. Go on, you know you want to.

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