Intelligent Questions!

Situation: I am at home. I am in my shorts and have a towel on my shoulder and near the bathroom. Where could I possibly going? I have visitors at home - my roommate and a lady friend of his.

Intelligent question (roomy): Are you going for a bath?
Answer: Yes I am. If you guys had plans for the same you can join me.

Shock!

I miss Bhaji Rao, he was one year junior to me at IIT. He was a late nine pointer (that’s like getting a perfect 10 in gymnastics). Remarkably his intelligence was not confined to academics only, as V2 and myself often found after been haunted by intelligent questions by him. I wish I wrote blogs at that time, one of our many books would have been "1001 intelligent questions".

The typical reaction to an "intelligent" question is best answered by another "intelligent" question and the fun is two fold when the subject dismisses your question as moronic. But, such occurrences of wit are rare and most of the time I used the shock and awe campaign.

Situation: I am going down the stairs.
Intelligent Question: Neeche jaa raha hai kya?
Intelligent Answers: Doesn’t this way go upstairs?

Bhaji Rao, was stud in life, music, academics and a fitness freak. He also was very fast in adapting to our intelligent answers in good humor, to the point that some questions like the one below seemed to be preplanned.

Situation: Scooter tier puncher - had asked for his cycle the previous night. On, seeing me riding it and the next day and passing him by on his cycle ...

Intelligent question: Puncher theek kara liya kya ? (with a mischievous smile)

Towards the mid of our association in IIT, Bhaji took the precaution of informing beforehand that he was going to ask an intelligent question before any question(as a matter of self defense). And towards the end of our intellectual association, the true stud could outsmart us by making it difficult for us to realize if it was indeed a "preplanned" or a "genuine" intelligent questions.

We had attributed Bhaji Rao's new found intelligence to our conditioning - at least we should have something to cheer our confused self’s with. I miss those intelligence question now, not because they are not asked but seem a bit irritate able and ignored.