Courtesy

Orkut:

Today's fortune:
Your luck has been completely changed today

What the hell is that supposed to mean?!?!?
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Tarun Tejpal in 'the Alchemy of Desire':

...Sobers real name was Arnab Dasgupta. But in college he had been named after the great cricketer Gary Sobers.

In our freshers' cricket match he had announced himself as an all-rounder. He was short and stocky and distressingly confident. He said he was a leg-spinner and after ten overs of medium pace our captain threw him the ball.

The over went down in hostel history. It lasted seventeen deliveries, as Arnab failed to drop the ball anywhere on the matting. The first ball actually flew off his hand to hit the square-leg umpire. Finally he was encouraged to bowl underarm and finish the over. Later he went in to bat wearing one leg-guard. He turned his back to the first ball he faced and the ball got lodged in his fat buttocks. For a moment no one knew where the ball had gone. Then it fell out with a plop.

Outside the boundary our captain looked at me and said, Chutiya, where did you find this Gary Sobers?

:D :P