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Weighty matters
Jaspal Bhatti

A woman stand-up comedian Bharti, during a comedy show on Star Plus, was joking about her obesity. "Why are people jealous of my being fat? At least, four little children together can stand in my shadow when the sun shines mercilessly."

Bharti in a comedy show on Star Plus
Bharti in a comedy show on Star Plus

I am a great fan of Bharti because very rarely people have the courage to laugh at themselves. Although every woman wants to be slim, yet the fair sex has the right to stay fat and occupy more space on this earth.

Air India has served termination notices to nine airhostesses for being overweight. For one thing the airlines’ glamour quotient comes down and secondly the fat airhostesses occupy double the space. Any passenger can then say, "Instead of asking four passengers to drop off five kg each from their luggage, why don’t you drop your chubby beauty, who is overweight by 25 kg?"

The other option with Air-India is to train their plump beauties to become stand-up comediennes. They would make the passengers laugh before the take off or during the delays and while waiting on the tarmac. And if Navjot Singh Sidhu or Archana Puran Singh happen to travel by the same flight, guffaws of laughter could be heard at each joke of these airhostess-cum-comediennes. The airline could then charge extra for providing jokes with meals. In such a situation these obese airhostesses would be much in demand.

An Air-India airhostess stepped on a weighing machine at the airport. Out came the voice from the machine, ‘Kripya, ek ek kar ke machine par chadye.’ (Kindly get on the machine one by one.)





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