Originally Posted by
SMI
I had a liking towards GM's comedies from early 90s, but it grew to a much bigger extent during mid 90s. This was when I had few personal issues, out of job etc and I was mostly confined to the TV. And what a company GM makes. He thrashes all sorts of establishments and your distress flies out of the window.
Later I was lucky to have at least one GM fan, in organizations I worked for, so that we had some sort of discussions going on. Cut to year 2007, I found this hub and browsed thru whenever I found time. Those days hubbers meet was in public forum. One of the hubbers attending the Chennai meet wrote about his experience. While on the way to the meet, his two-wheeler did not start even after few kicks. He wrote “if it was my spiritual guru, he would have said ‘idhu aavuradhilla’..”. The “spiritual guru” was hyperlinked. Eager to know who the guru was, I followed the link and to my greatest surprise it landed on GM’s wiki page. Immediately I felt ivaru namma aaLubaa. That hubber was PR.
I found the GM thread much later. I was wondering how I have missed this so far and started reading thru regularly. That was the first thread; it almost did not move at all. Then this hubber came in and ensured that there were regular discussions and posts. The thread kept growing and we moved from 1 to 2 and further. That hubber was HR. The GM thread gave me enormous enjoyment and I thought it was my duty to share what I got. Hence I joined and started contributing here (illEnnaa naanellam periya sOmbERi). Idha oru social service-a nenachu thaan panROm apdinu sendimend mulaamellam poosa virumbalennaalum, there is some truth in it.
When I come across those who do not appreciate GM, I have nothing but sympathy for them. In some thread when some body was degrading GM’s performances, I said “ongaLa ellaam paarththaa enakku paavamaa irukku” and people took it personal. The fact is I do not say this in a criticizing tone, but in a very genuine manner. Naan petra inbaththai ivanga pera mudiyalayE apdinRa aadhangam thaan.
The female gender of human species is exempted from being a GM fan, as they can find solace in n number of serials, pakkatthu / edhirththa veettu stories etc. If you are a male and do not appreciate GM it is self injustice.