Australia come to India in 2001 after 15 consecutive Test victories.
Destroy India in the 1st Test match.
Then comes the Kolkata Test Match.
FOLLOW ON Enforced. India again down and out.
THEN..
THESE 2 GUYS COME TO THE PARTY:-
And as they say..
THE REST IS HISTORY.. :)
THE UNSTOPPABLE FORCE ACTUALLY MET OUR WALL AND MR. DEPENDABLE.
In 1980, IBM was the giant. No one came close. They approached a small company- Microsoft when they required an operating system in their new PC. Big mistake.
Bill Gates spotted the opportunity and did not procrastinate. He made one major point during the deal and that is, Microsoft would retain the ownership of the software. IBM didn’t care. They were specialized in hardware money. That decision it made was everything.
This is the twist about it, Microsoft did not even have an OS.
So Gates was quick. He purchased a crude and incomplete system named QDOS at only $75,000. No drama, no delay. After that, he cleaned it, changed its name to MS-DOS, and prepared it.
And the very thrust: the business was not exclusive. Microsoft had the ability to sell the same software to anybody. And they did.
IBM believed that they were in the lead. As a matter of fact, they gave the reign to another person.
Imitation of IBM PCs became rampant. Each of them required an OS. Microsoft was ready. They did not sell machines, they sold the key to machines.
Hardware at IBM was replaceable. The software of Microsoft was inevitable.
This wasn’t luck. It was promptitude, rapidity, and keenness.
A purchase costing $75,000 became worldwide domination.
Not a partnership. A slow motion takeover.
Who was the most disliked member of the Nazi regime among the German population during World War II?
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Many Indian male actors appeared as a duo.
Govinda and Johnny Lever : Govinda and Johnny Lever appeared in nearly 29 movies.
Their comic timing and funny dialogues tickled audience.
Some of these movies (Dulhe Raja ; Jodi Number 1; Bade Miyan Chote Miyan) were very successful.
Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah : These seasoned actors appeared in 27 movies.
Many among them were national awardees (Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro ; Akrosh ; Droh Kaal ; Mandi)
Jackie Shroff and Anil Kapoor : These friends appeared in 12 hindi movies.
Some of these movies were national awardees (Parinda) or super hit (Ram Lakhan ;Karma ; Yudh)
Amitabh and Vinod Khanna : These seasoned actors appeared in ten movies.
All of them were popular ( Amar Akbar Anthony ; Hera Pheri ; Khoon Paseena ; Muqadar Ka Sikander)
Fact : Audience loved their perfect or comic timing along with camaderie.
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I would like to specify five under appreciated heroes because the traditional ones have been mentioned by other Quorans.
1- Dutch Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in Predator (1987).
Dutch’s muscles are no match for the Yautja’s plasma cannon and arm blades. In the end he survives by using humanity’s greatest weapon: ingenuity. Hence proving that humans are the apex predators on Earth.
2- Jay Height (Maika Monroe) in It Follows (2014).
She is an innocent girl thrust in a deadly predicament by her douchebag boyfriend. Jay’s friends are her greatest strength. Everybody sticks together in this horror film.
3- Jess Bradford (Olivia Hussey) in Black Christmas (1974).
One of the earliest examples of a ‘final girl’ in a horror movie. She’s kind to others and even vulnerable at times but Jess stays brave in adversity.
4- Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) in Get Out (2017).
He notices something is off about the Armitage family from the get-go. He ignores their awkwardness at first but is quick to trust his guts.
5- Almost everybody in Tremors (1990).
Bet you didn’t see that coming. Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) know how to ride horses, fire guns and are smart enough to assess the Graboids’ intelligence. Earl gives the ‘fishing’ idea to hunt the Graboids.
Burt (Michael Gross) and Heather (Reba McEntire) are firearm experts and have an arsenal that the townsfolk use to fend off the giant worms.
Rhonda (Finn Carter) is a seismologist and is able to determine that they’re dealing with prehistoric organisms that hunt by detecting sound. She comes up with the idea of pole vaulting.
The remaining supporting characters are either part of the movie’s body count or are there to raise the stakes for survival. Even those who end up dying didn’t make stupid decisions but were victims of bad luck.
The sweetest revenge ever by none other than The Master Blaster Mr. Sachin Tendulkar!
Date -October 5, 2007
Venue-Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Hyderabad
It was the 3rd ODI of the 7 match series between India and Australia. Brad Hogg took Sachin's wicket while he was playing at 43.
And just like any other bowler who had always dreamed of having a delivery in their arsenal that can dismiss Sachin Tendulkar, Brad Hogg was feeling at the top of the world after taking the wicket of the best limited overs batsman ever.
Before the 4th ODI match, Brad Hogg went to a toiling Sachin Tendulkar at nets with the ball he dismissed Sachin with and asked for his autograph!
Any normal player would have just signed the ball and made his fan happy. But Sachin not only did the former but also took an oath the same day and conveyed the same to Brad Hogg.
He wrote on the ball “This will never happen again, Hoggy”.
And Sachin being Sachin, he never got dismisses by Brad Hogg again!
This is perhaps the sweetest revenge in cricket ever.
Another one by Rishabh Pant in the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2018 between India and Australia.
It was the 3rd test match of the series and Rishabh Pant was constantly getting sledged by Tim Paine and company.
Also in one of his on field comments even asked Rishabh Pant to baby sit his kids. And Pant replied with a stupendous century in India's 2nd innings.
But Pant was not done with Tim Paine yet. After the conclusion of the series which India eventually won, Rishabh Pant posted the following pic!
That's Rishabh Pant with Tim Paine's wife and kids. How hilarious the pic looks, isn't it?
These two are perhaps the best and the sweetest revenges by players in International Cricket ever! Only Indians know how to handle Australian players' sledging well!
(A super rich but also a selfless couple )
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Footnotes
My idea of the greatest snub involved one of Hollywood’s greatest films.
It happened on Thursday night, March 2 1944 at Grauman’s Chinese Theater (seen above), where the 16th Academy Awards ceremony was in full swing.
Casablanca, a top contender, had already won “Best Screenplay” and “Best Director”. Then the winner for “Best Picture” was called out …
Jack Warner accepts Casablanca’s “Best Picture” Academy Award from Oscar host Jack Benny
… and producer/ awards participant Hal B. Wallis described what happened next.
After it was announced that Casablanca had won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year, I stood up to accept when Jack [Warner] ran to the stage ahead of me and took the award with a broad, flashing smile and a look of great self-satisfaction.
I couldn’t believe this was happening. Casablanca had been my creation. Jack had absolutely nothing to do with it. As the audience gasped, I tried to get out of the row of seats and into the aisle, but the entire Warner family sat blocking me. I had no alternative but to sit down again, humiliated and furious ... Almost forty years later, I still haven't recovered from the shock.
Oscar night: Jack Warner elated; Hal Wallis suppressing his anger
Hal Wallis had worked at Warner Bros. for 20 years. The head of film production for a decade, he’d stepped down from the job in 1941 because he “had no rest, had no home life”. Wallis then negotiated his own independent production deal with the studio, creating his own unit inside Warners where he would only produce four pictures a year.
One of those four was Casablanca, and Mr. Wallis had overseen every aspect of its production, from choosing the property and developing the script, to selecting actors and director, supervising the final edit, and signing off on the music and sound mix.
So, yeah. Wallis was ticked off at Jack Warner. Hugely.
And the snub by Warner was obvious. So obvious that it got noted in the L.A. Times, which caused Wallis (maybe under company pressure?) to fire off a note to Times columnist Edwin Schallert on March 4:
I have been with Warner Bros. for twenty years and during this time it has been customary here as elsewhere for the studio head to accept the Academy Award for the Best Production. Naturally I was glad to see Jack Warner accept the award this year for “Casablanca”. … I am happy also to have contributed my bit toward the making of that picture. Your comment in your column this morning on rivalry at Warner Bros. is totally unjustified. …
But Wallis was, of course, spewing misinformation. He was neither “happy” nor “glad”. And a month later, he resigned from Warners, though there was still two years left on his production deal:
I … felt I could no longer work under the conditions imposed upon me by Jack Warner. … Jack did not live up to the terms of our contract. He often acquired material I never saw and never had an opportunity to consider for my own productions. … Jack began to inject himself into my company’s decision making. Matters came to a head that Oscar night. …
I broke clean, left for New York without any plans, and holed up at the Waldorf Towers for eight weeks. ...
Word of the rupture got around, with tales and jokes about the Wallis-Warner breakup circulating widely. Five years after the fact, novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler related one of them to his British publisher:
My favorite Hollywood story is about the Warner Brothers, Jack and Harry. The day after Hal Wallis ankled and left them flat, there was deep gloom and a horrid sense of catastrophe at the executive lunch table. … Jack and Harry come in. Jack turns to Harry.
Jack: That sonofabitch, Wallis.
Harry: Yes, Jack.
Jack: A lousy fifty dollar a week publicity man. We built him up from nothing. We made him one of the biggest men in Hollywood. And what does he do to us? He picks up his hat and walks out and leaves us cold.
Harry: Yes, Jack.
Jack: That’s gratitude for you. And take that sonofabitch Zanuck. A lousy hundred a week writer and we took him in hand, built him up and made him one of the biggest men in Hollywood. And what did he do to us? Picked up his hat and walked out on us cold.
Harry: Yes, Jack.
Jack: That’s gratitude for you. Why, we could take any sonofabitch we liked and build him up from nothing and make him one of the biggest men in Hollywood.
Harry: Yes, Jack.
Jack: Anybody at all. (Jack turns and looks at writer/associate producer Jerry Wald, sitting there at the executive table.) What’s your name?
Wald: Jerry Wald, Mr. Warner.
Jack: (to Harry) Jerry Wald. Why, Harry, we could take this fellow here, this Jerry Wald, and build him up from nothing to be one of the biggest men in Hollywood, couldn’t we, Harry?
Harry: Yes, Jack. We certainly could.
Jack: And what would it get us? We build him up to be a big man, give him power and reputation, make him one of the biggest names in Hollywood, and you know what would happen? The sonofabitch would walk out on us and leave us flat.
Harry: Yes, Jack.
Jack: So why wait for that to happen, Harry? Let’s fire the sonofabitch right now.
In actual fact, Jack Warner did his share of seething. He commenced making snide comments about his former studio chief, and allegedly refused to let his one-time studio head have a picture taken with the Casablanca Oscar. It got to the point where Jack Warner’s actual brother Harry fired this cable off to him, soon after Wallis ankled the Warner Bros. lot.
MY ADVICE TO YOU IS NOT TO MENTION THAT PARTY’S NAME [Hal Wallis] EVEN IN FORM OF KIDDING. ATTEND TO YOUR OWN BUSINESS. I ASSURE YOU HE WILL DO VERY WELL. IT COMES ACROSS THE WIRE MANY PEOPLE SEE IT AND THEY THINK YOU ARE JEALOUS. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A BIG MAN.
Harry Warner’s predictions regarding Hal Wallis proved correct. Soon after resigning from Warner Bros., Wallis set up a production unit at Paramount Pictures, and went on producing highly regarded films into the 1970s.
And somewhere along Hal W.’s new road to further success, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sent Mr. Wallis his own Casablanca “Best Picture” Oscar, along with a letter of apology.
End Note: Yeah, this isn’t a “snub” in the way the question intends, but a snub nevertheless.
End Note Too: Warner was technically justified in getting up to accept the “Best Picture” award, since other studio heads had done it. But elbowing out the person who actually did the work was incredibly bad form. Independent producers had accepted Oscars before, and Wallis was within his rights being ticked off at Jack Warner. (Academy rules didn’t officially acknowledge individual producers until 1951.)