During TCP's milestone posts, there's always been a new contributor. This time, there will be three. Announcing our first new contributor who gets to see his comic put up as #148 - IndianMalang. This is not an Indrajal, but it doesn't matter as the contribution from IndianMalang had to be put up :-) Thanks and may we see more contributions from you.
This one has several stories rather than the usual one story per comic, but each one is interesting. Stay tuned everybody.COVER 
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Monday, July 24, 2006
Comic #148: Phantom - Several Adventures
Monday, July 24, 2006
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this is unbelievable.. first for 2 times running
regulars are getting slow.. :)
hmm...2nd. Need to break bigfoot's run. Will figure.
3rd.....hmmmmmm....need to improve. Not bad though, from the last time.
Thanks TCP. Will try to send more.
Regards
4th..yayyy..top 5:)
Claiming position 5
Got the #6 spot!
Wht prize does #7 get??
p.S: aloha TCP. i've been a quiet visitor to ur site the past few months.. neva missed a comic.. :-)
Congrats Bigfoot - make hay while the sun shines or before the other regulars strike back.
@Catmandoman - Congratulations - Is hubby also interested in Phantom?
@Indian Malang - thanks for the comic.
@TCP - I salute the spirit of Mumbai & Mumbaikars. Truly one of a kind - the place I call home.
Iam 8th . hmmm must wake up . thanks indianmalang for the comic .
@TCP : what happened to comics links on the side . is there any technical difficulty posting them cause after the governments order i find that i still cannot add links in my blog , is it the same problem with you also .
Hmm.. I'm in a good mind to grab the first position (before Obi shows up), because bigfoot didn't exactly claim his position :D. But since I'm feeling very charitable today, let me just claim 9th. But bigfoot, next time I may not be so generous :-)
:O weekend post again! meraa number.....aayega (my number....will come.) Till then i'm 10th. Looking forward to the 150th comic!! get ready, fellow spam artists ;D
Damm! Sunshine You are ABSOLUTELY right! Bigfoot (like a real BIGFOOT) didn't claim first position. Good for him that you noticed and none of us cause if I would have, I would have! All is fair in Love and War!!!! :-)))
Lucky Bigfoot!
Hey I think Bigfoot did claim first! But that's not to say the going is easy for you, Bigfoot - you are marked!
Will go ahead and claim 11th.
Hey TCP, here's what you missed:
RS said...
...hitting 30 next month. :(
Cloudy said...
me too, me tooooooo :-(
RS said...
cloudy..would it be too weird to ask when next month?somehow we seem to have similar tastes was just wondering if we share our birthday as well.
Samajh mein aaya?
Hay Cloudy, what does :( means! Haven't you heard "the older the wine, the better it is"!!!!
By addiding :( sign r u telling that 30+ people should be :( and not :)???
Hey IM, definitely 30+ should not be :( always! But 30 is 30, right? You've got to feel some little bit of :( at leaving those carefree 20s behind... But this blog, by God, will help me sail through 30 with a :), hopefully!
By the way sorry for the silence on ideas for your company name - just can't think of anything bright enough...
@Old Man Mozz
Unfortunately not :(
But I will get her around to it :)
ok.. so none of you mumbaikars explained the dabbawaala concept to me. is it that they bring you a meal that they cook or is it that they just bring a dabba for you from home?hmm??
kahan ho mumbai waalon!!!!! agar tumne ek bhi phantom comic ka page palta hai (ya click kiya hai) toh saamne aao!!!!!
Hey IM.. the :( was me because I've been feeling :( , not true of all 30+s I know (the siblings for example)
@rs - Dabbawalas are basically a 36 Crore service comprising of 4500 workers (mostly illiterate) who collect the 2 Lakh dabbas from home and give it to the corresponding persons at different offices in various parts of the cities like post (but within a limited period of time). The collection of dabbas is done by one set and brought to a common point where it is sorted & delivered by another set. The highlight they are better (1 in 16 million) than 6 sigma (1 in a million) in terms of errors inspite of not using any sophisticated IT technology and without MBAs (maybe that is the reason) :)
templetiger was here.. will not claim as my counting skills stop with the number of fingers i have (10)
Me 12th. And would have not been missing out on a good position in the charts if our stupid government had not tried to control my life by firewalling blogspot. Finally got time to download torpark today, and here I am!!!
Oye sorry sorry, accidentally anonymous ke naam se comment publish ho gaya!!!
@bigfoot: you're gonna get tapkaoed mate especially after your taunts
@motku: break his run.? my foot..you cant do anything you .. coffee warmer owner
@im: welcome to the contributor list
@revealed: if you had said just top 5, you know the knives would've been out before you could say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
@icr: and 5 it is :-)
@catmandoman: why do people have the impression that you are a girl?
@bachelor: 7 is also the number of wonders of the world..so be happy with that. And this rude comment is because you visit and dont talk
@omm: why you think catmandoman is a woman? AND YOU FORGOT POSITION??????
@sherlock: no technical difficulty :-( just lack of time and some laziness but will be up i promise. Built 135 links already
@sunshine: you and your charity. one day you're going to say..bigfoot? my foot!!
@sketchy: haha that spam was great...last comment hehe
@indianmalang: BIGFOOT DID CLAIM FIRST POSITION GRRRRRRRRRRRR
@cloudy: ok now I know what i missed :-) full samajh me aa gaya boss
@catmandoman: now you confirm your gender .. :-)
@rs: nice dhamki..you really come up with some originals And boss...apun Bombay ka hai..mumbai is for outsiders and gaowallahs grrrrrrrrrrr
@omm: nice explanation..to add to that..the dabba is cooked by a person's family at home and put inside a aluminum dabba with special markings that only dabbawallahs can read (dabbavinci code). it is carried in a cart, put onto trains but it gets to the person in question before lunch. The guy eats food. and puts his dabba back inside the dabba and it vanishes sometime during the day!!! and finds its way to the persons house - ready for the next day
@templetiger: use leg ka fingers na
@obi: accident me mistake karta hai besharam. 12th...sheeee
..ohhh (ting..light bulb going on) aisa hai. about the dabbawaalas i mean, just so i am clear..I am guessing it must be difficult to carry one's own lunch box , commuting to work in locals and early in the morning. Right? which is why the whole system. Thanks OMM and TCP.
and Bombay /Mumbai.. a rose by any other other name etc. hmm? Politics aside.. Mumbai is nice too..after a goddess called Mumba na?
I agree abt the Bombay thing. True chennaiites (incl urs truly) lay claim to Madras only! no new-fangled Chennai for us:D. @ Catmandoman: what a subtle way of saying you're not a girl:p. Almost missed it:). @Sunshine (or was it cloudy:p j/k): wish id spotted the bigfoot thing :(. Guess was too excited about being in top 5 :(
@TCP, was my survey thing too l8?
Hey RS, the dabbawalas are also online - check this out:
India's tiffinwalas fuel economy
Revealed, bigfoot did claim! What do other rulekeepers think?
thanx to you now i am addicted to
the comics and ya ur blog too.
@TCP
-- no idea! :D
maybe the "man" in catmandoman doesnt say it clearly :D :D
Thanks cloudy, that was edifying. but it was nice to get the info from a bombay-ite (notice in deference to TCPs sentiments am not using the word mumbaikar) :))
Hey Revealed, you are from Chennai too? :D I mean Madras, right? I was thinking I was the only one.
@Cloudy: I think bigfoot did claim his position. I don't know why I didn't see it the first time. I think I interpreted his words differently. Sorry bigfoot. The first position is all yours.
@Cloudy: I remembered why I thought he didn't claim his position - I thought he was saying for the first time, he's done something twice but didn't mention what he had done. Did that make any sense? :-)
Yes Sunshine, that makes sense :-)
I'M LAAAAAST!
@sunshine: thats exactly what i thought too (about Bigfoot's claim i mean). was ambiguous:p n nice 2 c another madrasi here >:D<
I must admit.. I am always a little curious to read the deleted comments!!
@rs: That was my deleted comment. I deleted it because I had spelt something wrong (and because we have a purist around here ;D)
@Revealed: :D I'm glad I'm not the only odd-woman out. At least two other people (you and indianmalang) interpreted bigfoot's claim the way I did.
hi tcp,
i have all the english comics you have published and am uploading in bunches (probably 20 comics per set) to Rapidshare...considering that i have a premium account, the upload should not expire either...do you want me to publish links / send them to you, etc.
oh and while you are at it, would it be ok if i put up the links on my blog as well?
@sunshine: n also i must add that saying "first for two times running" is NOT the same as CLAIMING the first spot! Hey, its a hot spot and you gotta get it rite! [-(
Manthiram ji..neki aur puch-puch! Good deeds like publishing a link will defnitely go unpunished! Please do publish the link to rapidshare!
@Revealed-You are right in saying that First position being such a prize spot if you don't CLEARLY claim it then other people have the right to interpret it just like we did.
Closely check bigfoot statement for 1st spot - "this is unbelievable.. first for 2 times running" --- First for 2 times running well, may be he is talking about last 3 attempts :-)
So unless one says - "YAHOOO I am first", Motku could have easily claimed 1st position :-)
Trust us - we are people who believe that everything is fair in Love and War and TCP site falls in both the categories.
manthiram.. aisa hai, since you are fairly new here let me explain. See TCP prefers that all comics be sent (hard copy not uploaded versions) to me first.. so I can screen and censor them. So let me send you an address and you can ship them to me and I will screen them and then you can upload them. ok?
(rubbing hands gleefully, with evil smirk)
rs,
good try :-)
indianmalang,
but am waiting for tcp to respond...the links should be up the day after he says ok...else, if he wants, i could just mail him the links and he could put it in the main blog.
incidentally, there are 5 links currently...the first 4 have 20 comics each and the last one currently has 16 comics. the first 4 links are over 90mb in size and the last one is 75 mb in size...hope that is not a problem for anyone.
Manthiram ji.. You can't say RS didn't try! Good Job RS! Full marks to you and JK Tyres for trying! It showes you are very creative! Keep it up!
Manthiramji...don't wait for tcp.. email him the link (in a email)..If he decides to publish good for us - if he decides the other way ....Hmmmmmm...He is a good guy.. he won't! :-)))
@ IM: Well said!! Hear hear:p.
@rs: Love the technique:) but apparently M is up to all the tricks ;)
@Bigfoot: Explain yourself, sir!
ah TCP! Nice to be here after so long! all alone in new place after all this time and boy! Am I sick of myself??! I was thinking of getting self new ID like the colorful ones here - Yeti or Miss tagama??
Is there any way to batch download the comics from imageshack?
I know the links for rapidshare have gone because of the server crash.
Or is there any alternative download site...
@rs: Mumbai feels local. too inward looking. Bombay was truly global - forget shanghai and all..it doesnt stand a chance against shanghai but among all the cities in the country - this one is the only one that can take on the world - be a great city like a New York. And they call it Mumbai...eeek
@revealed: I like Madras too. yeah was late in survey :-( Hey me too madrasi .. atleast thats what everyone down south is called..but been away from the south too long (never been there really) so i just am bambaiyya
@khushboo: thanks :-) luckily this addiction has no side effects
@sunshine: you found your citywallah!!! And why are you scared of obi?
@manthiram: will have all the links put up this week. Had a computer problem, a busy schedule. And I don't mind you putting up the links on your blog .. although I would like TCP the one stop shop for it. The choice is purely yours and TCP won't object at all. I want to be a control freak..but can't let myself be. What the heck!!! Post the links...but just one condition - each set will have 20 comics. no less .. no more. So you will post 7 sets of 20 comics each and will have to wait till we hit 160 before you post the next set. Is that a deal? :-) Thoda to exclusivity maintain karne do na yaar :-) More importantly, thanks for asking. It means a lot. Vaise bhi..i am not the scanner of these comics so i shouldnt really act pricey. there are others working harder at this
AND BEWARE OF RS .. SHE IS UPTO HER EVIL SCHEMES!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.... PLEASE BE CAREFUL..SHE WILL COME RIDING ON A BROOM AND WHISK AWAY YOUR COMICS WHILE YOU ARE SNORING AWAY!!!!!!! shiver shiver shiver
@tin tin: what new place are you in...that you are so alone alone? Miss tagama would be a nice one :-) but i like tin tin a lot. Tintin - the one who can send bedbugs your way.
@anon: shaant bheem...wait links coming
Well.. again, its because Mumbai feels local thats why I have no objection to the name. To draw an obscure analogy, its only really close friends who do NOT call me by my given name but use a nick-name, one even made up a nick name just for me. Those names dont sound very global or sophisticated, but I still like them..because of the history, and closeness attached.
par bottomline toh yeh hai, ki bhai aapka sheher hai, chaahe kis naam se pukaariye. : )
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