Thursday 21 January 2010

Beep.

Disclaimer: For censorship reasons (obviously) we have had to replace a certain four-letter word, crucial to this piece, with 'beep'; we apologize if the impact is lost.

Beep.
Bee Eeh Eeh Pee. Beep.
Terrible little four letter word that taints my soul each time I utter it.
It's almost become like a mantra now, we regrettably admit, and only the clenching of our teeth stops us from spewing it out at the worst of times, in front of family and impressionable children.

On bad mornings, the first thought one's mind articulates, and one's mouth mutters, is a long-drawn painful 'Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep'. Beep dances in one's head, and rolls on the back of the tongue till one has fully woken up.
As the heat grows/you get irritated/NOISE grows, the one thought mulling, fermenting in your brain? Beep. Beep me, Beep you. Go beep yourself. I don't give a beep. Beep, beep, beep.

And with every bee eeh eeh pee, your headache swells. And why not?
It's a terrible thing, this bee eeh eeh pee, and we don't seem to realise it. Don't seem to realise that it has infiltrated our vocabulary, that for some of us, it has crossed the line, from being a cussword to a mere punctuation mark, a vocal tic in every beeping sentence, and I just illustrated that for the reader's benefit.

It's turned genteel ladies into foulmouths. It USED to differentiate between the well mannered upper crust and the crass low class, but apparently not any more. Now we're ALL pretty much beeped.
Beep doesn't discriminate by caste, class, colour or gender. Beep is a virus. Uttered by the 11 year old schoolboy who's trying to be all badass to impress, by the frustrated college student with deadlines, everyone.
So here it is, BEEP. We've reached the pinnacle of the cussword hierarchy, after decades of politesse. We've done something great, we've reached up to take that unattainable elitist bee eeh eeh pee and its relatives, and we've brought it down to the masses.

What next?

10 comments:

Soin said...

whats marathi for beep?

Roy said...

!!!beep is the limit, there is no other word after this...

Corrin said...

This brought a smile to my face - thanks for that!

Espèra said...

This sounds like Newspaper stuff! Like Journalist stuff!


I dunno why, don't ask. :|


But. It was good! =)

Prehistoric Developments! said...

:D
It was mystical? :D

Jack said...

Mystique,

Read pending posts now. Good photographs. Do put up some more. Are these clicked by you? True, BEEP has become a common one irrespective of age, caste or creed. So just beep it. LOL.

Take care

♪♪Happy Go Lucky♪♪ said...

ROFL! Awesome!!!!!!!

sanely insane said...

yeah too much ado for too trivial a word...

probably the next cycle will be where everyone will start talking civilized...like fashion repeats itself every 20 odd years (or was it 12!)...i think soon it'll b cool to b polite :P

ppl i tell u they'll do nething to b cool :P

Mystique said...

@ soin: The same as Hindi for beep, maybe?

@ Roy: you never know.

@ Corrin: my pleasure!

@ sam: yeah. RIGHT.

@ PreDev: Mystical? why?

@ jack: yes, i took those photos during a college play.

@ Harini: Merci.

@ insane: you know...you might just be right.

VIDYA said...

Nice write :)
i think beep's set in for good now...just have to wait for it to fade out n be replaced with...whatever they come up with next.