Thursday, March 8, 2012

Emran Hashmi is Himesh Reshamiya


We aren't kidding. Check out the snaps for yourselves.
Isn't it remarkable that two stars were created with that epic hit song 'aashiq banaaya aapne'?
Too remarkable to be true. There's just one dude.
Himesh was a budding composer who wanted to make it big in acting as well - a not-so-secret ambition. The first character he played was in real life and was one that he wrote himself - to turn into Emran Hashmi. Why did he do it? Well, let's say you manufacture shampoo - don't you want to have brands for each strata of society? Hashmi kisses for the A-graders and Himesbhai cracks the B and C centres with his ridiculously bad movies. The brand names don't dilute each other.
It's good to note that Emran/Himes pulled off this mindboggling duplicity with his trademark wry sense of humour. If you anagramise "Himesh Reshamiyan", it reads "Emran Hashmi is he". Need I say more?

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Facebook's questionable business model

The SC team has a very 'first principles' approach to business models which has always stood it in average stead. Facebook, which has a habit of making public, information about all and everything, except about itself, has been on our radar for a while now.
To figure out who pays facebook, we started with a more fundamental question - Who really benefits from facebook? The advertisers - surely not, nobody really even sees those facebook ads, leave alone buy anything off them. The users? - don't make us laugh now. Ever since the privacy options came in and all attractive women locked up their profiles, facebook doesn't really serve any purpose to the final customer. What about the standard answer - gaming sites? No one plays those crappy farmville types anymore either. That leaves us with an improbable but true answer (in Holmes style), facebook itself!
This is borne out by the revenue sources report we dug up.
Facebook : Total Revenue 3 gazillion dollars
Microsoft : 1 million dollars
Zynga : 50 dollars
Facebook : 2.99999... gazillion
Now facebook pays itself and books a small profit every year. The valuation multiple for social networking sites is 10^15 as of today. Which explains the valuation. Now facebook sells some stock, say to microsoft and has a few trillion, with which it can start actual businesses, like textiles, rubber plantations and porn and make real profits. Magnificently devious scheme- it takes one to know one as they say.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Why actually do buses come in threes?

There has been lot of hue and cry about why buses come in groups. Hell infact some one has even written a book about. All the research has been secondary in nature without any primary evidence. But given the relentless efforts of SuperCraponomics researchers the truth has been found to be something else. Its not mathematics or queue theory as come claim it is but the dynamics of chai sipping.

To crack the problem wide open our researchers visited the BEST bus depot in Worli. There was a solo bus driver trying to finish his chai, but as can be imagined thats quite boring for the party involved. So he asked his friend (obviously another bus driver) to join him. Given the curious nature of humanity a third driver started nudging into the group hoping to get some bits of gossip. Soon this small crowd attracted the attention of the supervisor who dispersed it with appropriate methods. Thus started the three buses together from Worli Depot. Ignorant of tea dynamics several fake economists tried to develop complicated theories around the "three buses in a row" paradigm. But SC with its allegiance to the truth has unveiled yet another complicated  phenomenon.

As a support to our analysis we are attaching some supporting evidence. The men here may not look like worli bus drivers, but trust us if you take average of both these pictures u will get three amchi drivers sipping hot cutting masala chai.