Amul honours Shashi Tharoor with cartoon, MP says he feels like ‘Tharoorsaurus Rex’
Shashi Tharoor’s impressive vocabulary and love for big words is quite well known. And it often sends social media users running to a dictionary.
On Friday, Amul, which is known for its witty and often political cartoons, honoured the Thiruvananthapuram MP with a cartoon depicting his love for long and complicated words and how it baffles most common persons.
The cartoon showed the Amul girl sitting with Tharoor, a phone propped on the desk with a blue bird on top to suggest that he was on Twitter. While he looks comfortable and clearly in the middle of an eloquent quote, the Amul girl is shown frantically searching through a book, presumably a dictionary… which is probably what most Twitterati do to understand Tharoor’s tweets.
#Amul Topical: MP's fondness for tweeting big words like 'Rodomontade'! pic.twitter.com/26HlzjTM4U
— Amul.coop (@Amul_Coop) December 15, 2017
The reference to ‘rodomontade’ comes from a tweet Tharoor made recently. He had said, “To all the well-meaning folks who send me parodies of my supposed speaking/writing style: The purpose of speaking or writing is to communicate w/ precision. I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea i want to convey, not the most obscure or rodomontade ones!”
If you somehow missed the tweet that sent social media running to an online dictionary once again, ‘rodomontade’ means, according to Google, ‘boastful behaviour’ or ‘talking boastfully’ if used as a verb.
Previously, Tharoor was in the news for using the word 'farrago' in an outburst against a media house.
Shashi Tharoor responded to Amul’s cartoon in his signature witty style. Saying that he was ‘butterly honoured’, he added that he felt like ‘Tharoorsaurus Rex’ who would soon go into extinction because no one understood him.
Butterly honoured. But I feel like a Tharoorosaurus Rex, an ancient creature soon to be extinct, snuffed out in a cloud of incomprehension.... https://t.co/2VnkHlla1c
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 15, 2017
Twitter users had a good laugh and appreciated how Tharoor took Amul’s cartoon sportingly. Check out some reactions here:
If you tried your hand at writing children's nursery rhymes. pic.twitter.com/VkMlr85XN2
— Londonwalla (@heminb) December 16, 2017
Wit is worth its weight in Gold. Refreshing to see a politician with a sense of humour !
— Renuka Kirpalani (@Renuks) December 16, 2017
Never must a man be apologetic about his education . Keep teaching us. It’s rare and much appreciated
— Lavanya (@Lavanya_Ajesh) December 17, 2017
Sir, in all honesty, such a such a brummagem display of lexical fanfaronade does not become you.
— Nitin Bajaj (@NitinBajaj) December 16, 2017
Sir, kindly eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.
— Piyush Panigrahi (@BaahariKinara) December 15, 2017
Given our political climes where a certain Tyrannosaurus Rex and its ilk are making piecemeal of democracy and culture, a Tharoorosaurus Rex is going to have to stay strong
— anita nair (@anitanairauthor) December 16, 2017
No wonder, Sir, your name sounds similar to 'sassy'! Your wit always leaves me in splits!
— Sanchit Jajodia (@sanchitjajodia) December 16, 2017
Butterly uttered..!
— tamil (@Tamil1947) December 16, 2017
Keep the words flowing.
Always interesting to learn new vocabulary