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The Vicky-Mendoza diagonal. Sounds familiar? ;)

If you're an avid follower of the TV series 'How I Met Your Mother', you'll know what I'm talking about. The hit rom-com TV show on CBS, now running in its fifth successful season, has proved that it is a worthy successor to the 'Friends' legacy.

The plot is simple. The story revolves around the five main characters Ted Mosby(Josh Radnor), and his best friends Marshall Eriksen(Jason Segel), Lily Aldrin(Alyson Hannigan), Robin Scherbatsky(Cobie Smulders) and last, but definitely not the least, Barney Stinson(Neil Patrick Harris).

The reason for my writing this blog is not to "enlighten" people on the show, or its plot (for which, if you are interested, you can visit www.wikipedia.org, or https://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/.) My reasons are, a bit more selfless. ;). I am writing this blog in order to enlighten the world on a few of Barney's principles.

Barney Stinson, the funniest artiste on TV I have ever seen. And that is an understatement. Barney plays a drifter on HIMYM, a playboy who is always on the lookout for beautiful women to bed. In this "noble" quest, he goes about devising strategies and techniques to attain his "objective". Over the course of the previous seasons, Barney has been the architect of so many hilarious escapades on the show, that he has something of a cult following in America! (Barney's blog, for example, has thousands of followers.) Given the amount of "joy" he has brought to the world, through his "gyan", I only thought it fair that I share some of it with my beloved collegues at Cognizant. ;). So, here goes:

Number One: The Hot - Crazy Scale

The Hot-crazy scale is a graph drawn to judge the level of "hotness"(Y-axis) against the amount of "craziness"(X-axis) a girl has. For example, a woman who has fits of anger or is accustomed to beating her boyfriend with a hat, will rank very high on the crazy, and very low on the hot. On the other hand, if a girl undergoes cosmetic surgery, enhancing strategic places on her body, her hotness quotient shoots up. A man, looking for a date, must always ensure that the woman he is about to date is above the Vicky-Mendoza diagonal (the X=Y line) on the Hot-Crazy.

Number Two: The Lemon Law

This law (made up by Barney in Season One) states that, when a person is on his first date or is on a blind date with a woman, he must be allowed a chance to decide whether to continue on the date, or end it abruptly(if he doesn't like the looks of her). (It is another matter that it led to disastrous consequences for Barney!)

Number Three: The Three Days Rule

According to the Three days Rule, which according to Barney was heralded by the Lord Jesus himself(who took three days for his resurrection), a man, who has succeeded in getting a hot girl's phone number, must wait a minimum of three days before he calls her up again. That will ensure a sort of anxiety on the part of the girl, who will be wondering what happened to the guy she met and gave her number to, giving the man the ideal oppurtunity to cash into. ;)

This is just a sample. There are many more such instances of Barney's "gyan". If I proceed to list every one of his "principles", I'm afraid, it'll run into many hundreds of pages. And I haven't even started on his catchphrases yet!

All said and done, most of Barney's gyan is cockeyed. But that doesn't take away anything from the fact it makes for great TV. I haven't laughed as hard as I have when I've been watching Barney perform!

So, guys and gals, I hope I'd provided a few laughs through this blog. If you want to watch more of Barney Stinson, suit up, and watch 'How I Met Your Mother', telecast on Star World on occasion.

PS. Other Barney fans out there.... please feel free to add your comments on what you like the most about Barney, his catchphrases, his mannersims, anything!