Just when you thought it would... it didn?t. The rain just won?t stop, so here are a few conversation starters sure to warm up a damp party?

Waterworld

It is bound to turn competitive while comparing notes on the water levels near home. ?Oh, it was knee-high in sewage near my place,? may raise more than a couple of eyebrows about your general state of hygiene. So, try this one to kill two birds with one status stone: ?Oh, my Prada pumps are ruined, just ruined!?

Spin doctor

Mr Dependable, aka Anil Kumble, has earned true drool points this week. He?s finally joined the elite 400 Test wickets? club and girls and guys alike should make some room for exclusive cooing.

The spoilsports can do the balancing act by cribbing about Team India losing out on the chance to call the shots by allowing the Aussie Young Turks to go on the run rampage at Chinnaswamy Stadium. But instead of adding to the damp, think positive and allow the ?spinner who doesn?t spin the ball? to bask in the 400 fame.

Bratz vs Barbie

Barbie and her boyfriends, dream house, kid sister and cars need to give way to the cool kid on the doll block. And its time we all mourned for our childhood pal.

Bratz, the denim-clad tomboy, has knocked Barbie off the top Christmas-seller racks. She has upstaged the buxom blonde, now on the wrong side of 40, with her two-year-old roughshod ways, supposed to mirror the post-Spice Girls generation fed on street fashion. Pouting in triumph and flicking her thigh-length 70s disco outfit along with her hip-hop posse, she belongs to US-based MGA Entertainment, billed as the world?s biggest privately-owned toy company.

Eagle landed

One of Calcutta?s most played album?s came alive on Wednesday night. Hell Freezes Over, which plunged the ageing rockers back into the limelight after their ?14-year vacation?, hit the tube and made the classic Eagles tracks seem as good as the first time we heard them. Time to raise a toast to Don and the boys ? again.