Some Sizzling Scintillating Speculations

There is no point in being grown up, if you can't be childish sometimes. NOTE: Editing done at 940 PM: I finally wrote the first post on new inspirations blog. Comments welcome,if found comment-worthy.I'm writing there,firstly,to share my inspirations,secondly,to store the inspirations at one location. Recent incident at a dairy shop here. Me: Buying the usual skimmed milk,etc. Lady: Buys something and goes out. Then, suddenly, enters again. Lady to dairy guy: Why’d you charge me 8 Dirhams for this full cream milk bottle? It’s only 5 Dirhams Dairy guy: Madam, it’s camel milk. Lady: (Horrified): Is that what I took yesterday?) Me( Amused): Ma’m, these two bottles are alike. Lady(Even more horrified): But, I made Diwali mithaai(sweets) with this. Dairy guy: Smiles Lady(Irked by smile): If anything happens to anyone, I’ll, I’ll….*walks out annoyedly.* I still saw the shop open yesterday, so, I guess no-one fell ill after eating sweets made in camel milk. Moral: Look before you pa

(How's that for a nice pun?) Thought for the day:If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. --Larry Leissner Do you like spoonerisms? I love them, hence, here's a post dedicated to the best ones that I've read. History: Spoonerisms originate from the name of William Spooner, an Angilcan priest who had a tendency for 'tips of the slung', if you get what I mean. Try and decipher the real sentences for these spoonerisms: - A well boiled icicle. (A well oiled bicycle...see easy,na?) - Fighting a liar - I hissed my mystery lecture -Tasted two worms -Queer old dean -The hags flung out -Noble tons of the soil And,the best one: - Is it kisstomary to cuss the bride? Since the next post is under preparation, let me skip the formalities and go over to the : Endjokes: - I was feeling a bit depressed the other day, so I called the Help Hotline. I was put through to a 'call center' in Pakistan. I explained that I was feeling suicidal. They were ver

Thought for the day: “ Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ” What would you say if a 30 something friend met you after quite some time and asked' Is there a vacancy in your company for my Baybee'? You'd wonder whether: - You heard right. - He adopted a teenager. - He was kidding Right? Well, it was none of the above. I asked him 'pardon me?', and he said,'you know, abhi mera shaadi ho gaya, ab mera baybee idhar hai'( you know,I got married and my baybee is here)..then, light dawned- he was referring to his 'Bibi'(Wife), in the inimitable style some of us Indians use. I was tempted to say 'Heyyy Baby', but decided against it,since we were sitting in my office meeting room. ----- I wish I could be as happy as : The 40 something guy,suited-booted, whom I saw two days back in the late evening,probably returning from work, with a lollipop in his mouth and looking as contented as a five year old,happily sucking on it,wit

Thought for the day:The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions Hi,all..hope you had a dazzling Diwali...here's wishing you a scintillating New Year as well-may all your wishes come true. I wonder how many of you know,that they plan to do away with the hyphen mark. For example, well-being, will soon be wellbeing. I wonder if, taking a cue from this, some people out here are putting up their ads accordingly- like, there's this ad: Baby Sitting in Karama Contact: (And,there's a pic of a cute three-hairs baby just below it). I wonder whether's really "A baby sitting" in Karama?LOL. Then, another funny ad,which they refuse to remove from the barber shop I go to: Hair Cut Baby Cut(Can you imagine this?????Arghh) Hair shampoo Dhadi setting(It takes a while to realize that they are referring to the beard.) --------------------------------------- On to the end jokes: The Englishman's paramour told him she was preg

Here's wishing you all a Very Happy Diwali and a Scintillating,dazzling New Year.

(Quip: Now, isn't that the truth and nothing but the truth everywhere??) Thought for the day: What you want to see in others, you must first see inside you. What you expect from others, you must first expect it from yourself. Life is just a mirror. Curious thought for the day : Do nudists have pin-ups of people with clothes on? Do you believe that the stars influence your daily life, your behaviour,et al? I do. In fact, every time I don’t, something happens to convince me that it’s true. I was talking to a friend who’s highly into reading about such topics, spiritualism, etc and his thoughts match- namely, sciences which did not have a basis, died down over a period of time. However, astrology has been around for donkey’s years, and still going strong. So, there's surely something in it. Ok, there’s the good ones and there’s the frauds.(Like the dhongi babas and all) But, you have to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, as you try and do in all fields of life. For e

Thought for the day: Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have. Do you think that manufacturers, especially of consumer items, dilute their products just that much less, so that their effects are not what they should be? For example, take these drain cleaner liquids. I was trying to make the kitchen drain trouble free, using the branded drain cleaners, and, each time,it would clear a bit,a bit, a bit, a bit, a bit,….. Then, I got this unbranded bottle of drain cleaner from our friendly neighbourhood spiderman, err, no, groceryman, I mean. Thinking it was diluted, I just opened the cap(Yes, this cap didn’t get lost yet), and poured a wee bit on the kitchen sink..and….snap..crackle…pop…plus smoke….as the acid went to work. For a minute, I was wondering whether there would be any drain pipe left to clean, if it worked well, but, my worries were unfounded. It did clean up the sink drain perfectly, and, did not finish off the pipe.(I checked for three