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‘Vaandro udhto udhto gayo’( A flying monkey just went by)….a remark that gave me the first laugh of the day today. A sudden sound of a parrot-like screech coupled with something like hooves clickety-clacking on the vehicle-less road caused the tea guy at the tea stall ask ‘what was that’? and, a guy sitting nearby retorted thusly. I just tried imagining a flying monkey, and couldn’t help grinning away in the dark.(I still don't know what had caused the sound, btw) Life’s like that- if you keep your ears open, you can never have a dull moment.

We had our Building’s AGM two days, back, at 730 PM, on the terrace. It was accompanied by a simple, catered dinner, since it’s also an annual get-together. The catering guy had set one table with the actual dinner, and the other one at a right angle, was slightly in the dark, so you could just about see something in the thalis(huge plates). So we took a plate,etc, and, first took the salad, then, the achaar or something like it, and then the last plate was a mystery. The four people ahead of me had taken 4-5 spoons of it and, I had a big grin on my face when I heard one of them exclaim’ arre, aa toh mukhwaas chhe’(This is mouth freshener). That was a first for me- what caterer serves mouth freshener in a huge thali, next to the salad?

Other things that made me laugh this week:

News article : 2010 list of holidays puts off babus.(Government officials, as they are called here)- why? Because 8 out of 17 holidays are on either Saturday or Sunday. And, 9 ‘restricted’ holidays fall on the weekend too.

News article: Indian 5 Re coins being smuggled to Bangladesh- they’re melted and made into razor blades- huge profit, apparently. According to the report, six razor blades, each selling for Rs 2/-, can be made from a single coin. (The cupronickel content is being changed now, it says).Whew! Talk of over-ingenuity. This tops the previous one, which had people taking the old 5 Re coins to UK, since they were similar in weight and size to the UK pound and people were using them in the soft drinks, etc dispenser machines.

Humour from magazines:

From Cosmopolitan(Dec):

The advice column. There’s this lady who says her boyfriend, in the throes of passion when they’re making luv, yells’ Yes, Mommy’, ‘Yes, Mommy’ and it’s freaking her out.

(advice given- it's like shouting' Oh, baby'....)

(Just imagine such a scene and you’ll die ROFLling)

Another tidbit of news says the latest in ‘improvements’ is ‘bre*stox’- this treatment boosts the bust(s) in just 30 minutes. A ‘top-up’ is required only once in six months, to maintain the ‘effect’. (It’s the way such mini articles are worded that makes them so funny,na).

Another one: A website ‘ijustmadelove.com’, is a place where you can log on and it will show you where others round the world did what the site's title says…it also shows you who has done it near where you are.

My remark: Good Lord, why would anyone want to know that? Is this some kind of Mr. Lova Lova contest?(BTW, out of curiosity(as I'm sure you will do too, after reading this..LOL), I checked the site. It shows 2590 results -last two weeks and 4 results in the last 1 hour. ROFL. funnier is the 'flags' people put up- some show two bunnies.:) And, you can filter the site to see whether it's normal luv or abnormal. And, to delve deeper(No pun intended), you can click on the flag and see more,err, details!!Good lord!

Coming up in the next post : Humour from school days.

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Lots of free time huh Amit Babu :P

Checking out god knows what websites...hehehe

The flying monkey was damn funny....keep the funny ones coming along :)
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loll some ppl are just weird i guess...

merry christmas Amit :D
a really humorous post, yes if we keep our ears and eyes open and our sense of humor in the right place, theres never a dull moment in life!!!
im definitely gonna check out the ijustmadelove site...seems to be funny!!
Was the food very oniony-garlicy? maybe thats why they needed the mouth freshener!
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