July 29, 2006

A UN Survey ?

A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN.
The only question asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"
The survey was a huge failure.

In Africa they didn't even know what 'food' meant.
In India they didn't know what ~honest" meant.
In Europe they didn't know what 'shortage' meant.
In China they didn't know what 'opinion' meant.
In the Middle East they didn't know what 'solution' meant.
In South America they didn't know what 'please' meant And
In the USA they didn't know what 'the rest of the world' meant.

This joke has been on Net Circulation since long....
and Frankly Speaking....I feel it's close to the truth !

July 28, 2006

A Historic letter !

Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department:
"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on platform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station. This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report! to papers."

Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption "Travelers' Tales" in the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Any guesses why this letter was of historic value? It apparently led to the introduction of toilets on trains.
FRANKLY SPEAKING...a historic letter.

July 27, 2006

Two/Too OverHyped females !?

I read somewhere.......
in one of the popular magazines, Mallika Sherawat recently commented, "I think these are the same people who go, Sania Mirza's only number 32 in the world! But hey you "......." she's laughing all the way to the bank and has gone where no Indian woman has gone before. She's has been on center court and I have walked the red carpet at Cannes and Toronto. Win or loose we have been there and you are struggling with your thesaurus to find new derogatory words. But now, on saying this, would I offend those linguistically challenged gossip columnists posing as journalists whose writing is worse than my acting?"

Well FRANKLY SPEAKING I agree......