classic insults (2)
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These glorious insults are from an era when cleverness with words was still valued, before a great portion of the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, “If you were my husband I’d give you poison,” and he said, “If you were my wife, I’d drink it.” A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
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Boy! Could they talk!
Between Reviews: Bollywood for Hollywoodians (1)
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BOLLYWOOD FOR HOLLYWOODIANS AUG 24, 2008 - IF YOU LOVE FILMS – good films, great films, even bad films that you’d never admit to liking but find it difficult, nonetheless, to give the channel-flip to – one of the toughest tasks you’ll find is making lists. People ask you all the time, variations on essentially what boots your C-drive: Which are your [desi, foreign, desert island, insert appropriate qualifier] films? And not too long ago, ...
Why do I need to go to school? (11)
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A day after her ninth birthday my daughter has posed a fundamental question:"If I want to become a fashion designer or singer why do I need to go to school?"I don't really have a good answer.As the participants on 'Paanchvi Paas' have demonstrated, most of us don't remember anything we actually studied in those classrooms. Forget the advanced stuff like trigonometry, basics bhi gul hain.Looking at the class IV CBSE textbooks I would say that ...
How To Win More Medals (2)
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It has happened for the first time in my life - India has 2 medals in the same Olympics! Wrestler Sushil Kumar has won a bronze in Wrestling. Joy!This is the time when everyone discusses what we can do as a country to win more medals in future Olympic games. People want more money poured into sports, better infrastructure built, and of course everyone wants KPS Gill fired. None of that is likely to happen ...
World's Worst Advice! (4)
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An old friend visited for a couple of days last week. Google him, and you'll be impressed. Or you would be, if I'd tell you who it is. In the course of a dozen conversations—old guy conversations—we shared stories of joys and sorrows, anger and pain, good fortune and ill winds, pals and foes and traitors and through-it-all supporters. His Hall-of-Fame career includes bushels of excoriating criticisms along the way. Embarrassing and well-deserved failures. Off ...
The oldest athlete and the most successful (1)
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As I start to grow grey behind my ears, the story that warmed my heart at the Olympics was not Superfish Michael Phelps quest for Olympic immortality, but th story of this man who 44 years after his debut at the 1964 Olympics is back again as the games’ oldest athlete - Hiroshi Hoketsu. Read more on this athlete here: But they probably wouldn’t be so surprised if they knew that the oldest athlete competing ...
Comparing Medals Tally at the Olympics (1)
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Winning Olympic medals has been all the rage in recent times as more and more nations have managed to win medals. Of course, thanks to global realignment and de-colonization, it helps to have more nations with almost 205 participating in the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The top nations in the medal count has remained largely constant with United States, Russia (and former USSR), Germany (former East & West), Australia, Italy, and China (since 1984). After blanking ...
The "Lingo Kid" (2)
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Everyone knows by now that I love bringing news of “freakish” (in a good way) little Indian kids to SM (see here and here as examples). SM reader Taara tipped us off to this little linguist via our tip line: It looks like the Videographer returned a few years later to find a “grown-up” Ravi who has added even more languages into his arsenal: Seriously, this little kid should be doing something other than selling ...
homer simpsons (1)
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now! Bart, with $10,000, we’d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like…love! Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand. I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me Superman. Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers. Well, it’s 1 ...
And now, an 'Indian CPA' (4)
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The CPA is to America what the CA is to India. The highest and most prestigious qualification in the accounting profession.Neither the CPA nor the CA is a 'degree'. It is a designation or statutory title awarded to those who pass an exam set by a particular professional body. In the US that body is the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and in India it is the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India (ICAI). ...
The reply the PM wasn’t allowed to deliver (2)
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The Leader of Opposition, L.K. Advani has chosen to use all manner of abusive objectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma PM, and of having devalued the office of PM. To fulfill his ambitions, he has made at least three attempts to topple our government. But on each occasion his astrologers have misled him. This pattern, I am sure, will be repeated today. At his ripe ...
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Dileepa said:
An apt response from the PM to all the false information the opposition has been spreading.
Perfect faces, national poisons (1)
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Good news is, my brother has had a baby girl (on the 18th). She’s premature so is being watched closely but seems healthy. Everyone’s collective prayers seem to have been answered and I am now officially an auntyji. Tomorrow, I shall distribute sweets. But two days ago, I was on a fast (though I had to interrupt it with a glass of nimbu-pani after getting light-headed and shaky in a very public space) Coz the ...
Karat should draw a leaf out of Premchand’s story (1)
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Those of you who have grown up in the Hindi speaking states would have read Munshi Premchand’s iconic story Panch Parmeshwar. Briefly it goes like this:Algu Chaudhary and Jumman Sheikh are two close friends in the village. One day a dispute between Jumman and his neighbours comes to be arbitrated by the village Panchayat, (village council cum judicial body) of which Algu Chaudhary is nominated as the Sarpanch (head). While everyone expects Algu to rule ...
Is Delhi India's ONLY City? (1)
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The other day my brother called up. "Delhi's going to host the Winter Olympics," he joked. But for the people who take decisions on such matters in India might quite possibly be thrilled at the idea.And a few days later I read that Delhi would be the official host of the 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup.I don't have anything against Delhi, after all I have been living here for almost half-a-decade now and have started ...
Hi-rez Glory! Indian Sukhois over Sicily! (1)
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Tesla Motors Unveils Jaw-Dropping Menlo Park Showroom (67)
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Tesla Motors, the automobile startup with backers that include Sergey Brin and Larry Page, held a party tonight to mark the launch of its Menlo Park storefront. The store, which is the company’s second, will be open to the general public beginning this Tuesday. Despite Tesla Motors’ well deserved reputation as a high-end car manufacturer, it is still very much a startup - the company’s $150 million in funding pales in comparison to coffers held ...
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Lons said:
yes please!
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noattention said:
Make a model for 40K and the yuppies will eat it up.
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omars said:
I'm going to have to go and check this out ASAP :-).
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Yan said:
I want one!
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Vishal said:
oh yeah that is awesome. I just saw the movie "Who Killed the electric car". Well GM would not have been a Bankrupt company if they hadn't killed the electric car. Oh GM- dont you wish you had introduced such a car with such a price tag.
Students in India Can Buy Apple MacBook Laptops at a Discount (19)
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If you are a college student or staff member in India and planning to buy an Apple MacBook, now may be the perfect time. In an effort to woo the education community in India, Apple has launched a rare promotion where college students, faculty or staff members of select educational institutions in India can buy Apple MacBook & MacBook Pro laptops for a discount. Following are the prices of Apple Macbook & MacBook Pro laptops ...
Trivia for the week (3)
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As the countdown to 08.08.08 begins, and a neighbour braces itself for both brickbats and accolades on hosting its maiden Olympic Games and we send our quota of dreamy eyed athletes and officials who would be placed just above Eritrea and below Slovenia in the medals tally and we do the usual jamboree of announcing harebrained schemes to win gold medal after gold medal 4, 8 and 12 years hence, I have one question for ...
Kung Fu style career advice II (3)
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OK, so that 'kung-fu style career advice' was warm, fuzzy and vaguely inspiring. Maybe you forwarded it to a friend or two. But while you admire the way it was written deep down you doubt the content.Well, let me now give you a couple of practical examples.Query 1: I am Amit (name changed) and have just completed my engineering from Mumbai university.What kind of finance part time courses are available in Mumbai that will enhance ...
What’s in a name? What’s in a set of initials? (3)
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RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: I don’t know Usha K.R.. I have never met Usha K.R.. I didn’t go to St. Xavier’s college in Calcutta with Usha K.R.. I do not work at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore with Usha K.R.. I have not read a single book by Usha K.R.. But, by god, am I glad that A Girl and A River by Usha K.R. has won the Vodafone-Crossword Award 2007 for ...
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Dileepa said:
I used to be P. Dileepa (not Dileepa. P) in school. I am Dileepa Prabhakar now :( Sad indeed...
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