The other day Himanshu said, ‘a donut and a bagel were sitting side by side.’ And I doubled up laughing! The possibilities are limitless.
Category Archives: Humor
Clash of the Titans
… A.A. moves his Knight to d5 Tress Vandeley: (Brilliant, brilliant. That’s a shrewd one right there. In one fell swoop he has managed to save the fork that was going to be threatening his Queen and Rook 7 moves down the line and build up a momentum which gives him strategic play in the [...]
Damn, you English language
The teacher claimed it was so plain, I only had to use my brain. She said the past of throw was threw, The past of grow – of course – was grew, So flew must be the past of fly, And now, my boy, your turn to try. But when I trew, I had no [...]
Dissertation woes
Oh blast! This thesis writing business is really beginning to rile me up now. Because, you see, it’s a whole lot of charade to begin with. Like any sort of bookkeeping, because that’s what it really is, it’s one daunting, limitless ocean of morbidity that is wetting my feet as I take my first steps [...]
Division by zero
…and it would be a crazy happy world. Truth would only be a matter of one’s imagination. Fallacies would be the only consistencies and no professor would be smug. People would be generally confused and disoriented and no one would bat an eyelid when sold 5 oranges after paying for 6. It would be a [...]
Oh my darling Clementine
‘Oh my darling, Clementine’ is an American folk song from the Gold Rush times. It’s about a miner’s daughter named Clementine who dies in a drowning accident while her lover couldn’t save her. Hindi song ‘Ae dil hai mushkil’ was ‘inspired’ from it: