Morning guffaw..
Dollar on an escalator…
Rupee on a ventilator…
Nation in icu
We are in coma..
Onion in showroom..
God bless India.
The only way to save the rupee is to have it tie a rakhi to dollar and say
'BAHAN MERI RAKSHA KARNA'
(Me: A joke doing the rounds on Raksha Bandan day a couple of days ago)
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Tongue in cheek humour…
If we were on a sinking ship together and there was only one life jacket… I'd miss you heaps and think of you often.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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One more on the hurtling down Rupee…
"Thank god I have a Dollar underwear. If it was Rupee brand then it would keep dropping."
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Believe it a lot!
'Superhero' hauls bags, babies on Tokyo subway…
In a green outfit with silver trim and matching mask, a superhero waits by the stairs of a Tokyo subway station, lending his strength to the elderly, passengers lugging heavy packages and mothers with baby strollers.
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Japanese woman ties herself up to skip work…
Tokyo: A young Tokyo businesswoman tied herself up a home because she did not want to go to work. He woman in her 20s was found with heir hands and legs bound with ropes on Monday. Leer, she admitted there was nobody else involved.
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Man who claimed penis could exorcise ghosts held…
Guandgong: A Chinese man is facing trial after claiming he could exorcise ghosts from a woman, using his penis. Self-proclaimed 'ghostbuster' Huang Jianjun met a woman at a hotel room, who later called police and got him arrested.
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Ohio man comes back to life after being dead for 45 minutes.
A US man, who was declared dead at Ohio's Kettering Medical Center, came back to life when his son shouted, "Dad, you're not going to die today" at him.
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From the world of science…
What are artificial sweeteners made from?
Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet) and saccharin (sweet 'n low) were developed artificially in labs. Sucralose (splenda) is derived from sugar but processed by chlorination. Stevia is the only commercially available sweetener that comes from a natural source, a shrub native to Paraguay.
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Only 20 people are known to have Hyperthymesia. Hyperthymesia is a condition that allows people to remember every small detail of their lives.
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'Female sperm' and 'male eggs' could be possible in future.
London: Researchers have suggested that it may be possible in the future to create sperm from women and eggs from men – a feat, that if achieved, could revolutionise infertility treatments.
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Humans are hardwired to empathise..
A new study suggests that humans are hardwired to empathise because they closely associate people who are close to them – friends, spouses, lovers – with their very selves.
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To convert your morning walk into a strength training exercise carry a weighted backpack.
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Eating a small amount of dark chocolate two times each week lowers your blood pressure.
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Do you have a happy love life? 7 in 10 adults just 'make do' with partners.
A new survey has revealed that a substantial number of people are in relationships with partners they do not consider to be 'the love of their lives', and a significant number of people said they compromised while choosing their partner.
(Me: Indians are no exception, although it isn't much talked about)
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Only in India…
Rs.44,000cr worth of food goes waste every year: Pawar.
Pawar said that the value of annual wastage of fruits and vegetables was estimated at Rs.13,309 crore.
(Me: Such huge amount of Fruits and vegetables, desperately needed by the middle-class, goes waste for lack of cold storage facilities requiring large capital investments that the country cannot afford and that on MNCs with deep pockets can, and we don't want them because we fear they are Frankenstein monsters ready to devour us like the East India Company did…)
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A truism…
"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches" – Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
(Me: Not THAT simple!)
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A boy was finding his French lessons difficult. The encourage him, his teacher said, "You'll know you're getting it when you start dreaming in French."
The boy ran excitedly into class one day, saying, "Ma'am! I had a dream last night and everyone was speaking in French!"
"Great, what were they saying?" asked the teacher.
"I don't know," the boy replied. "I couldn't understand."
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A quote (in TOI today) by British Judge Peter Murphy, for all right-thinking people…
"'The principle of open justice' could not be subject to the religion of the defendant. It would be easy for someone on a later occasion to appear and claim to be defendant"
(A report, a fortnight ago, from New Zealand talked of a similar case where a person escaped from being punished)
