Never turn your nose up at BS again

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70406052011-09-04T18:10:34.889-07:00Never turn your nose up at BS againThis tale is true: A diamond merchant in Gujarat, India, dropped his bag. A passing cow ate it -- and with it, the 1,722 diamonds in it. Since then, Mr Merchant has been sitting shiva, waiting for the cow to excrete. Each time, he mines the droppings for the stones, while a crowd of onlookers cheers him on. Last heard from, he was still a few diamonds shy of the full tally. And with that, welcome to my often bizarre, at times inexplicable, always wonderful world.Just Another Personhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03349652094318656508noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040605.post-1091729553673267492004-08-05T10:54:00.000-07:002004-08-05T11:12:33.673-07:00Zoom with a view

A particular pleasure of growing up in Kerala was being able to perch by the edge of a field, during harvest time. To dangle your feet in water and watch, as dozens of men and women, sickles inhand, bend, cut, straighten and bend again to the lilting strains of the Vadakkan Pattukal (The Southern Ballads).The ballads celebrated heroes of the Keralite martial arts form Kalari Payattu; we learnt

Just Another Personhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03349652094318656508noreply@blogger.com133tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040605.post-1089152729446918792004-07-06T15:25:00.000-07:002004-07-06T15:25:29.460-07:00More on Moore

If you want to KNOW how George W Bush and his Administration used 9/11 to take an entire nation to the cleaners, read The Lies of George W Bush (David Corn), Big Lies (Joe Conason), Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (Al Franken), Lost Liberties (Cynthia Brown), The Bush Dyslexicon (Mark Crispin Miller), Weapons of Mass Deception (Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber), Blinded by The Right (David

Just Another Personhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03349652094318656508noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040605.post-1088789409337646492004-07-02T09:17:00.000-07:002004-07-02T10:30:09.336-07:00Sense and sensibility

Here, sans frills, are a few news items culled from papers in the US, over the past 24 hours: 1. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says Pakistan will conduct an important missile test in two month's time, and stresses that its nuclear and missile programs remain irreversible. 2. The United States warned Thursday that Pakistan's move to conduct a key missile test revived dangers posed by

Just Another Personhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03349652094318656508noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040605.post-1086800578494158552004-06-09T09:40:00.000-07:002004-06-09T10:02:58.493-07:00Hour-and-a-half-glass figures

Here's the breaking news -- men find women with the classic hourglass figure very attractive. And we wouldn't have known it, if not for a Harvard University study that, in May, proved it conclusively. What the researchers did, they took the measurements of 119 Polish women aged between 24-37, and then checked the hormone levels in their saliva. And they found that women with small waists and big

Just Another Personhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03349652094318656508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040605.post-1086622724936913222004-06-07T08:29:00.000-07:002004-06-07T08:38:44.936-07:00Dial *&#@%%$#$

While waiting for the 'walk' sign at the corner of 24th and 6th, this morning, I overheard this overheated chap yelling into his mobile -- 'What the *&#^%#%% do I have to dial to talk to a real live human being?' Automated phone answering systems are getting to be increasingly unfunny -- ask Gloria Wicker, of New Mexico. Some while ago, Wicker received a letter from her bank, informing her she

Just Another Personhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03349652094318656508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040605.post-1086374432287263642004-06-04T11:36:00.000-07:002004-06-04T11:40:32.286-07:00Freezing time

A National Consumers' League survey asked middle-aged respondents what age they would like to revert to, and remain in. A majority of American men chose 36. Most women chose 34. How about you? What age would you rather be? Why?

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