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Came across this really neat piece of humour by a blogger who calls herself “Crystal Blur”. She’s sort of re-writing the Mahabharata and man is she good.
Here’s an excerpt from her latest post “Forest Hump”

Durvasa: “Aha! Payback time. Let the fleecing begin.” Durvasa decided to overcharge heavily. He got them hooked on a sham ‘buy one get two half off’ deal.
Madri: “I’m pregnant.”
Kunti: “Join the club.”
Gandhari: “I’m pregnant too.”
Dhritarashtra: “I rock”
Pandu: ‘Sulk’

Go check out the rest, here. I’m sure it’s equally rib-tickling.

The title of this post literally translated from French to English means, “the wit in the staircase”. Have you ever kicked yourself for being a tad bit slow in making a barb at someone? Have you ever felt that you could have put someone in his/her place with a witty remark that’d leave back a burning sensation in their posterior, but it was well past the time when you thought of something that’d really sting them hard? This is called the L’esprit d’escalier scenario where you would realize you could have made someone’s day miserable after you’ve crossed them a few stairs/flights back in the staircase.
Here’s a website where people have posted real-life incidents where they wish they’d either said something other than what they did, or even in some cases, something at all.
Found it amazing. This and a lot more links, courtesy, StumbleUpon. Do check out this amazing Firefox plug-in.

Way back in 2000, the Times of India decided to make the most of the Dot-Com revolution and came out with Indya.com. Big banners, hoarding and print ads declaring the renaming of India from the 52 year old nomenclature to a hep, new, snazzy, cool name, were in circulation. This time some others (of course, not without acerbity) have taken up the task. I absolutely loved the creativity and angst that was stuffed into each carefully chosen word and thought they deserve a wider audience. So I immediately took up the task of publicisizing them.
Uncyclopedia, Wikipedia’s evil, satire-laden twin has this to say about India. Read the full wiki entry here.

“I thought we killed them all…but I guess I was an idiot”

~ Oscar Wilde on India
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Everyone in India is born computer genius superior to any other loser race on this planet (Mars). They all can do calculus before thay can speak.
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History
The people of India used to be very civilized until they got bored of it. Then, some Europeans saw India and decided they wanted it. When the Queen heard them whine for it, she decided it was ok for them to have it if they would fight the French. Then, one very old bald man said that we must not fight for independence. That will confuse the British. This Reverse Psychology worked as the British got confused and left.
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In another corner of the web UrbanDictionary.com has come up with a lot of interesting definitions for the land of swamis and snake charmers where elephants roam on the streets and hukkas are the latest in-thing.

I used curse the west for such a cliché notion they had about us, but jab se hosh sambhala hain, I seem to concur.

Here’s one really eerie thought. What if someone was idle enough to collect random people’s suicide notes and decided to put them all in a digitized format for everyone to read online? Well someone’s already done so. Although I doubt the authenticity of the documents and many of them sound like the writer is relating an out-of-body experience, it’s pretty funny. You can post your own letter. In a way it could be a real good study in psychology if one thought on those lines.
Here’s the link. Have fun.

Here’s an excellent site for those who can’t get enough books on paper.
This Russian Website has a looooot of great books for free download. The text is all in Cyrillic but you can hower on the links which have suggestive names like libdetectiv.html for detective novels and so on.
Have fun, y’all!!!

Thanks Ramanand for the link.