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The Con – Part 1 and Part 2
Posted by: descorpio on: September 17, 2008
- In: Humour
- 6 Comments
Part 1 : (scroll down for part 2)
Gruezi Mittanand,
I have to interrupt my tales of mirth, making merry and the occasional cheating Death escapades for a very important announcement. I just got the following mail and being the philanthropist the letter claims I am, I have generously decided to share half my fortune, which comes [...]
Will the World end come Wednesday (ie.tommorrow!) ??
Posted by: descorpio on: September 9, 2008
- In: Issues| Technology
- 12 Comments
Not an original piece, but found it quite interesting. Thought it needed to be shared.
Move over 9/11. 9/10 could be our worst nightmare: the end of the world. That’s if one goes by those opposed to the largest science experiment ever that will be conducted on Wednesday.
Come September 10, an excited bunch of physicists at [...]
Let’s Talk About Countries, Stupid Ones..
Posted by: descorpio on: August 12, 2008
- In: Humour
- 5 Comments
The tumultuous ‘official’ history of a forty year old nation in short reads as such :
It claimed it’s independence on September 2, 1967.
It fought a war with the British Navy in 1968.
The Constitution of the Principality was proclaimed on September 25, 1975.
A war was fought, and won against German and Dutch forces in August, 1978.
A [...]
That Great Language Debate
Posted by: descorpio on: August 6, 2008
- In: Issues
- 10 Comments
‘Tujhe apna rashtra baasha nahin aatha ?! Tch Tch…’ A remark I often encountered in my four years at Manipal. A Malayali, born in Madras, brought up in Bangalore, English was always my first language. Hindi had no special significance to me. In fact, I regarded it with absolute contempt. I would have preferred [...]
A Whole New World
Posted by: descorpio on: August 4, 2008
Hi s to everybody. When Sid V told me about a collaborative blog, I was exalted. My weight in the blogosphere must be increasing gradually due to my other well received blog ( I will take this opportunity to advertise my other blog. It’s blissinswiss.blogspot.com . I have heard from reliable sources that it’s worth [...]
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