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Funny gimmick by a man who’s become a billionaire leveraging good fun. And it reminds me of the first time I’d used an “air sickness bag.” I was in Lisbon for a seminar and decided to take a small detour to London to see my uncle before returning home. I took the cheapest possible airline […]

Trust the Times of India to give the best Sunday funnies. And I’m not even talking about the comics page. Read this very very funny “agony aunt” box by the “new age guru” Deepak Chopra. I’d never read anything by him before, but going by what he wrote today, I have been converted into a […]

Jackwa aur Jillwa
Gaye upar Hillwa
Paani bhari ke waaste…
Jackwa gir gawa
Uka khopdiya phoot gawa
Aur Jillwa awat ludkan pooore raaste…
Got the joke from here. Imagine Laloo as Jackwa and Rabri as Jillwa. Splits me up completely!

I resurrected this old joke on the political aspect of name changes while I was on an ego surf sometime back. It focusses on the misuse of Shivaji’s name, but you can easily substitute Gandhi / Nehru / your favourite political icon and it will still be as sharp. When I first posted this on […]

I don’t concern myself much with the debate on social security, which is raging in the US (although I did engage Patrix once on the issue). Loads of libertarian sites and blogs have written on it in far greater depth than I would be able to manage. For a flavour, go to Cato’s Project on […]

Around an hour back, I was chatting briefly with MadMan and Kingsley in a yahoo conference. I had to leave to attend an internal office meeting. Here’s a snippet of the chat at that time.
Yazad: and i’m about to go for my bi-weekly office meeting
MadMan: bi-weekly? Is that a weekly meeting of bisexual people?
Kingsley: is […]

The great tradition of bad jokes from the cartel’s blogs continues. New member Amit Varma pitches in.

With only one PJ cracked throughout our bloggers meeting yesterday, I feel I must make amends. The letters page of the latest Economist comes in handy. Scroll right to the end.

MadMan and I were chatting about someone we both know only very obliquely.
yazadjal: she chats with the lord!
yazadjal: direct connection hai bhai
MadMan: I chat with the lord too
MadMan: then I realise I’m talking to myself again

Even Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution isn’t immune to what I shall now call the libertarian penchant for bad jokes!
How do we know that Adam and Eve were not Chinese? Because they ate the apple, not the snake.

Just to show that bad jokes are not a prerogative of the cartel, here’s one from Micha Ghertner at Catallarchy. (Oh, yes, they’re libertarian too!)

As this is bad joke time on cartel blogs, I thought I would share my own original PJ.
Q. Who is an Indian beggar’s favourite Western pop star?
A. Madonna
Ask why…

Never heard a beggar come up and whimper
“Maaa do naa?”

Bad joke time again with the examined life. The recycled ones are worse.

There’s lots more here. Enjoy the weekend!

Ravikiran shows off how many languages he knows. (BTW, There is some debate whether Tulu is just a dialect or a full fledged language)
Well my turn to show off. English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and French. Can read and write in all. French is very rusty now, but at one time I could tell you about […]

Somehow “I was wrong. Period.” always reminds me of a woman with PMS.
Update by MadMan: But it’s not half as funny as “Unfortunately most men are dickheads. The sooner we realise this, the better.”

And yes, I’m in a snarky mood. Should get better tomorrow.

Not satisfied with just a category, I’ve created a whole new blog for the huge collection of jokes on my computer.
Today’s post is a favourite song, with the lyrics suitably modified. Enjoy!

If you must ask why, my initials are YPJ.

You don’t have to be Brit to posses biting wit. The very American P J O’Rourke shows how.
A U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East will cause chaos, of course. Then again, a U.S. intervention in the Middle East has caused chaos already. And, during those periods of history when the U.S. was neither intervening in […]

I might have to be careful the next time I go to Germany. Laughing loudly gets you fined!

Well, now that he has gone off on a jamboree to Bangalore, the average IQ of the blog has gone up. I thought I’d restore the balance a bit by putting in dumb joke I read off the DNRC newsletter
After a tragic communication mixup, Flossie Mongo devoured her husband of 30 years, Lester. […]