Was the Taj Mahal a Vedic Temple before?
When I read about it the first time, I had no internet access...i.e., as free as these days :-)) Even though I have to pay so much for it!
Nevertheless, Rik brought it up this morning and I thought I should share this link with you....Click to read what Stephen Knapp has to say about it....
Classes for Men at THE ADULT LEARNING CENTER
REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED By Thursday, Dec 1, 2007NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED! TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM.
Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.
Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM. Kev
Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?
Round Table Discussion.
Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00for 2 hours.
Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?--Group Practice.
Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PMfor 2 hours.
Class 4
Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PMfor 3 weeks.
Class 5
Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
Examples on Video.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning
At 7:00 PM
Class 6
Loss Of Identity--Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
Help Line Support and Support Groups.
Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM
Class 7
Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.
Open Forum .
Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.
Class 8
Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
Graphics and Audio Tapes.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PMfor 2 hours.
Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost--Real Life Testimonials.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined.
Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
Driving Simulations.
4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.
Class 11
Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
Online Classes and role-playing .
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined
Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.
Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.
Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PMfor 2 hours.
Class 14
The Stove/Oven--What It Is and How It Is Used.
Live Demonstration.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.
Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the Survivors. Send this to all the guys that you think can stand the heat, and to all the ladies for the best chuckle of their day!
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Pangea Day
Hong Kong Actively Prepares to Participate in Worldwide Event: Pangea Day- only 8 weeks left for Hong Kong to submit films!
What is Pangea Day…
Pangea Day is a unique and exceptional event, using the power of film to generate greater tolerance and compassion around the world while joining millions of people in the global community to build a better future.
Inspiration to launch Pangea Day started with one individual and has now extended around the globe. Full details of the inspiration and concept are available on the main website http://www.pangeaday.org/.
In a world where people are divided by borders, differences and conflicts, it’s easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome this – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film.
Of course, movies alone can’t change the world. But the people who watch them can. After Pangea Day, organizers will facilitate community-building activities around the world by connecting inspired viewers with numerous organizations which are already doing ground-breaking work.
The goal of Pangea Day is to bring together millions of people from all over the world in a unique shared experience to create a better understanding of one another and help form a global community striving for a better future.
When will it happen…
Pangea Day is on May 10th, 2008 when a worldwide community will gather to share in a live 4-hour program of powerful films, visionary speakers and uplifting music broadcast simultaneously from several major centers around the world.
This live broadcast will be transmitted at the same time on the Internet, television, digital cinemas and mobile phones. Individuals across the globe will gather in small and large groups to witness and share in this amazing event.
How is Hong Kong involved…
News about Pangea Day has spread quickly by word of mouth and has captured the attention of individual people here in Hong Kong, all volunteers who have quickly become passionate about the concept.
A website has now been launched at http://www.pangeadayhk.org/ to draw attention to local Pangea Day activities and events. The site is updated as new information is received and it is intended to allow the sharing of information about the day and to enable Hong Kong people to easily communicate, share ideas and support each other in our own Pangea Day celebrations.
We are encouraging participation by community groups, youth and social organizations, churches, and others who are involved in helping to transform our community or who want to share their own vision of our community.
What activities and events are happening in Hong Kong…
There are two main activities for Pangea Day in Hong Kong, one is encouraging individuals to create their own film presentation of topics or themes that are important to them and that they want to share with the world.
The other activity is finding a venue or multiple venues for Hong Kong people to share the live Pangea Day experience with millions of others around the world. We will gather at the same time that others in the global community will gather to all experience the same presentation.
This will be an amazing and unique event, and we want to be part of it! All activities in Hong Kong are community driven. Everyone involved is committed to promoting and actively participating in making this an important event that is destined to make a powerful impact on global communities, including our own.
For those wanting to create a film, professional filmmaking is not a requirement. Pangea Day is about individuals that want to share something important to them with the global community. Film making workshops are planned to help provide the basic steps for those who need it. The website Bulletin Boards have been designed to help offer and find resources for anyone working on their own project, such as camera operators and film editors. Films must be 5 minutes or less and themes are encouraged that reflect positive and inspirational messages about our own Hong Kong communities and all film projects must be submitted no later than January 15th, 2008.
How can media be involved…
The message about Pangea Day needs to be communicated as widely as possible and media can play a huge part in promoting this amazing event. There are many themes that can be presented about the Pangea Day concept such as , how it is being supported and promoted, how Hong Kong people are involved, what it means to our community, amongst others. We are actively promoting Pangea Day through all media including newspapers, television and radio companies, corporations, online and store-front businesses, etc.
Interviews can be arranged with one or more of our volunteers, we can provide further insight about what Pangea Day is all about and what it means to the people who are involved, and we are available to offer other ways of providing media contact and promotion.
Pangea Day on You Tube
http://youtube.com/user/pangeaday
Visionary documentary filmmaker, TED Prize Winner, and Pangea Day founder Jehane Noujaim speaks to an audience of "the world's leading thinkers and doers" at the 2006 annual TED Conference. Watch a Visionary documentary filmmaker, TED Prize Winner, and Pangea Day founder Jehane Noujaim speaks to an audience of "the world's leading thinkers and doers" at the 2006 annual TED Conference. Watch and listen as she unveils her inspiring wish - to change the world through the power of film.
Can your film change the world? Watch it and then decide...
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Management always wins!
MANAGEMENT DECISIONS (pls forgive the use of names of live people without which the joke would not be as funny)Once PVNR (PV Narasimha Rao), L.K. Advani and Laloo Prasad Yadav were travelling in an Auto Rickshaw. They met with an accident and all three of them died. Yama was waiting for this moment at the doorstep of death.
He asks PVNR and Advani to go to HEAVEN. But, for Laloo, Yama had already decided that he should be sent to HELL. Laloo is not at all happy with this decision.
He asks Yama as to why this discrimination is being made. All the three of them had served the public. Similarly, all took bribes, all misused public positions, etc. Then why the differential treatment? He felt that there should be a formal test or an objective evaluation before a decision is made;
and should not be just based on opinion or preconceived notions.
Yama agrees to this and asks all the three of them to appear for an English test.
1. PVNR is asked to spell "INDIA" and he does it correctly.
2. Advani is asked to spell " ENGLAND" and he too passes.
3. It is Laloo's turn and he is asked to spell "CZECHOSLOVAKIA".
Laloo protests that he doesn't know English. He says this is not fair and that he was given a tough question and thus forced to fail with false intent.
Yama then agrees to conduct a written test in Hindi (to give another chance assuming that Laloo should at least feel that Hindi would provide an equal platform for all three).
1. PVNR is asked to write "KUTTA BOLA BHOW BHOW". He writes it easily and passes.
2. Advani is asked to write "BILLY BOLI MYAUN MYAUN". He too passes.
3. Laloo is asked to write* "CHINTI BOLE......."* Tough one.
He fails again.
Laloo is extremely unhappy. Having been a student of history (which the other two weren't), he now requested for all the 3 to be subjected to a test in history.
Yama says OK but this would be the last chance and that he would not take any more tests.
1. PVNR is asked: "When did India get Independence?".He
replied "1947" and passed.
2. Advani is asked "How many people died during the independence struggle?" He gets nervous. Yama asked him to choose from 3 options: 100,000 or 200,000 or 300,000.
Advani catches it and says 200,000 and passes.
3. It's Laloo's turn now.Yama asks him to give the Name and Address of each of the 200,000 who died in the independence struggle.
Laloo accepts defeat and agrees to go to HELL.
*Moral of the story :
**IF YOUR MANAGEMENT HAS DECIDED TO SCREW YOU, THERE IS NO ESCAPE.**
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too many jokes...these days!
The prime Minister of China called President Bush to console him after the attack on the Pentagon:"I'm sorry to hear about the attack.It is a very big tragedy. But in case you are missing any documents from the Pentagon, we have copies of everything."
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Musharraf calls Bush on 11th sept:
Musharraf: Mr President, I would like to express my
condolences to you. It is a real tragedy. So many people, such great bldgs... I would like to ensure that we had nothing in connection with that..
Bush: What buildings? What people??
Musharraf: Oh, and what time is it in America now?
Bush: It's eight in the morning.
Musharraf: Oops...Will call back in an hour!
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Vajpayee and Bush are sitting in a bar. A guy walks in and asks the barman, "Isn't that Bush and Vajpayee?"
The barman says "Yep, that's them." So the guy walks
over and says, "Hello, what are you guys doing?"
Bush says, "We're planning world war 3"
The guy says, "Really? What's going to happen?"
And Vajpayee says, "Well, we're going to kill 14
million Pakistanis and one bicycle repairman."
And the guy exclaimed, "A bicycle repairman?!! !"
Vajpayee turns to Bush and says, "See, I told you no-one would worry about the 14 million Pakistanis!"
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A man is taking a walk in Central park in New York . Suddenly he sees a little girl being attacked by a pit bull dog.
He runs over and starts fighting with the dog. He succeeds in killing the dog and saving the girl's life.
A policeman who was watching the scene walks over and says: "You are a hero, tomorrow you can read it in all the newspapers:
"Brave New Yorker saves the life of little girl".
The man says: "But I am not a New Yorker!"
Oh then it will say in newspapers in the morning:
"Brave American saves life of little girl" the policeman answers.
"But I am not an American!" - says the man. Oh, what are you then?"
The man says: "I am a Pakistani!"
The next day the newspapers say: "Extremist kills innocent American dog"
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Confidence Counts!!
Bill Gates organized a session to recruit a new Chairman for Microsoft Europe.5000 candidates assembled in a large auditorium. One candidate is Kantibhai Shah.
Bill Gates: "Thank you for coming. Those who do not know JAVA may leave."
2000 people leave the room.
Kantibhai says to himself, "I do not know JAVA but I have nothing to lose if I stay. I'll give it a try"
Bill Gates: "Candidates who never had experience of managing more than 100 people may leave."
2000 people leave the room.
Kantibhai says to himself, "I never managed anybody by myself but I have nothing to lose if I stay. What can happen to me?" He stays.
Bill Gates: "Candidates who do not have management degrees may leave."
500 people leave the room
Kantibhai says to himself, "I left school at 15 but what have I got to lose?" So, he stays in the room.
Finally, Bill Gates asked the candidates who do not speak Serbo-Croat to leave.
498 people leave the room.
Kantibhai says to himself, "I do not speak one word of Serbo-Croat but what do I have to lose?" So, he stays and finds himself with one other candidate.
Everyone else has gone.
Bill Gates joined them and said "Apparently, you are the only two candidates who speak Serbo-Croat. I'd now like to hear you have a conversation together in that language."
Kantibhai turns to the other candidate and says "Kem chho?"
The other candidate answers "Ek dam majama!"
Talk about confidence!!!!!!!!
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Sudden downpour!!
Enough of Sardar jokes?色色色色. Mallu jokes are here !1) What is the tax on a Mallu's income called? IngumDax
2) Where did the Malayali study? In the ko-liage.
3) Why did the Malayali not go to ko-liage today? He is very bissi.
4) Why did the Malayali buy an air-ticket? To go to Thuubai, zimbly to meet his ungle in Gelff.
5) Why do Malayalis go to the Gelff? To yearn meney.
6) What did the Malayali do when the plane caught fire? He zimbly jembd out of the vindow.
7) How does a Malayali spell moon? MOON - Yem Who yet another Who and Yen
8) What is Malayali management graduate called? Yem Bee Yae.
9) What does a Malayali do when he goes to America ? He changes his name from Karunakaran to Kevin Curren.
10) What does a Malayali use to commute to office everyday? An Oto
11) Where does he pray? In a Temble, Charch and a Maask
12) Who is Bruce Lee's best friend ? A Malaya-Lee of coarse.
13) Name the only part of the werld, where Malayalis don't werk hard? Kerala.
14) Why is industrial productivity so low in Kerala? Because 86% of the shift time is spent on lifting, folding and re-tying the lungi
15) Why did Saddam Hussain attack Kuwait? He had a Mallu baby-sitter, who always used to say 'KEEP QUWAIT' 'KEEP QUWAIT'
16) What is the Latest Malayali Punch Line? " Frem Tea Shops To Koll Cenders , We Are Yevery Where "
17) Why aren't Mals included in hockey and football teams ? Coz Whenever they get a corner , they set up a tea shop.
18) Now pass it on to 5 Mals to get a free sample of kokanet oil.
19) Pass it on 10 Mals to get a free pack of Benana Chibbs.
20) Pass it on to 15 Mals to get a set of BROGUN bones ....
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