Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Bug the life out of irritating tele-callers !!

Ten ways to stop those credit card sales, mobile companies, insurance calls from irritating you:

1. After the telemarketer finishes speaking, ask him/her to marry you.

2. Tell the telemarketer you are busy at the moment, and ask him/her, if he/she will give you his/her home phone number so you can call him/her back.

3. Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times.

4. Tell them it is dinnertime, BUT ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation.

5. Tell them that all business goes through your agent, and hand the phone to your five year old child.

6. Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up.... Louder... Louder... Louder!

7 .If they start out with, "How are you today?", say "I'm so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems............."

8. Tell them to speak very slowly because you want to write every word down.

9. Cry out in surprise, "Ashu, is that you? I've been hoping you'd call! How is the family?" When they insist they are not Ashu, tell them to stop joking. This works especially well if the telemarketer is really MALE.

10. Tell the ICICI call centre guy to call on your office number - and give him the HSBC call centre number.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

The Best of Murphy's Laws...

You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.


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Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.


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Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.


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Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.


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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.


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The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.


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The attention span of a computer is only as long as it electrical cord.


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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.


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Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.


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All great discoveries are made by mistake.


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Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.


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Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.


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All's well that ends.


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A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.


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The first myth of management is that it exists.


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A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.


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New systems generate new problems.


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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.


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We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.


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Any given program, when running, is obsolete.


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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


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A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.


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The faster a computer is, the faster it will reach a crashed state.


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Nothing motivates a man more than to see his boss putting in an honest day's work.


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Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.


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The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.


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To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.


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After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.


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Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development.


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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.


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If mathematically you end up with the incorrect answer, try multiplying by the page number.


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Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.


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Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File."


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Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases.


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If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.


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The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.


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In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday.


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Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.


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All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.


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The only perfect science is hind-sight.


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Work smarder and not harder and be careful of yor speling.


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If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.


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If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.


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When all else fails, read the instructions.


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If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.


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Everything that goes up must come down.


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Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.


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Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.


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Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.


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The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management.


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Any attempt to print Murphy's laws will jam the printer.

Why only Indians are re-born ?

The angel Gabriel came to the Lord and said 'I have to talk to you urgently. We have some Indians up here in heaven and they are causingproblems. They're swinging on the pearly gates, my horn is missing, they are wearing Dolce and Gabana saris instead of their white robes, they are riding Mercedes' and BMWs instead of the chariots, and they're selling their halos to people for discounted prices. They refuse to keep the stairway to Heaven clear, since they keep crouching down midway eating samosas and drinking chai. Some of them are even walking around with just one wing!'

The Lord said, 'Indians are Indians. Heaven is home to all my children. If you want to know about real problems, give Satan a call.'

Satan answered the phone, 'Hello? Damn, hold on a minute.'

Satan returned to the phone, 'OK I'm back. What can I do for you?'

Gabriel replied, 'I just wanted to know what kind of problems you're having down there.'

Satan says, 'Hold on again. I need to check on something.'

After about 5 minutes Satan returns to the phone and said, 'I'm back. Now, what was the question?'

Gabriel said, 'What kind of problems are you having down there?'

Satan says, 'Man, I don't believe this! Hold on.'

This time Satan was gone at least 15 minutes.

He returned and said, "I'm sorry Gabriel, I can't talk right now...These Indians are trying to install air conditioning and making hell a comfortable place to live in by putting out the fire. Moreover theyare so tech savvy, they were trying to start a telephone connection between heaven and hell...I am having such a hard time controlling anddealing with them!! Some were trying to start a chai - pakora shop,which I had to stop...

As a clincher, Satan then said, "I am recommending to the Lord to send them back onto earth as soon as they arrive, as re-birth cases".

Friday, June 26, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009

Santa's conclusion...

Santa is in a dissection class of cockroach. He cuts its 1 leg, and says, "chal", it walks.
He cuts 2nd and 3rd legs and said, "chal" , it walks.
He cuts all the legs and said, "chal...."
Finally he wrote the conclusion........... "after all the legs of a cockroach are cut - it becomes deaf......"

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A Tamilian call up Santa and asks " Tamil therima??"
Santa got mad, angrily replied.... "Hindi tera baap!!!"

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Santa and Banta looking at Egyptian mummy.
Santa : Look so many bandages, pakka lorry accident case.
Banta : Aaho, lorry number is also written...BC 1760!!!....

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Our Santa on an interview 4 DA post detective.
Interviewer : who killed Gandhi?
Santa : Thank u sir 4 giving me d job, I will start investigating.......

Monday, June 15, 2009

Hotel California - the Mallu version of the popular number (Submitted by: SB Variar)

Here’s the Mallu version, of 'Hotel California' ! Hope you will enjoy.

The song is attached (click here to download and listen), and the lyrics are below to help you follow the (at times) thick Mallu accent, and to sing along if you fancy. (For the impatient, while the attached file starts with music, the actual singing of the lyrics starts after 1minute and 12 seconds, though I suggest you start around 1 minute).

Hotel Keralafonia !....lyrics start now.....


On the road to Trivandrum
Coconut oil in my hair
Warm smell of avial
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a pink tube-light
My tummy rumbled, I felt weak and thin
I had to stop for a bite
There he stood in the doorway
Flicked his mundu in style
And I was thinking to myself
I don't like the look of his smile
Then he lit up a petromax
Muttering 'No power today'
More Mallus down the corridor
I thought I heard them say
“Welcome to the Hotel Kerala-fonia
Such a lousy place
Such a lousy place
Such a sad disgrace.
Plenty of bugs at the Hotel Kerala-fonia
Any time of year
Any time of year
It's infested here”
His finger's stuck up his nostril
He's got a big, thick mustache
He makes an ugly noise
And he just laughs
Buxom girls clad in pavada
Eating banana chips
Some roll their eyes, and
Some roll their hips
I said to the manager
My room's full of mice
He said, Don't worry, saar,
I sending you meen karri, brandy and ice
And still those voices were crying from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them pray
Save us from the Hotel Kerala-fonia
What a lousy place,
What a lousy place
Such a sad disgrace
Trying to live at the Hotel Kerala-fonia
It is no surprise
It is no surprise
That it swarms with flies
The blind man was pouring
Stale sambar on rice
And he said
We are all just actors here
In Silk Smitha-disguise
And in the dining chamber
We gathered for the feast
We stab it with our steely knives
But we just can't cut that beef
Last thing I remember
I was writhing on the floor
That cockroach in my appam-stew
Was the culprit, I am sure !!!
Relax, said the watchman
This enema will make you well
And his friends laughed as they held me down
God's Own Country ? Oh, Hell!!

Witty Humor...(Submitted by: Venugopal Varier)

Waiter: Would you like your coffee black?
Customer: What other colors do you have?
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Manager: Sorry, but I can't give u a job. I don't need much help.
Job Applicant: That's all right. In fact I'm just the right person in this case. You see, I won't be of much help anyway!!
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Dad: Son, what do u want for ur birthday?
Son: Not much dad, Just a radio with a sports car around it.
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Diner: I can't eat such a rotten chicken. Call the manager!
Waiter: It's no use. He won't eat it either.
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Diner: You'll drive me to my grave!
Waiter: Well, you don't expect to walk there, do you?
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Husband: U know, wife, our son got his brain from me.
Wife: I think he did, I've still got mine with me!
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Man: Officer! There's a bomb in my garden!
Officer: Don't worry. If no one claims it within three days, you can keep it.
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Father: Your teacher says she finds it impossible to teach you anything!
Son: That's why I say she's no good!