Saturday morning a dumper crushed a man and his wife going to drop their child to school on a motorcycle. Nobody new about it till one of my mother’s aunts called to inform us that they were both our distant relatives. Moreover, Sunday had been the day of the woman’s father’s Chehlum(40th day after death) [...]
Sunday morning: Turned my computer on to study for my GRE Computer Science Test. Opened my hotmail inbox in another. There was an email titled “[grecs] STUDY DESTINATION GERMANY” so I opened it. I minimized both windows and started doing some other work. A few minutes later, I remembered that I had to study so [...]
One day an employee sent a letter to her boss asking for an increase in salary:
Dear Bo$$,
In thi$ life, we all need $omething mo$t de$perately. I think you $hould be under$tanding of the need$ of your worker$ who have given $o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company.
I’m $ure you will gue$$ what [...]
I usually don’t like emails of this nature but this one caught my attention and it shows how we take our mothers for granted. Please read it and ponder over how you have been treating your mother all along. Time to change?
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Your age by the number of times you want to eat out:
First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat (more than once but less than 10).
Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold).
Add 5.
Multiply it by 50.
If you have already had your birthday [...]
I have had enough simplicity in my life, so I decided to get something a little more colorful for my blog. And it’s very hard to come by a decent theme that doesn’t “look like Iman Ali in IE but Nawaz Sharif in Firefox or vice versa“.
So, after considerable hours of searching and sweating, I [...]
Apparently it is:
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A man with a pegleg, hook hand and an eyepatch went to apply to be a pirate.
Interviewer: How did you get that pegleg?
Pirate: Arrr. I got me leg shot off during the first world war.
Interviewer: How did you get that hook?
Pirate: I got me hand cut off by a big knife.
Interviewer: What about your eyepatch?
Pirate: [...]
All the organs of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who was in charge.
“I should be in charge,” said the brain , “because I run all the body’s systems, so without me nothing would happen.”
“I should be in charge,” said the blood, “because I circulate oxygen all over so without me you’d [...]
Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village money lender. The money lender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful daughter. So he proposed a bargain.
He said he would forgo the farmer’s debt if he could marry his [...]
