Birds of a feather... shed together
Here is an old joke:
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A Sardar (or Sikh, is a follower of Sikhism) breaks to a stop in front of a railway crossing. A rather large nautical looking bird alights on his windscreen. The sardar leans out and says
Birdie, birdie, ki gal hai?
(Birdie, Birdie, Wassup?)
The bird retorts thus,
Surdie, surdie Seagull hai.
(Surdie Surdie, it is a Seagull. Surdie = shortform of Sardar.)
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Because folks unfamiliar with Punjabi (the language of people of the Punjab, from whence the Sikhs originate) will have a hard time finding humour there, I decided to bring joy to their drab little lives with a slight variation on the old theme above. Ain't I the nice guy?
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The aforementioned Sardar-ji is piqued with the fact that the Seagull had dishonoured his windscreen with bird droppings. The fact that the Seagull just flew in from the US, so that the droppings actually constitute 'imported shit', cuts no ice with him. He has relatives in NYC, who, because they don't like airline toilets, always wait till they get to his home in Punjabi Bagh before downloading. Anyway, the Sardar-ji decides to seek revenge by ramming the Seagull with his car. He zooms in, but to his horror the Seagull simply bounces of his windshield and flys away, leaving his windshield badly fractured. So,
Quoth the Surdy, "Hmm, sturdy birdie".
Boy, would that make Poe blow a gasket in his casket.
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Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any damage inflicted by the reader on his/her computer screen, or his/her immediate neighbourhood, in (feigned) disgust to the above (attempt at) humour.
posted by i at 5:42 PM
8 Comments:
Ha,ha...Seriously tangential!
I hope that doesn't mean that I am not straight. Not that I would care if that implication were true, but my father may have a cardiac arrest.
How are you? Sorry to drop off the radar like so, but stuff was really screwed up last year.
Hey, that was supposed to be a compliment for ur joke, “tangential”, as in “of almost no relevance” or “amusingly digressive”.
Interesting (?tangential) interpretation though. Regarding its validness....I guess u r the best judge : )
Yeah, I m ok. Survived thru the exilic period of exams-holocaust! N u?
I know it was a compliment. I was just kidding around with the other possible meanings of the word "tangential". Yes, I would be the best judge of its validity, and it is best that left that way :)
I am much better now thank you. Work is somewhat in control.
How did your exams go? Get through?
Got thru the UK one, shelved USMLE, for reasons one too many.
Congratulations are in order I suppose. Does this mean you can practice in UK now?
Poor you though, still struggling with exams. Nothing beats the dumbness of engineering :)
By the way, one doesn't need a lot of reasons. A single one is enough, if it is good enough. However, several are needed to bolster a weak one. No, I am not preaching :), but cooking up pithy nonsense is fun late at night.
Its a postgraduate membership exam(part1) that I meant. Cleared the licensing exam, for practising in UK ages ago .Now that I am nearing the end of my 2yrs foundation post grad training, in aug this yr, having these membership exams, improve prospects for further specialist training.
Didn’t see the sense in leaving things halfway, for MLE, n begin from scratch all over. Sooner I m done with my training, earlier can I think of heading back home.
Besides, as Green Day song goes, “who wants to be an American Idiot ?” : )
God, you medicos have to study so much. Phew. But, yes little sense in starting all over again, especially in a field like medicine, where practice makes perfect, and not theory.
"Who wants to be an American idiot?"
Someone who is sick and tired of standing in queues for VISAs. I have to get VISAs for five countries, and it is not fun being an Indian then.
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