Truth is funnier than fiction

As a corollary to Shastri's Truth is Stranger than Fiction, I sincerely believe that truth is funnier than fiction. The intra-office newsletter (and views-letter) on happenings at work that I used to run, generated much mirth. But, the simple fact remained that I had little part in adding humour content.

What happens in life (or at work) is more funny than what the mind can concoct.

CAD/CAM?

Now, Chartered Accountants can prefix their names with 'CA'. That is what the world has been waiting for. We can all die peacefully now.

"Hi, I am CA Durairaj, just call me CAD".

Like the honorary (mostly, dishonourable) doctors running amuck, will we also have honorary Chartered Accountants - mostly people who exhibit immense money-sense - like CA Kalaignar or CA P. Chidambaram?

To do a Kaavya

Colleague Senthil L. has coined a new phrase to describe plagiarism - "to do a KV", in reference to Kaavya Viswanathan of the chick-lit-light-gone-dark notoriety. Apparently, he concocted a white paper after drawing from different sources and honestly described his accomplishment as "I did a KV".

His comrade-in-arms Balaji N. has always maintained that nothing original is being created and all of our output is recycled matter. Had Balaji been a theist, he would have agreed with Hindi-Bengali music director Bappi Lahiri, who, years ago responded to allegation about his (up) lifting music, with the quote:

Only God is original.

Can't differ.

தமிழ் முயற்சி(Testing in Tamil)

இது ஒரு பொன் மாலைப்பொழுது

English is a funny language

A street-sign in Chennai reads: 2st Street. The painter of signs (no connection to the painter of signs) must have thought, "1st" is to "1", hence "2st" is to "2". I don't blame him. Some of the rules of English are counter-intuitive.

Thinking of 1st, 2nd, 3rd in other languages, I think only Malayalam and Esperanto(also this) are the rare languages where there the connection between the words for "one" and "first" is evident.

Kiss the ground on which she (didn't) trod

Photo source: Unknown.
Text: Mine.

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