Warning : Reader Discretion is advised as the below text contains some not-so poetic looking poems!!!!!
Authors Note :
I have tried my hand at poetry and have come to a conclusion that i make a pathetic poet!!! The word 'poet' when attached next to my name itself causes untold misery to all the 'real' poets of the world!! Shelly, Wordsworth and Co. please excuse this horrible offense!!
So with apologies to the literary world, here i present you with some of my musings! The musings start randomly, in other words, not chronologically. That itself tells you how aimless and unsystematic my literary endeavors have been. To guide the reader/peruser properly as to the when these musings have come into existence, i have provided the dates (whenever available) right above the poems. That itself shall absolve me from all the brick-bats i receive. You see, they say that your thought process matures along with you. So a bland looking musing shall rightly be attributed to my innocence and the outlook towards life i had then. And just like our good ol' ancient liquid, namely Wine, matures, so do the cerebral juices and thence the resultant thoughts.
The reader is well advised to peruse these outpourings as mere thoughts of the creator.
Due apologies....
Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
[Year: 1995]
FAT
People call me Fat!
And they tease me whenever I bat!
When I walk down the street
People stare at me,
As if they hadn’t seen a guy,
Fatter than me!
Tears trickle down my cheek when,
My mom calls Pop to come to her side,
To balance the room,
When I’m on the other side!
My friends don’t care me,
Even my friend’s dog paws at me!
I am insulted wherever I go
That’s why, to the parties,
I never go!!
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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[17-May 1994 : Tuesday]
Of “Guns” and “Hens”
Can’t you see my son?
It’s impossible to make soup with chicken,
When the hen is on the run!!
Aw! Come on my son!
Here!! Have yourselves a bun!
Until I catch the hen on the run!
And don’t forget to toss me back my gun,
For I’m goin’ to catch the hen on the run
Even under the hot sun!!
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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[26-December-1993]
“JOEY”
Joey was his name,
Sheer innocence was his fame.
Courageous was he to his parents,
Face his enemy, he daren’t!
He had on his face, a pimple.
He was nothing, just, but simple.
He could not even groom his hair,
To look good enough to go to the fair!
He’d spend all his money,
Only to get a drop of honey!
He hadn’t even a match-stick to ignite,
To make a hot cup of tea.
But he had enough guests to invite
To a hot, hot party.
He used to think, to build a bridge on the sea,
By throwing fistfuls of sand in the sea.
A soft-corner in his heart, he always had.
A jealous bone in his body, he never had.
His jokes to be told were numerous.
And of course, he a little bit humorous.
Day by day his jokes slowly passed across the bay.
There was not a corner in the world ,
where his jokes were not told.
Now, even as he became old,
His jokes were always measured in gold!
And at last, when he died, even his bitter enemies cried!!
The people would say :
Joey was a man with a pimple, nothing just but, simple!!
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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[16-December-1994 : Friday]
FASHION
I hadn’t even the foggiest notion,
That one day this world would be ruled
By this craziest thing called “fashion”
Gone are the days of “Namaste Ji”,
Here in this age they say, “Long time, no see” !!
“I’d look damn good,” they brag,
In this insipid thing, I discern as a ‘torn-rag’ !
They vouch they’d be the cynosure in the Jeans called, ‘Lee Cooper’.
And they almost drown themselves in the perfume, Baccarose’s ‘Copper’.
These kids!!! They zoom in a Maruti Van,
And they consider themselves a Macho,
If they ever happen to possess a ‘Ray-Ban’!
Someone talk some sense into these kids
That these are just transitory trend-setters
And that they will, one day, fade away
As the time, into the past, slips away!
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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[2-February-1995 : Thursday]
NEIGHBOR
I woke up in my sleep
To find myself in the well of thoughts : deep!
My endeavors to stay afloat
proved futile,
For I was being sucked into the
darkness of eternity all the while.
Some alien beings dragged
me into further darkness
All I could make of them was
Two pairs of treacherous, burning eyes
And an excellent example of dumbness.
I, now, stood in the center of the room
Where there were more fiercer eyes and
The air damp with doom!!
Those scornful eyes, now shifted their vision to their chieftain,
Who snapped orders to them to become more sane.
His Highness accused me of malice and enmity towards my neighbor
And consequently no beatitude, on me, did I incur.
I was sentenced to three hours of frying in the hot bubbling oil
And perpetual grinding in the grinding stone!!!
And then suddenly I woke up again.
This time, with a deep moan
which echoed within my each and every bone!!
My jubilation was of because that I suffered no harm!!
And the next day I was with my neighbor,
Arm in arm,
Both equally quiet and equally calm!!
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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[1995]
Close To Paradise
Whenever the Sun rises from the far east
And sets in the deep west,
I think I am close to Paradise!
When the birds chirp and the cuckoos sing,
I think I am close to Paradise.
When I feel the coldness from the moon,
My eyes close instantly and I slip into cheerful dreams and then,
I think I am close to Paradise!
These thoughts drag me into the depths of
Heaven’s fantasies, consoling my hurt soul.
It makes me feel so light!!
Oh so light!!
That I could fly!!
But then suddenly something dreadful happens,
The axe of hatred and vice snaps the rope of virtue and goodwill
And then I begin to wonder :
“was it a dream?? Or was I just close to Paradise!!”
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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[27-October-1995 : Friday]
WINTER
Ah! The season of winter,
How beautiful,
How serene!!
My soul never before seemed pleased
Even when I viewed , the moon in full
or the lustrous country-side’s pleasant scene!!
The dawn wakes me up
With the bird’s melodious songs.
The fresh morning air fill my lungs up,
And I yearn to hear the distant sound of temple-gongs!
I thank thee my lord
For making this Winter delightful;
I pray to thee almighty
To make this season last for eternity!!
So that I could relish its beauty
To my heart’s full!!
The eagles soar high up in the spotless blue sky,
With an intention to embrace it.
But descend down with a regretful sigh;
As they remember that, this season, down there
Is the Heaven’s forgotten bit!!
As I sit by the fire-place
The epochs of my childhood reel down
With a tremendous pace.
I still can recall those juvenile days,
When I used to live by the country-side.
The foggy mornings were chilly
And the water in the ponds cold
But it bloomed as it always did,
The gracious white water-lily !!
Whose beauty, even the celestial gods would behold!!
The cat and the dog warmed themselves sitting by the fire-place
And there were absolutely no angry growls, no barks and no scratches!
Instead the dog put on a welcome look
And the cat gently purred
And they shared the same sleeping place!
When the natural enemies become bosom buddies,
We know,
‘Tis the season of gaiety,
‘Tis the season of non-enmity!
But when I wake up to reality,
I see everywhere, enmity, enmity, enmity!
When sworn enemies can forget their hostility,
Pray tell me why can’t we??!!!
Come, let’s join our hands together
With this heavenly season as a motivator
And make this earth a better place to live in;
Free from malice, free from selfishness,
free from cruelty and free from sin!!
‘Coz ‘tis the season of gaiety,
‘Tis the season of non-enmity!!
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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LONE-HEART
One wintry night
I climbed atop the hill
To view the beautiful sight
Of my village seated at the foot of the hill.
Radiant lights from the myriad dwellings
Equaled the brilliance of a million stars
That lit up the sky that night!
My imaginations rose high up
And in reverence my heart slowed down
Its pace by a beat.
But the next moment, it sank down a bit,
For I realized how alone I was ;
Alone, alone!
If only someone lit up my life
Like the glittering stars in the sky,
Someone who’d say “…you are my life!”
Would this ever happen?? Sigh!!
I always linger by the side of the road,
Called ‘Life’, for someone to come by and say ‘Hi….!’
‘…Can I help you lessen down your load?’
But no one comes, no one came!
Life still is just the same!
I sometimes find myself eagerly looking forward for the day
When I’ll bade life a ‘Goodbye’!
Then I’d be up there in Heaven,
Playing a harp and a halo gracing my head,
While I relish a ride; cloud-driven!!
Alas! All this could happen only if I drop dead!!
I’m quite aware that these are mere fantasies,
Just like those fragile and delightful daisies,
For when its day arrives,
It turns pale, and falls lifeless to the ground…!!
Its former beauty forever ceases to thrive!
No one comes, no one came …..!!!!!!
Life still is just the same!!!
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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An Ode to a Friend
[For SINI Menon**]
Tired of this wicked world
And unknown of my destination,
When I first knocked on your friendship’s door;
I knew not what I had for me in store.
But when you threw open the door,
My eyes – which until then had only seen cruelty and atrocity –
Saw inside a paradise of happiness and joy,
That seemed to stretch itself beyond the points of eternity.
You were the anchor that held me in my sorrow’s sea.
You were always there to offer your shoulder for me to cry.
But then, I realized, very, very late
That you are the inviting colorful horizon;
The more I tried to come closer to it,
The more farther it seemed to move away from me!!
True to my fears, now you ask me to forget you…….
But pray tell me , how can I ??
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
** This is, or rather, was the name of my dearest (pen)friend
who in a brief period of time had taught me all the
important nitty-gritties of life. Our friendship lasted a good
period of over 2 years, after which she just got away. She was
dignified in that she notified me of her inability to
continue the correspondence anymore. All I can say is that I have
learnt a LOT about this life from her. And that I can never forget her
advise.
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[11-June-1997 : Friday]
PANACEA
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
It lies behind the range of those green hills.
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
For then we could lead a merry-full life, filled with all the frills.
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
Only then the society will reserve a seat of honor for you.
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
Otherwise the same people will never even think
twice before they dump you!!
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
For it’s an indispensable asset of one’s life;
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
And only then we can lead a life without constant strife.
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
It’s the only available remedy for the man’s pain;
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
For then, I bet, life will never be the same again!!
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
It is said to be buried where the magnificent rainbow ends;
Come let’s go and find a fortune,
For on it, a man’s life very much depends!!
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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[1996]
A Dying Flower
Is he the son of my love;
Or is he the sin of my love?
Tell me, ye Gods!
Who’s he?
How can you say anything?
For you are too busy;
Writing the destinies of us mortals!
But I can swear that he’s mine!
My own flower, cultivated from the garden
Of meticulous care, patience and pain.
Those laborious long months of nine,
Saw me go through a lot of pain;
But I overcame the hurdle with perseverance.
And now when the flower has finally blossomed,
You are all set to destroy it!!
Answer me God!
How could you it?
What harm has this little child brought upon you?
The child, who didn’t even open his lotus like eyes,
To acquire the knowledge of conscience!
The child, innocent enough to be unaware of virtue and vice!
“YOU”, whom people think have a ocean like heart,
Would you let the child fade away just like that?
Won’t you at least let him feel the warmth of maternity ?
Or would you rather let him be perpetuated
By the long arms of eternity?
-------Rajesh G Pandharpurkar
© RGP Creations
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06 February 2008
03 August 2007
Exhaustive but Interesting Facts about Man, Animal, Plants, Planets.....
1. Turtles have no teeth.
2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.
3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they're crying.
5. Helium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.
6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
8. Camels can spit.
9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
11. Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.
12. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
13. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc
14. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.
15. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
16. Paris, France has more dogs than people.
17. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
18. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
19. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
20. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
21. A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
22. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
23. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey
24. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus
25. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
26. Chess was invented in India.
27. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
28. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices.
29. India has the most post offices in the world
30. 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH
31. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
36. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along
39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
43. Ants don't sleep.
44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time
46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time
47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".
48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
49. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
50. Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
51. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
52. Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
53. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
55. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
56. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
57. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere
58. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy
59. The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.
60. The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome.
62. A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
63. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't
64. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
65. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed
66. Dolphins sleep with one eye open
67. Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.
68. Many spiders have eight eyes.
69. The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.
70. Birds don't sweat
71. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft
72. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts
73. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz
74. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
75. The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert
76. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
77. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
78. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
79. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them
80. An elephant can smell water three miles away
81. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds
82. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
83. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history
84. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
85. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
86. The only 2 animals that can see behind it without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
87. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
88. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
89. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint
90. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.
91. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica
92. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert
93. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter
94. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees.
95. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.
96. Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.
97. Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.
98. Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.
99. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.
100. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.
101. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.
102. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels
103. Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."
104. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. It's scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time, mountain lions were very common!
105. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar.
106. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!
107. Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time! That's equivalent to 40 quarter-pounder hamburgers!
108. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old
109. Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour
110. As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second
111. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
112. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
113. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
114. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
115. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
116. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
117. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
118. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible
119. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it.
120. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
121. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
122. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
123. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
124. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
125. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
126. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
127. Slugs have 4 noses.
128. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
129. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
130. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
131. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
132. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot
133. After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
134. Penguins are not found in the North Pole
135. A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
136. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound
137. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf
138. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
139. Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks
140. Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
141. 259200 people die every day.
142. 11% of the world is left-handed
143. 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day
144. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
145. The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!
146. A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!
147. There are two kinds of radio stations: AM and FM. That's why there are two dials on your radio. AM is used mostly for stations that specialize in talking, such as Christian stations that have Bible stories and sermons; sports stations that broadcast live baseball and football games; and stations that specialize in news programs and "talk shows," where listeners call the station and discuss various topics. FM is used mostly for stations that specialize in music.
148. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil
149. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.
150. The worst industrial disaster in India, occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methly isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy is being felt even today.
151. Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet," because it looks reddish in the night sky. Mars has 2 moons.
152. Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than Mercury, even though it's not as close to the sun. Venus does not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid! If you're gonna visit Venus, pack your gas mask!
153. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.
2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.
3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they're crying.
5. Helium is a colorless, odorless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.
6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest things will rise to the top.
8. Camels can spit.
9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
11. Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.
12. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
13. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc
14. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.
15. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
16. Paris, France has more dogs than people.
17. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
18. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
19. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
20. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
21. A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
22. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
23. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey
24. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus
25. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
26. Chess was invented in India.
27. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
28. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices.
29. India has the most post offices in the world
30. 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH
31. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
36. Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along
39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
43. Ants don't sleep.
44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time
46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time
47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".
48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
49. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
50. Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
51. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
52. Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
53. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
55. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
56. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
57. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere
58. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy
59. The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.
60. The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome.
62. A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
63. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't
64. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
65. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed
66. Dolphins sleep with one eye open
67. Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer". Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.
68. Many spiders have eight eyes.
69. The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.
70. Birds don't sweat
71. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft
72. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts
73. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz
74. The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White it can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
75. The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert
76. Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
77. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
78. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue -- more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
79. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them
80. An elephant can smell water three miles away
81. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds
82. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
83. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history
84. The world's known tallest man is Robert Pershing Wadlow. The giraffe is 5.49m (18 ft.), the man is 2.55m (8ft. 11.1 in.).
85. The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).
86. The only 2 animals that can see behind it without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
87. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
88. The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
89. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint
90. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.
91. 90 % of all the ice in the world in on Antarctica
92. Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert
93. Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter
94. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches 750 degrees, but at night it gets down to -300 degrees.
95. Jupiter is the largest planet. If Jupiter were hollow, you could fit 1000 earths inside! It is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature on Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Sixteen moons orbit Jupiter.
96. Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. If you could find an ocean large enough, it would float. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and has at least 18 moons.
97. Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 15 moons.
98. Neptune takes 165 Earth years to get around the sun. It appears blue because it is made of methane gas. Neptune also has a big Spot like Jupiter. Winds on Neptune get up to 1,200 mile per hour! Neptune has 8 moons.
99. Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun... usually. It has such an unusual orbit that it is occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice.
100. Just about everyone listens to the radio! 99% of homes in the United States have a least one radio. Most families have several radios.
101. Sound is sent from the radio station through the air to your radio by means of electromagnetic waves. News, music, Bible teaching, baseball games, plays, advertisements- these sounds are all converted into electromagnetic waves (radio waves) before they reach your radio and your ears.
102. At the radio station, the announcer speaks into a microphone. The microphone changes the sound of his voice into an electrical signal. This signal is weak and can't travel very far, so it's sent to a transmitter. The transmitter mixes the signal with some strong radio signals called carrier waves. These waves are then sent out through a special antenna at the speed of light! They reach the antenna of your radio. Your antenna "catches" the signal, and the radio's amplifier strengthens the signal and sends it to the speakers. The speakers vibrate, and your ears pick up the vibrations and your brain translates them into the voice of the radio announcer back at the station. When you consider all the places the announcer's voice travels
103. Every radio station has its own frequency. When you turn the tuning knob on your radio, you are choosing which frequency you want your antenna to "catch."
104. Mountain lions are known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. It's scientific name is Felis concolor, which means "cat of one color." At one time, mountain lions were very common!
105. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar.
106. They can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!
107. Their favorite food is deer, but they'll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves. They sneak up on their prey just like a house cat sneaks up on a bird or toy- one slow step at a time. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time! That's equivalent to 40 quarter-pounder hamburgers!
108. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old
109. Dragonflies can flap their wings 28 times per second and they can fly up to 60 miles per hour
110. As fast as dragonflies can flap their wings, bees are even faster... they can flap their wings 435 times per second
111. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
112. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
113. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day
114. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
115. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
116. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
117. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
118. Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible
119. Coca-Cola would be green if coloring weren't added to it.
120. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.
121. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
122. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
123. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.
124. Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!
125. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
126. Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
127. Slugs have 4 noses.
128. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
129. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
130. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
131. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
132. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot
133. After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
134. Penguins are not found in the North Pole
135. A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
136. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound
137. Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf
138. Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes.
139. Fish scales are an ingredient in most lipsticks
140. Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
141. 259200 people die every day.
142. 11% of the world is left-handed
143. 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day
144. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!
145. The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That's bigger than your hand!
146. A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!
147. There are two kinds of radio stations: AM and FM. That's why there are two dials on your radio. AM is used mostly for stations that specialize in talking, such as Christian stations that have Bible stories and sermons; sports stations that broadcast live baseball and football games; and stations that specialize in news programs and "talk shows," where listeners call the station and discuss various topics. FM is used mostly for stations that specialize in music.
148. The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil
149. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.
150. The worst industrial disaster in India, occurred in 1984 in Bhopal the capital of Madhya Pradesh. A deadly chemical, methly isocyanate leaked out of the Union Carbide factory killing more than 2500 and leaving thousands sick. In fact the effects of this gas tragedy is being felt even today.
151. Mars is nicknamed the "Red Planet," because it looks reddish in the night sky. Mars has 2 moons.
152. Venus is nicknamed the "Jewel of the Sky." Because of the greenhouse effect, it is hotter than Mercury, even though it's not as close to the sun. Venus does not have a moon but it does have clouds of sulfuric acid! If you're gonna visit Venus, pack your gas mask!
153. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world, fight in a harmless battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.
16 August 2006
Indians are serious???!! ....Think again!!!
One of my friends from Bangalore sent me the following mail. Indians sometimes are considered to be serious minded people at the work-place. But after reading the examples i have come to a conclusion that despite their best efforts they still produce some gems. Read the following for a quick laugh!!!
1. Infosys, Bangalore: An employee applied for leave as follows:
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"Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife,please sanction me one-week leave."
"Since I have to go to my village to sell my land along with my wife,please sanction me one-week leave."
2. This is from an employee of Oracle Bangalore, who was performing the "mundan" ceremony of his 10 year old son:
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"as I want to shave my son's head, please leave me for two days.."
3. Another gem from CDAC. Leave-letter from an employee who was performing his daughter's wedding:
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"as I am marrying my daughter, please grant a week's leave.."
4. From H.A.L. Administration dept:
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"As my mother-in-law has expired and I am only one responsible forit, please grant me 10 days leave."
5. Another employee applied for half day leave as follows:
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"Since I've to go to the cremation ground at 10 o-clocks and I maynot return, please grant me half day casual leave"
6. An incident of a leave letter
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"I am suffering from fever, please declare one day holiday."
7. A leave letter to the headmaster:
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"As I am studying in this school I am suffering from headache. Irequest you to leave me today"
8. Another leave letter written to the headmaster:
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"As my headache is paining, please grant me leave for the day."
9. Covering note:
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"I am enclosed herewith..."
10. Another one:
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"Dear Sir: with reference to the above, please refer to my below..."
11. Actual letter written for application of leave:
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"My wife is suffering from sickness and as I am her only husband athome I may be granted leave".
12. Letter writing: -
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"I am in well here and hope you are also in the same well."
13. A candidate's job application:
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"This has reference to your advertisement calling for a ' Typist and anAccountant - Male or Female'... As I am both (!!)For the past severalyears and I can handle both with good experience, I am applying for thepost. "
Thanking You,
Thanking You,
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