Demos are always bewitched

This happened to my cousin who works for a finance company with a large customer base in rural India. He works in marketing department. One of the Directors had come down to his office. After some usual office meetings had asked for a demo of how they market the products on the field.

He had taken the director to a nearby village and having him aside he approached the nearby elderly man in his sixties. He introduced himself as a person working for this company and had started marketing the companies product. All the while, the elderly man had kept nodding his head.

After some 5-6 minutes of this campaign, the elderly man has said, "My child, I see that you want to tell something to me, but my left ear does not hear properly, can you come over to my right and explain it."

My cousin still gets a good laugh from everyone over this demo embarrassment before his marketing director.

Matrimony website - prospective Alliance's reply

I got this reply while searching alliances for my sister in one of these matrimony websites. Don't miss to read what bridegroom's parents are searching for(an NRI). You will immediately appreciate his urgency on the last line.

Hi,

I saw your msg happy, pls send your sister photo horscope and adress details now i am in india, my parents now searching aliens. pls send imediatly.

Thanking

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How does a newborn look like???

Recently I was at my friends house to see her new-born(just a month old).

On the question of how does the baby look like? I replied, "I never had a clue on how people could tell resemblance of the baby with either of parents at such a young stage of their growth".

Uncle in their house replied, "neither can most people, just that they say it with all confidence that baby looks like mum/dad/grand-relations etc. Best answer on this question we have heard so far, is from one of our relations on her grand-kid."
On this question, she had replied "Top half (above hips) looks like mom, bottom half looks like Dad of the kid."

There is a problem facing me here!!!

My friend was looking at the desktop and was deeply engrossed in debugging his code. He called my name and said "I have a problem facing me here..."

He lightened up on hearing my reply, "Why dont you turn around?"

Explaining 'Sardar'ji jokes ...

This happened to my ex-colleague. He during a team luncheon had told a sardarji joke. Manager was an expatriate(a blonde in that) and so she had difficulty understanding sardarji genre jokes.
Now he wanted to explain her about this category of sardarji jokes and in a hurry uttered,
"Sardarji jokes are like 'blonde' jokes of the west."

Thankfully she had not got offended by mention of blondes in this context it seems(as he had survived to work an year under her after this).

Life's ups & downs

I am scrapping with this friend who is in Chennai after some 3-4 years. On her question on "Hows life?"

My reply: Life has been good with its usual ups & downs. How abt urs?
Her reply scrap: Yup, with lots of ups & down here as well.
My reply: I didnt know that Chennai roads are as bad as Gurgaon roads?
(I am residing in Gurgaon for some years now. Now, after this scraps exchange, she is not replying back to any of my scraps)

Short of Vision as ...

RS, had earlier described to me a business opportunity which IMHO did not exists.
PK: Business plan that u r suggesting, at any day is not implementable by a third party.
RS: You need to have vision to implement this.
PK: Yes, as I am short on vision, I am indeed short-sighted.
(Just FYI, I wear specs for short sight.)

Be careful abt spell check correction in outlook

My colleague in UK had accepted all corrections suggested by Outlook mail and sent the mail to his manager(Anil).

Later did he realise the mistake of accepting all when he read the 1st line of the mail as
"Hi Anal, "

Tamil PJ (to be enjoyed by S/w Enggrs)

Me: Hi, Yeppadi irukka?

Friend: Nulla kiraenn.

Me: NULLa kiraenna???, Why dont u declare a variable and set the value?

Ab Bahuth Hogaya!

My colleague narrated this incident that happened to him with his son.

Once he and his wife had a heated discussion on a topic for some time. His son(may be around 6 yrs old then) who had been listening to the whole fight suddenly intervened. He had then said "Ab bahuth hogaya! Mein shahdi nahi karunga!" ("I had Enough of this stuff! I will not marry anyone!")