Misc.

[Mohan K.V]

A report in the Droll Street Journal: "The paronomAsian punancial crisis, primarily precipitated by unregulated tirade on derivatives, appears to have passed".

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What became of the Sheikh who suffered heavy losses because of his unwise White bets during the above crisis, and who had to let go of every tenth courtesan in his harem because of downsizing? He was decimated.

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What do you call it when command line interfaces start spouting unoriginal and oft-repeated communist and revolutionary propaganda, instead of, say, cute applications of Lagrange's 4-square theorem? A CLI-Ché.

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The German Zen master wants to test the new disciple before deciding to fund him full time. After all, the DFG had been unimpressed with the whole idea right from the beginning, and never really believed they could compete with the Japanese. Why the heck had he decided to go for a PhD instead of taking up that B-school offer? It was all an eyewash, and he even... Anyway, he asks a standard* entrance exam question, "What is the meaning of the Buddha's coming from the west?".

The student thinks and answers, "Well, maybe the door was to the West?".

"Try again".

"Maybe there was a sea or river on the East, North and South?"

(Sounding frustrated) "Harder, you need to transcend such thoughts and think differently"

"Maybe it was symbolic of an enlightened saviour coming to the rescue after the Sun of Knowledge has set?"

"Nein nein nein! You're not making any zense!"

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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan#Examples , last one. It is easily the second-most famous Koan after Mu. I have taken some liberties with the interpretation.

[Mahesh Mahadevan]

Paraphrasing (sort of) from a comment that I made on KVM's photo.
I am releasing a new product to combat and manage abdominal fat in
Latinos - I call it they belly-gerente.

[Abhishek Upadhya]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Mohan K.V <kvm....@gmail.com> wrote:

A report in the Droll Street Journal: "The paronomAsian punancial crisis, primarily precipitated by unregulated tirade on derivatives, appears to have passed".

-  Rather Bull-ish, don't you think?

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What became of the Sheikh who suffered heavy losses because of his unwise White bets during the above crisis, and who had to let go of every tenth courtesan in his harem because of downsizing? He was decimated.

 

He entered into an alliance with that legendary tongue-twisted sick sheikh, and together they started hexing everybody.

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What do you call it when command line interfaces start spouting unoriginal and oft-repeated communist and revolutionary propaganda, instead of, say, cute applications of Lagrange's 4-square theorem? A CLI-Ché.

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The German Zen master wants to test the new disciple before deciding to fund him full time. After all, the DFG had been unimpressed with the whole idea right from the beginning, and never really believed they could compete with the Japanese. Why the heck had he decided to go for a PhD instead of taking up that B-school offer? It was all an eyewash, and he even... Anyway, he asks a standard* entrance exam question, "What is the meaning of the Buddha's coming from the west?".

The student thinks and answers, "Well, maybe the door was to the West?".

"Try again".

"Maybe there was a sea or river on the East, North and South?"

(Sounding frustrated) "Harder, you need to transcend such thoughts and think differently"

"Maybe it was symbolic of an enlightened saviour coming to the rescue after the Sun of Knowledge has set?"

"Nein nein nein! You're not making any zense!"

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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan#Examples , last one. It is easily the second-most famous Koan after Mu. I have taken some liberties with the interpretation.

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Regards,
Abhishek Upadhya

[priya venkateshan]

didn't get the hexing bit.

[Mohan K.V]

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Belligerent - Fight the Fat!
Belly gerente - "Belly manager" in Italian and Spanish
Belli Geronto - "Old Wars" in mangled Latin-Greek, of course, it's a war being fought since the dawn of Civilization!

Any more?

[Abhishek Upadhya]

Sixth sick sheik Plus decimated sheik = hexadecimal sheik.

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Regards,
Abhishek Upadhya

[Mahesh Mahadevan]

Where he lives, the sheep have identity crises. Their names all start with 0x.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Abhishek Upadhya

[Mohan K.V]

One cow knew something was amiss right from the time she was named. 0xDEADBEEF definitely sounded odd.

[priya venkateshan]

And the grass there had a name too: 0xFEED.

[priya venkateshan]

There was this albino buffalo that was named 0xFADE

[priya venkateshan]

The sheik's sickness took his hearing away. His new name was DEAF

[Gautham]

Well, if he has given up on counting the sheep, he can always have the 0xc0ffee

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"Opposites when separated compete, when united complete!!"

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[Mohan K.V]

For actual uses, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak

[Mohan K.V]

-  Rather Bull-ish, don't you think?

[Obligatory] I couldn't bear to think otherwise.

[priya venkateshan]

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You guys have so much of humour stocked up, do share some with the rest of us.


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[Abhishek Upadhya]

Damn, i didn't see them pun initially. How haughty of me.
Also, the trading had been so butchered up, they
changed the name to Halal street.

On 11/17/09, priya venkateshan <priy...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Regards,
Abhishek Upadhya

[Mohan K.V]

So our Sheikh, who is disgraced in his local community, decides to start over and moves to the only other human venture (other than being born a Sheikh) that allows one to wallow in as much money, Indian Politics. He obviously can't use his old name, so he takes on a new one. He makes 1 crore in 2 years, and then changes his name again, and contests from some other constituency, and does the same again. Bloggers and journalists and other wannabes are increasingly frustrated at his rate of growth, and they go to a wise man with a Math degree, to complain. "Forget about how much he's looted, look at his rate of growth!" they rant for hours, but he calmly says, "Relax, it'll slow down soon". They are irritated by his calm answer, but that's all he says. "Relax, it'll slow down soon". However, the Sheikh continues doing his part: changing his name, contesting for elections, looting money, making his booty grow unbelievably fast. He reaches Rs. 10 crore.

Then suddenly, as if by a law of the universe, the growth slows down. It finally becomes that every time he changes his name and contests, he can only make 10x more money. Only 100 crore next. Then only 1000 crore. Why, even Vatal Nagaraj makes money faster than that! He's extremely frustrated. No matter what he does, he simply can't increase his growth rate. He tries every trick he knows, but no. What is happening?

The wise man calmly smiles, and says, "See, I told you all along. A polynomial of degree n can have at most n zeros."