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Mathematical arguments

New Year Resolution

Let me begin with the usual greeting...are wahi, "Yappie New Year". Its one of those traditions common across the world that goes around this time of the year. It goes along with another such tradition, NEW YEAR RESOLUTION. Ok...best of luck with that.

Guess what is Bhopu's New Year resolution this time around.

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Hmmm, I think you get the big picture.

Zzzzz Mr. Bean

What do you call him when Rowan Atkinson is sleeping?



Soya Bean :)

Save Paper - Save World

This simple advertising stunt is extremely effective in passing across the message as to how the rain forests of Amazon are being depleted by our thoughtless usage.

This is what Saatchi & Saatchi, Denmark had to say:

To make people realize that saving the planet starts with them saving paper, we took a standard paper dispenser and made a simple modification with green foil and the silhouette of South America. This allowed us to prove that the survival of the forest is directly connected to what people consume.

Help thy enemy

We have always thought that competitors in market will do anything to kill each other off. I guess we in India will never be the true capitalists...

Here a couple of example that I came across:

1) www.airtel.com : Expect Airtel's website to open up...

2) Try booking a ticket online at IRCTC i.e. Indian Railways.


Looks like Spice Jet is the only one that takes Lalu to Patna :)

Chained

Chain mails come in varied forms...but this one caught my attention.

Found in my orkut scrap book:

I lost my brand new Natraj HB pencil with a rubber attached.
The pencil costs Rs.3/. If u forward this msg I will get one
paisa from orkut. If you have heart and want to
help a poor child in need, plz fwd it to atleast
10 friends. Please don't neglect. Otherwise my mom will scold me.
If you forward it then your life will change for ever (u will get
one pack of sketch pens and an apsara non-dust eraser within 3 days).
Do NOT delete this message otherwise greek gods will get angry with you
and your life will be pencil-less forever.
Good Luck will come to you for wasting time

(Ig)Noble Intentions?

List of this year's Ignoble award winners...Definitely an interesting read.

Medicine - Brian Witcombe, of Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and Dan Meyer for their probing work on the health consequences of swallowing a sword.

Physics - A US-Chile team who ironed out the problem of how sheets become wrinkled.

Biology - Dr Johanna van Bronswijk of the Netherlands for carrying out a creepy crawly census of all of the mites, insects, spiders, ferns and fungi that share our beds.

Chemistry - Mayu Yamamoto, from Japan, for developing a method to extract vanilla fragrance and flavouring from cow dung.

Linguistics - A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.

Literature - Glenda Browne of Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of the word "the", and how it can flummox those trying to put things into alphabetical order.

Peace - The US Air Force Wright Laboratory for instigating research and development on a chemical weapon that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among enemy troops.

Nutrition - Brian Wansink of Cornell University for investigating the limits of human appetite by feeding volunteers a self-refilling, "bottomless" bowl of soup.

Economics - Kuo Cheng Hsieh of Taiwan for patenting a device that can catch bank robbers by dropping a net over them.

Aviation - A National University of Quilmes, Argentina, team for discovering that impotency drugs can help hamsters to recover from jet lag.

Oh Brother

Found on an orkut profile:

Cuisines: One Brother

Mystifying Bill

One of my friend had recently gone to Surat.

His hotel bill had the following item which left him totally confused


3 Paints (Wosing): Rs 45




On enquiry it turned out he had given 3 pants for laundary.

Tennis Fun

Meet the funniest player on tennis circuit....Who is it?

Novak "Joke"-ovich.

Sounds like they always knew what he was going to turn out to be.

Phizeeks...eeks!

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen:

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper using a barometer."

One student replied:

"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground.

The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."

This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed.

The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case.

The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics.

To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer which showed at least a minimal familiarity the basic principles of physics.

For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought.

The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use.

On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:

"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground.

The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."

"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow.

Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."

"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper.

The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force
T = 2 pi sq root (l / g)."

"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."

"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."

"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him, 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."

18 Vodkas

A guy walked into a bar one day and said to the barman, "Give me six double vodkas."
The barman says, "Wow! you must have had one hell of a day."

"Yeah, I just found out my oldest son is gay."

The next day, the same guy came into the bar and asked for the same drinks.
When the bartender asked what the problem was today the answer came back, "I
just found out that my youngest son is gay, too!"

On the third day, the guy came into the bar and ordered another six double
vodkas. The bartender said, "Jesus! Doesn't anybody in your family like
women?"

The man downed the first drink and shook his head, "Yeah, my wife!"

New age Ads

One of the seniors here at WIMWI was in Bengaluru last week...and this is how he was welcomed outside the airport.

Do I see something u dont?

High Politicians

Why were all the new MPs stoned after their first day in Parliament?










The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha had a "joint" session

Shahrukh ka plural

What is thew plural of "Shah Rukh Khan"?

Ans: ICICI


Ask me how?


Shah rukh says: Main Hoon Na
ICICI says: Hum Hai Na.

Proud Lion

A man takes his 8-year-old son for a drive by the countryside, and he drives at 60 M.P.H. in a 20 M.P.H. zone. The son looked at the speedometer and said, "Dad, you are a real lion!” The proud dad took the compliment and played the part of a hero to his son by stepping even more on the gas pedal.

This time, he is traveling at 80 M.P.H. in a 20 M.P.H. zone. The son looked at the speedometer and said, "Dad, you are a perfect lion!" The dad smiled proudly. Just then, they drove past a farm with a jackass grazing on it.

The son said, pointing to the jackass, "Dad, look! A lion"!