Tuesday, August 29, 2006

First of all, those of you who know where these pictures have been taken, please keep quiet!

Assume a building has three elevators. They can be intelligently designed to service the various floors of the building in this fashion:
This one stops at even numbered floors only.

This one only serves odd numbered floors. So far so good.

The third, obviously, serves All floors only!! Heh heh, we could teach some English to those Firangs :-)

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Mico Layout Traffic Police 'pleading' citizens to follow lane discipline.We hear from India's ancient stories (not sure which) that there are 4 stages in negotiation. 'Saama' or placation (I request you to do it), 'Daana' or presentation, (If you do this, I will give you that), 'Bheda' or partition, (See, everyone else is doing it. Why not you?) and 'Danda' or persecution. (Do this, or else!) I am not sure what stage did Mico Layout traffic police started off with, but now they seem to be at 'Bheda' stage. The comparison they are making is not flattering to us humans! With the traffic condition being what it is on BTM ring road, I sometimes with I was indeed an ant.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Some more high quality Kannada, this time on an auto.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006


Is that the desi version of "leaning tower of Pisa"? Almost. Except that this is a dangerously leaning killer truck on Bangalore's roads. A large population of these leaning wonders are made up by crowded BMTC buses. I will replace this picture with a better one some day.
Here is somebody who _really_ knows his Kannada very well. This board is right across the road from the Suburban bus terminal in Mysore. I figured that I don't even know how to read "taxi" in Kannada.

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

You better be careful while tailgating this car.


If he can 'break' power, wonder what he can do to your car and your bones.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

What's this blog about?

Hmm... another blog. What is this going to contain?

I think the world is filled with funny things, if you have the eye for it. One of the things that always amuses me is Indians' English. It becomes funnier when billboards/boards of commercial establishments are put out in English. When people want a board or banner written in English, all the expert advice they are going to depend on for grammar and spelling is the person who draws the board. What is even more funny is that this is not limited to English alone. It is very common to see boards with bad grammar/spelling in local languages. I find these things funny, so such things are definitely going to appear on this website. Anything else that I find strange/funny will also make it to this blog.

Let's see how far this goes.