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Blood Donor Available in Emergencies
Recently I received and email talking about how one can get a blood donor simply by sending an SMS. This one made me smile with a deep sense of satisfaction. Good souls do exist, and they also get more organised all the time and add immense value to the society around us.
The crux of the matter: If you need blood in an emergency (Of Blood Group B+, for instance), just send an SMS "BLOOD B+" to 9600097000 - And a blood donor will get in touch with you!
Oh! I certainly hope that this is no hoax. If this is indeed true, the concept should be extended across the length and breadth of India. If false, perthaps some NGO should pick up this idea and execute the same!
Regards,
N
Going on a holiday
Dear Friends,
Am going off on a longish holiday for 3-4 weeks. I'm unlikely to be blogging during this period.
Once I'm back, I'm sure that I'll be even more energized than ever, and will come up with many more useful and interesting posts.
Do check out from time to time, but certainly come back to this blog in the first week of December, 2009.
Bye for now!
Regards,
N
Is a Remote Control male or female?
Source: A forward that I got from an old classmate. Original source - Certainly unknown, but worth sharing to have a hearty laugh!
To know the right answers to such profound questions, do read on!
Regards,
N
Ever wondered the gender of a photocopier? Wonder no more, the answers to all your gender questions are here, You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are either male or female.
Below are some examples:
FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.
PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off, it takes a while to warm them up again. They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can also wreak havoc if you push the wrong ones.
TYRES: Tyres are male, because they go bald easily and are often over-inflated.
HOT AIR BALLOONS: Also a male object, because to get them to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under them.
SPONGES: These are female, because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.
WEB PAGES: Female, because they're constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.
TRAINS: Definitely male, because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.
EGG TIMERS: Egg timers are female, because, over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom.
HAMMERS: Male, because in the last 5000 years, they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.
THE REMOTE CONTROL: Female. You probably thought it would be male, but consider this: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.
Regards,
N
English - a potentially irritating language for kids
Back at school, I always used to wonder about the mysterious paradox of the English Language.
Why should "put" be "put", but "cut" doesn't rhyme with it. On the other hand, why does "Pot" rhyme with "Cot"?
And literally thousands of such questions.
In those days, I thought that the entire purpose was to enable the English teacher to derive some sadistic pleasure at the expense of us "poor, little kids"!
This wonderful forward that I got from an anonymous source tells me that nothing much has changed over the years.
Do read and enjoy!
Regards,
N
ONLY THE BRITISHERS COULD HAVE INVENTED THIS LANGUAGE
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England ..
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
in which your house can burn up as it burns
down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And, in closing, if Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop?
I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT IF PEOPLE FROM POLAND ARE CALLED POLES THEN
PEOPLE FROM HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES AND THE GERMANS GERMS!!!
Regards,
N
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