The peasant and the snake

One day, a poor chinese peasant passes a paddy field. He sees a glistening cobra. It was a snake like none other he had seen in his lifetime. It had an aura of beauty and a delicious glow about it (a glow for which many a girl would give her arm!) A 'lil rumble in the peasant's under-nourished tummy told him.. "my dear 'lil Tse Tao.. dinner lies ahead of u!" .. So, the peasant heeding the good advice of his belly, caught the snake. gave it a good seasoning and ate it! oh! the divine taste! oh the fullness he hadn't experienced in weeks.. whilst he was involved in this joy .. a crackle,a bang , a whistle and pop, and lightning and smoke, and before him stood an odd dark guy wearing just a tigerskin loincloth and and some crazy kind of stick!.. he was puzzled and scared and asked who it is... the dark dude replied..."WTF? It is I, Shiva, the destroyer of the worlds... and why the F!@K did u just eat my friggin' muffler??? i want it back!!"

Shiva-angry

The First Grader ...

Stumbled across this old joke. Long, yet quite funny! ( BTW .. IIM Ahmedabad is currently the best B-School in India, in case you haven't heard of it)

 

A beautiful teacher was having trouble with one of her students in 1st Grade class. teacher asked,'Boy. What is your problem?'

Boy answered, 'I'm too smart for the first-grade.My sister is in the third-grade and I'm smarter than she is! I think I should be in the 4th Grade!'

 

Teacher had enough. She took the Boy to the principal's office. While the Boy waited in the outer office, teacher explained to the principal what the situation was. The principal told teacher he would give the boy a test and if he failed to answer any of his

questions he was to go back to the first-grade and behave.She agreed.

the Boy was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he agreed to take the test..

Principal: 'What is 3 x 3?'

Boy.: '9'.

 

Principal: 'What is 6 x 6?'

Boy.: '36'.

 

And so it went with every question the principal thought a 4th grade should know. The principal looks at teacher and tells her, 'I think Boy can go to the 4th grade.'

 

Teacher says to the principal, 'I have some of my own questions.

Can I ask him ?' The principal and Boy both agreed.

 

Teacher asks, 'What does a cow have four of that I have only two of'?

Boy, after a moment 'Legs.'

 

 

Teacher : 'What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?'

Boy.: 'Pockets.'

 

Teacher : What starts with a C and ends with a T, is hairy, oval,

delicious and contains thin whitish liquid?

 

Boy.: Coconut

 

Teacher : What goes in hard and pink then comes out soft And sticky?

The principal's eyes open really wide and before he could stop the answer, Boy was taking charge.

 

Boy.: Bubblegum

 

Teacher : What does a man do standing up, a woman does sitting down and a dog does on three legs?

 

The principal's eyes open really wide and before he could stop the answer...

Boy.: Shake hands

 

Teacher : You stick your poles inside me. You tie me down to get me up. I get wet before you do.

Boy.: Tent

 

Teacher : A finger goes in me. You fiddle with me when you're bored. The best man always has me first.

The Principal was looking restless, a bit tense and took one large Patiala Vodka peg.

Boy.: Wedding Ring

 

Teacher : I come in many sizes. When I'm not well, I drip. When you blow me, you feel good.

Boy.: Nose

 

Teacher : I have a stiff shaft. My tip penetrates. I come with a quiver.

Boy.: Arrow

 

Teacher : What word starts with a 'F' and ends in 'K' that means lot of heat and excitement?

Boy.: Fire truck

 

Teacher : What word starts with a 'F' and ends in 'K' & if u don't get it, u have to use ur hand.

Boy.: Fork

 

Teacher : What is it that all men have one of it's longer on some men than on others, the pope doesn't use his and a man gives it to his wife after they're married?

Boy.: SURNAME.

 

Teacher : What part of the man has no bone but has muscles, has lots of veins, like pumping, & is responsible for making love ?

Boy.: HEART.

 

The principal breathed a sigh of relief and said to the teacher,

 

'Send this Boy to

IIM AHMEDABAD,

I got the last ten questions wrong myself!'.

 

A l´il interesting something On Markets and Competition


Good reading "Have Breakfast… or…Be Breakfast!"  By Y. L. R. MOORTHI
[Management Views from IIMB is an exclusive column written every two weeks for India.wsj.com by faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.] 

 
"Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
 Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The
winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell
phones. 
Reason being cameras bundled with cell phones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now,
what prevents the cell phone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all.
One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note. 
 Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV
Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for
30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music
albums (that run for hours).  Incidentally, Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has
already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's
parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.

 Nokia confessed that they all but missed the Smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's
Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never
thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean
anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or
music or camera or emails. 

 The "Mahabharata" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's
personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a
telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding
behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"
 Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What
Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer
almost immediately.
 Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT
company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is
it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video
capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio?
"Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony
defines its businesses as "digital."
 In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going
digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting
left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It
did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?"
 The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC.
The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then
turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is
not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

 In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore
airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers.
There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned.
The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco.
 Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were
compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel
budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies
was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas
to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good.
But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is
something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.
  Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides
physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the
now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its
original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees
to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also
crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money.
Then it will surely be RIP!  India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over
cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought
cricket down to 20 overs.  Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL
matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3
hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the
market. 

 Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last
see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you
last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!"
For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic
typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all.
Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an
upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.  One
last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the
morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of
mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running.
It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the
colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle
though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the
morning? Cell phone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning
thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never
know in which bush your competitor is hiding!
 On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines?
(Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke
telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the
competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company
once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said
"Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.

 —Dr.Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a post graduate
in management from IIM, Bangalore.


Axe gets Effected!!! LOLZ!!!

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Unable to attract a single girl, frustrated man sues Axe

New Delhi. In what could prove to be a major marketing and legal embarrassment for Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), a 26-year-old man has filed a case against the FMCG company, which owns the Axe brand of men grooming products, for ‘cheating’ and causing him ‘mental suffering’. The plaintiff has cited his failure to attract any girl at all even though he’s been using Axe products for over seven years now. Axe advertisements suggest that the products help men in instantly attracting women.

Vaibhav Bedi, the petitioner, also surrendered all his used, unused and half-used deodorant sprays, perfume sticks and roll-ons, anti-perspirants, aftershaves, body washes, shampoos, and hair gels to the court, and demanded a laboratory test of the products and narcotics test of the brand managers of Axe. Vaibhav was pushed to take this step when his bai (maid) beat him with a broom when he tried to impress her by appearing naked in front of her after applying all the Axe products. 


No girl ever asked Vaibhav to call her

“Where the !@#$ is the Axe effect? I’ve been waiting for it for over seven years. Right from my college to now in my office, no girl ever agreed to even go out for a tea or coffee with me, even though I’m sure they could smell my perfumes, deodorants and aftershaves. I always applied them in abundance to make sure the girls get turned on as they show in the television. Finally I thought I’d try to impress my lonely bai who had an ugly fight with her husband and was living alone for over a year. Axe effect my foot!” Vaibhav expressed his unhappiness.

Vaibhav claims that he had been using all the Axe products as per the company’s instructions even since he first bought them. He argued that if he couldn’t experience the Axe effect despite using the products as directed, either the company was making false claims or selling fake products.

“I had always stored them in cool and dry place, and kept them away from direct light or heat. I’d always use a ruler before applying the spray and make sure that the distance between the nozzle and my armpit was at least 15 centimeters. I’d do everything they told. I even beat up my 5-year-old nephew for coming near my closet, as they had instructed it to keep away from children’s reach. And yet, all I get is a broom beating from my ugly bai.” Vaibhav expressed his frustration.

Vaibhav claims that he had to do go a lot of mental suffering and public humiliation due to the lack of Axe effect and wants HUL to compensate him for this agony. An advocate in Karkardooma court, who happened to mistake Vaibhav for some deodorant vendor when he entered the court premises with all the bottles, has now offered to take up his case in the court. HUL has been served a legal notice in this regard.

HUL has officially declined to comment on the case citing the subject to be sub judice, but our sources inform that the company was worried over the possible outcomes of the case. The company might argue that Vaibhav was hopelessly unattractive and unintelligent and didn’t possess the bare minimum requirements for the Axe effect to take place. Officially HUL has not issued any statement, but legal experts believe that HUL could have tough time convincing the court.

“HUL might be tempted to take that line of argument, but it is very risky. There is no data to substantiate the supposition that unattractive and unintelligent men don’t attract women. In fact some of the best looking women have been known to marry and date absolutely ghoulish guys. I’d suggest that the company settles this issue out of court.” noted lawyer Ram Jhoothmalani said.

  


Guts Vs Balls

 

We've all heard about people having Guts or Balls.

But do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, the definition for each is listed below...

GUTS - is arriving home late after a night out with guys, being met by your wife with a broom, and having the guts to ask: "Are you still cleaning, or are you flying somewhere?"

BALLS - is coming home late after a night out with the guys, smelling of perfume and beer, lipstick on your collar, slapping your wife on the ass and having the balls to say: "You're next."

I hope this clears up any confusion on the definitions. Medically speaking, there is no difference in the outcome since both ultimately result in death.

 

'Governance'

'Governance'

As a daily habit, the 10-year Old Pintu was reading newspaper.
Suddenly he asked his father, " Dad! What does it mean by 'Governance'? "

"Its Like..." father said while thinking, "See! I earn and bring
money to home, mean's I am a 'Money Holder'. Your mother decides where and how to spend that money and that means she is 'Government'.
That maid in our home is doing all the household works, so she will be 'Labour Class'.
You are a 'Common man' or 'Public'.
Your kid brother is 'Future' or the 'Next  Generation', understand?".

That day Pintu slept with all those thoughts. In the middle of the night he woke-up because his kid brother was crying. He wetted the matresses. Pintu went to wake up his mother. She was in deep sleep so Pintu went to the Maid's room to wake her up.
But, there his father was sleeping with the maid. So he came back in frustration.

Next morning father asked Pintu, " So, Pintu Dear, did you understand the meaning of  'Governance'? ".

Pintu replied, "Yeah Dad, I understood! When money Holder is exploiting Labour Class, our Government is sleeping.
Future of our nation is crying for not getting their basic needs fulfilled and in all this Common Man is suffering!"