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” We Have to Play a Different Game At Times ” !!!
“There once lived a great mathematician in a village outside Ujjain . He was often called by the local king to advice on matters related to the economy. His reputation had spread as far as Taxila in the North and Kanchi in the South. So it hurt him very much when the village headman told him, “You may be a great mathematician who advises the king on economic matters but your son does not know the value of gold or silver.”
The mathematician called his son and asked, “What is more valuable – gold or silver?” “Gold,” said the son. “That is correct. Why is it then that the village headman makes fun of you, claims you do not know the value of gold or silver? He teases me every day. He mocks me before other village elders as a father who neglects his son. This hurts me. I feel everyone in the village is laughing behind my back because you do not know what is more valuable, gold or silver. Explain this to me, son.”
So the son of the mathematician told his father the reason why the village headman carried this impression. “Every day on my way to school, the village headman calls me to his house. There, in front of all village elders, he holds out a silver coin in one hand and a gold coin in other. He asks me to pick up the more valuable coin. I pick the silver coin. He laughs, the elders jeer, everyone makes fun of me. And then I go to school. This happens every day. That is why they tell you I do not know the value of gold or silver.”
The father was confused. His son knew the value of gold and silver, and yet when asked to choose between a gold coin and silver coin always picked the silver coin. “Why don’t you pick up the gold coin?” he asked. In response, the son took the father to his room and showed him a box. In the box were at least a hundred silver coins. Turning to his father, the mathematician’ s son said, “The day I pick up the gold coin the game will stop. They will stop having fun and I will stop making money.”
Moral:
Sometimes in life, we have to play the fool because our seniors and our peers, and sometimes even our juniors like it. That does not mean we lose in the game of life. It just means allowing others to win in one arena of the game, while we win in the other arena of the game. We have to choose which arena matters to us and which arenas do not….!!!
source::::input from a friend of mine.
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Try Not to Laugh !!!…” Spelling Mistake ” !!!…
Two men were walking home after a Halloween party and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs.
Right in the middle of the cemetery they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows.
Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.
Right in the middle of the cemetery they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows.
Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.
“Holy cow, Mister,” one of them said after catching his breath, “You scared us half to death — we thought you were a ghost! What are you doing working here so late at night?”
“Those fools!” the old man grumbled. “They misspelled my name”
source:::: input from my friend
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Clever Jury !!!
In a criminal justice system based on 12 individuals not smart enough to
get out of jury duty, here is a jury to be proud of:
A defendant was on trial for murder. There was strong evidence indicating
guilt, but there was no corpse.
In the defense’s closing statement, the lawyer, knowing that his client
would probably be convicted, resorted to a trick.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you all,” the
lawyer said as he looked at his watch. “Within one minute, the person
presumed dead in this case will walk into this courtroom.” He looked
toward the courtroom door. The jurors, somewhat stunned, all looked on eagerly.
A minute passed. Nothing happened.
Finally the lawyer said, “Actually, I made up the previous statement. But
you all looked on with anticipation. I, therefore, put it to you that you
have a reasonable doubt in this case as to whether anyone was killed, and
I insist that you return a verdict of not guilty.”
The jury retired to deliberate. A few minutes later, the jury returned
and pronounced a verdict of guilty.
“But how?” inquired the lawyer. “You must have had some doubt; I saw all
of you stare at the door.”
The jury foreman replied:
“Yes, we did look, But your client didn’t.”
source:::::input from a friend of mine
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Animal Photos of the Week !!!
Kangaroos fighting at Suzhou Zoo, Jiangsu Province, ChinaPicture: HAP/Quirky China News/REX
A polar bear stands on drift ice as it searches for seals in the Arctic Ocean
Swans on the upper reaches of River Avon, Malmesbury, WiltshirePicture: SWNS
Keen snapper Megan Lorenz, 38, was busy shooting images of foxes in Algonquin Provincial Park in Canada when one playful youngster decided to take over the shoot. Appearing from behind her the fox seemed to take a keen interest in her kit so Megan, from Toronto in Ontario, Canada, decided to back away and let it investigate. The inquisitive fox seemed to be checking on how its pals were looking – hopping up on its hind legs and peering through the view finder at the other foxes against the snowy backdrop.
Villagers in one of Britain’s natural beauty spots are being trained in the age old practice of using one-ton Shire horses in a bid to clean up the area.Locals in parts of the New Forest, Hants, will use traditional horse logging techniques to reduce the high level of unmanaged woodland in the National Park.They are being taught how to manage giant Percheron horses in a bid to clear timber from the wooded sites which make up more than 40 per cent of the park.They have been shown how to load logs and woodland onto wheeled carts which are connected to a harness and attached to the horse.
A snowy owl with its eyes wide open sits in its compound in the zoo in Duisburg, northwestern Germany
Despite the icy cold temperature and being wary of water, this giant panda was so tempted that it overcame all its reservations and waded into the water to retrieve an apple at the Changsha Ecological Zoo in China
A smiling lioness warmly embraces her best friend by wrapping her front legs around her body. The lions were reinforcing their social status by bonding in the late afternoon sun after resting through 40 degrees celsius heat during the day.The lionesses, which are around three years old, are from a pride which roam around the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana
This baby elephant at Vienna Zoo, Austria, loves bathtime.
This tiger decided to play a prank on its unsuspecting sibling, by pouncing on it whilst it was looking the other way. After slowly creeping up behind, the tiger leapt onto the other’s back, catching its sibling off guard. However the startled creature quickly turned around with a surprise attack of its own.
This baby hippo stays close to her mother as she learns how to take her first steps. The tiny pygmy hippo calf – only five days old – weighs just 13 pounds and is 6 inches tall.Born to 18-year-old mum Wendy and dad Nato, 34, the unnamed youngster is strong enough to stand on her own two feet. She explores her new home at Marwell Zoo near Winchester, Hants, and takes a well-deserved rest in her straw bed.
Polar bears appear to dance on the island of Svalbard in the Arctic circle off the north coast of Norway.Picture: Andrew Schoeman/National Pictures
Paul Miguel waited 6 hours in a cold hide in North Yorkshire to capture this shot of a kestrel landing. The bird had to work hard to battle the wind, using strong wing beats and a completely fanned tail, allowing him to capture each and every feather in stunning detail.
Rhesus macaques near the Silver River in Florida, USA
A two-week-old orangutan with mother Kibriah is the new addition to Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire
A pair of 10-day-old sibling lion cubs are seen in their play area at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park animal care center in San Diego, California
Visitors look at penguins wearing Santa Claus and Christmas tree costumes during a promotional event for Christmas in Yongin, Korea
Santa Claus feeds the sharks during a visit to the Manly SEA LIFE Sanctuary in Sydney, Australia
After a two-month public vote, the first panda baby born in southern China’s Guangdong Province finally has a name. After Guangzhou Changlong Safari received hundreds of suggested names from the public, ultimately it was mother panda Mei Qing who chose by picking from straws each bearing a name. In the end Mei Xiang picked the name Long Long.
source::::: The Telegraph UK
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Message For the Day…Two Types Of Agony One Suffers Today …
People suffer from two types of agony – the first one can be allayed through others’ intercession and the second can be allayed only by your own effort. For instance, hunger and thirst can be overcome only when you eat or drink. However much others may eat, will it abate even an iota of your hunger? So too, if your wife, mother or son offers to take an injection on your behalf, can your illness be cured? The hunger and illness of your soul is also the same. You must help yourself. The illness you face today is due to some infection. Your illness is caused by the viruses of desire, anger, greed, delusion, pride, jealousy (Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Madha and Mathsarya). These viruses prevent your Divinity from shining forth; they cause discontent, worry, grief and pain. You can overcome them by manifesting your inner strength. Do not yield, fight them with the faith that you are eternal and unconquerable.
Riddles for The Weekend …
Riddles are a great way to use your rational thinking skills that may need some dusting off. Here are 10 difficult, but not impossible, riddles that may stump or surprise you!
1. Tom’s father has five children. Their names are John, Bill, Mary, and Sally. Who is his fifth child?
Tom
2. How can you make the number one disappear by adding to it?
By adding the letter ‘G’ to make the word ‘Gone’
3. Two girls ate dinner together. They both ordered ice tea. One girl drank the tea very fast and ordered five in the time it took the other to drink one. The girl who drank one died while the other survived. All of the drinks were poisoned. Why did the girl that drank more ice tea survive?
The poison was in the middle of the ice.
4. A criminal is brought to prison for major crimes. The warden informs him that he will be shot in the middle of the prison by 20 of his men. The prisoner is fine with that but he asks for some conditions “All of your men must stand 20 feet away from me, and I must be able to select where each one of them stands. If I survive, I get to leave”. The warden things this over long and hard and knows that all of his men will still have an open shot at the criminal, so he agrees. The next day immediately after the firing squad is positioned, the criminal walks away untouched. How did he survive?
He set up all of the warden’s men so that they are standing directly across from each other. None of them could fire at the criminal because they would risk hitting another man.
5. If it’s information you seek, come and see me. If it’s paird of letters you need, I have consecutively three. Who am I?
A bookkeeper.
6. Two men find an old gold coin and want to have a coin toss with it to decide who gets it. The only problem is that the coin is heavier on one side so it comes up heads more than tails. What is a fair way for the men to toss the coin and decide who gets the coin?
They just have to slip it twice. They call the first toss either heads or tails, then the next toss they automatically pick the opposite. If they both win one toss out of the two, they have to repeat it until one of them wins both tosses.
7. A town only has one barber, who is a male The barber only shaves all of the people who do not shave themselves. Who shaves the barber?
He doesn’t shave. Since he is only one to shave people but not people who shave themselves, it is impossible for him to be shaven.
8. We hurt without moving. we poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?.
Words.
9. A smart landscaper is given the task of placing 4 trees so that they are all the same distance away from each other. How does he do this?
He puts the trees in a triangle then one on a hill in the middle (forming a tetrahedron).
10. There are six glasses in a row. The first three are filled with milk and the last three are empty. By moving only one glass, can you arrange them so that the full and the empty glasses alternate?
Pour one of the glasses of milk into an empty glass.
What’s Your Score?
0: Back to riddle school with you! Next time, try and think a bit more outside the box, we know you can do it!
1-3: You’re a novice riddler, who still misses most but is starting to grasp the basics of riddling.
4-6: You’re a riddler in the making, no doubt about it! Your ability to think outside the conventional answers is quite impressive, good for you!
7-10: Are you some kind of super riddler? How did you DO that?? We take our respective hats off before your mighty riddling powers, and can only hope you can teach us your clever, clever ways.
source::::: baba mail net
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Some Riddles to Get Rid off Your Stress !!!
1. Who won the Ramon Magsaysay award for Eminent Leadership in 2006?
2. Which cricketer’s nickname is “Hash”?
3. Name the new retail trade platform developed by Infosys in association with Proctor & Gamble.
4. Which popular tourist island would you be visiting if you land at the capital town of Denpasar, bargain for paintings at Ubud, play at the Kuta beach and while away the evening watching a Legong dance performance?
5. When Potti Sriramulu undertook a fast-unto-death for the creation of a separate Andhra state, which city did he demand be made the capital of the Andhra state?
6. In the 1920s, new airplanes allowed people to fly higher and farther. Many US Army Air Service pilots reported that the glare from the sun was causing headaches and altitude sickness. In 1929, a US Army Air Corps, Lieutenant General John MacCready, asked New York-based medical equipment manufacturer Bausch & Lomb to find a solution. What was it?
7. There have been only three recipients, all artistes, honoured with all the four civilian awards of India —Bharat Ratna, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Shri. Two of them are Bismillah Khan and Bhimsen Joshi who was the third?
8. Which opening in chess is named after a 16th Century Spanish Monk who also wrote one of the first definitive books on modern chess?
Answers:
1. Arvind Kejriwal
2. Hashim Amla (full name: Memon Hashim Mohammad Amla)
3. TradeEdge
4. Bali
5. Madras
6. The Ray Ban Aviator sun-glasses
7. Satyajit Ray
8. Ruy Lopez Opening, named after Ruy Lopez De Segura
Tailpiece !!!!
Do you know how the company we know as Mahindra and Mahindra got its name?” Of course, I do not. The answer is: The company was originally Mahindra and Muhammed. But with Partition, Malik Ghulam Muhammed moved to Pakistan where he became its first finance minister. Back home Mahindra was left with heaps of stationery with M&M on it. Rather than throwing it all away, they decided to call themselves Mahindra and Mahindra!
source:::: Pankaja Srinivasan… in The Hindu… on Quiz Enthusiast couple from Coimbatore
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Message For the Day…”Love all, Even Those Who hate You “…
You must develop a sense of spiritual oneness. Out of that sense of oneness, love will grow. Love alone can bind the whole of humanity into one unit. What do you see in the precincts of Prashanthi Nilayam? People gather from Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and all parts of the world. What has brought them together in this small village? It is only love and the sense of oneness shared with others. The bliss of life is embedded in love, and it gives you pure bliss. When your life dances on the waves of this love, it attains fulfillment. Love and Sacrifice (Prema and Thyaga) are the two most important ideals in life. Love all, even those who hate you. That is the index of your devotion. Peace, truth and love are inherent in every being. Why do you search for them outside? Manifest these qualities which are within you. Cultivate forbearance and compassion. This is the way to foster the love principle
Cartoon of the Day !!!
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