26.10.08

Diwali for dudes

Got this in the mail :)

Diwali through the eyes of NRI kids

A young second generation Indian in the US was asked by his mother to explain the significance of Diwali to his younger brother; this is how he went about it...

"So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and people liked him. But, like, his step-mom, or something, was kind of a bitch, and she forced her husband to, like, send this cool-dude, he was Ram, to some national forest or something... Since he was going, for like, something like more than 10 years or so… he decided to get his wife and his bro along... you know... so that they could all chill out together. But Dude, the forest was reeeeal scary shit... really man... they had monkeys and devils and shit like that. But this dude, Ram, kicked ass with darts and bows and arrows... so it was fine. But then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up his babe (Sita) and lures her away to his hood. And boy, was our man, and also his bro, Laxman, pissed... And you don't piss this son-of-a-gun cuz, he just kicks ass and like... all the gods were with him... So anyways, you don't mess with gods. So, Ram, and his bro get an army of monkeys... Dude, don't ask me how they trained the damn monkeys... just go along with me, ok...

So, Ram, Lax and their monkeys whip this gangsta's ass in his own hood. Anyways, by this time, their time's up in the forest... and anyways... it gets kinda boring, you know... no TV or malls or shit like that. So,they decided to hitch a ride back home... and when the people realize that our dude, his bro and the wife are back home... they thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something nice... and they didn't have any bars or clubs in those days... so they couldn't take them out for a drink, so they, like, decided to smoke and shit... and since they also had some lamps, they lit the lamps also... so it was pretty cooool... you know with all those fireworks... Really, they even had some local band play along with the fireworks... and you know, what, dude, that was the very first, no kidding... that was the very first music-synchronized fireworks... you know, like the 4th of July stuff, but just, more cooler and stuff, you know. And, so dude, that was how, like, this festival started."

7 comments:

  1. FV:

    LOL :-)

    From sankrit to Awadhi to Hindi to British propah english to cowboy stuff... natural course of progression

    Dudette... tis f***in tru for NIR as 'ell...

    NIR -- Non Indian Resident

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  2. You get interesting mail... Americans have made an art out of getting the point across but completely killing it in the process. How do they explain the Civil War? "Things got so bad, there were dead horses in the street. Isn't that cool? I mean, imagine a dead horse in the middle of the road! " And that was a middle-aged dude.

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  3. Come to think of it, all out mythological stories have so much spice ...good dude and bad dude and teh story ends at a happy note ...mahabhartha is even better ...it teaches you politics as well ....no wonder ekta kapoor is making it again with all the right costumes ....i was just thinking how did mahabhartha women discover strapless bras.....

    Mythology ...isnt it Myth and logic together :)

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  4. Come to think of it, all out mythological stories have so much spice ...good dude and bad dude and teh story ends at a happy note ...mahabhartha is even better ...it teaches you politics as well ....no wonder ekta kapoor is making it again with all the right costumes ....i was just thinking how did mahabhartha women discover strapless bras.....

    Mythology ...isnt it Myth and logic together :)

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  5. PS:

    Kauno NIR ki baat karat ho? Woh dude waalan ke doodh lallan?

    Baaki sab kushal mangal...

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    Mask:

    I get interesting mail? I do? :)

    Don't rub us the wrong way...middle-aged dudes rock.

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    Manish&Manish:

    Myth and logic...nice...

    I'd think My Theology...

    "i was just thinking how did mahabhartha women discover strapless bras....."

    Aap tau Draupadi ke peechche haath dho ke padh gaye!...why leave out the Ramayana and the Panchtantra folk tales?

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  6. grt...just burst my bubble... and here I was thinkin'/hoping/imagining the mahabharata women didn't wear bras..

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  7. Ronin:
    Ask your time capsule to halt. You'd still have to compete with the Pandavas and Kauravas...and if you try to learn archery along the way you might even lose a thumb...

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