Archive for October 7th, 2008
Posted by kathavarta on October 7, 2008
Once upon a time there was a nice young man called Karim. He used to sell caps for a living, and roam around several villages. One day he would be in Mughalsarai, the other day people would find him in Faizabad.
It was an afternoon in summer and he was traversing the vast plains when he felt tired and wanted to have a nap. He found a nice mango tree with lots of branches and cool shade, placed his bag of caps beside himand went to sleep. Tired as he was, he was quickly fast asleep. When he woke up after a refreshing little nap, he found that there weren’t any caps in his bag!
“Oh, Allah!”, he said to himself, “Did the thieves have to find me of all people?” But then he noticed that the mango tree was full of cute monkeys wearing colourful caps!
He yelled at the monkeys and they screamed back.
He made faces at them and found the monkeys to be experts at that.
He threw a stone at them and they showered him with raw mangoes.
“Ya Allah, how do I get my caps back,” he said.
Frustrated, he took off his own cap and slammed it on the ground. And Lo, the stupid monkeys threw their caps too! Smart Karim didn’t waste a second, collected the caps and was on his way.
50 YEARS LATER….
Young Abdul, grandson of famous topiwala Karim who was also working hard at making $$$ doing his family business, was going through the same jungle.
After a long walk he was very tired and found a nice mango tree with lots of branches and cool shade. Abdul decided to rest a while and very soon was fast asleep. A few hours later, when Abdul woke up, he realised that all the caps from his bag were gone! Abdul started searching for the same and to his surprise found some monkeys sitting on mango tree wearing his caps.
Abdul was frustrated and didn’t know what to do. And then he remembered a story his grandfathers proudly used to let him.
“Yes!!!! I can fool these monkeys!!!”, said Abdul. “I’ll make them imitate me and very soon I’ll get all my caps back!”
Abdul waved at the monkeys — the Monkeys waved at Abdul
Abdul blew his nose — the Monkeys blew their noses
Abdul started dancing — the Monkeys were also dancing
Abdul pulled his ears — the Monkeys pulled their ears
Abdul raised his hands — the Monkeys raised their hands
Abdul threw his cap on the ground ……………. one of the monkeys jumped down from the tree, grab Abdul’s cap, walked upto Abdul; slapped him and said
“Do you think ONLY YOU HAD A GRANDFATHER?????”
By : Ajit Sahu, for www.whereincity.com
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Posted by kathavarta on October 7, 2008
AN EAGLE, flying down from his perch on a lofty rock, seized upon a lamb and carried him aloft in his talons.
A Jackdaw, who witnessed the capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy and determined to emulate the strength and flight of the Eagle.
He flew around with a great whir of his wings and settled upon a large ram, with the intention of carrying him off, but his claws became entangled in the ram’s fleece and he was not able to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as much as he could.
The shepherd, seeing what had happened, ran up and caught him. He at once clipped the Jackdaw’s wings, and taking him home at night, gave him to his children.
On their saying, “Father, what kind of bird is it?”
He replied, “To my certain knowledge he is a Daw; but he would like you to think an Eagle.”
By : Supriya Sahu, for www.whereincity.com
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Posted by kathavarta on October 7, 2008
Bill, Jim, and Scott were at a convention together and were sharing a large suite on the top of a 75-story skyscraper.
After a long day of meetings, they were shocked to hear that the elevators in their hotel were broken and they would have to climb 75 flights of stairs to get to their room.
Bill said to Jim and Scott, “Let’s break the monotony of this unpleasant task by concentrating on something interesting. I’ll tell jokes for 25 flights, Jim can sing songs for the next 25 flights, and Scott can tell sad stories for the rest of the way.”
At the 26th floor, Bill stopped telling jokes and Jim began to sing. At the 51st floor, Jim stopped singing and Scott began to tell sad stories.
“I will tell my saddest story first,” he said. “I left the room key in the car!”
By: Gaurav Vishnoi, for www.whereincity.com
Posted in Funny Story, Moral story, Story for Adult, Varta | Tagged: Accuracy, Act, Adult, Advice, Alert, Care, Common sense, Companion, Compassion, Confession, Destiny, Foolish, Forgot, Friend, Humour, Moral, Problem, Sad, Story for Adult, Varta, Wit | Leave a Comment »
Posted by kathavarta on October 7, 2008
A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in bed.
She goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him.
He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
“What’s the matter, dear?” she whispers as she steps into the room. “Why are you down here at this time of night?”
The husband looks up from his coffee, “Do you remember 20 years ago when we were dating, and you were only 18?” he asks solemnly.
“Yes I do” she replies. The husband pauses; the words were not coming easily.
“Do you remember when your father caught us in the garden”.
“Yes, I remember” said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him.
The husband continued.. “Do you remember when he showed the shotgun in my face and said, “Either you marry my daughter, or I’ll send you to jail for 20 years?”
“I remember that too” she replied softly.
He wiped another tear from his cheek and said, “I would have been released today”.
By: Gaurav Vishnoi, for www.whereincity.com
Posted in Funny Story, Moral story, Story for Adult, Varta | Tagged: Acceptance, Act, Adult, Advice, Affection, Alert, Blackmail, Care, Choice, Companion, Complaint, Dream, Enlightenment, Experience, Humour, Jail, Life, Story for Adult, Varta, Wife, Wisdom, Wit | Leave a Comment »
