HEY!! Can we have all Indians here?

um.....

thats all very fine.... but how do you know that chai is = tea ??

U Know ....


Let me tell you an interseting story ...

"Chi" is word for TEA in China, tibet, india, srilanka, malasia and almost all south asian countries where Tea is primarily cultivated. all these countries use this same word for Tea i.e. Chi ... (pronounced as Chai in india).

Then where does "Tea" came from ?

In Mandarin language (worlds largest spoken language ... spoken by Chinese people) when one orders to make tea he says "CHI TEA" where TEA means MAKE. :wink:

But British only used word TEA and spread it everywhere as a meaning of CHI as CHI was already one of the greek symbols used in science and using it as TEA could have been confusing....

Get a hold of a book Guns, Germs, and Steel by David...errrr, I forget.. One of the stories is about the origin of tea. I may remember it all wrong, but from what I vaguely recollect is that it spread from China and was brought to India by the British.... or some sort of something like that. Someone here will surely know more.

oooo.....so many people
and i have just figured that everyone on A2K calls the prince Gautam.....is it safe to publicize your name here, Gautam?

You may have seen Gautam before, spidergal. He was in a television series that is now enjoying reruns. He plays a sidekick to an adventurous lad who goes by the name of Johnny Quest.

pffft, don't listen to the capybara farmer.

Oh. And she's supposed to listen to you?

Who would you choose? A wise old farmer with infinite wisdom or a chick with her head on fire?

chick with her behind on fire, thankyouverymuch.

i woukd listen to the person who will give me a rectangular joke???

I hate to tell stories about mr. glitterbag, but this made me laugh out loud and so did he when he realized the mistake. Last Father's day, little gllitterbag gave his father a gift certificate to have his car detailed. Now I have to mention that the elder glitterbags work with foreign languages as part of their work with the government so this wasn't as much of an error as it possibly sounds. Mr. Glitterbag was really delighted by the gift certificate, but as he stared at it, a look of puzzlement came over his face and he asked "what is a Polish wax?". My aunt who is married to a very nice Polish-American man, started to laugh and said "no sweetie, It's a polish.......but if you really want a Polish Wax job, two men will buff the car with a live sheep.

this might as well have been the 'greek thread" - lots of posts appear greek to me !!

That would be Jared Diamond, dear. :wink:

Well, I don't know about some of the stuff, but I can explain a little bit....

When I mentioned being Polish and Slappy responded he was too and made a joke......that's because during the big immagration during the 1920's various ethnic groups came to this country, largely italian, irish and polish.
The poles were stereotyped as being stupid and dirty, hence the "dumb pollack" jokes.

Other ethnic groups were steotyped in equally unpleasant ways, but I'll leave that for each of them to explain.

Actually, I think most ethnic jokes, at least about Poles, seem to be told in the Northeast part of the US.

I live in Texas now, and I've never heard one here. Thank God, because as much as I like to laugh as the next person, I do become offended by Polish jokes, since it seems the person telling them is seldom as intelligent as I am.

Now, on this thread, it was just a little harmless fun, especially when a Pole is making fun of himself. It's hateful though when people tell jokes in a malicious way about any group.

for instance, my story about seeing an ad for a polish worker?
Polish - someone from Poland
polish - like polishing furniture or a car. I was just a kid, and mispronounced it in my head.

haha er, um...well, it was funny at the time.

ok, this is REALLY stupid, but when my niece was a little kid, she was going to be in the christmass pagent, with the story of Jesus being born and all.
She got to be Mary, and she kept telling everyone that her husband Joseph was an Indian (the native american kind). We were trying to figure out why she kept saying that, until her mother was reading her lines.....At one point, the Innskeeper told Joseph "There's no room IN THE INN"

wow, that was really lame, huh?

so......

My chia pet? It was in the shape of the head of Mathatma Ghandi, and darjeeling chai grew out of its head.

i see.

did you know that for every 1 kg of tea they produce in darjeeling, about 3 kgs are sold in the world ??!!


and as for gandhi - thats one political imbecile india could easily have done without.

tommorow (2nd) is his birthday.


so happy birthday (pun intended) halfwit !!

Heh…

Imbecile tactics?????


Political Imbecile???? Any special reasons for calling him so???


Imbecile is a word you seem to have an affinity for!!

God, I' ve grown up with so much respect for Gandhiji.

Happy Birthday to you Gandhiji (I am sure you are listening to me over there in the skies)

Dear posters, I feel a need to apologize. I've received word from a member of SB that someone on A2K is emailing him "offensive" remarks I made at his expense. I was only looking for a quiet place from all the hissy fits over on the other forum. So if any of you think that I maligned someone, I do apologize. I didn't think I said anything bad about anyone (except possibly chic) but the statement that certain people were dreadfully annoyed wasn't an insult, merely a fact. Now, my word-for-word post has been posted and reposted on SB as proof of something. Sorry for all of this, I didn't think anything I said would have such import. So, I'll be quiet for awhile. And the next time the Queen of the Trolls drops by, hopefully her followers will stay at home. GB

No....
I do respect spidergal's views.... I respect Gandhi ... And to tell you Brahmin .... the equation of India and Peace is raised to the power of N due to Gandhi .... If he wasn't there we wouldn't have had a quite peaceful India we live in now. He was the ONLY LIVING LEGEND after the mythical ASHOKA and BUDDHA who re-proved the world that INDIA always believed in WORLD PEACE and had been true to its stand forever.

Making of Pakistan wasn't a mistake but a wiser step. I understand the sorrows of the immigrants from Sindh or Nationalists who say India is partitioned due to Gandhi but it would had been even worse if Pakistan would ever stayed as a part of India.... entire India would had been a Kashmir then.

And to tell you more .... I am a a part of the community who is termed as "Gandhi Killer" (as the descendents of Nathuram Godse and his community) but still a firm believer of Gandhism.

Nathuram godse was a Psycho with foolish ethics.

hello...from another Indian...

well he was the short of smartass politician, who found nothing wrong with millions of indian soldiers going and dying fighting on behalf of the british (our pooressors) during the first and 2nd world wars - yet was opposed tooth and nail to indians fighting to throw out their colonial masters from india !! did you know that the indian army in ww1 and ww2 was the biggest contigents of voluntary fighters in the history of mankind???? it wasnt our war and ideally we should not be giving a damn if germans were hammering the english, who were the reason for our colonization. gandhi was the sort of political imbecile (yes i love the word, as much as i hate gandhi the inbred halfwit) who was gullyble enough to send indians to die thanklessly on foreign feilds fighting on belalf of the people who were killing us !!!!!

not to mention betraying netaji. and sardar patel.

not to mention planting nehru and thus sowing the nehru-gandhi family tree which led to 45 years or so of socialistic corrupt misrule in india, till pv narshima rao and manmohon singh rescued india.


if gandhi wasnt a halfwit, then there never was one.