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priya

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:01 am
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Hi All,

This is again Priya... Trying to post some more...Please tell your comments.....

Code:
1. Cigarette : A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end

& a fool at the other.


2. Love affairs : Something like cricket where one-day internationals

are more popular than a five day test.


3. Marriage : It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor

degree and a woman gains her master


4. Divorce : Future tense of marriage


5. Lecture : An art of transferring information from the notes of the

lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds

of either".


6. Conference : The confusion of one man multiplied by the number

present.


7. Compromise : The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody

believes he got the biggest piece.


8. Tears : The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated

by feminine water-power ..


9. Dictionary : A place where divorce comes before marriage.


10. Conference Room : A place where everybody talks, nobody listens &

everybody disagrees later on.


11. Classic : A book which people praise, but do not read.


12. Smile : A curve that can set a lot of things straight.


13. Office : A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.


14. Yawn : The only time some married men ever get to open their
 
mouth.


15. Etc. : A sign to make others believe that you know more than you

actually do.


16. Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to

decide that nothing can be done together.


17. Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.


18. Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.


19. Philosopher : A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken

of when dead.


20. Diplomat : A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that

you actually look forward to the trip.


21. Opportunist : A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally

falls into a river.


22. Optimist : A person who while falling from Eiffel Tower says in

midway "See I am not injured yet."


23. Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO,

Instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.


24. Miser : A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.


25. Father : A banker provided by nature.


26. Criminal : A guy no different from the rest... except that he got

caught.


27. Boss : Someone who is early when you are late and late when you
 
are early.


28. Politician : One who shakes your hand before elections and your

Confidence after.


29. Doctor : A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with

his bills.

And the Last But not the least is...


30. Mainframe Engineer : One who gets paid for surfing the net and reading my post
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krishna dilip

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:16 pm
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icon_lol.gif hai priya. nice jokes. send more icon_biggrin.gif
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harikrishnanrajeev

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 5:36 pm
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priya : Someone who has no other work except posting jokes in forums. icon_biggrin.gif



PS: I enjoy some of those anyway...
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coolbuddy

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PostPosted: Tue May 04, 2004 8:09 pm
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Really a cool one.
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