Re: [silk] Enthu Cutlets

2007-01-22 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Vinayak Hegde wrote: On 1/21/07, Anil Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: memories of college days in Bangalore. It is real nice to see South Indian lingo in North Indian news papers. It is nice to see South India specific programmes on television. Thankfully, generalizing all South Indians as

[silk] Superduck

2007-01-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6283677.stm Duck survives two days in fridge The duck's slow metabolism is thought to have helped it survive Lucky duck A duck in the US state of Florida has survived gunshot wounds and a two-day stint in a refrigerator. A hunter shot the duck, wounding it

Re: [silk] Superduck

2007-01-22 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 22-Jan-07, at 2:33 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: A hunter shot the duck, wounding it in the wing and leg. Believing the bird was dead, he left it in his fridge at his home in Tallahassee. The hunter's wife got a fright when she opened the fridge and the duck lifted its head, a local

Re: [silk] Superduck

2007-01-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:40:27PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: So a duck that was meant to be killed got a stint in the hospital in the hope it would survive? How does one do a moral U-turn like that? If you have a live duck in your fridge, would you expect your wife to break its neck?

Re: [silk] Superduck

2007-01-22 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:40:27PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: So a duck that was meant to be killed got a stint in the hospital in the hope it would survive? How does one do a moral U-turn like that? If you have a live duck in your fridge, would you expect your wife

Re: [silk] Enthu Cutlets

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Long
[just received an 823-message digest -- time to catch up] According to this link (http://www.buckleyourshoe.com/sclub/polish/banglor.html) it is Bangalore college lexicon. I grew up here, haven't heard it before... Curiosity got the better of me, and while looking up enthu cutlet, I ran into

Re: [silk] Enthu Cutlets

2007-01-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Dave Long wrote: [ on 09:15 PM 1/22/2007 ] Is the video game powered up anything like the proper sense of in full josh? Not in my understanding. I would use full josh to convey a hyper-enthused character (charged up in the sense of enthusiasm levels, or an enthu cutlet on speed) HTH

Re: [silk] Enthu Cutlets

2007-01-22 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 21:42 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Is the video game powered up anything like the proper sense of in full josh? josh is spirit (as in high or low spirited) in hindi, and possibly several other indian languages. so full josh is full spirited.

Re: [silk] Superduck

2007-01-22 Thread Bruce Metcalf
Udhay Shankar N wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6283677.stm Duck survives two days in fridge The duck's slow metabolism is thought to have helped it survive Lucky duck A duck in the US state of Florida has survived gunshot wounds and a two-day stint in a refrigerator. This is

[silk] Fwd: [SALT] Why we believe the wrong forecasters, FRIDAY, Jan 26 (for forwarding)

2007-01-22 Thread Thaths
For Bay Area silk-listers. Sounds like an interesting talk. I am planning to go. Thaths -- Forwarded message -- From: Stewart Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jan 22, 2007 11:27 AM Subject: [SALT] Why we believe the wrong forecasters, FRIDAY, Jan 26 (for forwarding) To: [EMAIL

Re: [silk] Fwd: [SALT] Why we believe the wrong forecasters, FRIDAY, Jan 26 (for forwarding)

2007-01-22 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 23-Jan-07, at 2:57 AM, Thaths wrote: For Bay Area silk-listers. Sounds like an interesting talk. I am planning to go. It would be lovely if this were podcasted. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/