Re: [silk] city of cooked beans?

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

I hope the bongs congratulate us for renaming after their state, so the government gets embarrassed and drops the plan. On 13/Nov/2006, at 6:51 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: This thread reminds me of a chapter heading in one of my favourite books, "Verse and Worse", a compilation by Arnold Silcock: "Playtime on Parnassus".   If any of you post too loudly about the name of the capital of Karnataka, the state govt might hear it, and we might actually end up with postal addresses ending in " Bendakaalu-Ooru"....so shush up for a bit, we seem to have got past this Rajyothsava Day, at any rate...   Deepa.   (Yes, this is going to be a blind-top-bottomless-whatever geek-ignorant comment, without any text prefixed by less-than signs....still waiting for Udhay's lesson.)   On 11/13/06, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:26:47PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Any of the above, really. Need not be beans, too. "Kaalu" is an all > purpose word for seeds or legumes. It can even be generalised to mean > 'grain' or a small particle of some sort. even a sub-atomic particle? city of boiled electrons, perhaps? or the city of cooked sand particles (= silicon)... -rishab --  Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/