CULTURAL QA 06-2024-02 All the below QA is from Quora digest to me on 02-06-2024.
Quora answers may not be 100% correct answers. Compiled and posted by R. Gopalakrishnan, on 02-06-2024 Q1 What is the funniest anecdote aboutthe great Winston Churchill? A1 Alessandro13,Apr 5 You should know that Winston Churchill 's greatestpolitical rival served in the ranks of the Conservative Party just like him,also due to the weakness of the Labor Party in that precise historical period. Her name was Nancy Astor , and she had been the firstwoman to be read MP and sit in the House of Commons in the United Kingdom. During a debate between the two, Churchill mocked herthis way: Nancy Astor:«Winston, know this: if you were my husband I wouldn't think for a moment aboutputting a few drops of poison in my coffee» WinstonChurchill: «Nancy, know this: if you were my wife I wouldn't think for a momentabout drinking that coffee in one gulp» Q2 Can you tell a story from thePanchatantra? A2 ChauhanBabu Nath, Sat A farmer lived in a village. The farmer was old buthis wife was young. She always had her eyes on men. One day a thug saw thewoman leaving the house alone. The thug followed the woman. When the woman reached a secluded place, the fraudstercame to her and said, “My wife has died and I like you, so come with me.” The woman said, "If that is the case then I amready to come with you because my husband has become old and is not able tomove around. He has a lot of wealth. I will bring that money which will help usto spend our life comfortably." The thug said, "Okay, you come to this placetomorrow at dawn and then we will move forward together from here." The woman came home and waited for her husband tosleep. When her husband fell asleep, she tied all the money and jewellery in abundle and in the morning she reached the same place where she met the thug. Both of them started their journey together from thatplace. After walking a long distance from the village, they came across a deepriver. If I take this woman with me, then surely someone will come looking forher and I will be in trouble. So I should somehow grab her wealth and get ridof her. Thinking this, the thug said, "The river is verydeep, I will not be able to cross the river with you and the goods. So I willfirst take the goods to the other side and then I will help you cross the riverby making you sit on my back. The woman agreed to his words and gave the bundle ofmoney to the thug. The thug said, “Give me your jewellery and heavy clothes tooso that it will be easy to cross the river next time.” The woman did as the thug said. The thug took all thegoods and went to the other side of the river but did not return. The woman became worthless because of heractions. Lesson:- Oneshould never adopt the wrong path for one's own benefit. Q3 What are the some lesser knownfacts about lord Vishnu? A3 GopalSardar,9h This is a very interesting but somewhat less knownstory outside Odisha. Jahangir Kuli Khan, also known as Lalbeg was theSubedar of Bengal for one year during the reign of Jahangir, the Mughal empire. During one of his military excursions in Odisha hecame across a young widowed Bhramin lady returning from her bath. Sheimmediately caught his fancy with her beauty and he abducted her and marriedher. Salabeg was born to them and his father raised him tofight in the military. But in a battle Salabeg was seriously injured and hisfather left him and his mother as he found Salabeg cannot survive. His mother tried so muck ways to cure him but all inVain. Finally his mother gave up all hopes and told her sonto chant Hare Krishna continuously and Krishna will cure him. Though Salabeg didn't believe it initially he finallyagreed to chant it to live. He started chanting day and night in his death bed. After two days Lord Krishna came in his dream andshowed a place where a medicine is kept for his disease. When Salabeg woke up he came to the place shown byKrishna and surprisingly found the medicine there and got overwhelmed. He got cured the next day and he left his militarycareer and went to live in Vrindavan. One of his neighbors told him about Jagannath rathyatra of Odisha and asked him to visit it. So he decided to pay a visit. But he was late and he prayed Krishna to wait for him. Puri Jagannath chariot stopped! The Temple Management and others tried numerous waysto move the chariot but in vain. Finally they decided to build a temple in thatplace. Salabeg came running there and pulled the rope and thechariot moved to everyone's surprise. THE CHARIOT WHICH DID NOT MOVED FOR TEN ELEPHANTSMOVED FOR AN MUSLIM DEVOTEE! After hearing his story the Temple Management praisedhim and built a memorial for him in that place. Still today there is a tradition of stopping thechariot in that place in the memory of salabeg. This is a real story and itshows lord Vishnu loves his devotees irrespective of their religion. Q4 Why is my RO system not producingenough water? A4 GopalaKrishnan, Former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom(1966–2004) Just now Most of the present day R O systems in India have twopaper filters. One of them separately mounted. The water from tap connectorunit is connected to it. All the dirt in the water is absorbed by this. It isthe first stage of filtration. At least once a quarter, this filter has to bereplaced. Even when n taken out by the technician during quarterly replacement,one can see the dirt accumulated on it , making the white colour paper filterbrownish in colour. If the filter is replaced, still water produced isless than normal, second filter inside unit has to be replaced. If carbonfilter is not replaced once in a year, it has to be replaced. Normally systemfilters inside are replaced once a year. If all the above are fine, and pumping motor insidehas to be checked. Still slow the water flow from the tap has to be checked.From the source of water, good flow must be there to the tap in which R Osystem is connected. An experienced R O system technician will check allthe above within 5 minutes. Q5 What is the funniest joke you'vebeen told that you still think about to this day? A5 JayBlum,17h A man goes to the cemetery to visit his late wife. Hesuddenly notices a man across the way who is inconsolable. The man is poundingthe ground with his fist and sobbing “why did you have to die why, why, why? The other man rushes over and tries to calm him down.He says “I understand the deceased must have been very very close to you”. The man, still sobbing, says “no, never met him” andbegins pounding the ground and repeating “why, why ,why did you die?” The first man is terribly confused. “May I ask you whois buried here?” The sobbing man pauses to say “it's my wife's firsthusband “. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1863788866.522416.1717335918434%40mail.yahoo.com.
