Monday, May 26, 2008

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
*DHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP*
AAAA ...AAAA...AAAA...AAAA.

No points for those of you that think that I am referring to the much-laughed and much publicised popular joke about the sound emitted by a freely falling body [read human being] being directly proportional to the height of fall.

Oh okay, I shall substantiate. Here's the joke for the uninitiated.
Case 1. person falling from the twelfth floor of a high-rise.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
curtailed by a resounding *DHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP*
[Note that *Dhup* is a very Bengali sound equivalent to the English *crashing sound*]


Case 2. Person falling from the first floor of any building.
*DHUUUUUUUUP*
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.


But none of these cases complement the sound image I have drawn at the beginning of my post.
I'll explain.
Let's divide the problem into three parts.

a)AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
b)*DHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP*
c)AAA ...AAAA...AAAA...AAAA.


a)-That's my neighbour's obstinately rambunctious daughter shouting out in glee for God-forsaken reasons.
b)That's a resounding slap on her back imparted by one of her parents, I know not which.[ Thank God they sometimes feel disturbed and react savagely! Pity we can't react thus to them inspite of being disturbed always and unceasingly. Love thy neighbours indeed!!]
c)That's the child bawling.

Reason enough for another headache!!
On the same note: Some Paresh Rawal quotes are unutterably accurate for such moments as these!

4 comments:

little boxes said...

oh yes,i have heard this one too :)

Sreetama said...

Tui school e eta shobbaike dhore bendhe shonatish! Ei ektai joke tor stock e chhilo, tokhono r ekhono! ;) :P

The Mad Girl said...

@little boxes- :D. but you haven't heard my neighbours! thank your lucky star.
@sree-hyaaan re. joker ta onyo colg e pore je.

Jadis said...

hehe. pesky kids. rememner KaaNdune?

P.S. i'm eating a banana. cud that be a joke?