Some forwarded messages are terribly funny that I just can't stop from posting them here...afterall one's happiness lies in making others happy!
Read on...
A young second generation Indian in the US was asked
>by his mother to explain the significance of "Diwali"
>to his younger brother, this is
>
>how he went about it...
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>
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>"So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and
>people liked him. But, like, his step-mom, or
>something, was kind of a bitch, and she
>
>forced her husband to, like, send this cool-dude, he
>was Ram, to some national forest or something... Since
>he was going, for like, something
>
>like more than 10 years or so.. he decided to get his
>wife and his bro along... you know...so that they
>could all chill out together.
>
>But DUDE, the forest was reeeeal scary shit...really
>man...they had monkeys and devils and shit like that.
>But this dude, Ram, kicked ass
>
>with darts and bows and arrows... so it was fine. But
>then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan,
>picks up his babe (Sita) and
>
>lures her away to his hood. And boy, was our man, and
>also his bro, Laxman, pissed... And you DON't piss
>this son-of-a-gun cuz, he just
>
>kicks ass and like...,all the gods were with him.. So
>anyways, you don't mess with gods. So, Ram, and his
>bro get an army of monkeys.. Dude, don't ask me how
>they trained the damn monkeys... just go along with
>me, ok... so, Ram, Lax and their monkeys whip this
>gangsta's ass in his own hood.
>
>Anyways, by this time, their time's up in the forest..
>and anyways...it gets kinda boring, you know... no TV
>or malls or shit like that.
>
>So, they decided to hitch a ride back home... and when
>the people realize that our dude, his bro and the wife
>are
>
>back home... they thought, well, you know, at least
>they deserve something nice... and they didn't have
>any bars or clubs in those
>
>days...so they couldn't take themout for a drink, so
>they, like, decided to smoke and shit...and since they
>also had some lamps, they
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>lit the lamps also... so it was pretty cooool...you
>know with all those fireworks. Really, they even had
>some local band play along with the fireworks.. and
>you
>
>know, what, dude, that was the very first, no
>kidding.., that was the very first music-synchronized
>fireworks.. you know, like the 4thof July
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>stuff, but just, more cooler and stuff, you know. And,
>so dude, THAT was how, like, this festival started.
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>
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>So dude.....Happy Diwali.
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