Monday, January 25, 2010

Epic takeaways

कई साल पुरानी बात है !

... around the time when Pandavas were about. Given the peculiar situation they found themselves in, Pandavas (smart that they were) devised a method to signal when they wanted private time with the lovely Draupadi.

Each time a Pandava found her alone, they escorted her to the royal chambers leaving their footwear at the door. Lets just say, two pair of footwear were the ancient equivalent of a DND.

So it was one of these days when the sharp Arjun bid his time with the Draupadi. Following a filling lunch, Arjun & Draupadi sought higher levels of Maslowian comforts. However, a dog suffering from the very basic hunger pangs, decided that leather, kept outside a room full of passion is no good. He instead took it as a things to chew on & draged a pair to another corner of the palace.

On this afternoon, Yudhisthir too hurriedly got done with his flies files & rushed to the royal adobe. Seeing the lone footwear, he rushed right upto the bedside. Much to his dismay not only did he see the bed occupied but also more than he would have liked. In anger he stormed out & invoked a family meeting to discuss this break in protocol. It was soon revealed that dog had been the one to hide the hide.

At this vital juncture, Yudhisthir invoked another of his celestial favors. The dog knows only public display of affection since!

Take-away: If you are a dog, don't even look at royal designs. Theres no respite from doggy style puns!

Networks Takeaway: An encrypted signal without integrity can lay your privates bare.

[Note: The author, thats me, has found no reference to this story. However, the oral narration he heard was so convincing that he generally believes it to be true]

17 comments:

Tejas Kulkarni said...

Epic Joblessness! :)

Katha Collage said...

Good one! Did make me smile on supremely boring Monday afternoon! And that is a compliment :)

SaiK said...

Nice one!

Sudeep said...

Nice! :)

Saurabh Chakradeo said...

:)

Shantanu said...

Merci !

Btw - can anyone vouch for the veracity?

Varun said...

Most logical takeaway: Don't keep such a lame protocol else draupadi could have done with kauravs and kept a pair of footwear at the door.

I wonder what would have happened to the dog if it dragged an extra pair to the door?

P.S. Do not want to hurt anybody's religious sentiments.

Shantanu said...

@Varun: Its hard to write good protocols on these issues when you have Bheeshma Pitamah & Vidur to advice you. This clearly wasn't a forte.

Rohan said...

Couldn't they just bolt the door from inside? :P

Chandak said...

like the post...
like Rohan's comment... gosh, the facebook effect :P

Sush said...

Hahaha. funny .. though I have no idea of its veracity.

Pratik Poddar said...

get a job!! :P
nice post though :)

Shantanu said...

@Freshie: Have you ever seen a door in B R Chopra's Mahabharat?! Duh! :P

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