Jokes on Vladimir Putin- Time’s Man of the Year 2007
Stalin’s ghost appears to Putin in a dream, and Putin asks for his help running the country.
Stalin says, “Round up and shoot all the democrats, and then paint the inside of the Kremlin blue.”
“Why blue?” Putin asks. “Ha!” says Stalin. “I knew you wouldn’t ask me about the first part.”
just as Yeltsin rewarded Putin for his loyalty, now Putin is doing the same for his anointed successor, Medvedev.
There is already a new Putin joke: Putin goes to a restaurant with Medvedev and orders a steak.
The waiter asks, “And what about the vegetable?” Putin answers, “The vegetable will have steak too.”
Putin and Bush are fishing on the Volga River.
After half an hour Bush complains, “Vladimir, I’m getting bitten like crazy by mosquitoes,
but I haven’t seen a single one bothering you.”
Putin: “They know better than that”
My best professor could also be my worst at times.
His name was S and he taught a class called Diffusional Mass Transfer
Unlike other engineering professors, he allowed no books in the test and he gave no partial creadit for setting up the problem correctly. You had to memorize all the formulae and if your numerical answer was wrong you got 0 points for that question.
The funniest thing he did (and I am sure he did this every semester) was to respond to all the shock and amazement at the grading for the first test (which was - gasp - actually as he said it would be) by saying:
Perhaps you are right.
Maybe I should give partial credit for partially right answers.
And maybe when one of twenty supports for a bridge collapses, the engineer who built it should still get an A - after all 95% of the supports held.
And by the same logic, if one engine falls offf a plane then we should give the designer of the plane a 75 because the other three still stayed connected to the plane.
Dr. S went on this way for 15 minutes.
He did not change his policy, but we changed the way we thought about what we were learning to do.
Mr Aamir Khan returns with his first movie of the year 2007 . To the un-initiated Aamir Khan has been one of Indian cinema or Bollywood’s most bankeable star, a star whose appeal is matched only with his legendary elusiveness and remarkably low output in movies. His production venture Lagaan came close to winning the best Oscar for foriegn language movie a couple of years ago.
So when Aamir Khan returns to the screen with his maiden directorial venture on a boy with dylexia and an art teacher who cures him , the faithful que up to gather tickets just as much as they would for a Grateful Dead concert.
And to be pleasantly surprised. Yes , the movie has the standard song and dance numbers of Bollywood. Above all, it show cases emotions of the dylexic but brilliant lead actor Ishaan Awasthi ,his Type A over achiever dad, his hapless teachers and the one man art teacher hero.Fed up with his lack of progress, the sensitive but eccentric boy is sent off to a boarding school where he meets his art teacher .
Sugary sweet at times , and almost cliched in the speed at which dylexia is cured,the movie is an important message for India with its combative competitive exams and lack of understnding for alternative careers and problems like spelling dis orders.
The camera work is nifty , with some over use of slow motion, selective focus and sweeping shots of scenic beauty…but Mr Khan seems destined to be India’s answer to Clint Eastwood as an actor -director. Watch stars upon the earth, as an ideal Christmas season movie.
