I wish I knew all the racial classifications of the types of people that are present within our country back when I was in school and learning Math. Then the topic on ‘Surds’ would’ve been more interesting.

It would’ve been even more funny had we had Sardars in class and we’d have had questions like – ‘identify which of these is a Surd’ or ‘What is the result of multiplication of these two Surds’ and so on.

Some esprit de l’escalier this.

18 Responses to “It Makes Me Wonder”

1. ext_110196 on July 28th, 2008 12:14 pm

   You have surds in Demonstration Multipurpose School ??

   (Note: This comment was purely to highlight the rather hilarious nature of your school’s name)

2. harithekid on July 28th, 2008 12:15 pm

   yeah, they were part of the syllabi. Notice how smoothly I am ignoring your comment?

3. ext_110196 on July 28th, 2008 12:26 pm

   Let me clarify

   You have surds (The race) in Demonstration Multipurpose School ??

   (Note again: This comment was purely to highlight the rather hilarious nature of your school’s name)

   (Note 2: I am casting aspersions, not on Demonstration Multipurpose School’s ability to adhere to CBSE syllabus, but on the cosmopolitan nature, or lack thereof, of Mysoe)

4. harithekid on July 28th, 2008 12:50 pm

   ah, you hit me where it hurts most. You know I can’t abuse Bangalore or Bangaloreans in any way. Cheap shot are there.

5. ext_110196 on July 28th, 2008 12:53 pm

   You can abuse my school or college (the National Institute one I mean, not BEMIJA) if you want.

6. harithekid on July 28th, 2008 12:56 pm

   but I shall take the higher ground, my younger friend and let the readers figure out for themselves the point of putting this post.

   In case you didn’t realize, it was not about school names or about the ‘uncoolness’ of Mysore, but about Surds and Math in school.

7. ext_110196 on July 28th, 2008 12:58 pm

   In all fairness, my comment(s) were just as serious as your post.

   PS: Demonstration Multipurpose School !

8. harithekid on July 28th, 2008 12:59 pm

   Well, I think you’re doing some good by putting my School name on my LJ, increasing its page rank to ensure that hapless parents in Mysore who still want to put their kids in my former school would want to think twice about doing so considering the kind of students they churn out, and more importantly, considering the kind of company they keep.

9. ext_110196 on July 28th, 2008 1:02 pm

   They will also be illuminated to the fact that unlike BEMIJA (which is a spoof name of an institute), Demonstration Multipurpose School doesn’t need a witty spoof name, since really, as far as school names go, you can’t do much better than that.

10. harithekid on July 28th, 2008 1:05 pm

    granted, ours was thought of in the late 60s by someone who was high on the music of the Beatles, among other things to have gotten high on, plus rumours are that he was a central govt employee who was paid to come up with the name.

    I suspect that your pointless skirting around of the issue regarding this post is to purely ensure that you have thousands of comments in my LJ to have more traffic directed to your blog.

    Are you a cheap guy or what?

11. ext_110196 on July 28th, 2008 1:06 pm

    Your blog isn’t as famous as you’d like to believe it is.
    I can’t disagree on the last point though.

    PS: Demonstration Multipurpose School.

12. harithekid on July 28th, 2008 1:09 pm

    Well, it doesn’t matter how famous it is or isn’t, considering you so explcitly stated yourself that for a small duration of time, a lot of traffic to your blog was redirected from here.

    So if a ‘lot of traffic’ did go to your blog from mine, it either indicates that you don’t consider a blog that sends so much hits your way as being famous enough.

    PS – I think even blind people would be able to figure out the name of the school I studied in by now.

13. ext_110196 on July 28th, 2008 1:11 pm

    A lot of traffic was redirected from aljaljira, which has a name as funny as Demonstration Multipurpose School, not here. However, one is a blog, and the other is a school.

14. harithekid on July 28th, 2008 1:13 pm

    However, what you said was markedly different from your previous comment, considering you had so shamelessly ‘blogged your plug’ so to speak.

    Stop making fun of the Demonstration Multipurpose School. Incidentally, it is four of them in all, in Mysore, Bhopal, Bhubhaneswar and Ajmer respectively. We’ve always wondered in our school as to why two cities chosen weren’t state capitals.

15. ext_110196 on July 28th, 2008 1:15 pm

    Its “blugged my plog”, not “blogged my plug”.
    And Mysore should be more worried about what wrong it did to get lumped along with the other three, not about trivial issues like whether it is a state capital or not.

16. harithekid on July 28th, 2008 1:16 pm

    yeah, we’re not all that HT. I agree. Its the first comment of yours on which you have not expanded Demonstration Multipurpose School here, btw.

17. thedilettante on July 28th, 2008 6:38 pm

    Sadly, I managed to be completely bored by surds (the topic) even though surds (the race) were in the class. It’s not that funny after the first laugh.

18. harithekid on July 29th, 2008 2:51 pm

    au contraire, its quite possible that those of us who revel in sophomoric humour would still be in splits every time something on par with ‘Surds in the syllabi’ makes its appearance every so occasionally.

    Why else do you think the market for adult jokesis growing steadily over time?

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