2000th member

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 02 Apr 2007, 21:34

Did anyone notice now that the forum is 2000 strong

Congrats to the forum admins, and the 2000th member mgrkrishna

-Ramakriya

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 02 Apr 2007, 21:46

Yes, another milestone and hopefully many more yet to come.

As we all know, the stated objective of the forum is mainly discussion and information sharing about music ( with contextual audio and video uploads ). The topics count and users count have been competing with each other for quite some time and currently Topics is in the lead.

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 02 Apr 2007, 23:02

vasanthakokilam wrote:As we all know, the stated objective of the forum is mainly discussion and information sharing about music ( with contextual audio and video uploads ).

Not to belabor the point, but this a forum for discussion, and the clips are merely props. Many other fora exist for exchange of clips.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 02 Apr 2007, 23:29

.. and of course there are more guests than members!
As Milton wrote
they also serve who stand and wait

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 03 Apr 2007, 02:06

.....so said the owner of Milton's Pizza and Pasta Place!!!!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 03 Apr 2007, 02:54

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 03 Apr 2007, 02:57

1st and 2000th members are both Krishnas

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 03 Apr 2007, 12:05

Good observation.. and that comes from the first Krishna

rshankar · Post by **rshankar** » 03 Apr 2007, 19:30

I thought the first Krishna was Ramakrishnan - srkris!

coolkarni · Post by **coolkarni** » 03 Apr 2007, 19:34

I beginning to feel like I am at ISKCON !!

jayaram · Post by **jayaram** » 03 Apr 2007, 20:47

Well, we also have a few Rams to balance it out...(or should I say, complete the experience?)

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 03 Apr 2007, 21:02

Shankara! Siva Shankara!

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 03 Apr 2007, 21:22

Perhaps ganapatisubramanya sivarAmakrishnan should cover the whole spectrum of Hindu pantheon of male gods. Such names for people have gone out of fashion these days.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 03 Apr 2007, 21:39

To make things clear here....... The first Krishna is me.

The group initiator doesn't count in.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 03 Apr 2007, 22:11

Sub
ayyappO

MaheshS · Post by **MaheshS** » 03 Apr 2007, 22:34

mahakavi wrote:Perhaps ganapatisubramanya sivarAmakrishnan should cover the whole spectrum of Hindu pantheon of male gods. Such names for people have gone out of fashion these days.

Maybe cos half of them end up in foreign country where most phone calls to bank / utility company etc requires you to tell your surname. Imagine the poor lady / gent on the other end trying to spell sivarAmakrishnan!!!

One of my friends [Sivasankar Gopalanarayanan] here has spent abundant time going thro G for Golf etc etc ... in the end everyone is exhausted.

coimbatorerasigan · Post by **coimbatorerasigan** » 03 Apr 2007, 22:55

speaking of names, i cant for the life of me figure out the newfound penchant for south indians coming up with questionable ethnic/religious/cultural blackbox names like "vanisha, ishan, anoueshka, rithikaa, nikithaa"! Arjun, Adithya and Rohit also dont necessarily count for soth indian names...give me a subramanyam, or a krishna anyday

! Time was when Subramanyam as opposed to Subramanian itself caused a ton of heckling...guess anything goes today.

Mixing numerology with it makes things even worse. Its strange have a name like "Anoueshka Shankar"...but I guess some people consider that Ravi Shankar's daughter has made it fashinable for even iyers and iyengars to take that name....

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 03 Apr 2007, 22:57

And Anoushka is actually a Russian name...

meena · Post by **meena** » 03 Apr 2007, 23:02

I beginning to feel like I am at ISKCON !!

Hare Krishna!

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 03 Apr 2007, 23:08

meena:

It should be harE krishNA. Otherwise the sprinting animal (hare) might sneak in here!

meena · Post by **meena** » 03 Apr 2007, 23:24

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 04 Apr 2007, 03:58

meena,
In this jungle of pouncing animals and novel names, I'm glad I belong to the krishnA tribe--a populous one. Creed? I could care less. Sub will chime in--ellOrum Or kulam, ellOrum Or inam...

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 04 Apr 2007, 04:17

arasi wrote:ellOrum Or kulam, ellOrum Or inam...

For the benefit of meena, the quote (a famous Thamizh adage) means "all are of the same tribe and all are of the same clan"

meena · Post by **meena** » 04 Apr 2007, 05:36

yeh! my thamiz has improved, thanks to SUN tv

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 04 Apr 2007, 18:20

SUN TV? Oh, my! meena will now become proficient in rickshaw language!
OK, translate this into English, meena
innAmmA orE bejAra poccu ungUda, kIsiDuvEn kIsi

dharinip · Post by **dharinip** » 04 Apr 2007, 19:33

cmlover wrote:.. and of course there are more guests than members!
As Milton wrote
they also serve who stand and wait

Hi ...am new to this forum...

Any reason why there are always more guests online than members, considering you cant participate unless you're registered...also why are so many of the users sort of semi-anonymous?... just and observation

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 04 Apr 2007, 19:36

Sub,
You are speaking of slang which doesen't bother me as much as the na Na exchange and the la La swop.

TV tamizh can be hazardous to your learning, Meena! For a general sense of 'hearing' the language, fine! To learn from it? adu aNukULamA? May be not. Take that one word anukUlam (advantageous). Pronounced the first way, it becomes atom (aNu)+ garbage (kULam)!
So, for the flow of the language, yes, it is of anukUlam, for pronounciation, NOT!

Nick,
You surely have something to say about it...

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 04 Apr 2007, 21:15

mahakavi mAmA
nI^Nga naMBaDavA bhAShayE pEsu^NgO!
Ethukku veRumanE koZhanthaikaLukku keTTa vArtthai ellAm katthu koDukkaREL !
vAyai sOppu pOTTu alambu^NgO !

annapoorne · Post by **annapoorne** » 04 Apr 2007, 22:02

For a moment I thought that I had logged on to some FM channel

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 04 Apr 2007, 22:10

cmlover wrote:mahakavi mAmA
vAyai sOppu pOTTu alambu^NgO !

ayyO ippO pancakavyam poTTu alambaNum

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 04 Apr 2007, 22:31

pancagavyatthilE gOmayam chEkka maRanthuDathe^NgO!
athai nalla aachaaramaa sEviyu^ngO!

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 04 Apr 2007, 22:42

Another session of 'script writing' for the chinnath thirai, eh? Replete with vaTTAra vazhakku (regional language), chennai slang, the worst, and 'caste speak'. Very funny, and I hope people see it as such--in the manner of maDisAr and 'aDuththAththu amujaththaip pArththELA?'--all quaint and charming. I'm only thinking of those who do not zero in on to it and take it all literally!
So, ellOrum Or kulam, ellOrum Or inam, soap or the other stuff

meena · Post by **meena** » 05 Apr 2007, 00:10

OK, translate this into English, meena
innAmmA orE bejAra poccu ungUda, kIsiDuvEn kIsi

mahakavi
ayyO Pl. don't tell me u too are going to start yet another quiz here

ramakriya · Post by **ramakriya** » 05 Apr 2007, 00:16

ksrimech wrote:
cmlover wrote:mahakavi mAmA
vAyai sOppu pOTTu alambu^NgO !

ayyO ippO pancakavyam poTTu alambaNum

colorado le gomayam kiDaikkuma

?

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 Apr 2007, 00:19

Meena,
Actually, 'kizhiththu viDuVen' (kIsiduvEn) is your line! Devi DurgA's line...

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 05 Apr 2007, 00:29

ColordovilE ellam pashuvai kollarADO
angE ellam gO mAmsam thaan kiDaikkum mayam kiDaikkathu!
paravAllE bathilukku ashvagandham cEththAp pOruM!

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 05 Apr 2007, 00:46

ramakriya wrote:colorado le gomayam kiDaikkuma ?

dArALamA keDaikkum

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 05 Apr 2007, 01:02

CML & ksrimech hereby announce that they are founding a company which specializes in gathering, processing, and distributing (supposedly) cleansing (?) products obtained from cattle. They have purchased several ranches in Colorado. The two titans promise to personally involve themselves in producing quality product. They are issuing an IPO. Wall street is awaiting the issue anxiously. GOvardhan Inc., is the lead underwriter for the IPO but they don't know what the two titans are talking about. They are hopeful that the IPO will be sold out days before it comes to the market. Members of rasikas.org are promised by the two titans that they will get special allotment of shares. Members, please send your bids to CML or ksrimech soon. Don't be left out of this once in a lifetime opportunity.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 05 Apr 2007, 01:15

bidders contact the CEO mahakavi!
(special dicounts and priority shares for those who can talk the chennai riskAkkAran lingo

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 05 Apr 2007, 01:15

EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!! EXTRA!!

CML & ksrimech issued a news bulletin. They have NOT purchased any ranches in Colorado as per previous news clip. Actually they have contracted to do maintenance work in several ranches for a specified fee based on the number of heads at each ranch. There itself they are earning revenue. On top of that they are planning to sell their secret cleansing product at a premium price. What do you call this venture? GO for the GOld--what else?

sarvam GOmayam jagat!

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 05 Apr 2007, 02:08

The first five hundred buyers will be gifted a harikatha CD by Sri CML on SrIkRSNa's Flute and Cows penned by mahAkavi(for kaNNamma songs) and aDiyEn(for kaNNan songs).

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 Apr 2007, 04:06

Could you call it farmyard humor?

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 05 Apr 2007, 05:42

At the annual shareholders' meeting, we will distribute a 3-volume series of Krishna GAnam by UttukkADu Venkata kavi to all the attendees along with a key chain in the shape of a cow. The cheering after the presentation of annual report will be "GO, GO, GO...". A huge cow model will decorate the stage. The refreshments will be a quart of milk per person arranged in cooperation with the American Dairy Council. Every attendee will get a coupon good for 10 gallons of milk (instead of the share dividend). The profit picture at every annual meeting is expected to show an exponential growth. We will be a Fortune 100 company in 5 years. That is the vision for "GO for GOld" Inc.

After 5 years we will spin off a biopharma subsidiary which will develop transgenic pharmaceuticals made in the milk. Eventually we will buy the state of Wisconsin.

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 05 Apr 2007, 06:24

Most importantly every product from our cows will be organic and high class. All our cows will be happy cows.

We shall also record the happy moos of the cows and sell it as ring tones for cell phones.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 Apr 2007, 07:08

ksrimech,
After all the cell phone ring tones I have heard around me, the 'mootone' sounds refreshing. gokula ring tone corporation is what you have in mind? we have come a long way on this thread from the ridiculous to the sublime. I bet you have a ready pAsuram for this...

mahakavi · Post by **mahakavi** » 05 Apr 2007, 07:39

arasi:
Your wish is fulfilled!
ridiculous (kIsiDuvEn) to (almost) sublime (seyyuL)

gOvardana giritanaik kuDaipiDitta mAyavan
gOkulattil gOpiyaraik kalangavaitta kaNNanavan
gO-for-gOlDenum kAlerADO kampeniyaik kAttiDavE
gOmayamAm sIrporuLAl ulaguyyac ceydiDuvAn

கோவர்தன கிரிதனைக் குடைபிடித்த மாயவன்
கோகுலத்தில் கோபியரைக் கலங்கவைத்த கண்ணனவன்
கோ-for-கோல்டெனும் காலெராடோ கம்பெனியைக் காத்திடவே
கோமயமாம் சீர்பொருளால் உலகுய்யச் செய்திடுவான்

OK, arasi, I did some editing per your wish. See if it suits your taste.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 Apr 2007, 07:57

Way to go, sub!
The second verse looks as though one should avoid stepping on the turf. Thanks for editing

ksrimech · Post by **ksrimech** » 05 Apr 2007, 08:33

arasiyAr vEnDugOLukku iNangi adiyEn mudal muyarci

engaL kaNNan mEytta mAdU
adu tinbadO veykkOlin mEDu
adu tinnu kOzhutta pirpADU
karandu koNDE kaNNan pATTa pADu

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 05 Apr 2007, 19:27

Thanks, ksrimech!

CML,
Now it's your turn to steer it further towards the sublime...

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 05 Apr 2007, 21:18

Time to make it musically relevant
http://www.rogepost.com/n/0921600531
arasi
I couldn't help a dig at sub

The last word is of course yours, the Reigning vaggEyakArI !

VK
I still do not get the feel of sindhubhairavi; a shade of Ahirbhairavi, yes!