Hilarity in kutcheris

mazhai · Post by **mazhai** » 06 Oct 2009, 19:41

If sung by an elderly person is it Jyeshtapathi ?
if sung by a doctor is it allopathy and homeopathy ?
if sung by a person very affable is it Ishtapathy ?

J.Balaji

I bow down to thee!!!!!! arputham!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 07 Oct 2009, 05:15

..just one more

If Balaji is playing then it is venkitachalapathy...

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 01 Nov 2009, 06:36

A vidwan was teaching his young pupil 'kandadundo kannan pol. he was repeating the sangathi;kannan pola pola. the pupil was repeating the sangathi many times . at one stage it looked like lapo lapo lapo,when the sangathi was tepeated. just like mara mara becoming rama rama, the teacher teased her enamma, lapo lapo nu adicchikkare gobilalitha

Ramasubramanian M.K · Post by **Ramasubramanian M.K** » 01 Nov 2009, 20:49

gobilalitha: Kalki Krishnamurthy reviewed MS's rendering of this song in the forties,saying En Ippidi Labo Labo enru adithukolgirargal!!

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 01 Nov 2009, 21:59

...better than singing irreverently 'kaNNan pO lE! pO lE!

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 07 Nov 2009, 19:05

Hilarity before concert...

I met Professor Narendran in our recent concert at IIT. He said: There was a woman who had some wheasing and nose block, hence, she was not able to smell correctly. So to avoid any tragedy, her husband a brainy scientist, connected an alarm which sends her a message from near the stove to her laptop, as she used to on line G-Talk always. How would he named the detector?

"Gas-Ping"

Gayathri said, the weather makes her cough (rarely). Me: Don't worry, since you are cow(gaai), calves won't trouble you.

Narendran: If a girl sings shrI, then it is sthree rAgam.
Me: if someone can sing isthiri (ironing clothes) rAgam, that will give warmth for this weather.

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 07 Nov 2009, 20:19

todays rain:

I sent a message to krishna (my sishya), "is your area be area or a real Eriyaa?"

"orE kuLamA irukku sir...?"

"innikku office uNdA?"

"illa sir.."

"pinna, anga enna panRE?"

"inga orE mazhai sir, ilaatti inga iruppEnA?"

"submarine-la varavENdiyadhu dhAnE?

"enakku Otta theriyAdhE"

"theriyAma OttinA dhaan submarine, therinjaa, shippu"

"

"

"aanaa, unna harbour, navy, 'thekkadi'... engayum velaikku eduththukka maataan..."

"why sir?"

"onakku dhaan "otta" theriyalayE... appuram ellaarum muzhugeeduvaa"

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 07 Nov 2009, 20:50

erode14 wrote:
"submarine-la varavENdiyadhu dhAnE?

"enakku Otta theriyAdhE"

"theriyAma OttinA dhaan submarine, therinjaa, shippu"

" "

Erode
The above is lovely . It just reminds me of one thamizh movie(dont recollect the name) where kamal says driving an aeroplane is very very easy as there is no traffic jam when compared to driving in roads.

Just extending your sishya-guru conversation:
-----------------------------------------------------
Sishya of Erode says "Submarine oTTumbOdhu sea erode achunnA enna panrathu sir"
Guru Nagarajan says "Dei elementary you come and see erOde, so that you take lessons with me"

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 07 Nov 2009, 21:14

orutthan kuthirai mElE easy aakap pOnaa 'He rode the horse'
hilarity threadle easy aakap pOnaa 'E rode the hilarity'

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 07 Nov 2009, 21:46

>Narendran: If a girl sings shrI, then it is sthree rAgam.
>Me: if someone can sing isthiri (ironing clothes) rAgam, that will give warmth for this weather.

Erode:

Isthri Surutti-yai kAnAdu .poga vaikkum.

( surutti - wrinkles, fold, kAnAdu - disappear )
adarkku vilai ettaNa

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 07 Nov 2009, 23:33

VK,
How ancient can you be? eTTaNA? Even I know that folks in India do not understand language like that anymore!
Apropos, Where can you find an istriwAla who irons anything for eTTaNA?
A stri's istri bill to remove the wrinkles in her saris can make sri spring cuckoo wince...

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 07 Nov 2009, 23:35

teriyAma OTTinA atu submarine, terinju OTTina adu shippu

YAva rODu Adaru adu IrODE, hilarityyalli (enda rODum irODE, hilarityyil)!

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 10 Nov 2009, 12:20

ettaNA(atANA)? romba nALAnA (nALanA) marandhu vidum...

reading this ship messages, I remember the cricket match happened between India and South Africa in Delhi. We won and I said,
"the SA team has Vessel, Rice and Cook. If they had managed to have some fire also, they would have made their bread"
(Kepler Wesssels, Clive Rice & Jimmy Cook)

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 10 Nov 2009, 13:35

wonderful joke .all cricket lovers will enjoy it immensely. gobilalitha

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 10 Nov 2009, 21:48

Lest people forget:
Originally
One rupee = 16 aNAs
0ne aNA = 12 pice
There were coins one pie, kAlaNA (1/4 aNa); arai aNA
The kAlaNA had a hole in it and was called 'OTTai kAlaNA'
The expression was used that somebody was not worth even kAlaNA or OTTai kAlaNA.
In fact kAlaNA was worth 3 pice and a better expression was 'pisA peRAthavan' (person not worth one pie (plural was pice/pies).
Actually I was told by a Tamil paNdit that the former expression came from an older expression : 'kAlaNi peRAthavan' meaning not worth the slippers!

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 10 Nov 2009, 21:54

BTW, when did all this aNA business change to the current rupees/paisa? Was aNA used throughout India or different parts of India had different coinage?

Did any of you actually transact in aNAs ?

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 10 Nov 2009, 22:15

aNa-->naya paisa --->paisa
The first transition came in 1957.. Then the word 'naya' was dropped over time!

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 10 Nov 2009, 23:46

thank you gb sir...

i pity the word "nayA"....

it gets dropped irrespective of being a prefix(nayA-paisA) or suffix(abhi-nayA).... and also, humbanE or thumbanE, do whatever summanE, Ek "nayA" "ithi-cash", we can't do... (Ek dhujE kEliyE)

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 11 Nov 2009, 00:30

There was this 'OTTai kAlaNA'- the coin with a hole- in some houses it was used while lighting a big kutthuviLakku; it will be kept on the 'mukham' and the wick will be passed thro it and then lit.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 11 Nov 2009, 00:44

OTTai kAlaNA was preceded by a 'full' kAlaNA with King George V's head. The OTTai was introduced to save precious copper that was needed for the war. In olden times it had a good purchaing power when one could have a fulfilling meal for that price (idli saambar and tea to go with) and a full royal feast for 2 aNas. A montlhy salary of Rs 30/- was a princely sum!For example the OTTai kAlaNA could buy you two cocoanuts!

By the by the OTTai one was being used by women to have a perfect round bindi for a long time (before the sticky ones were introduced). I am reminded of the 'thread trick' TS used to get straight vibhuthi (that MKR referred to). But MS would not have used the OTTai since here divine bindi was too big! Does MKR know the secret?

Ramasubramanian M.K · Post by **Ramasubramanian M.K** » 11 Nov 2009, 01:36

To Vasanthakokilam's question as to when the transition took place to the decimal system-I think it was in 1957. Interestingly this was one issue that Rajaji opposed with vehemence and introduced a counter measure(thro Swarajya and Kalki) namely One rupee should be equal to 64 kalanas--he argued that people who are used to the 64-pisa system would find the decimal system very complicated. He was so vehement in his opposition that the two powerful magazines that he had sway over outdid each other in their stridency.TS was completely sold on this issue.

I think History would now prove Rajaji(prescient as he was in all other worldly matters) was not so prescient on this issue.

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 11 Nov 2009, 03:27

In those days small silver blade-like things were there, which had different designs of different sizes(like stencils)-eg. 3 circles -small,medium, big or three 'tilakams' etc. With these one can have a perfect round kukmumam. I still use what my mother gave me.All one has to do is, keep it on the forehead, first apply some vasaline or something in the circletilakam, then apply the kumkumam.

Ramasubramanian M.K · Post by **Ramasubramanian M.K** » 11 Nov 2009, 03:55

The Kalana-Ahala-Kumkuma Pottu was MS Mami's trademark in those days.We had a picture in our home of Mami with her cork-screw hair curls and the Kumkuma Pottu--a bewitching beauty and lakshanam.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 11 Nov 2009, 06:28

Thx!
I guess MS taught the trick to 'KunkumapoTTu Kumaraswamy'

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 11 Nov 2009, 07:29

Two iddlies, one vadai,a tumbler coffee (some people used ti say tamzhar because it is the most favorite drink of tamizhars) cost six kalanas. if a grand father gave kalana to his grandson or granddaughter, they used to run to the shop for a chocolate or big peppermint.My grandfather used to bribe me a kalana everyday to get him snuff without the knowledge of my patti He used to hide the podimattai and have a pinch stealthily. gobilalitha

PUNARVASU · Post by **PUNARVASU** » 11 Nov 2009, 09:25

'Sticker bindis'-were also available in those days-they were called 'kujili pottu' and I think the shops(kaDais) inside the madurai temple were famous for these; they used to have shining patterns and we had to use some sort of a 'gOndu'(pisin) to stick them. They were not self adhesive as todays sticker bindis are.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 11 Nov 2009, 12:32

Oh! that was the 'kusili poTTu'. I didn't know that till now! Thanks.
GBL
While getting the snuff (paTNam poDi) did you try to sneak-in some

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 11 Nov 2009, 23:36

watch this comedy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB-KbkNoCtE

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 12 Nov 2009, 08:07

nice to see on the road to Erode a love song becoming a korvai;
but then we love that korvai though it is short!
Incidentally it is a great idea to capsulate good korvais in nice rhythmic songs which can serve as mnemonics. Has it been done ?

rajeshnat · Post by **rajeshnat** » 12 Nov 2009, 08:19

Erode
Perhaps your best buddy mannarkoil balaji knows for sure. In the recently concluded yearly rememberence day of PSP day, before the start of the concert , there was one disciple who sang a korvai with the lines "pazhani subramania pillai". It was very creative and well done.

BTW Erode your voice to a great extent and may be your face too resembles 'madan bob ' the music director who is also a film comedian nowadays , though I dont want you to keep perennially laughing like him.

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 20 Nov 2009, 00:15

dear rajesh,

I adore our great music not mad-on-pop

(JFJ)

actually, the phrase kitathakatha, in that korvai induced me to write something, as it was in mEl kAlam! That is the one spark ignited all this....

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 20 Nov 2009, 11:47

From recent review: A mama asked, what is the rAgam of the song, "rAsa natanam", bhavadhaarini (vocalist) answered, "peelu". I said, "Yes, doing..."

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 20 Nov 2009, 12:12

erode,

Your peelu joke reminded me of this.

The words War and Pour are a unique pair. War in English is Pour in Tamil and War in Tamil is Pour in English.

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 20 Nov 2009, 20:17

Nice find VK! you mean vaar (war)!

sramaswamy · Post by **sramaswamy** » 20 Nov 2009, 23:52

Somewhat related to what VK mentions is what I find in the word "Ambulance". It is a combination of the words ambu (Tamil) and lance (English) which have the same meanings.

srkris · Post by **srkris** » 21 Nov 2009, 15:40

sramaswamy wrote:ambu (Tamil) and lance (English) which have the same meanings.

Ambu is arrow
Lance is vEl

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 21 Nov 2009, 22:12

...hence
ambulance = arrowvEl = auroville

(Go there to get saved!)

sramaswamy · Post by **sramaswamy** » 25 Nov 2009, 03:46

srkris wrote:
sramaswamy wrote:ambu (Tamil) and lance (English) which have the same meanings.
Ambu is arrow
Lance is vEl

I stand corrected. Let me change it to

ambu (Tamil) and lance (English) which have the similar meanings.

Hey Isn't it English's fault that they named it ambulance. Shouldn't it be called "velLance" instead?

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 25 Nov 2009, 20:20

ambu-lance hits which-areva?

MaheshS · Post by **MaheshS** » 25 Nov 2009, 22:15

I thought Spear was vEl. Lance is something else, normally the lance is not thrown, it's used to be held horizontally while riding very swiftly on a horse against the opponent to knock him off.

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 11 Dec 2009, 11:14

When my friend visited a week ago, we were talking about music concerts at places other than towns.

"Enna solradhu nagaraj"¦ I tried to organize monthly concerts in our village, several years ago... in fact I named it Maruthi Baktha Sabha,
but, every one asked me ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‹Å“edhukku indha veeN vElaiÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ and no one appreciated the initiative"¦"

semmu86 · Post by **semmu86** » 11 Dec 2009, 13:03

[quote="erode14"] S, RMB"¦"

Rasika911 · Post by **Rasika911** » 11 Dec 2009, 14:37

[quote="erode14"]When my friend visited a week ago, we were talking about music concerts at places other than towns.

"Enna solradhu nagaraj"¦ I tried to organize monthly concerts in our village, several years ago... in fact I named it Maruthi Baktha Sabha,
but, every one asked me ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‹Å“edhukku indha veeN vElaiÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ and no one appreciated the initiative"¦"

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 11 Dec 2009, 21:55

...better
Sri RAma GAna MAruti Bhakta DAsa Nikhila Sabha (SRGMBDNS)

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 12 Dec 2009, 10:08

Add another letter: SRGMPDNS-RI! says your friend from Karnataka.

LOL, Nagarajan, mannan of pun

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 16 Dec 2009, 13:31

ValayapattiÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s speech: "An ambitious mother brought her daughter to me so that I could assess the childÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s music. At the end of the performance I said that girl must imbibe layam. A week later the child came once again, this time with a sore throat. I asked the mother for the reason. She said, "why sir, it was you who said that she must have lime and so I have been feeding her with lime juice every hour"

gobilalitha · Post by **gobilalitha** » 17 Dec 2009, 06:17

A bagavathar told his friend that he expected his friend for his performance the previous day. The friend replied'sorry,I got into some other difficulty. gobilalitha

cmlover · Post by **cmlover** » 17 Dec 2009, 06:31

Erode
More than likely he gave her hourly lime water (SuNNaambu thaNNeer) which got her throat seared

erode14 · Post by **erode14** » 17 Dec 2009, 11:18

dear cml & gobilalitha...

mridhangam · Post by **mridhangam** » 17 Dec 2009, 23:22

Today i had a concert in Music Academy and they offered Coffee and me and ghatam ravichandran were having coffee and at that time V.L.Kumar Entered and jocularly asked Kambojhinnu sonnele ippo kaapi (coffee) vachundirukkel ? i said Kambhoji Varnam (i meant inime thaan varanum) coffee (kaapi) already vandadu ..
J.Balaji