I’m in India (Chennai, India)
So I was leafing through the newspaper delivered to my room this morning and came across some real estate advertising. “Funny” enough that I’ll show you right now.
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Yet I get the sense that people here don’t find it funny. They probably take it very seriously.
But, as an outsider it seems hilarious. So I wondered - what else might be humorous and or thought of as loony depending on whose eyes you are looking through:
Is the ad above:
- Any funnier than a Chinese complaining about bad Feng Shui and going to great lengths and expense to remodel a home or business?
- Any more ridiculous than someone blowing themselves up as a suicide bomber in the name of some fellow named Allah?
- Any funnier than getting dunked in a tank in front of all your friends and countless hundreds of other people, to be baptized in the name of some fellow named Jesus Christ?
- Any crazier than a procession of people expressing blind to some guy named Buddha by offering flowers to a reputed tooth of Buddha that they have never seen?
(It’s only shown once every 7 years for 5 days I’m told in Kandy, Sri Lanka - I sure as heck didn’t see anything, though I did join the throngs of people and offer a flower - it was Poya, the monthly full moon festival. The next time the tooth is supposed to be shown is 2007. Hey wait...isn't it a similar policy for the Shroud of Turin?)
Photo of past events related to Buddha's tooth - Temple of Tooth - Kandy, Sri Lanka
One more...kind of reminds me of similar Christian themed photos re: sacred objects
.... speaking of teeth...
- Any funnier than a child believing in the tooth fairy?
- Any more ridiculous than people who consign themselves to sitting in a cubicle for the greater part of their waking lives?
- Any funnier than someone wearing a cross on their neck to ward off evil spirits?
- Any more ridiculous than your local astrologer - and there are a lot of them here in India. And I think they take it deadly seriously....didn’t US President Reagan rely on astrology?
- Any funnier than a child believing in Santa Claus?
- Any more funny than those who are "laughing all the way to the bank" as they take advantage of others for extreme profit (As opposed to reasonable profit). The days of colonialism came to mind as I toured the tea plantations.
- Any crazier than crashing a couple of planes into the WTC so you can reach heaven with your harem of virgin wives waiting for you?
- Any funnier than supermodels working for PETA (People for Ethical treatment of Animals) buying lobsters from stores and setting them free in the ocean?
- Any funnier than watching the Ab Swing infomercial while waiting for my flight from Sri Lanka to India. No CNN Airport here.
- Any funnier than people in ancient Rome laughing and cheering while watching people kill each other in the Colosseum? As I watched Gladiator on the movie channel here again last night.
- And... any funnier than watching Australian aborigine men in Arnhem Land (Northern Australia) watching an aerobics exercise TV show, no doubt to admire the hot bodied Australian girls. Meanwhile my small group went up in the hills to look at ancient rock art that we paid good money for.
- Any funnier than when I laugh at myself when I look back and see how I viewed the world a couple of years ago versus today?
I’ll be laughing again soon enough after I reflect on everything else I will have learned in the next few months.
But I don't have to wait that long - for there are plenty of "funny" things to witness first hand.
After all – this is the Circus of Life, isn’t it? Ha hah ha ha.
Yet I get the sense that people here don’t find it funny. They probably take it very seriously.
But, as an outsider it seems hilarious. So I wondered - what else might be humorous and or thought of as loony depending on whose eyes you are looking through:
Is the ad above:
- Any funnier than a Chinese complaining about bad Feng Shui and going to great lengths and expense to remodel a home or business?
- Any more ridiculous than someone blowing themselves up as a suicide bomber in the name of some fellow named Allah?
- Any funnier than getting dunked in a tank in front of all your friends and countless hundreds of other people, to be baptized in the name of some fellow named Jesus Christ?
- Any crazier than a procession of people expressing blind to some guy named Buddha by offering flowers to a reputed tooth of Buddha that they have never seen?
(It’s only shown once every 7 years for 5 days I’m told in Kandy, Sri Lanka - I sure as heck didn’t see anything, though I did join the throngs of people and offer a flower - it was Poya, the monthly full moon festival. The next time the tooth is supposed to be shown is 2007. Hey wait...isn't it a similar policy for the Shroud of Turin?)
.... speaking of teeth...
- Any funnier than a child believing in the tooth fairy?
- Any more ridiculous than people who consign themselves to sitting in a cubicle for the greater part of their waking lives?
- Any funnier than someone wearing a cross on their neck to ward off evil spirits?
- Any more ridiculous than your local astrologer - and there are a lot of them here in India. And I think they take it deadly seriously....didn’t US President Reagan rely on astrology?
- Any funnier than a child believing in Santa Claus?
- Any more funny than those who are "laughing all the way to the bank" as they take advantage of others for extreme profit (As opposed to reasonable profit). The days of colonialism came to mind as I toured the tea plantations.
- Any crazier than crashing a couple of planes into the WTC so you can reach heaven with your harem of virgin wives waiting for you?
- Any funnier than supermodels working for PETA (People for Ethical treatment of Animals) buying lobsters from stores and setting them free in the ocean?
- Any funnier than watching the Ab Swing infomercial while waiting for my flight from Sri Lanka to India. No CNN Airport here.
- Any funnier than people in ancient Rome laughing and cheering while watching people kill each other in the Colosseum? As I watched Gladiator on the movie channel here again last night.
- And... any funnier than watching Australian aborigine men in Arnhem Land (Northern Australia) watching an aerobics exercise TV show, no doubt to admire the hot bodied Australian girls. Meanwhile my small group went up in the hills to look at ancient rock art that we paid good money for.
- Any funnier than when I laugh at myself when I look back and see how I viewed the world a couple of years ago versus today?
I’ll be laughing again soon enough after I reflect on everything else I will have learned in the next few months.
But I don't have to wait that long - for there are plenty of "funny" things to witness first hand.
After all – this is the Circus of Life, isn’t it? Ha hah ha ha.
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