"Curiosity kills the rat"

Advocating the importance of sex education in school

Wow,
That was good. I mean, naughty and good. Honestly I discovered the "Victor's Secret" when I was in class 6, when my friends took me to a field where a forced cattle breeding was taking place; it all made so sense in one snap. Everything started falling in place and I figured out how "close" you have to be to impregnate.
Well narrated.

Hey JG:

I wish I have a curiosity like those of childhood now !!! I don't mean that I don't have now, but relatively most of my curiosity are solved by now, the remainings are the second-hand curiosities. LOL...

Bothe Necessity and the Curiosity should be the mother of invention: why only credited "Necessity" only right???

Raghav, Hemant and you John seem like created a Gung-Ho-Battalion during that time, huh !!!

Nature's Call & Shakti Kapoor Theory were quite a hillarious one.....

HD

JG:
I must say this curiosity nearly killed me too when I was growing up. Finding out the answer was not very pleasant experience either.

truly said humdrum,
I would prefer discovery instead of invention though. Can you believe Hemant is a doctor now? He almost went for gynaecology.

DWI,
talking about animals copulating....it took me another year to find out there were not just frolicking. I am sorry if you found it naughty, it was not meant to be obscene. Just delineating my honest self.

New,
The other curiosity that killed me was the menstrual cycle. Took in in ninth grade to find about the entire period thing.

Whenever the Cows we had were giving birth, all the elders from my house would go to the cow shed but me and my brother were told to stay back. Often times I wondered how the babies, humans and animals were born, mainly from where they came. I was always told by the elders that they came from the mouth. I wondered how come the calf was not bruised by the teeth of its mother in the process of giving birth.

hurray,

another good point, I thought they came out as excreta.

JG,
That would apply to the birth of Ganesh, Parbati's excreta, in nepali 'mayal'.

yes, good point hurray.

But I meant the pooping excreta...lol.

JG: Same here. That was another burning issue that went unsolved for a long time.

JG:

That's what I also thought at the beginning, but I always wonder how gross we all are then.

Since Hurray bring the matter of cow giving birth to calf, I can tell you guys my experience with that. I was about 5/6 years old and was visiting my maamaghar in a village. One day I was just enjoying the bucolic scenes then, to my surprise, my eyes caught a big Balloon in a field. I screamed and screamed to my Grandma of a big balloon coming out of the cow standing on the field. I was so surprised to see that humungous balloon like structure coming out of the cow's belly. My grandma grabbed me on my hand and took me inside the house. After few minutes, I canot help so I unlocked the door where I was, then went to the place where the cow were kept (goth, I think it is called, Gai ko Goth), and there goes a beautiful calf semi-wet, and the cow licking her baby.

My second hand curiosity now is- is the human same??? LOL...

By the way, not to mention here- I was in a complete quandary while studying the earthworm anatomy and the whole reproduction section in my I.Sc class. Is not that quite fascinating.

Well, still waiting for some curiosities............

HD

Hey JG, so I guess the color of our skin depends upon what our mom ate before giving birth to us :):):)

^ ^ ^ --> That is funny Hurray...!!!

No wonder still some people in our culture believes on that. Recently I heard someone advising a pregnant women not to eat that and this and those etc, or else your kid will come out to be black than whitish.

Funny...

Really Humdrum. I did not know people were actually believing in it.

good narration, dude. how can you remember such specifics? i personally can't recall that one specific moment when the light bulb went off. that thing about the sindoor was cool....


by the way, have you read "to kill a mockingbird?" it's harper lee's one and only book but its a masterpiece. when you read the book, you see things around you with the eye of young scout finch (who i believe is 8 or so). so there are elements of innocence and discovery, and a way of looking at the world which we all seem to have forget as we get older. you writing has some of that.

*seem to forget*

Humdrum,

Internet helps us now to get past our curiosities, there are a lot of useful informations about child birth. Had been reading it when my wife was pregnant. I had seen my own wife delivering, humans are not born in a memberane as the water breaks just before they are born, all other things are like the little calf.

Hurray,
My mom ate a lot of cashews before I was born, but I am still "gahungoro".

Ah, zalim,
you never cease to surprise me, very few people have mentioned that book to me so far. It is one of the better books written till date. I bought it three years ago. It has won a Pulitzer Prize too. Have you seen its cinematic version starring Gregory Peck?

When I was a kid, I asked my mom, how babies are born. There were quite a few people. Like granny and aunt.

And they told me, "akaass bata jharcha bacha". And I thanked god that they did not drop me in someone else's lap. Hahaha. That was a scary thought. For quite a while I believed it was true, until i started to explore a lil more. But regardless, I am just glad i was born, - to them. :)

"to kill a mockingbird" -- is there not a movie? Is this about this lawyer and his kids?
Hmmmm... and he fights a rape case for a african man.

Anyways, good to see you back with this john.

Later,
IndisGuise:)

indi,

funny isn't it? how elders try to conceal the facts. Well, your thoughts should have had a baby coming down paragliding instead of a freefall. F = mg would kill both you and the recipient had it been your way. But it was hillarious.

My mom used to tell my brother that she found him in the bushes, and then he would stop asking about his birth.

Yes, to kill a mocking bird is a story about a lawyer who tries to protect his black neighbor, originally written by Harper Lee, it was later made a movie too. Do you remember Scout and Jem?

Eh, John thanks for the amusing and naughty read !

I always thought, you needed to get married to have babies. I did wonder though, why babies were never born before marriage.

As for cows and other household animals, I coudn't for the life of me get, why they were tangled up in unethical postions. I was puzzled for years abt eggs too. Like how some eggs gave little absolutely adorable chicks, while others didn't ! Was I eating a whole big chicken everytime I ate an egg for breakfast ? And was I an egg too ?

GOSH !