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confused Posted on 07-Nov-03 10:48 AM

i aint a junk mail fan or anything but i recieved this forward email frm someone and when i read it i cudn't stop laughing..ya many of you here must have already read this..(HINT: coz i saw many of ur email id) but still here it goes..:

second generation Indian in the US, explaining the significance
>of Diwali to his friends. This is how he goes about it. "So
>this dude had, like a big cool kingdom and people kinda liked
>him. But like his step mom, or something, was kinda bitchy and
>she forced her husband to, like, send this cool dude, Ram, to
>some national forest or something. Since he was going, for like,
>something like more than 10 years or so, he decided to get his
>wife and his bro along. You know, so that they could all chill
>out together. But DUDE, the forest was reeeeeaaal scary. Shit,
>really man, they had monkeys and devils and some shit like that.
>But this dude, Ram, kicked ass with his darts and bows and arrows
>so it was fine.
>But then some gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up
>his babe, Sita, and lures her away to his hood. And boy! Was
>our man, and his bro pissed! And you don't piss this son-of-a-gun,
>cuz he just kicks ass and like, all the gods were with him.
>So anyway, you can't mess with gods. So Ram and his bro get
>an army of monkeys. Dude, don't ask me how they trained those
>goddamn monkeys. Just go along with me, okay? So Ram, his bro,
>and their monkeys whip this gangsta's ass in their own hood.
>By this time, their times up in the forest and anyways it gets
>kind of boring, you know no TV or mall or shit like that. So
>they decided to hitch a ride back home, and when the people
>realize that, our dude, his bro and the wife are back home,
>they thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something
>nice. Now they didn't have any bars or clubs in those days,
>so they couldn't take him out for a drink. Instead, they, like
>decided to smoke and since they also had some lamps, they lit
>the lamps also. So it was pretty cool, you know. With all those
>fireworks really, they even had some local musicians play along
>with the fireworks. And you know, what, dude, that was the very
>first, I kid you not, that was the very first music- synchronized
>fireworks. You know, like the 4th of July stuff, but just more
>cooler and stuff, you know. And so dude, THAT was how, like,
>this festival started. Cool! Diwali rocks, man."