Humor in verse

Small town morality

 

If there is a rambunctious religious riot

If there is a rambunctious religious riot in Bareilly
Meeky magistrate O’Reilly gets quickly sicky in the dicky.

(The following poem was written on April 1947 by a district officer (British) in Bareilly faced with the prospect of a religious riot. This is how it goes:

“Just listen to the handicaps

I have to labour under, chaps!

Whene’er there’s trouble in the offing

I seem to get attacks of coughing.

If there’s a riot in my area,

Why then I’m sure to get malaria;

And when some Muslim seeks the blood

Of Hindus all because some sod

Has gone and tweaked the old boy’s beaver

I’m sure to get a bout of fever;

And when there’s stabbing in the city

I get such pains in my dicky;

No sooner Night resounds with howls,

I get a gripping in my bowels.”)

A matter of inside pride

Tirupur upholds our men’s honour
And our women’s modesty
A matter of inside pride
For its undying undie industry .

Wiping the population

Erode’s thriving bath-towel industry
Threatens to wipe(not off)
The population of the entire country.

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The dark young man from Patna
This man says what if he is dark and seeks her hennaed hand
His heart is as large as the Hyde park in the
firangi-land.

(”PATNA, India (Reuters) – Turned down for marriage due to his dark
complexion, an Indian man staged a hunger strike outside his would -be
bride’s house for two days before she finally relented .Saral Prasad,the 23-year-old groom in eastern
Bihar state, said he would not budge from the girl’s village home after
she refused to marry him earlier this week in an arranged marriage
because he was too dark.Rajani, 19, changed her mind after two days and the couple got married.)

The chilly -eater of Delhi

There was a hilly guy in Delhi who ate many a green chilly
The thunder that followed in his belly made him look a bit silly.

(16 years-old Pravin Kumar Sherawat sucks up milk through his nostrils and squirts it through his eyes , 12 feet high ! He is also a holder of the national record for eating 175 green chillies in five minutes sharp.)

 

Indian English is kick-ass English

Our government loves farmers and the crops they grow
But we want them to grow herbs in their backsides more .

A Rajasthan Government official has urged the farmers to grow more herbs in their backsides.

Do not at all philander ,says the goose to the gander

Do not at all philander ,says the goose to the gander
Any foreign affairs we no doubt severely condemn
We still love you and just in case,here is the condom.

“KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) – Women in a Nepal mountain village have been mailing condoms to their husbands working overseas to protect them from sexually transmitted diseases, a news report said Tuesday.

The women of Pang village have been writing their husbands letters urging them not to have sex with others—but they have been enclosing condoms just in case, the Kantipur newspaper reported.

“http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SOE8G81&show_article=1&catnum=9

 

 

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