From: ah173@yfn.ysu.edu (Koshy George)
Subject: Re: Malayali humour/comic strips.
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:17:28 GMT


Hi friends,

I cannot locate the transliteration scheme right now. So 
just bear with my own methods for the time being. If somebody
can mail me one copy, it would be fine.


Here are some more jokes from Bobanum Mollyium.



8)
About the follies of ministers
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(a) 
A minister is making a speech upon the occasion of
a dairy farm inauguration.
"Ellaavarkum oroa cheriya diary undaayirikkunnathu 
nalle swabhaavamanu"
(It is a good practice that everybody should have a 
small diary)
Some body from behind hints that this is not about 
"diaries" but "ksheera vikasanam". 
Minister continues
"ngha, njan paranju vannathu.., cheera krishi cheithaal 
aarogyathinu valare nallathu aanu".
(Ha as I was saying, spinach (cheera) is very 
healthy. So its worth cultivating it.)


(b) 
A minister is making a serious speech on some literary 
occasion "Nammude saahithyam valareyadhikam puroagamichu 
kondirickukayaanu. Enthinu, oru pakshae kaakka  naadan 
kathakal ezhuthaarullathu malayalatthil maathram ayirickum"
(Our literature is very much upcoming. Only in malayalam,
can you  have a crow writing folk tales)

He had obviously heard about "Kaakkanadan", the malayalam 
novelist.

(c)
Minister saying seriously,  to a bunch of poverty stricken 
skeletons. "Sookshichoanam, chila sambanna raajyangal, nammude 
puroagathiyil asooyalukkalaanu".
(This particular cartoon, I saw once as drawn by R.K.Laxman 
also)

9)
Outside an arrack shop
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"Naadan vaangi naadu nannaakkuka"
(Buy indian, be indian)


10) 
Samkutty (I dont know exactly whether this is the name) who 
is in Gulf hearing that his father is in a serious condition 
phones home and says "I've arranged for a coffin made by 
National Panasonic".

11)
Joykkutty (I dont know exactly whether this is the name) who 
is working in Bombay has come home. He introduces  himself 
as "managing partner" of "hindustaan international company". 
People arrange a marriage for him. At the bride's house tea is 
served. Somebody says the tea is hot. Joy says "Athonnum saaramilla" 
and starts cooling the tea as if a professional tea shop guy would 
cool the tea by repeatedly pouring it from a height to a different 
tumbler. 

(Incidently, I know another joke about this method of cooling tea.
One tourist who was visiting kerala, aghast at this method, ordered 
for 1 meter of tea.)

12)
The famous athlete's (probably about PT Usha) house is robbed. 
There was nobody else in the house except the athlete. She heard 
some noises, saw the robber getting out of the window and chased him.
Eventually she overtook him and continued running.

13)
Sign near a transformer.
Apaayam,
1000 Volts,
Ivide thottaal prosecute cheyyum.

15)
About unreasonable demands made by some associations
----------------------------------------------------
Some people in a rally are shouting
"Koattayatthu kadalu venam"

16)
One of Boban's friend is bitten by a dog. All the kids together
take him to a doctor's house. The doctor irritantly comes out and
says :"Njan oru specialist aanu"
Boban replies: "Poocha kadickulla specialist aayirickum."

17)
Scene: Yuktivaadi Sammealanam is about to begin. The song heard
through the loudspeaker is 
"Easwara chinthayithonae manujanu saaswathameeiyulakil"
(I dont remember exactly whether this was in 
Bobanum Mollyium or not) 

18)
Somebody(reading a newspaper): "Koachu kaaranamanu 
tournament-il	thottathennu sports-thaaram"
Chettan: "Kaalu koachiyathaayirickum"

19)
Chettan(reading a news paper): "Pashuvea Kili pidichuvennu"
"Pashu vekilipidichu" is the correct way of reading it.
"vekili pidickuka":-get mad

20)
Boban/Molly have just come home after writing an examination
at school. Papa says, let me have a look at the question paper.
"a, b, c, d ivayil yethengilum onnu edutthu ezhuthuka: nee ennathaa 
ezhuthiyathu?"
Boban/Mollyium:"yethengilum orennem  ezhuthiyaal mathiyalloa.
	Enickishtamullathu njan ezhuthi"
Papa:"Tippu Sultan kollappettathu yethu yuddhatthil aaneda?"
Boban/Molliyum:"Angaerude avasaanatthe yuddhatthil aanennu
		ezhuthi"


					-Koshy George
					 george@pogo.cs.umass.edu
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