10 Things You Should Know - Episode V
Here’s Episode V of 10 Things You Should Know; I
wrote this instalment at Delhi airport, waiting for my flight to Jaipur.
- What do
you call an older man having a
much younger girlfriend? Cradle-snatcher.
- The motto of the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) is ‘Nation shall speak peace unto nation’. - John Lennon, one of the greatest song writers
and member of the Beatles, used the pseudonym ‘Kaptain Kundalini’ in his
musical works. I suggest you listen to John Lennon’s Imagine; it is
divine. - The small enclosed area used in the sport of
Cock-fighting called Cockpit. - ‘In-q-tel’
is the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). - Jesus Wept is the shortest verse in
the Bible. In tennis, Jesus Wept refers
to mini tennis skirts. - Marilyn Monroe was the first pin-up in
Playboy magazine, launched by Hugh
Hefner in 1953.
- When Netaji Subhash Bose reorganised
the Indian National Army (INA), he placed his soldiers under three
commands: Gandhi, Nehru and Maulana Azad. - Barbecue, a type of cooking, is named
after a Spanish word meaning ‘framework
of sticks’.
- It is general practice, especially
among the religious Christians, to polish or wipe apples before eating. Do you know why? To wipe away the devil’s finger-marks on the skin, to avoid misfortune. This
originates from the belief that Satan gave Eve an apple to eat.
Check out 10 Things You Should Know: Episode I, Episode II, Episode III, and Episode IV.