We just got this email at work.... and I think its hilarious!
Work emails! Sigh!!

____________________________________________
From: XXX
Sent: Friday, 21 December 2007 12:53 PM
To: (VIC) Southbank
Subject: Hazard Alert - Ground Floor Courtyard

The tree in the courtyard outside of the staff room has dropped a branch after yesterday's storm and other branches may be unstable. A contractor has been called to address the situation but is unable to attend Southbank until Monday, December 24. In the interim, staff are advised that they should not sit under the tree.

XXX
HR Business Partner

So since two days we are getting calls for some telephone shit - telstra and optus and blah blah. Obv they are call centre people from India. Common knowledge right?

The interesting thing is this -- the first girl who called yesterday asked me my name. As I was expecting this recruiter to call I gave her my name (thinking these people never get Indian names) and this girl who calls herself Julie. She then tells me she is calling from Sydney and her sisters name is Ruchi too. She then asks me if I am from India and which city I am from. I politely told her she didnt need to know that and hung up. She then called back in a couple of hours and asked to speak to my husband. He spoke to her and hung up.

Today I get another call from the same company and this dude who had no idea which accent he was supposed to imitate (confused btwn the Indian, American, British and Australian) he tells me the same scheme. Polite as ever, i said Ive spoken to someone already from his firm and I cant help him. This dude then tells me I have a nice name and asks me if I am Indian (wtf)... and if I am from Delhi or Bbay (is that all India is made up of?)... And then HE STARTS TALKING TO ME IN HINDI. (omg!)
I was laughing by then bec this guy refuses to hang up. So I was like, yeah, bbay... and then I asked him where he is from. So he tells me, this little place in Gujarat called Ahmedabad (small city? moron?)...
I finally hung up saying hope the weather is fine in Gujarat.

Arent these guys supposed to atleast pretend they are from Australia? Atleast that was the way in my time! (Read: 3 years ago when we graduated and everyone I knew was working in a call centre)... Are they specifically targetting the Indian market? Picking out names which sound Indian. Do these guys tactlessly call up Sri Lankan and other neighbouring country people living overseas and pretend to be their best friends and talk in Hindi? Is no one monitoring their calls? What has the world come to!! But its definitely amusing for a bored housewife!!

ps: new userpic. yay.

I read this a while ago and found it hilarious. Dont know how many of you guys have read it, so posting it up here!

Hotel California (Punju Version)
On the dark GT highway
Pagdi patka in my hair
Warm smell of some dhabas
Rising up in the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a ttharra joint
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I must have drunk over a pint
There he stood in the drive way
I heard his truck helper yell
And I was thinking to myself
This had to be Devinder Singh Behl
Then he belched, and scratched his head
And he was on the highway
And the other drivers leaning from their truck car doors
I thought I heard them say
Welcome to the hotel Karnal-a-fonia
Vaddi changi place (vaddi changi place)
Vaddi changi place
Massage, manicure, pedicure at Karnal-a-fonia
Any kind of ear (any kind of ear)
You can clean it here

His car's grill was definitely twisted
He's got a Maruti-Benz
He's got a lot of petty petty MLAs
Whom he calls friends
Dancing bhangra in the courtyard
See surdie sweat
Some dancer is this Devinder
Armpits stinking wet
So I told the bell captain
I's made a reservation online
And he said, oye khoteyya our internet hasnt worked at all Since Y2K - 1999
And still those drivers were calling from the drive way
Woke me in the middle of the night
I know I heard them say

Welcome to the hotel Karnal-a-fonia
Itthey karlo rest (itthey karlo rest)
Itthey karlo rest
Aish karo at the hotel Karnal-a-fonia
Kudi umr bais (kudi umr bais)
Will serve you nice

Daler on the ceiling
And on the walls in every guise
And waitresses dressed like actresses
From flicks of Subhash Ghai's
And in the downstairs canteen
I sat down for my meal
Butter chicken, and sarson da saag
Had a shock when they showed me the bill
Looking for help I saw Devinder
Dancing wildly on the floor
I had to find my hostess back
Oh where is this Gurpreet Kaur?
Relax said Milkha Singh
Play golf with my son Jeev
Tu ban gaya Punjab da puttar
Now you cant ever leave

So here I am,
Wasting life at the Hotel Karnal-a-fonia
Vaddi changi place (vaddi changi place)
Vaddi changi place
Converted to member of Hotel Karnal-a-fonia
Whoever arrives (whoever arrives)
Stays till he dies !!!

One of the best written forwards I got in a long time. Thanks to Irshi for sending me this.
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A buxom lady is going to have the shoulder of her blouse torn by a bunch of marauding ruffians. Suddenly, a bottle rolls on the ground and a Man enters the screen. The ruffians ask "Who are you?" In a voice that would make the blood of tigers run cold (old jungle proverb), He says: "Dikhne me bewada, daudne me ghoda, aur maarne me hathoda hoon main"  

The man. The legend. Mithun Chakraborty. Some call him Mithun-da, most call him Prabhuji.

Mithun-da is one of my idols. I will go even further and say He is my God. I believe in Him. And like any fanatic, I am extremely impatient with some people who laugh at Him, compare Him unfavorably to Amitabh and Shahrukh Khan just because He is supposedly "down market". I think these people should rot in Hell with 72 virgins. 40 year old male virgins that is.

( Kuch Aur Prabhuji Ki Kripa.... )
I could go on about Him---how He coined the term Disco (which in case you did not know is an acronym with D=dance, I=item, S=singer, C=chorus, O=orchestra--source "I am a Disco Dancer" from "Disco Dancer"), how He is the only person to have been a Naxal as well as a Shiv Shainik, how He has a massive fan following in Russia, how He almost married Sridevi, how He was the highest tax payer in India and how He inspired India's 21st century economic prosperity with the inspirational line "Agar tujhe halwa khana hain, to tujhe dance karna parega. Dance dance" ----but I shall leave that for now. 

Because it is now time for prayers. 

Prabhu-ji ki Jay Ho !

Edit: Original post to be found here - http://greatbong.blogspot.com/2005/09/mithunism-religion.html