Monty Python's contribution to E-mail

How spam got it's name

and,

the wikipedia write-up.

Indian Student

It was the first day of a school in USA and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade.

The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American History. Who said 'Give me Liberty , or give me Death'?"

She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up:

'Patrick Henry, 1775' he said.

'Very good!'

Who said 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?'

Again, no response except from chandrasekhar. 'Abraham Lincoln, 1863' said Chandrasekhar.

The teacher snapped at the class, 'Class, you should be ashamed. Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do.'

She heard a loud whisper: 'F*ck the Indians,'
'Who said that?' she demanded.

Chandrasekhar put his hand up.
'General Custer, 1862.'

At that point, a student in the back said, 'I'm gonna puke.'
The teacher glares around and asks 'All right! Now, who said that?'
Again, Chandrasekhar says, 'George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.'

Now furious, another student yells, 'Oh yeah? Suck this!'

Chandrasekhar jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher,

'Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky,1997!'

Now with almost mob hysteria someone said 'You little shit. If you say anything else, I'll kill you.'
Chandrasekhar frantically yells at the top of his voice,
'Michael Jackson to the child witnesses testifying against him- 2004.'
The teacher fainted.

And as the class gathered around the teacher on the floor,
someone said, 'Oh shit, we're screwed!'
And Chandrasekhar said quietly, "I think it was the Republican Party, November 4, 2008."

Love

Abhiram

Favorite Einstein quotes

In no particular order, here are my favorite quotes from the most brilliant man ever to grace this planet.
Ensoi....
1.I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
2.I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe
3.Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
4.Is the moon out there even when noone is observing it?
5.I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.
6.If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
7.Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
8.It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
9.If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
10.Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
11.Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
12.How do I work? I grope.
13.No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
14.Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
15.Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
16.Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.
17.The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
18.Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
19.Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
20.Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Natesh