Caitan, a young boy studying in an Anjuna School came home one day and the whole day began muttering what sounded like, "Some-a -beech, some-a-beech,......" Now this perturbed his father, Jose, who had been abroad and worked as a tar (sailor, probably derived from the Konkani 'tarvotti?') and who knew the meaning of 'son of a b1****.' So he decided to visit the school the next day and find out what was going on in the school which was meant to educate his son and give value for the pricey fees that he was paying.
The next day, Jose went to the school and gave the Principal a good lecture about the school not doing its work educating his son and teaching him undesirable stuff, and told him what Caitan had been muttering the whole day. The perplexed Principal called the teacher to the office and asked her to explain what Caitan had learnt in school to make him mutter bad words at home. The teacher was equally puzzled till she realized the previous day, she had been teaching Caitan's class Math and had made them recite, "1+1, the sum of which is two, 2+2, the sum of which is four, ......" I decided to narrate this fable because I thought that my college friend and country man, FL, had mistaken the initials of "some of which" for SOB :P ++++++ Re: [Goanet] Gandhi God-Kings "floriano" <floriano.l...@gmail.com> >The eternal ungrateful SOBs .....Eh Fred?? >I mean "the ones that pee on the plate that feeds them". >One IIT zombie who was hammering copper pots in Khorlim/Mapusa thought that >copper pot hammering IIT was the highest end of the deal. And then he fell >down and broke to pieces just like humpty dumpty which these ungrateful SOBs from UK to America want to put back again but can't. >For better luck, these should imbibe some potent colo-rectal stuff imported >from UK. -- Tony de Sa. tonydesa at gmail dot com M : +91 9975 162 897 Ph. : +91 832 2470 148 ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v * * * Encounter hints (and more) of the Goan life in Zanzibar, Poona, Mombasa, Basra, Dubai, and even Nuvem and Colva, Sanvordem and colonial Goa. Learn of experiences that shaped Goans worldwide. Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* now available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Ask a friend to buy it, before it gets sold out. Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *