Comments on: Celebrating Another Major Desi Achievement http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: longhorn http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-89422 longhorn Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:04:13 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-89422 <p>Yeah!! Nice to see nice Indian Longhorn be successful. She is hot hot hot. Lucky guy.</p> Yeah!! Nice to see nice Indian Longhorn be successful. She is hot hot hot. Lucky guy.

]]> By: sakshi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87480 sakshi Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:47:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87480 <blockquote>Go Horns!</blockquote> <p>yep!</p> Go Horns!

yep!

]]> By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87477 Salil Maniktahla Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:41:15 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87477 <p>Obvious subtitle:</p> <p>"Snakes on a Set!"</p> Obvious subtitle:

“Snakes on a Set!”

]]> By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87476 Salil Maniktahla Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:40:21 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87476 <p>Wow, that was spectacularly lame. She prayed to the snake. Awesome. And also, by the way, reinforced CNN's "mythology of the weirdo Indian," and probably set a new paradigm for behavior for desis confronted with snakes: stop, drop, and pray.</p> <p>I wonder if Jon Stewart will get hold of this?</p> Wow, that was spectacularly lame. She prayed to the snake. Awesome. And also, by the way, reinforced CNN’s “mythology of the weirdo Indian,” and probably set a new paradigm for behavior for desis confronted with snakes: stop, drop, and pray.

I wonder if Jon Stewart will get hold of this?

]]> By: DDiA http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87475 DDiA Sat, 16 Sep 2006 23:36:46 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87475 <p>If it's not too late to chime in. Go Horns!</p> If it’s not too late to chime in. Go Horns!

]]> By: ShallowThinker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87430 ShallowThinker Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:55:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87430 <p>You know the reason I dont feel comfortable around desi's? It's because they know things like this</p> <p>"It doesn't add up.</p> <p>Human speech frequency :500-2500 Hz Snake hearing range: 200-300 Hz"</p> You know the reason I dont feel comfortable around desi’s? It’s because they know things like this

“It doesn’t add up.

Human speech frequency :500-2500 Hz Snake hearing range: 200-300 Hz”

]]> By: tashie http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87410 tashie Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:41:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87410 <blockquote>I mean, come on. Is this an Indo-America smile or what? Law abiding, high achieving, what an example. Now all those kids who want to rebel and break free of their parents by refusing to enter spelling bees, can aim for this instead. I have to ask why my Long Island cousins never do anything good like this. But then one of them got busted with some spliff once, and had to do community service, and this was before Harold and Kumar came out. So they're probably lesser models of the model minority scene. One more time, what a smile.</blockquote> <p>Awww, Red Snapper, I've said it before and I'll say it again, no one has the power to extend and detail an anecdote as well as you do. In fact, if they ever invent a Global Anecdote Extension Supreme Procrastination Award, I'm sure that the big giant cheque and flashing lights and all eyes would be on you :) Then you wouldn't have to leave wherever it is you are and go to Long Island...</p> <p>Go Ms K on her win though! I love it when Hot Girl Geeks take over the world :) Mwahahahahaha</p> I mean, come on. Is this an Indo-America smile or what? Law abiding, high achieving, what an example. Now all those kids who want to rebel and break free of their parents by refusing to enter spelling bees, can aim for this instead. I have to ask why my Long Island cousins never do anything good like this. But then one of them got busted with some spliff once, and had to do community service, and this was before Harold and Kumar came out. So they’re probably lesser models of the model minority scene. One more time, what a smile.

Awww, Red Snapper, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, no one has the power to extend and detail an anecdote as well as you do. In fact, if they ever invent a Global Anecdote Extension Supreme Procrastination Award, I’m sure that the big giant cheque and flashing lights and all eyes would be on you :) Then you wouldn’t have to leave wherever it is you are and go to Long Island…

Go Ms K on her win though! I love it when Hot Girl Geeks take over the world :) Mwahahahahaha

]]> By: UberMetroMallu http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87399 UberMetroMallu Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:16:41 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87399 <blockquote>she bowed before it and chanted Hindu hymns to calm the reptile. It doesn't add up. Human speech frequency :500-2500 Hz Snake hearing range: 200-300 Hz It seems that is the typical intellgible speech range. So it may well add up. My apologies. Didn't check my references :(.</blockquote> <p>These days, many snakes can lip-read.</p> she bowed before it and chanted Hindu hymns to calm the reptile. It doesn’t add up. Human speech frequency :500-2500 Hz Snake hearing range: 200-300 Hz It seems that is the typical intellgible speech range. So it may well add up. My apologies. Didn’t check my references :( .

These days, many snakes can lip-read.

]]> By: sakshi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87375 sakshi Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:24:36 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87375 <blockquote>she bowed before it and chanted Hindu hymns to calm the reptile. It doesn't add up. Human speech frequency :500-2500 Hz Snake hearing range: 200-300 Hz </blockquote> <p>It seems that is the typical intellgible speech range. So it may well add up. My apologies. Didn't check my references :(.</p> she bowed before it and chanted Hindu hymns to calm the reptile. It doesn’t add up. Human speech frequency :500-2500 Hz Snake hearing range: 200-300 Hz

It seems that is the typical intellgible speech range. So it may well add up. My apologies. Didn’t check my references :( .

]]> By: sakshi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/15/celebrating_ano/comment-page-1/#comment-87373 sakshi Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:15:22 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3790#comment-87373 <blockquote>she bowed before it and chanted Hindu hymns to calm the reptile.</blockquote> <p>It doesn't add up.</p> <p>Human speech frequency :500-2500 Hz Snake hearing range: 200-300 Hz</p> she bowed before it and chanted Hindu hymns to calm the reptile.

It doesn’t add up.

Human speech frequency :500-2500 Hz Snake hearing range: 200-300 Hz

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