Got this in a forwarded email. 
Guru Whisky;
Guru Gin-o;
Wine-eshwara;
Guru Sakshal Para Brandy;
Tasmai sree Beer-e Namaha.
Cheers!!!
You have received the ‘Toddy manthra’ which is very powerful.
After receiving this mathra you have to forward it and you will get benefits.
If you forward this to 5 people, you will receive a chilled beer by end of the day. Either some friends will offer you or some how u will get it for free.
Forward it to 10 people and you’ll get a pint of Premium whisky 25 people you’ll get a full bottle super premium whisky
50 people you will get a full bottle scotch of normal brand
100 people & u get a full bottle Johnny walker Single malt
500 People will fetch you a Royal salute full.
But if you delete without forwar! ding you’ll suffer consequences. One of my friend deleted without forwarding and on the same day evening he vomited on the first peg.
PS: I have no intention to hurt any religios feelings. This is only for the funsake. And I hope you guys would take it in that sense only.
August 25, 2005 at 12:12 pm
ha ha ha…..
so no more Gayatri mantra’s…
August 25, 2005 at 4:43 pm
Hi jo
Nice one….I am sick of those messages man….
Although I am religious I have never forwarded messages like that….
Anyway this is cool…
Prakash
August 25, 2005 at 5:18 pm
chetta….am hurt
just kidding….:) but ngyan wait cheyya….for Harivarasanam 
padillengil ngyan avade vannu ningale kollum 
August 25, 2005 at 7:47 pm
he he…. very funny…. these forwards….which we call “Vetti” forwards are becoming a lot… I always delete them…
August 25, 2005 at 8:06 pm
ROTFL.
August 25, 2005 at 8:59 pm
hehee.. that is great!!
August 25, 2005 at 9:08 pm
Never thought someone would remix that one! Although this is meant to make someone ‘LOL’ i couldnt help but raise an eyebrow when i read the same.
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On a lighter side lets say “Guruthwa dosham gulikanekkaal gunam cheyyum”..lol..
Now dont ask me to explain what that is, i have no clue!
PS: no audioblogs?
August 25, 2005 at 10:42 pm
@Arun —
Thanks for the visit.
@Prakash — I used to get such crappy forwarding messages too. At first, it was post cards. In the Christian areas, it used to be about Our lady of Velankanni, or Our lady of Lourde. The first thing I would do is to burn it even before reading. God can never be a marketing-chain executive.
@IBH — Oops! I’m still trying to get the song!
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@Anand Prabhu — Yeah, me too delete the same. this one sounded somewhat funny. That’s why I posted it here.
@Kay — He he…
@s! —
@ML — Hey, just take the fun part ML. I remember we used to laugh at a funny Flash animation that portrayed Jesus trying not to lose his piece of robe while he was on the cross. We all laughed at it. It never hurt my religious feelings. And am somewhat a religious person too!
I used to sing the original “gurur brahma” in its real sense before I took my music lessons. Yeah.
About “guruthwa dosham” — no idea. And I used to be a pet of my teachers when I was in school.
athu kondu guruthwa dosham ithu vare undaayittillennaanente viswaasam.
Sorry if I hurt your religious feelings.
Have a bad cold this week, that is why am not posting new audioblogs.
August 25, 2005 at 11:33 pm
lol jo. i jus forwarded the mail to the 47000 employees in my company.
wait..at the bottom it says if u forward the mail to 47000 people u will look for another job.
August 26, 2005 at 1:38 am
hey Jo, no ‘religious’ feelings hurt. Come on, u didnt think i got worked up on that…did u?
Since there were lotsa ‘guru’s it reminded me of that saying, when we used to tease our teachers my ammumma used to say that and we used to LOL more.
Oyster, u didnt really do it…did u? hehehe That was hilarious.
August 26, 2005 at 1:42 am
Jo, Get well soon frm that “bad cold”. Since your recent posts were goin away frm A-Blogs i asked the same.
August 26, 2005 at 11:00 am
@Oyster — Ha ha ha… Does it say that??
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@ML — Oops! I thought you were hurt! Silly me!
August 26, 2005 at 11:54 am
Jo – that was very funny ! As much an anti-alcohol person that I am, I did enjoy it. I like it better than the original forward!! ha haa…
p.s. cold cold go away,
so jo can sing for us again.
August 26, 2005 at 3:08 pm
good thing u put a cautionary note in the end.. else u’ll have anonymous nuts who are sentimentally offended… even ive got to start doing tht!
..p..
August 26, 2005 at 8:08 pm
@CB — He he… and thanks for the PS.
@Priya — Yeah! You’re right.
August 26, 2005 at 9:08 pm
I sent it to my mailing list of 18323 and Vijay Mallya’s lawyer just called me saying that the UB group is mine from today.
Thanks Jo and land up at Mayajaal on Sunday for the biggest booze party of the decade. I have given up drinking, so there should be more than enough to go around.
August 26, 2005 at 9:48 pm
He he… What/where is Mayajaal? No plan to attend the booze party, I drink with my friends only on occassions.
August 27, 2005 at 3:08 am
Mayajaal is India’s 1st Family Entertainment Centre, located on the East Coast Road Centre. More at http://www.mayajaal.com
Incidentally, I was one of the core team that conceptualised and built the project. I was then Manager- Merchandise and later Manager- Front Office with PentaMedia for the project.
August 27, 2005 at 4:31 am
Is it true that Gandhi (aka Ghandi)’s last words were “ara rum” (half-a-peg (15 ml) rum), and not “hare ram” as commonly believed?
August 27, 2005 at 12:06 pm
@Don the Cat — Looks like a great place to hangout. Will definitely check this place when I visit Chennai.
@Anonym — Don’t know how could you make fun of someone’s death. Especially of Gandhi’s. And next time, come out of the Anonymous shell.
August 28, 2005 at 8:51 am
Death is not a bad thing, nor is it sacred. Eternal life is another name for eternal boredom, don’t you think? Gandhi was a good man, but only one out of many. (Personally, I think those “episodes” with Abha and Manu were a bit over the top, but that is just me. Also, the way he mistreated Kasturba — but at least he hwas honest enough to own up to his behaviour. Last but not the least, I feel that Gandhi was a humourless man. You read “My Experiments…”, and there is no one single place where you want to guffaw, laugh, smile, or even think pleasant thoughts. It is always sphincter-tight serious.) A Jesuit can make fun of the Pope. I think I am a good man, so I have no problem with making fun of Gandhi, one of my ilk
I feel a bond with the people I make fun of. If it “assuages” you, I have no problem with Gandhi making fun of me, I would welcome it. I am a big fan of anonymous. Most of the “good” English stories that I have read were written by him/her 
To meet him/her is an item in my wish list. That is why I chose my screen name as anonymous.
Now seriously, your songs are really good. It is the sort of imperfect-good that has its own charm and character and that can only improve with time, which is better than the perfect-good from where things can only go down. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to the next set of songs.
PS: There are 17 instances of “laughter” and its variants in the 269 pages of “My Experiments”. Almost all of them occur in the context of someone or the other laughing at Gandhi.
August 28, 2005 at 10:26 am
I haven’t read “My experiments…” yet. (Yeah!) A friend of mine recently purchased many of the Gandhi literature and after reading it he said Gandhi is not a serious man as we all thought and he can make fun like the rest of us. He asked me to try Gandhi literature.
A Jesuit can make fun of pope? Perhaps when nobody listens. I don’t think a priest or a member of church would ever dare to question Vatican or the Church directly. Everyone can make fun of someone on their back. Right?
And thanks a lot for your kind words about my songs. I liked your observation on that. (imperfect-good)
PS: Do we know each other??
August 28, 2005 at 2:52 pm
- What I meant was a Jesuit is one who has given his life to the Catholic Church, and hence probably the only one who can afford to criticize the Pope.
- http://www.mahatma.org.in/downloads/ebooks/ebooks.jsp
As a famous denizen of your town used to say, “Enchoy”!
August 28, 2005 at 3:25 pm
As an addendum, imperfection is nothing to be laughed at. There is an architectural movement called wabi-sabi that uses imperfection as its central theme. To quote, ” Wabi-sabi is an intuitive appreciation of a transient beauty in the physical world that reflects the irreversible flow of life in the spiritual world. It is an understated beauty that exists in the modest, rustic, imperfect, or even decayed, an aesthetic sensibility that finds a melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things.”
August 28, 2005 at 3:37 pm
Anonymous seems to be a gas bag. I think he is right-wrong
August 28, 2005 at 10:39 pm
@Anonym — Thank you for the link to “My experiments…”
I cannot agree with you that only a Jesuit gives his life to Catholic church. I don’t think the parish priests would agree.
I wasn’t under-estimating your observation of “imperfect-good”. I really liked it. And this time onwards, when you see the smiley [:)], consider it as a friendly smile.
And the quote about wabi-sabi, I really didnt understand anything. I’m not so good at English so I really have to get the dictionary or MS Word’s help to find the meaning of many words in that sentence.
And please excuse the local people for their English pronounciation or knowledge. People who knows English doesn’t try to correct the others but very well interested in criticising.