Showing posts with label Stories and Amusements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stories and Amusements. Show all posts

Symphonies of The Dead Beethoven


When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave. Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate.

When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards."

He listened a while longer, and said, "There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling." So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh... the Sixth... the Fifth..."

Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about. It's just Beethoven decomposing."

A Very Fascinating Illusion Straight Pole - Curved Hole


Well I'm much fascinated and want to make one like this.

All I Care For - The Rich Man's Fallacy

Some people always go after wealth and wealth alone, losing all those little pleasures of human life. 
Once there was a rich man who cared nothing about anything other than wealth. He bought an Audi car and was driving it along a highway to show off his new object of pride to his wealthy friends. Suddenly his car was overrun by a truck, and to his horror, the rich man noticed his car's driver side door was missing. 

He was much worried about this as it would be never the same again even if he repaired his Audi. He ran to the nearby traffic police and complained bitterly about the harsh truck driver. When the policeman looked at him, he was dumbfounded and exclaimed: "But sir look down you are missing your right arm".  The rich man looked down and screamed, Öh! My Rolex !"



Who's This Unknown Guy?

A couple of days back I've spotted this insect crawling along the outer wall of our laboratory. Very eerie looking but I could n't identify its species then. Now after googling a bit  I've found what It is. It is a House Centipede, More specifically, Scutigera coleoptrata. Literally Ä Hundred Legs". Count yourself patiently. But I suspect this lags a lot.

Mr.Hundred Legs Crawling on the Laboratory Wall

A detailed Image from Wikipedia:

Scutigera coleoptrata


What is Happening Here? The Devil is in Details.

Really something terrible is happening. A ghost in the Subway Steps?

Appearance Deceives - A Story of Cats and Roosters

Once upon a time in Africa, roosters ruled cats. The cats worked hard all day and at night they had to bring all they had gathered for the roosters. The king of the roosters would take all the food for himself and for the other roosters. The roosters loved to eat ants. Thus, every cat had a purse hung round its neck, which it filled with ants for the king of the roosters. The cats did not like the situation. They wanted to rid themselves of the king so that the food they gathered through hard work and great difficulty would be their own. But they were afraid of the roosters.




    By Creator:Jacob Victors (www.miastokobiet.pl) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


The roosters had told the cats that rooster’s combs were made out of fire and that the fire of their combs would burn anyone who disobeyed them! The cats believed them and therefore worked from early morning until night for the roosters. One night, the fire on the house of Mrs. Cat went out. She told her kitten, Fluffy, to bring some fire from Mr. Rooster’s house. When Fluffy went into the house of the rooster, she saw that Mr. Rooster was fast asleep, his stomach swollen with the ants he had eaten. The kitten was afraid to wake the rooster, so she returned home empty handed and told her mother what had happened. Mrs. Cat said, “Now that the rooster is asleep, gather some dry twigs and place them near his comb. As soon as the twigs catch fire, bring them home.” 

Fluffy gathered some dry twigs and took them to the rooster’s house. He was still asleep. Fluffy fearfully put the dry twigs near the rooster’s comb but it was no use, the twigs did not catch fire. Fluffy rubbed the twigs against the rooster’s comb again but it was no use they would not catch fire. Fluffy returned home without any fire and told her mother, “The roost’s comb does not set twigs on fire.” Mrs. Cat answered “Why can’t you do anything right! Come with me I’ll show you how to make fire with the rooster’s comb.” So together they went to the house of Mr. Rooster. He was still asleep. Mrs. Cat put the twigs as near to the rooster’s comb as she could. But the twigs did not catch fire. Then, shaking with fear, she put her paw near the rooster’s comb and gently touched it. To her surprise, the comb was not hot, it was very cold, and it was just red colored. As soon as Mrs. Cat realized that the roosters had lied to the cats about their combs, she joyfully went out and told the other cats about the rooster’s tricks. 

From that day on, the cats no longer worked for the roosters.At first, the king of the roosters became very angry and said to the cats; “I will burn all of your houses if you do not work for me!” But the cats said, “Your comb is not made of fire. It is just the color of fire. We touched it when you were asleep. You lied to us.”

When the king of the roosters found out that the cats knew that he had lied to them, he ran away. Now, whenever roosters see a cat, they scurry away, because to this very day they are afraid of cats.