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I think there have been any number of humourous incidents that have happened all through our school. We could list as much as we remember here. It's always that these jokes are enjoyed more when someone dramatically narrates it, but let's try and quote here in a way that retains as much as possible of the live event!

And yeah, if someone feels that this section is crazy.. pls. tell me!

Junta, try and add more as and when you can... and expand on these titles (esp. Aashish or Lakshman or Rajan, who'd remember these very well!)

[edit] The 'Paul' mystery

How do I start talking about the Paul'ing phenomenon of the late nineties? I will begin by clarifying that it had little to do with the unassuming Paul Ponnuthara, whose fame rose to rock-star (ok, classical violinist if you are a hard-core Chennaiitie) proportions in a few months, with little effort from his side.

It all started with dear old Kandy taking attendance in his inimitable...er...actually very imitable (since all of us have imitated him at some point in our lives) style. "CozTchaawiee(Prakash T Chari), Izzy Malek (Rishi Malik), Svsubmaaaniam(Sivasubramaniam)" and so on. I think he crooned 'Phaaaaaul' one day with an extra Texan drawl that actually cut out the 'l' sound at the end. And we picked it up from there.

Ma'am #1: I need a volunteer to collect the notebooks

Class : Phaaaul,paaaaul,Paul,pAul,paaal <and whatever other sounds can be made up with the same syllable>

Ma'am #2: Someone go and check if...

Class : Paaaaul etc.

Ma'am #3: The tangent at this point...

Class : Paaaaaul etc.

Ma'am #4: <enters class>

Class : Paaaaul etc.

No Ma'am, free period...

Class : Paaaul etc

And so it progressed and before we knew it, we were given to Paul'ing at completely random occasions. Anyone would start it off with even the tiniest of 'Pssst...Paul' and you would find 42 people shouting out the man's name with great gusto in a few seconds. To say we did it all the time would be an exaggeration - we didn't 'Paul' in Shridhar Sir's class (out of deferrence, I think) or when we saw the prospect of being manhandled (PT, GST).

- Lakshman

[edit] The joke that wasn't

[edit] Joke in Mohanambujam's class, on an imaginative employee

• M: "An employee applied for a particular post in an office and was being interviewed. On examination, it was found that he had exaggerated his credentials quite a bit. On further grilling, he says that it was the management that had advertised for an employee with imagination!"

(This happened to be the crux of the joke.)

Apart from a mild smile on a few naive guys, the whole class was silent — pin-drop silence. I guess ma'am was stunned. Of all people, Aashish starts:

• Aashish: "Ma'am! What happened after that?" (noise levels increase)
• NK: (more explicitly) "Joke is over ma'am?" (class explodes)

In the end, the joke turned out to be the response of the class. Bullies we were, weren't we?!

—Karthik 23:57, 10 February 2006 (EST)

[edit] Joke [sic] on poor English

I remember this attempt at humour by our English teacher Mohanambujam.

• Madam: "Boys,... boys! I will tell you a joke. Promise me not to laugh loudly...."
• Boys: "Yes madam....Guys keep quiet. sshh shh"
• M (begins) : "There was once a boy who was not definitely master in English. So once when the school principal walked past the window, he shouted.. "The principal just passed away"..."

(M looks around for any hint of laughter...)

I vividly remember the only reactions....

• K. Deepak: "Madam, But you said you will say something funny...."
• N. Karthik: "Ok Ma'am, You can tell the joke now...."

—Guru

[edit] Jayalalitha's classes

Kutral and cyclotron

• J: The cyclotron has 2 D's.
  
• Kutral (instigated by naru): How D (di, as in tamil).
  
• J, For a change got it.

-NK-

[edit] Ghurumurugan's Exploits

This was a timed speech to be given on some topic in Jam's class. I remember two speeches:

• Jaggi : Spoke about drinking and driving, and said something like going from bottle to bottle. Was duly sent back to his place.
• Guru: Had something prepared on Schodinger, and started by saying "Schodinger ..." and was sent back to his place.

-NK

[edit] Board Clips and Pencil Boxes