Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Moo
What is it they say about judging a person by the crackpots they hang out with? Here’s a conversation with friends. Apparently now, cows too have dialects.
Friend 1 (from Kanpur): <blah blah> .. and the cows would go maaaaaaaa.
F2: Must be a bhaiyya thing. Cows in Nagpur say hammmaaaaa.
Me: Andhra cows always say ammbaaaaaa. Unless they are out-of-towners.
F3: I remember a cow in my locality that went ammaaaaaa.
F2: Must be a part-bhaiyya part-Gult cow.
F3: American cows say moooooo though.
Me: They’re very fancy-shmancy. That’s why they wear jerseys.
F1: So when a desi cow comes to the US, does it start saying mooooo?
Me: You’re a desi gaai. You tell me?
And you thought *I* was from Crazyville.
“Mooo”…Looks like I am the first Cow home. Yipeee….sorry..moooo *with both my front legs up together and acknowledging* . I was not very fortunate to hear lot of Cows Moo back in desh but had fair share of listening to buffalos though.
Now I know, I should have looked for ammbaaaa than moo. Very informative!
*Unfortunately your blog friends are no better:)*
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 2:48 PM
A fine post. You would make an excellent cow, and that is the highest compliment I can give.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 2:57 PM
I’ve always mused about the English language and certain words that are just plain interesting. Most of these words are usually slang/urbanlingo/neologisms whose etymologies interest me a lot. “MOO”, albeit not fitting that description, was one of those words that I tried to find out more about while I was groping online [courtesy \megha for kindling my interests].
\Sidenote When the Brits say, “Stupid Cow!”, do they mean that literally, or are they saying, “Stupid Can Of Worms!”? Hmm … I muse.
\Surprise I find myself visiting here more often and commenting a bit too … not like me really … thanks to all the folks that makes this place, “the madhouse”, if I can use madam’s words … I like to read the good stuff :-).
\Clueless Ammmaaaa, Ammmbaaaa, Hammmmaaaa, and other mutilations of “MOO” sound closer to the actual “MOO” of the cow … wonder why a shorter variation [like, AMBA, for instance] was not neologised [Do I make sense?].
\3So … did I moo th3rd?
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 3:20 PM
*Moooooooooooooo* said one cow.. *Maaaaa* said the another cow…
*ammmaaaaaa* said yet another cow… now what happened to these cows? (clue : the dialect is important)
Oh well, me shall reveal answers now..
Cow that said *Maaaaa* ended up starring in tamil movies.. (note: cow from another land has better chance of acting in tamil movie than homegrown cow)
Cow that said *Ammmmaaaa* spent the rest of its life in a dairy farm, enjoying a retired life, since most farms come up with less milk and more water.
Cow that said *Mooooooo* ended up in McDonalds after the neighborhood cattle farm recognised the “mooo” and decided to make burgers out of it.
Horror story, no?
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 3:29 PM
*stands in a corner and chews his cud….
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 3:40 PM
When u said ammbaaaa..that echoed Chiru in the movie ‘Aapathbandavudu(1992)’ :).
Some one has a blogger handle called littlecow. I laughed so much when I read that…its the cutest nick eva!! even the blog was named the moo diaries, I think.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 3:52 PM
GHE once heard a cow go moojickkkkkkkkkkk and realized with great pleasure that it was a cow fed exclusively on Bappi-da moojickk
M, what about cows who hear RD Burman music inside out and see endless Hindi movies ?
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 4:22 PM
* still chews cud but lifts an eyebrow in alarm hearing the story about the Indian cow with a firang accent that ended up in McDonalds, but decides that the accent issue is a MOO point since he is a bull and his accent appears only when he comes face to face with a homely cow *
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 4:47 PM
*Joins aNTi with a sack full of cud to chew and wonders if aNTi has a valid point here about the “Moo”-er who ended up in McDonalds*
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 5:16 PM
*Shocked to imagine cow going “Moojickkk” and wonders where such a cow would end up*
*on a side track while chewing cud, a cow wonders why someone is always wondering how cows would “end-up” and realizes a tad too late that the track was a train track*
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 5:22 PM
Now dont tell me that the most popular song around cows these days is “Hay Baby, Hay baby..”
Regardless of what the cow utters the ones in jerseys make a delicious lunch
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 6:13 PM
Rock on with your pj’s till the cows come home :)
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 8:24 PM
‘m I missin out something profound?? or is this just about cows n moos??
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 8:51 PM
[gvenum] That’s true, you do hear more buffaloes than cows back in desh, don’t ya. A big part of many a summer afternoons, but that’s a topic for a separate blogpost. As for my blog friends, I gave up on their sanity a long while back, so not to worry :)
[amit] Am flattered. You can picture this cow curtseying politely and then pirouetting around like a happy ballerina. Now that I think about it, a cow ballet, complete with fluffy tulle tutus would be quite interesting. Okay, need to control imagination now. Seriously though, thank you!
[Jay] Word origins have always fascinated me so you have a partner in crime there! And those are some good points you make. I don’t think the ‘ooo’ sound is that prominent in the sound of a cow. There’s more of an ‘aaa’ no? Given that, the origin of the word ‘moo’ being imitative is rather interesting. I need to get myself to a farm and hear it again for confirmation sake, I guess :)
Am glad the madhouse makes you depart from your norm and comment more frequently. The things we have to do to get people to comment, I tell ya! ;)
[Sriram] Scary it is! Sounds like a Ramsey Brothers movie for cows. And given the amount of thought that went into this, I feel better than I am not the only one with cows on my mind :)
[aNTi] *raises eyebrow at aNTi as he checks out the scene* And what homely cows have we been checking out lately? Do tell? We’re all fellow cows here, so your secret is safe with us :)
[pingoo] Not seen movie, hence dunno reference? Cute blogger ID, I agree :)
[Hokie] Oooh I likes! A cow that went ‘mooooojhik’ can also be a drunk cow - mooooo + hic? Although a constant diet of Bappi is probably way more damaging than alcohol, so you win :) A cow that listens to R D Burman songs endlessly would naturally sing one. Which one, you ask? Ammaa ammaa, ammaa ammaaa, ye khoobsoorat samaa .. from Shaan. In RD’s own voice, no less. Seriously, a cow with a voice like RD? Now that’s a farm I wouldn’t mind living on! :)
[Paddy] Actually I was thinking of the rap portion of a recent Hindi song that goes hey now, hey now, put your hands up in the air now from a movie Dus. I kinda like the image of cows that look like Abhishek Bachchan and Zayed Khan shaking a leg to it, like in the original :)
[Rohan] PJ? What PJ? I was simply making polite conversation! *innocent angelic expression on face* :)
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 8:52 PM
*raises eyebrow while chewing cud in a corner and wonders if aNTi has hooked a cow*
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 9:52 PM
*bright light appearing on top of head while chewing cud* Is this a new ad for Chick-fil-a? Mooo that’s an idea I Mooo ya.. (oops, I mean “now that’s an idea I tell ya!). Chicken for dinner anyone?
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 9:55 PM
*sighs and rolls his eyes at Megha and Sriram while looking around for a fresh bale of hay to munch on*
*decides to shake a leg or two hearing a bovine melody and does so, much to the delight of a couple of cows grazing in the next enclosure*
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 10:40 PM
[Mustang] Nah, its all about cows. There’s no moose here :)
[Sriram] *rolls eyes* Argh!
[aNTi] What did *I* do? Hmpfh!
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 10:42 PM
\megha I agree … maa sounds more like the cows I knew; moo is probably more buffalo-like, or maybe a mating call … as a sad attempt to woo ? [… my sad state of humor]
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 11:00 PM
this conversation reminds me of a song from “Salaam Namaste”… and it goes something like…
My Gaai goes hmmm hmmm hmmm
My Gaai goes mooo mooo mooo
My Gaai goes maaa maaa maaa
now i wonder what preity zinta was referring to when she says “May Gaai (Guy)”… Saif yaar tu to gaaya (see there is gaai in that too) …
okay no more pakaoing… gudbye
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 12:53 AM
*decides to end chewing cud to reply to Her Boviness and spits it out and promptly sweeps some mud over it and starts moo-ing in his best bhaiyya drawl*
Hum kahhan se ghar-basi gaai-yon ko dekath hain? hum to ek seedha saadha bail hain aur hum idhar udhar naaahi dekath hain! Aur ab hum sone jaawath hain!
[Note: Ghar = home, basi = live ghar-basi = home living (or) homely]
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 1:10 AM
LOl:-) Megha, you are such a riot!
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 2:46 AM
Why was the cow unhappy with the ladka?
coz…
***
ek baar ek baar pyar se tu bol, pyar se tu bol mere yaar…jab ek ladka kisi ladki se mile, usse ho jaata hai pyar…woh MOOOOO se tho kuch bhi na kahe, par dil tho yeh kehta hai yaar…
***
damn…the beer must be taking effect…
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 2:47 AM
The French cow says Meauu…..the Remo cow goes “Hamba hamba” …ook enuff.
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 9:36 AM
What’s the song playing in the background? meri bhains ko danda kyon maara? well now I know!
Yet another gr8 post.
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 9:58 AM
I know one that goes “Yeh mera India”..
oops, Subhash Ghai doesnt count, does he? :)
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 10:43 AM
[Jay] A moo to woo! Nice! :) :D
[Rumpy] I have just one word for your song - eeeeeeesh!
[aNTi] A bhaiyya-Tam accent? I gotta hear this! :) This is better than a part-bhaiyya part-gult cow even. And ghar-basi? Do people actually use that phrase anywhere or was that an aNTi creation?
[Minal] Moo! I mean, thankoo :)
[Jammy] Hey bhagwaan! Now I will be blamed for all these inspirations! But I am glad the beer shares the blame :)
[GREATBONG] :) And the cow in Pataal Bhairavi (1985) went ambaa ambaa .. mujhko bana le priyatamma, I suppose? Southie production, so going with a Southie cow, in case you wondered.
[Randomizer] Thank you! :) We were bad enough without the added inspiration in the form of background music, I guess :)
[Harish] Pliss to explain how ‘ye mera India‘ is cow related? Am I missing something here? :)
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 4:15 PM
Damn, all the puns have been used up !!
Hence, here’s anOgden Nash ditty
The cow is of divine ilk
One end’s moo, the other’s milk
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 6:46 PM
Ooooooohhh… how about this one:
Q: What would Rushdie name his English novel about a bhaiyya doodhwaala set against a backdrop of the Partition, the Emergency, the B.C.C.I. scandal, the rise of Hindu fundamentalism?
A: The Moo’s last sigh
*starts laughing out aloud for a second, but hears the deafening silence from everyone around him and decides to feign a coughing fit to get out*
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 8:34 PM
on a less literary note, here is Pheoebe’s song from the one where she meets Chris Isaac:
The cow in the meadow goes moo.
Oh, the cow in the meadow goes moo.
Then the farmer hits her on the head and chops her up
And thats how we get hamburgers.
La la-la-la-la la-la-la-la la
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 1:37 AM
Ummm-riccan cow says…moooooo
ROTFL :)
Good one…
I have similar kinds of conversation with ma ****** frinds at times…
Hehehe :)
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 4:34 AM
To quote Ogden Nash
The cow is of the bovine ilk
One end is Moo, the other Milk!
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 9:55 AM
Lol lol lol…..you absolutely rock, woman!
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 10:58 AM
[aNTi] *sees aNTi laughing/coughing and joins him*
[Megha] Did you hear? Apparenly, cows have approached lawyers for filing a law-suit! what law suit you ask? I’m not going to say suit made of cow-skin or something… instead, cows have decided to sue all bloggers for not writing mroe about them.. (pliss kindly escoos … morning blues + friday blues) Moo shall return later..
speaking of which, what is the nameof the cow that starred in “Terminator” and had a memorable closing dialogue which happens to be “Moo’ll be BACK!”?
Maaa-rnold Cowshenegger!!
*Sriram runs away from all stones and sticks flying his way and hides in his favorite bomb-shelter*
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 12:12 PM
Subhash “Ghai” :D
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 2:00 PM
[Ravi] Am sure there’s a few more left ;) Ever heard the Ogden Nash one about the camel?
[aNTi] LOL! :) :D That was priceless!
[samit] Damn damn damn! How did I forget this! :) The cow thanks the duck for reminding us of this treasure!
[Arz000n] Thankoo :) And may I say, your sketches are brilliant! That’s some serious talent you have there!
[Dharmendra] Ah the return of Ogden Nash :)
[IdeaSmith] Thankoo thankoo! Helps to have crazy friends :)
[Sriram] *pretends to have not heard the Terminator joke to retain the last shred of her sanity* Not written enough about cows? All this nonsense is not enough for you? As Sunidhi Chauhan would croon at this point in Dhoom - You want more? Are you suuuuuure? :)
[Harish] Oh darn! How did I miss that! Nice! :D
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 3:12 PM
Nice. In answer to F1’s question, only the wannabes would na? The rest of us will continue to Maaa/Ammmbbaaaa/Hmmmmaaaa/Oyi-Maaaaaaa(my Bong version) with our heads held high :)
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 4:18 PM
you funny one.. here’s some more beef for you think about:
Romantic cows go “chhuuummmmmaa”
Frustrated cows whose potty ain’t coming out shout “raaammmmmmaaaa”
Jilted lover cow trying to break up bf cow’s wedding to other cow “tere-bachche-ki-maaa”
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 4:42 PM
[Gabby] :) Yes the pseudo-desi cows would say mooo. And since they’d be pseudo-fashionable but not have jerseys, they’d instead go live in New Jersey, maybe? I think this is a good time for me to shuttup seeing as one’s sense of humor is in such fine form today. I shall scoot now.
[Khakhra] Eeeeesh! That is just .. *words fail me here* :)
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 5:10 PM
moooooaadddaaa f*****aaaah is what one called me when bumped into its belly with my bajaj.
Friday, September 30, 2005 @ 9:01 PM
Ah, if Gary Larsen, were around, he’d do one of his cow villains, the kind that take over the world.
I’ll just do the SFX: “Mwooooohahahahahaa.”
*ducks for cover*
Hm. Ducks. Another GL theme. And Samit’s here too.
Hm.
Saturday, October 1, 2005 @ 3:50 PM
(Taking cue from Harish comment)If its not for I staying away, you would be calling your self a cow (me-ghai):). Also I figure all the people familiar with you would be claiming themselves to be cows when ever you meet up (Hello me-ghai!!) making your gatherings nice cow conventions. Ain’t you glad I stayed away *hears a scream “stay out! you gaai”*.
Saturday, October 1, 2005 @ 8:01 PM
[sanky] *sigh* It is all my fault. I have gone and created a monster!
[zigzackly] Ah goodie! ;) I waited and waited for someone to mention Gary Larson, and yay! Warmed the cockles of me Far Side loving heart! You have made a cow-girl very very happy! :)
[gvenum] Gawd, this is only getting worse by the minute. And I cannot even beat you up cos I was the one who started it all. Btw, the ‘me’ part of my name has been pronounced more often like a goat’s bleat than a cow’s moo. Mee~ee~ee~gha. Can’t type it out right. Hope you get :)
Saturday, October 1, 2005 @ 8:42 PM
>>cos “I” was the one who started it all.
After all the things ‘I’ did for you, this ain’t fair criticism. I stayed far far away and what more can I do:)
*hears ‘waning’ shouts “kill him..Kill him..dont leave a trace of him’:)*
Sunday, October 2, 2005 @ 11:48 AM
tsk.. tsk… “gaay hamaari maata hai”
Sunday, October 2, 2005 @ 2:10 PM
[gvenum] I can vouch for at least a couple of people who read your comment and wrote to me asking me - who IS this guy and why do you allow him on your blog? Just thought I should make you aware of that. So if tomorrow, there’s a knock on your door at 2 in the morning, you know you need to be careful :)
[scorpigle] Ironically and interestingly enough the gaai is not a guy. And not to worry, one has utmost respect for the animal. One has learnt her go-mata fundas well. We are only suggesting it has multiple dialects. That is not to be taken as an insult of any sort! :)
Monday, October 3, 2005 @ 12:35 AM
Thanks for the concern and the heads up:). Hope I dont have to use my dupe, as the kind of armoury I should be carrying depends on what you told them:)*Reminds to keep in handy few copies of “How to mind one’s own business” for distribution*
Monday, October 3, 2005 @ 2:46 AM
*eagerly chewing cud* What would be the name of an evil cow/bull, who has a single goal which is total world domination and is foiled by anil kapoor?
Mr/Ms. Moooogambo
*Moooogambo kush *chew chew cud* hua.*
Evil laugh of Mooogambo : *Mooooooo*hahahha.
Those looking for sticks to beat me up with shall never find one! ;)
Monday, October 3, 2005 @ 4:14 PM
Yay finally no Hindi movie! No offence meant to the Hindi moviewallah’s but I am just a South Indian girl who grew up in the days and times of Dravidian politics.
But excuse me, cow dialects?? Oh well! How did you miss out on Parsi and Bong cows, they always make for interesting dialects anyway!
I am also thinking, if the intent was to establish your friends as crazy and you the victim, you should have left FI, F2 or F3 have the final word! :)
Monday, October 3, 2005 @ 5:20 PM
[gvenum] Nah, those couple of people were various alter-egos of mine, so you don’t have to panic very much. Where can I get that book though? I know someone that I’d like to send a copy to :)
[Sriram] Okay, that’s it. I have to write the next post soon, even if it is just to stop you from coming up with more cow PJs. Moogambo was one of your better ones though :)
[Stuti] Don’t get too happy just yet, the Hindi movies will surely be back :) And IF my intent was to portray myself as a victim, then yes. But my intent wasn’t that at all :)
Monday, October 3, 2005 @ 6:36 PM
Great Blog!:-) have spent about 5 hrs going through all the posts [well, almost] and the comments…! Couldn’t stop! Now, [echoose for copifying!] you DEFANATELY rock! Keep rolling!
By the way, since ‘moo’st of the talk is about cows… can I bring your attention to the Hero of the Herd - Ramarajan? Wonder if you have some take on Him?
Will be back for ‘mooo’re!;-)
-Vasu
Monday, October 3, 2005 @ 7:27 PM
[Megha] Moooogambo kush hua!
Monday, October 3, 2005 @ 7:47 PM
Vasu: I am not sure Her Moo-ness (yup, that’s her title!) has any idea about the eternal cowhherd - Ramarajan - Him of the pink china silk kurta and white dhoti and golden glitter on cheeks, singing about the bountiful supply of milk that Shenbagam (his cow is always called Shenbagam!) bestows upon him!
And try as I might, I can find only a small gif like image of him handing a lota full of milk from Shenbagam to his gal-friend cum boss’s daughter
Monday, October 3, 2005 @ 9:58 PM
Pass
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 @ 10:04 AM
Now now, who brought up our friendly neighborhood cow-milking, green-shirt-red-pant-green-shoe wearing Hero, Ramarajan.. how in the world did his name not come up earlier? [aNTi] Why didn’t you bring it up earlier? Weren’t we all “mess”-merized by his performances with the cow (primary heroine) and then the boss’s daughter.. I couldn’t find any photos of him with a cow either.
[Megha] See what you’ve created now?
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 @ 12:51 PM
[Vasu the Anonymous] Thank you! Am glad you enjoyed the read and hope to see you around for more! :) And I must admit I have no knowledge whatsoever of Ramarajan, but from whatever aNTi and Sriram have to say, he seems to be a fine specimen of humankind that I should acquaint myself with immediately :)
[Sriram] Hmpfh! I am not guilty. At least not this time.
[aNTi] Thankoo for the education. I did a search on Ramarajan on Google and found a bunch of images of a typical South Indian village bumpkin types. Is that the chap you guys are talking about? Please to elaborate more on why he’s any different/worse than other Southie heroes. If there is a paploo movie hero, I need to learn more about him immediately!
[Invincible] :)
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 @ 2:02 PM
[Megha] This fella, Ramarajan, is a genie-ass with cows.. Fellow was so involved with cows that legend has it that he joined a party based on the cow’s advice. (Apparently, he asked “kamatchi” cow - “whose party to join?”.. cow being a tamil-speaking cow *refer first comment* said “amma” and so he joined “amma’s” party and became M.P too!)
And as for the google search you made, same fellow! now you see the attachment between him and cows?
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 @ 2:20 PM
oh cows…!!
Thursday, October 6, 2005 @ 7:58 AM
[Sriram] Thankoo for the education! :)
[Nanyaar] Moo?
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 @ 3:32 PM
All the cow languages/dialects have roots in Sanskrit, which probably is a offshoot of the Great Galactic Language, Telangana.
Cow are Devis, a higher class of beings, hence human languages are subsets of the cow language. Our auditory equipment is ill-tuned to understand the profundity of cows words.
It is somewhat unfortunate how most people don’t know the origins of where they are from, the Center of Universe, Nalgonda. This is what SV said about Nalgonda:
“This is the ancient land where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country, the same Telangana whose influx of spirituality is represented, as it were on the material plane, by rolling rivers like oceans, where the eternal Himalayas, rising tier above tier with their snow-caps, looks as it were into the very mysteries of heaven. Here is the same Nalgonda whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived. Here first sprang up inquiries into the nature of man and into the internal world. Here first arose the doctrines of the immortality of the soul, the existence of a supervising God, an immanent God in nature and in man, and here the highest ideals of religion and philosophy have attained their culminating points. ”
Warmest Regards,
http://www.dumbidiot.org
Monday, July 31, 2006 @ 1:00 PM