Anandhotep has used some of stinky old bandages to tie me to my desk so that I can work on the next issue of the QSM Magazine. I’ve been barred from posting on my blog, until I’ve painted the cover, sent emails to the new authors, and edited all of my own articles for the March issue.
But then I am a new age man who knows that there’s something called screenshots, and so I am posting an article from the Jan issue of the QSM Magazine for you. When you are done commiserating with Dad, me, and wifey, head over to ISSUU.com to download/read the full issue.
While you are there, please don’t stop yourself from clicking the “share” and “like” buttons. Your support is essential for the success of the QSM Magazine.
Anandhotep is getting restless and I have this sinking feeling that he knows…so let me post this and scoot!
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If you enjoyed this post, find more of my Quirky, Snarky, Malarkey in The QSM Magazine. |
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Anand's Parodies & Caricatures. 
I’d just never thought of it that way before. With a train journey, you get your money’s worth — all the that travel time that you’ve paid for. 🙂
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Not many can think like my mom. The outer realms of her mental expanse remain unknown even to Dad…and after four decades of marriage too! Mom knows how to get her money’s worth in ways never before thought of by mankind.
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She sounds like an amazing women. Having a mother with a quirky way of looking at the world must be a lot of fun, though. 🙂
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1% Quirky 99% Snarky. I can’t bring myself to speak of the snarky, because that will demolish the loving, sacrificing, selfless stereotype that we are taught to revere – and Anandhotep, with 3500 years of wisdom burdening his brow, knows that some stereotypes are best left alone.
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Very wise, Anand. I also will not say anything about my dear old mom that might tarnish the stereotype of mothers as loving and selfless — at least not while she’s glowering at me and hold the frying pan above her head like that.
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Hilarious.. Really!! Most moms are like this.. 🙂
Good work.. 🙂
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Most moms would rather travel by train so that they can squeeze the last drop out of the lemon called money? I think your mom and mine must be sisters in spirit.
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😀 Yeah!!
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No wonder then that I finally got you to write back! 😛 Anandhotep is more efficient, comes once in two months and finishes a workload of 2 months. Must learn from him 😀
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That changed the whole meaning of it.
I mean I didn’t get you to write back. I finally got a reply from you. 😛
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Oh you got me to work alright. You’ve got a communication line open with that bugger, and he does have a weakness for unquestioningly complying with any request a lady makes. I have this eerie feeling that tying me up to my desk to get me to work, may have been your idea – one that you planted in that creepy mummy’s head.
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Yes, yes! That guerrilla once told me that he was the first one to propose the theory X (not Douglas McGregor!) He has never told me clearly, but I have a feeling that he was a supervisor of the tomb-construction work!
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Your mom certainly has a unique perspective on things!
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Dr. Sorick. You’ve said it right. She’s got a unique perspective on everything. She’s so high up that everyone and everything is below her.
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You know, if air travel becomes any more difficult, tedious, and downright boring, maybe we’ll all go back to trains. Looks like mom may have something here! Hmm.
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Jackie, as Mom says, she knows. In fact, now that I think about it, Mom is a female version of Mr. Goyal. They both know everything while nobody else knows anything!
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Ok, I’ll bite. Who is Mr. Goyal?
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My Know-it-all neighbor. You can find him here: https://artflowsinmyveins.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/funny-boasts-jokes-robbery-iit-roorkee-rwa-indian-humor/
and at: https://artflowsinmyveins.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/making-choices-decisions-right-wrong-humor-comedy-parody-anecdote-business-jokes/
(with Tornado, the dog who has more sense than Mr. Goyal has, but Mr. Goyal believes otherwise. He thinks that the dog doesn’t know anything.)
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You should thank Anandhotep for tying you up to your desk and making you get that mag out in time! 🙂
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Don’t join forces with him, Rashmi. He lived, dies, and now stinks on the dark side. Give him a finger to hold and he’ll pull you over to his side, where there’s nothing but the inky darkness of continuous work. Remember that you’ve been warned!
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Hahaha! In total Paisa Vasool, I didn’t expect the ending where the son squeezes lemon to assure his Mom about he is saving money 😀 very funny!
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There’ve been times when Mom has chided me for not squeezing a lemon properly. “Abhi ras hai usmein, nichodna bhi nahi ata.” (You can still extract more from it – you don’t even know how to squeeze (a lemon) dry!)
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I remember the days when my Mom used to tell me to squeeze the toothpaste tube till every drop of the paste is used 😀
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And that too 😀
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Wonderful post
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Thanks. Mom will be pleased to have found another fan 😀
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