If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my Blog’s RSS Feed. Or my Comment’s RSS Feed. Your funny bone is definitely as big as your femur!Looks like Ouchmyte is nurturing monsters, who if given enough time can turn dangerous. Here is a mail received from one of the readers – Rajesh Nair (original name) and my reply to him.
From: Rajesh Nair
To: Jammy
Date: April 17, 2007
Hi Jammy,
Today I accidentally stumbled upon your blog @ www.ouchmytoe.com and hurt my toe. I have a feeling you have cameras …

India’s top professional blogger Amit Agarwal of Labnol and Digital Inspiration fame has come up with a list of the most widely read blogs of India. It is aptly titled ‘India Blogs’. Wonder if it is intentional that in the name…the word ‘Blog’ is both a noun and verb. Those who didn’t understand would do better to grab a Wren & Martin.
Guess what…www.Ouchmytoe.com figures in the list under the Humor Category. Somebody sure has a sense of humor! If you think I am Joking, you must read about the …

Definition of Lateral Thinking - Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, a Maltese psychologist, physician and writer. It first appeared in the title of his book The Use of Lateral Thinking, published in 1967. De Bono defines lateral thinking as methods of thinking concerned with changing concepts and perception. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic. Source: Wikipedia
Lateral Thinking Puzzle for the Week

An old man read a report in …

In the deadliest school campus shooting a gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and Virginia Tech classroom on Monday and killed 21 people. The gunman was killed.

Virginia Tech president Charles Steger uttered a few words of condolence, but that wouldn’t help the parents who lost their children. Horrifying indeed.
The shooting at Virginia Tech continued for two hours. This is the second time in less than a year that the Virginia Tech campus has been closed because of a shooting. In August 2006, the opening day of …

Barbers & Their Tricks
I now have very closely cropped hair. Only because my barber didn’t having Rs 10 to give back.
He asked me for Rs 40, for a close enough cut. I handed him a fifty rupees note and waited for him to give back the change. The deft barber – I know for only a few minutes back he had tried to sell medicinal oil from Kerala which would make my hair grow like Jack’s magical beans - looked in his cash box for long before saying he …

A man waved a cloth and another man died. Why?
Update:
Answer 1: The man waving the cloth was announcing the start of a duel. As soon as the cloth was waved, the fastest of them shot the other man down.
Answers which came out of all the comments the readers left:
Answer 2: The man waving the cloth was a station master and when he waved the cloth (a flag, if you insist on the right term) the train started and a man standing on the tracks died a gruesome death. …

Yesterday www.ouchmytoe.com got listed as Desi Blog of the Day @ Gauravonomics - a blog by, my guess is Gaurav (He tells us that he is sometimes single but doesn’t reveal his name in the ‘About Me’ section).
The complimentary post also mentions the Ouchmytoe Error page.
If you visit the site, please do take a look at the two comments (at the time of writing this post). Quite flattering…and interesting because now I have to find out who is De Bono.
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In late February www.theindicast.com in a series …

Shopping at Mother Care, Chennai was quite an experience. For those who have been lucky enough not to shop in the place, Mother Care is a store that caters to pregnant women and babies born thereafter. My wife who is still in Kannur REQUESTED me to visit them and buy some clothes for our Miss Sleepy.
No price can be put on the first dress that a father buys for his daughter. And when I say ‘no price’ I mean ‘no price’. That’s why I was mighty upset when the …