UDas' Jokes
Piloo Mody, a member of the Parliament for several years during the
tenures of Jawaharlal Nehru
and Indira Gandhi as the prime minister of the country, was widely known
for his sense of humour.
At one breakfast meeting, a colleague of his, wanting to laugh at him,
asked: What weights more? A
kilo of cotton or a kilo of steel?
Mody promptly responded, a kilo of steel.
Mody promptly responded, a kilo of steel.
Before the colleague could express his better intelligence, Mody gave
the explanation. He said, "You
stand there. I will throw one kilo of cotton and one kilo of steel at
you, and lets see what hurts
more."
This incident reportedly happened in the Tihar jail where several VIPs
are put up.
Two Congress (I) ministers were lodged in the same cell. While one
received relatives continuously
during the day, the other remained in total isolation with no single
visitor for days together.
When the former queried, the other replied, "All of my relatives are in
the other cells."