It's Monday and Time for Headline News!

It is always funny to see some of the signs around the cities in India. I knew to expect something funny because of Rod's previous visits. And the country didn't disappoint.

Here are a few choice bits.


STD & FAX. How convenient. You can get a Sexually Transmitted Disease at the same time you are faxing something. What service! One of the similar signs we saw was 1-2-3-STD. Super. I asked our host what STD stands for and he told that it was the local phone company. How disappointing. We had hope for something more exciting.


Blue Dart! Now we are talking. If you don't know what Blue Dart is (as we had to explain it to our host, who laughed his head off), let me explain. On a day when you are very "gassy", you take a match, drop your pants and while bending over, you light the match and you fart into the flame. And that's how blue dart is born. Disclaimer: Don't try this at home, boys!
Blue Dart in India is a shipping company, like DHL or FedEx. How boring!


These ads were everywhere in Erode, which happens to be the city where "Porna" is made. Porna is a brand for Rice Bran Oil. A new up and coming "healthy" oil from Erode, Tamilnadu. The ads we saw had happy looking people holding a pouch of "Porna". I think the marketing research went horribly wrong when they came up with this name.

When we were driving to Taj Mahal, I saw a sign by the side of the road that made me laugh. It simply stated "Jolly-Fat-Go". I have no idea what the meaning was for it, but it struck my funny bone. Rod and Alex were sleeping at the time so I had to explain it to them later, and it didn't seem so funny anymore. But at the time...quite funny.