Horn Honking

capt_mahajan · Aug 3rd, 2009, 21:44

Related but offtopic joke...

A Sikh (apologies to Sikhs, some of my best friends etc) train driver barely in control of a train at high speed. Suddenly the train derails, goes off into the fields, returns to the rails and continues the journey. Stops at next station.

Shaken passengers catch the driver.

"Sardarji (polite term for addressing all Sikhs), what happened?"

"There was a man on the tracks!", driver replies

"You put us all under risk by derailing the train" (Quirks of Indian English). "You should have just run him over", passengers scream

Driver: "That's what I thought, too. In fact, I had decided to kill him , but when we came close the bugger on the tracks started running off into the fields!"

AwayFromHome · Aug 3rd, 2009, 22:05

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Originally Posted by AusE

I vote Ludhiana, Punjab for having the HUGEST amount of horn action I've heard so far - the good carriers with their crazy blaring horns tootling up and down the roads were unreal. I guess the fact that it's an industrial town with massive amounts of shipments in and out doesn't help their noise pollution problem. But if I ever bought a car here (NOT very likely I must admit!), I now know where to go to get a kick-ass horn

I've often wonder if the car manufacturers install a heavy-duty horn in the cars over here, surely a standard horn couldn't keep up with the demands of Indian use?

My son, all of 9 years old and recently placed (note I didn't say displaced) in India said he had a brilliant idea.
"I'll make a horn that says "STOP BLOWING YOUR HORN" and every time some one blows their horn, I'll blow that horn."

I wish it would work, but I canna doubt it.

thejag · Aug 3rd, 2009, 22:21

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Originally Posted by AwayFromHome

My son, all of 9 years old and recently placed (note I didn't say displaced) in India said he had a brilliant idea.
"I'll make a horn that says "STOP BLOWING YOUR HORN" and every time some one blows their horn, I'll blow that horn."

I wish it would work, but I canna doubt it.

why not.... though youd have to add enough circuitry to translate that message into several hundreds of local dialects....

i have been toying with using a moving text display fitted underneath/above the license plates front and back. preprogrammed with several different messages which will start scrolling on the flick of the appropriate switch.... only hitch is i dont have a car for my exclusive use to try it on.

AwayFromHome · Aug 3rd, 2009, 22:44

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Originally Posted by thejag

why not.... though youd have to add enough circuitry to translate that message into several hundreds of local dialects....

i have been toying with using a moving text display fitted underneath/above the license plates front and back. preprogrammed with several different messages which will start scrolling on the flick of the appropriate switch.... only hitch is i dont have a car for my exclusive use to try it on.

OK, then, I'll get you together with my son, and you guys can transform the traffic scene in India.

At an IM meetup?

thejag · Aug 3rd, 2009, 22:53

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Originally Posted by AwayFromHome

OK, then, I'll get you together with my son, and you guys can transform the traffic scene in India.

At an IM meetup?

sure. But you and your car will have to be the guinea pigs and carry out the testing....

Nick-H · Aug 3rd, 2009, 23:22

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Originally Posted by thejag

i have been toying with using a moving text display fitted underneath/above the license plates front and back.

I've had that idea too (and one of my most used messages would have to be, "Woops, Sorry!").

An appropriate one for this thread would be Horn Not OK Please!

thejag · Aug 3rd, 2009, 23:47

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Originally Posted by Nick-H

"Woops, Sorry!").

mine too...

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capt_mahajan Infidel Sufi Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: styx Posts: 13,608	Related but offtopic joke... A Sikh (apologies to Sikhs, some of my best friends etc) train driver barely in control of a train at high speed. Suddenly the train derails, goes off into the fields, returns to the rails and continues the journey. Stops at next station. Shaken passengers catch the driver. "Sardarji (polite term for addressing all Sikhs), what happened?" "There was a man on the tracks!", driver replies "You put us all under risk by derailing the train" (Quirks of Indian English). "You should have just run him over", passengers scream Driver: "That's what I thought, too. In fact, I had decided to kill him , but when we came close the bugger on the tracks started running off into the fields!" __________________ . Outside the machine

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