Iyer Vs Iyengar
Azhwarkadiyan Nambi and Eesaana Bhattar presumably had descendants. And perhaps they lived in the New Thanjavur Sector of the Pegasus Beta Settlement, and perhaps they went to the same school, and played on the same zero-gravity slide. Perhaps both grew up to be cyberpriests on interstellar spaceships. Perhaps they chilled out at the Galactic Spaceport bar. Wonder what sort of “I am better than you” arguments they had.
EB Jr: Iyers are better
AN Jr: No, Iyengars are better
EB Jr: Iyer sounds like Higher and that’s why we are better
AN Jr: Iyer sounds like Air and that’s exactly what you are full of.
EB Jr: We fly high like Iyerplanes while you still travel using yesterday’s IyenCars
AN Jr: At least we travel in Rolls Royce Iyencars while you suffer from Deep Vein Thrombosis in Economy class Iyerplanes
EB Jr: Iyengar sounds like I-Anger, and that describes you guys pretty well
AN Jr: Iyer sounds like I-Err, and that describes you guys even better
EB Jr: We are also Smartha than you.
AN Jr: Of course you aren’t. How can you be when you follow the Odd Waiter philosophy?
EB Jr: Your naamam looks like a V with an I in between, and reminds me of vi, that useless editor
AN Jr: vi is the best editor in the world, and I can do a s/r/ngar before you can apply your vibhuti
EB Jr: You call yourselves Why Snow White? Ignorance is built into your name
AN Jr: You call yourselves Say White. Painting everything white smacks of a lack of creativity.
EB Jr: Your C-rap (Carnatic Rap) star R.E.A. Goody sucks. His voice should be used as an alternative energy source by carpenters sawing wood.
AN Jr: Your C-rap star MD (Mad Durai) Money sucks even more. He hardly raps words. He keeps pulling out his item girl assistant (Kalpana Swara) to distract the crowd with her gyrations.
And so on.
Wow! Am I really the first to comment?!! “vi is the best editor in the world, and I can do a s/r/ngar before you can apply your vibhuti” helped fill up my laughter quota for the day!
Nyaanum rowdy aakkum, kaettaeLa?
The only thing more pathetic than an Iyer vs Iyengar fight would be a Vadakalai vs Thenkalai fight, but a Thanjavur vs Palakkad fight would give it close competition.
Nice, The vi editor part was the best.
The retort could be, you all prefer Emac-u so you are all makku?? Or is that too mokkai???
s/r/ngar , odd waiter, why snow white, say white
kudos to your imagination….
That opening riff was very similar to a set the Jon Stewart used to doabout Jesus, Moses and Mohammed. “They all grew up in the same neigheborhood, probably played pickup basketball together etc..” Nice iyerisation – or is it iyengarisation – Freeya vidu.
Oh btw congratulations on linking a jewish stand up comic and Ponniyin Selvan. Only in the webspace!
yen intha thideer eSandai ?
Am I behind the times, or is this the first example of TamBram SF?
Although curious minds want to know – what were AN and EB quaffing at the Galactic adda while having this conversation? AN’s laced Sambaram to EB’s bootleg Rasam?
haha, Romba kusumbu you have, but being a proud mercedes benz iyen-car myself, I need to tell you that there’s a U namam variant as well. V is thengalai, U is vadagalai. Hence giving us various styling options and thus making us superior.
Ashok: Oho. VI and UI
Ithukunne okkandhu yosipannungalo ??
ROFLOL.. “I can do a s/r/ngar” was tooooooo good.. Though for a moment wondered what srinagar had to do here!
been a long time since i worked on vi..
And the whole post oozed with extreme creativity!!! Ukkaandhu yosichaa kooda ivlo laam thonuma?!
And Lavanya.. UI styling options is an interesting addendum
@Mukunth..
“ukkandhu yosikkuradhu” was a coincidental reference..
Ur comment was not there when I entered mine
That is a great one, but you forgot the most obvious one.. Of how Ire tends to triumph over Anger:)
Wasn’t it in the same Nambi vs Bhattar episode that someone spake: Ariyum Sivamum onnu, idha ariyadhavan vayila mannu?
Basically, we Iyers are better because we think the client and the server are one, while the namams simply don’t get it. I mean, in a connected world of P2P, B2B, C2C, what is B2C? It is all the same Net brahmam.
Amazing one! Hats off to you for coming up with this.
Dude you ROCK!
@Lavanya (no offense intended)
all spiticul kalais
1. The travails of T. N. Seshan illustrate the truth of the old saying, the iyer they are, the harder they fall.
2. A peeping tom was arrested today. His defense was that he wanted to see the changing of the iyengaard.
A small but influential community of tamil Brahmins has been agitating for a separate homeland, on the lines of Khalistan and Bodolan. However, their movement is said to have suffered a setback when it came to light that the name “Republic of Iyerland” has already been taken in the UN.
Odd White, Why snow white….. rotfl
yenungo! summa thool kelappitteenga!
heh. funny.
nice….was little techie for me, but loved the Azhwarkadiyan stuff
VI Editor is ….V shaped Namum is good.
Surprised to see No “Graphics” work as you have done for previous blogs like ..Kaka kronicles,Newtonian theories etc etc.
Hope you are feeling fine now after the treatment suggested by the Doctor for HyperWebiac
I vs I: Divided we fall?
Ashok: No no. Divided we get quotient and remainder, quotient being iyer and remainder being iyengar, or wait. Is it the other way around?
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That was vanthiyathevan, in the azhwarkadiyan intro scene (where he is threatening to bash a saivite and an advaitins head in, before a crowd..)
Now all we need is pangalactic gargleblaster (or jinnantonyx) equivalents for the iyers and iyengars
It will probably involve just how much percentage of plantation A, “beaberry” and chicory should go into their morning coffee ..
Ashok: Ah yes. Perhaps the Amaklamatic Filterblaster
Oh! I thought the fight was over long back.
Peace!
Hilarious as usual.
PS: Iyer sounds like liar to me after reading this.
Devastating humor. As someone remarked, looks like you are sowing the seeds of first TamBrahm SF.
The hiyer you go, the highengar the fall.
TN Seshan on Palakkadu Iyers – “cooks, crooks and civil servants”
Simply hilarious!!!
sooper stuff…U are raising the bar one step higher each time..Kalakkals..
reply to maami’s comment was too good…
Enjoy reading this blog, but posting a comment for the first time.
This topic actually takes me back a long time almost 18-20 years to a CBSE pallikudam in Mylapore where we had inter-class JAM sessions. For the uninitiated – JAM had nothing to do with the red color sticky stuff that was spread on your bread at the local Iyengar bakery (ooops IYENGAR bakery – pun not intended) – in JAM or Just-a-Minute sessions contestants had to speak non-stop for a minute on a topic with pauses only to catch their breath with a whole set of rules and conditions attached. Anyway, what is important was the funniest session we had was on a topic – The iyer and iyer you go, the iyengar you become ! Almost all contestants were tambrams (given the mylapore pallikudam setting, the probability of that happening was definitely 0.99999999999999) and took off on one another. And btw, the judge who set the topic and had a lot of fun ruling on objections and factual errors was if my memory serves me right ………..an iyengar
What does a VI editor refer to…. ???
Kindly enlighten
Ashok: It’s the world’s greatest text editor. It is usually available on all UNIX-based systems
What do you like better- Iyer’s goli soda or Iyengars Kapi?
hilarious and creative – and yes vi indeed is the best editor the world
Gaaaaaaaaahahaha good one.
You may continue to be vada ma, while I will be an entire vada kalai.
Sheer brilliance. Next, Come up with an intra-gallactic fight between vadama and Arthasaasthram
nothing but praise to offer….
Ullo,
Yaarba vadama-sathuma namma arthasaasthram- asadu nu sonnathu?
Enjoying your blog so much. Adding it to my Goggle ( I goggle at the posts every day) reader.
Mamta Naidu quoted from your leeches with icecream post on my blog, that’s how I came along to visit you.
I am a tambram living in Bangalore and hope you also have a Blr-Chennai-which-is-better fight posted soon! “Chennai people are so cultured ya!” “But with that weather, they stink!” ..and so on.
Very creative and well written.
You blog rocks.
Hilarious stuff. But please explain “and I can do a s/r/ngar before you can apply your vibhuti”. I am an iyen-car btw but cant get that
Ashok: It’s a regular expression for converting Iyer to Iyengar. It stands for substitute “r” with “ngar”.
you had to bring a ghost from the past (vi). How many folks used it or even know what it is
Hilarious as usual! vetti velai ithaana? super puns!
Ever heard of Ayengar beer. How can someone top that?
Hilarious! I did’nt find any reference to Iyer-mess though. Keep it going looking forward to a Thenkalai Vs Vadakalai !
rofl…
why snow white and say white bit was the best!:D
Gosh!!!!! this has to be the one to take the cake….
Hilarious indeed…
oh on a diff note…the news on “Darth Vader”attack on a “Jedi Church” in Wales…ahahaha…reminded me of your Darth Vaadhiar..:D
You did not just dive into the abyss of iyer vs iyengar cliche’dom.
Hahahaha…ROFL
The Iyengaran took a veiled threat by calling him a slow motion crawler, since he took I-YEARS to perform a particular task. The Iyer responded with a sarcastic “Look, who’s talking? After all you are an I-EON-gar!!!!!”
Superb post
Oh, you forgot to mention that great English book about the Say Whites, by Emily Bronte…Jane Iyer! And the Why Snow White cat, I.N.Garfield…
Iyers rock! Period.
I read this somewhere:
Heights of Egoism -> I, Iyer, Iyengar
Speaking of Iyers .. here’s this little vignette of 1960s Matunga – the Mylapore of Bombay (that is, throw a brick anywhere in there and you’ll hit a iyer). Talking about Sengalipuram Anantharama Dikshitar, the discourse / katha kalakshepam guy
http://www.keralaiyers.com/mm1.html
“Anantha Rama Dikshitar’s love for scholarship was matched by his avarice for money. He would accept lunch assignments and walk away with fabulous trophies. During discourse he would indicate his achievements so as to get further invitations. Sometimes he would stoop to incredibly low levels. One instance will suffice. He had gone one day for lunch at the house of a Sankaranarayana Iyer who was a bigwig in a company manufacturing Purgolax- the Dikshitar stated that he was feted by Sankaranarayana Iyer whose product Purgolax– a laxative-works as fast as “Rama Bana”. As cruel and cheap a comparison to divine arrows of Rama as possible.”
and another story .. heard this third or fourth hand from an elderly relative, I think. Another uniquely Iyer ad for Purgolax. Dikshitar said in one of his discourses, sponsored by the Purgolax Iyer, that whenever he says the word “Bhargo” in the Gayatri Mantra, he gets reminded of the generosity of the Purgo lax company.
/* It’s the world’s greatest text editor. It is usually available on all UNIX-based systems */
enna saar. ungalukku emacs mela enna kovam?
Iyer/Iyengar matteroda kalakka vendaam
Ashok: Adhu separate debate
I am a proud Iyer and would like to add
All men are equal including even Iyengars!
I am a proud Iyer and would like to reluctantly admit that
All men are equal including even Iyengars!
… high, iyer, iyengar….
Hilarious. There’s tons more where that came from I am sure. I, Iyer, Iyengar and the rest! “AvaaL ellam nambadavaa illayo!”
I wonder where this puts the Iyerangar (or should it be “Iyengarer”
) crossbreeds, like one of my friends is!
ROFLMAO at Burgolax!! “Two bathroom poinde irukkan… edho burgolax sattuttaya pa?”
The “ngar” bit was hilarious.
Bottom line is Tam brahms rock in general.
Put fundaes on carnatic music sometime – apart from the Chembai Darth Vader stuff. How about Voleti Won Kenobi?
I am smartha than everybody
Hilarious as ever!!!!
You are painfully hilarious! Causing stomach pain !
Hi.
This is really funny. Cute!
Jay
lovely, I am hungry.
We are also Smartha than you -LOL
Besh besh, romba nannaa irukku!
vi rocks
Omigod… hahahahahahahahaha!!
I do err but not while saying this was ridiculously good!
This simply has to be the best geeky yet God Level discussion. The vi editor simply takes the cake. I wonder why you havent yet applied for the Nobel in literature ? at least, the Ig Nobel would definitely honour you (if they honour literature i.e.) . Just made my day.
This is really HILARIOUS!!!
By the way, I read somewhere that Man includes WOMan….and on the same lines do we say that Iyer includes IyeNGAr?
now that would put the Iyers one step ahead!!!
And for the record, I am an Iyer
“ur IyenCars, my IyerPlanes”….just too amazing…
very profound conversation indeed.. you rock !!
this was too good
!!!
Good 1 man , yet these folks are all polyglot mixed breed nwo with the afros , as they walked all the way from Israel they had changed breeds as well………
Hilarious stuff…
“All men are equal including even Iyengars!”
I know dude…Coz we Iyengars are close to godlike unlike these run of the mill eye-errs
Basically 3 clans of tamil brahmins
Vadagalai, thengalai and echakalai (also known as eye-errs ..:))
@Chaya
I smell an avial here…
Are you a polygat by any chance?!!
ROTFL @ deep vein thrombosis!
Awesome write up!!!
Hariyum sivanum onnu, ariyadhava vauile mannu!!!!
I read somewhere. The difference lies in degree of egoism
I, Iyer, Iyengar
This just reminds me of an anecdote narrated to us, when in school, by this mathematician named alladi krishnaswamy. It goes something like this-
He had apparently invited a bulgarian mathemetician of renown, i think it was erdos not sure though, to madras. And so he made a short sojourn at madras en route to some other place. And while here, after watching the people of madras go about their activities and stuff, he composed a short poem –
Madras is a place full of iyers and iynegars
Where iyers speak only to iyengars
And iyengars speak only to gods.