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> >> >> Doesn't work here in the UK.
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> >> >> I pictured someone from Delhi.
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> >> > What is the stereotypical Indian greeting in Delhi?
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> >> > Lefty
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> >> Nanamste.
> >> Hands in prayer and bowed a little.
> >> Dee Dee
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> > OK. To translate that joke so people in the UK like it, here is the UK
> > version :-)
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> > 30 years later the guys were paddling along on the Ganges and saw an
> > Indian
> > camp. The skeptical guy said "Hey, there's that Indian we saw in town."
> > He
> > bowed and called, "Nanamste". ( According to Dee.) (No small task to bow
> > in
> > a canoe.)
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> > The Indian replied "Curried." (According to Om.)
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> > Pretty hilarious, eh?
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> > Lefty
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> Lefty, if it is a play on words, I just don't get it -- please 'splain.
Who
> thinks it's hilarious, who gets it -- please! I don't understand.
> (One doesn't bow the body, just the head.)
> Dee Dee

The "hilarious" part is tongue-in-cheek :-)
When the poster from UK mistook the (American) Indian for one from Delhi, I
proposed thranslating the joke into that culture. So Om offered "curried" as
the response instead of "scrambled", then I needed a greeting that the North
American Indian "HOW" would translete to, that would elicit that response.
You said "Nanamste" with hands in prayer bowed a little was the greeting.
The stereotype for the American Indian would be his hand held up in a
"stop"-like gesture when saying "HOW". The guy can stay seated in the canoe
if he only bows his head, otherwise we would have to put him on a raft,
which is OK too because they have been translated from "the lake" to "the
Ganges". Simple, right?

There is no way that it turns out to be funny. It is a monument to
pointlessness, a glorious nonsense, a literary death-throe. Damn I'm good.
:-)
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Lefty

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