anecdotes

The Peradeniya campus, in the telling by Thalif Deen, is a place where scholarship and satire mixed as naturally as monsoon winds and mango trees — a compact world of rituals, inside jokes, high-table formalities and the kind of campus legends that survive generations. The Sunday Times piece...

PONDER •I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes. •There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead. •Life is sexually transmitted. •Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. •The only difference between a...

A sheep gave birth to a dog on a farm in China, claims its owner Liu Naiying, who has had people flocking to see the woolly 'lamb-puppy'. Liu says he came across the lamb-dog in one of his fields shortly after it was born. And by 'born', he means his sheep was licking the creature and...

When most people burn a pie they throw it in the bin. Not Tony Johnson. He has kept his meaty treat for almost 40 years and has taken it around the world on family holidays. The 73-year-old says the Holland’s pie, which overcooked back in 1972, has become an heirloom which takes pride...

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. 2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. 3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger. 4. There is...