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...
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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...
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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...