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Iyer Vs Iyengar

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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.

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146 responses to “Iyer Vs Iyengar”

  1. Ganesh KB Avatar
    Ganesh KB

    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! 😀

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  2. foo Avatar
    foo

    Nyaanum rowdy aakkum, kaettaeLa?

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    1. indrannewtons Avatar
      indrannewtons

      Yes u r the rowdy,accused in the world,and the universe and some invisible something

      Reply
  3. foo Avatar
    foo

    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.

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    1. mccbala Avatar
      mccbala

      C’mon… Thanjavur and Palakkad fight never existed in a larger level… I don’t know if Vadakalai and thengalai intermarriages happen, but TI and PI intermarriages do happen frequently… And PI and TI don’t have different Vibhoothi applying styles… 😉 😛

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      1. kannan38 Avatar
        kannan38

        You guys are way in the past. Marriages between Vadakalai and ThenKalai are common nowadays; even better, Iyer-Iyengar marriages are happening all over the place.
        Why Thanjavur vs. Palakkad? I would tell any Palakkad that they are the descendants of Thanjavur Brahmins, and so, where is the fight? History shows that Thanjavur Brahmins migrated to Kerala and settled in Palakkad.

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        1. Thakkudu Avatar
          Thakkudu

          Tirunelveli vs Tjanjavur fight is always very very interesting one! 🙂

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          1. kuppuji Avatar
            kuppuji

            How about “vada desa vadamaal” (meaning north of the town Chidambaram) and then desa vdamal (Mayvaram, KMU, Thanjavur, etc). Vada desam are makku; then desam romba samathu.

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  4. Adithya Avatar
    Adithya

    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???

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    1. mccbala Avatar
      mccbala

      Certainly… Then there would’ve been 2 mokkai-s, so its too mokkai… 😛

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  5. current Avatar
    current

    s/r/ngar , odd waiter, why snow white, say white

    kudos to your imagination….

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  6. complicateur Avatar
    complicateur

    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.

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  7. complicateur Avatar
    complicateur

    Oh btw congratulations on linking a jewish stand up comic and Ponniyin Selvan. Only in the webspace!

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  8. Giridhar Avatar
    Giridhar

    yen intha thideer eSandai ?

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  9. Bhel Puri & Seekh Kabab Avatar
    Bhel Puri & Seekh Kabab

    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?

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  10. Lavanya Avatar
    Lavanya

    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

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  11. Mukunth Avatar
    Mukunth

    Ithukunne okkandhu yosipannungalo ?? 😉

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    1. mccbala Avatar
      mccbala

      Idhukellam dhaan okkandhu yosipaaingya… 😉

      Reply
  12. King Vishy Avatar
    King Vishy

    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 😀

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  13. King Vishy Avatar
    King Vishy

    @Mukunth..
    Ur comment was not there when I entered mine 🙂 “ukkandhu yosikkuradhu” was a coincidental reference..

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  14. Madhavan Avatar
    Madhavan

    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.

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  15. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    Amazing one! Hats off to you for coming up with this.

    Dude you ROCK!

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  16. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    @Lavanya (no offense intended)

    all spiticul kalais

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  17. narendra shenoy Avatar
    narendra shenoy

    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.

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  18. narendra shenoy Avatar
    narendra shenoy

    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.

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  19. B a l a j i Avatar
    B a l a j i

    Odd White, Why snow white….. rotfl

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  20. parthi Avatar
    parthi

    yenungo! summa thool kelappitteenga!

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  21. Australopithecus Avatar
    Australopithecus

    heh. funny.

    Reply
  22. Jaya Avatar
    Jaya

    nice….was little techie for me, but loved the Azhwarkadiyan stuff 🙂

    Reply
  23. pinastro Avatar
    pinastro

    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.

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  24. pinastro Avatar
    pinastro

    Hope you are feeling fine now after the treatment suggested by the Doctor for HyperWebiac

    Reply
  25. maami Avatar
    maami

    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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  26. Suresh Ramasubramanian Avatar
    Suresh Ramasubramanian

    <>

    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

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  27. Nikhil Narayanan Avatar
    Nikhil Narayanan

    Oh! I thought the fight was over long back.

    Peace!

    😉
    Hilarious as usual.
    PS: Iyer sounds like liar to me after reading this.

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  28. Krishnan Avatar
    Krishnan

    Devastating humor. As someone remarked, looks like you are sowing the seeds of first TamBrahm SF.

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  29. James Mylaporean Avatar
    James Mylaporean

    The hiyer you go, the highengar the fall.

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  30. Suresh Ramasubramanian Avatar
    Suresh Ramasubramanian

    TN Seshan on Palakkadu Iyers – “cooks, crooks and civil servants”

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  31. ~nm Avatar
    ~nm

    Simply hilarious!!!

    Reply
  32. gireesh Avatar
    gireesh

    sooper stuff…U are raising the bar one step higher each time..Kalakkals..

    reply to maami’s comment was too good…

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  33. VB Avatar
    VB

    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 😉

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    1. dilip Avatar
      dilip

      nice

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  34. Balaji Avatar
    Balaji

    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

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  35. revathi Avatar
    revathi

    What do you like better- Iyer’s goli soda or Iyengars Kapi?

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  36. Arunk Avatar
    Arunk

    hilarious and creative – and yes vi indeed is the best editor the world 😉

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  37. Bikerdude Avatar
    Bikerdude

    Gaaaaaaaaahahaha good one.
    You may continue to be vada ma, while I will be an entire vada kalai.

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  38. Arun Sundar Avatar
    Arun Sundar

    Sheer brilliance. Next, Come up with an intra-gallactic fight between vadama and Arthasaasthram 😉

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    1. Sree Sarma Avatar
      Sree Sarma

      Not Arthasaasthram anna, Ashtasahasram. 😛

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  39. maxdavinci Avatar
    maxdavinci

    nothing but praise to offer….

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  40. maami Avatar
    maami

    Ullo,
    Yaarba vadama-sathuma namma arthasaasthram- asadu nu sonnathu?

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  41. Deepa Mohan Avatar
    Deepa Mohan

    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.

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  42. vasuki Avatar
    vasuki

    Very creative and well written.
    You blog rocks.

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  43. Labakku Das Avatar
    Labakku Das

    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”.

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  44. munimma Avatar
    munimma

    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!

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  45. Rhet Avatar
    Rhet

    Ever heard of Ayengar beer. How can someone top that?

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  46. Aditya.R Avatar
    Aditya.R

    Hilarious! I did’nt find any reference to Iyer-mess though. Keep it going looking forward to a Thenkalai Vs Vadakalai !

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  47. kavitha Avatar
    kavitha

    rofl…

    why snow white and say white bit was the best!:D

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  48. prats35 Avatar
    prats35

    Gosh!!!!! this has to be the one to take the cake….
    Hilarious indeed…

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  49. kavitha Avatar
    kavitha

    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

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  50. Siddharth Avatar
    Siddharth

    You did not just dive into the abyss of iyer vs iyengar cliche’dom. 😦

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  51. Praveen GK Avatar
    Praveen GK

    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 🙂

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  52. Deepa Mohan Avatar
    Deepa Mohan

    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…

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  53. Arvind Avatar
    Arvind

    Iyers rock! Period.

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  54. Jayakanthan Avatar
    Jayakanthan

    I read this somewhere:
    Heights of Egoism -> I, Iyer, Iyengar

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  55. Suresh Ramasubramanian Avatar
    Suresh Ramasubramanian

    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.

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    1. S Thiagarajan Avatar
      S Thiagarajan

      Once at Mumbai Anantha Rama Dikshithar had a fever and the Dr Gopalachari (of Matunga) treated him with a Jab (injection) and it is said milk was oozing instead of BLOOD from the needle poke. (Needless to say that Dikshithar was periodically ADDICTED to drinking hot milk COVERING his face in front of the audience at ASTHIKA SAMAJAM!!!!

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      1. Kalyanaraman Avatar
        Kalyanaraman

        The blog is not in good taste.I do not remember any Dr Gopalachari.Yet what is to be remembered the mention is coming after a gap of nearly 40 years after the demise of Shri Dikshitar.Let us acknowledge his contribution to the particular section of the brahmin/and others who is to throng to listen to his upanyasams.We have a large percentage of people today who do not of any knowledge of our ancient epics and scriptures and who feel proud about their ignorance.
        When the throat gets dried while giving a discourse is there anything improper in taking milk every now and then.

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    2. Kalyanaraman Avatar
      Kalyanaraman

      Mr Ramasubramanyam’s blog is without truth.He says something which is hearsay and coming after almost 40 years after Shri Dikshitars siddhi.Using “Guy” to refer to Shri Dikshitar drives home the inference that the blogger lacks basic politeness in addressing people of scholarship.What was the age of the blogger when Shri Dikshitar attained siddhi and how many upanyasams the blogger had attended.

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      1. Suresh Ramasubramanian Avatar
        Suresh Ramasubramanian

        I am quoting from a website which is linked to in my previous blog post – which seems to have been written by a contemporary of dikshitar.

        After that the stories such as those are merely human failings which any person can have

        They in no way detract from the scholarship of sengalipuram anantharama dikshitar, or his sonorous delivery of narayaneeyam etc.

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        1. provocateur Avatar
          provocateur

          Hey Ramasubbu

          Are you the same guy who never to got to f*** because every girl refused you?
          I read it in a blog.
          Of course, Ramasubbu is a great guy who does blah blahblah..

          By the way I read about you in a blog …

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  56. hawkeye Avatar
    hawkeye

    /* It’s the world’s greatest text editor. It is usually available on all UNIX-based systems */

    enna saar. ungalukku emacs mela enna kovam?
    Ashok: Adhu separate debate 🙂 Iyer/Iyengar matteroda kalakka vendaam

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  57. Suri Avatar
    Suri

    I am a proud Iyer and would like to add

    All men are equal including even Iyengars!

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  58. Suri Avatar
    Suri

    I am a proud Iyer and would like to reluctantly admit that

    All men are equal including even Iyengars!

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  59. nagee Avatar
    nagee

    … high, iyer, iyengar….

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  60. philramble Avatar
    philramble

    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” :D) 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? 😀

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  61. Ravages Avatar
    Ravages

    I am smartha than everybody

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  62. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    Hilarious as ever!!!!

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  63. dineshbabu Avatar
    dineshbabu

    You are painfully hilarious! Causing stomach pain !

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  64. sathiyaislam Avatar
    sathiyaislam

    Hi.

    This is really funny. Cute!

    Jay

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  65. unnikuttan Avatar
    unnikuttan

    lovely, I am hungry.

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  66. Sundar Avatar
    Sundar

    We are also Smartha than you -LOL

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  67. Dilip Muralidaran Avatar
    Dilip Muralidaran

    Besh besh, romba nannaa irukku!

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  68. Kumar Chetan Sharma Avatar
    Kumar Chetan Sharma

    vi rocks

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  69. Divya Avatar
    Divya

    Omigod… hahahahahahahahaha!!
    I do err but not while saying this was ridiculously good! 🙂

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  70. Raghav Avatar
    Raghav

    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.

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  71. Chaya. Avatar
    Chaya.

    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?

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  72. Chaya. Avatar
    Chaya.

    now that would put the Iyers one step ahead!!!

    And for the record, I am an Iyer 🙂

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  73. sandy Avatar
    sandy

    “ur IyenCars, my IyerPlanes”….just too amazing… 😛

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  74. Bhargavi Avatar
    Bhargavi

    very profound conversation indeed.. you rock !!

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  75. Arun Avatar
    Arun

    this was too good 😀 !!!

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  76. Naina Avatar
    Naina

    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………

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  77. eye-yen-gar Avatar
    eye-yen-gar

    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 ..:))

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  78. Ranganthan Kadambi Avatar
    Ranganthan Kadambi

    @Chaya
    I smell an avial here…
    Are you a polygat by any chance?!! 🙂

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  79. Divya Avatar
    Divya

    ROTFL @ deep vein thrombosis!

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  80. Balaji Seshadri Avatar
    Balaji Seshadri

    Awesome write up!!!

    Hariyum sivanum onnu, ariyadhava vauile mannu!!!!

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  81. akshreli Avatar
    akshreli

    I read somewhere. The difference lies in degree of egoism 🙂
    I, Iyer, Iyengar

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  82. Madhu Srinivas Avatar
    Madhu Srinivas

    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.

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    1. ramaaramesh Avatar
      ramaaramesh

      I remember this one doing the rounds at PSBB.

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    2. Venkatarengan Rajaram Avatar
      Venkatarengan Rajaram

      Does not sound original. He might have copied it from what is said of “BOSTON BRAHMINS”

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    3. Venkatarengan Rajaram Avatar
      Venkatarengan Rajaram

      Please see my comments below the post of ‘ramaaramesh’

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  83. Revathi Avatar
    Revathi

    awesome 😉

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  84. L Avatar
    L

    ridiculously lol-est post! luved it evry bit! 😉

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  85. abhishek Avatar
    abhishek

    brilliant!!
    hum aapke fan ban gaye hain ‘saar’ji

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  86. shrinivas iyer Avatar
    shrinivas iyer

    Creativity at its best 🙂

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  87. Thengala Avatar
    Thengala

    The absolute truth: Higher the Iyer is Iyengar

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  88. Thengala Avatar
    Thengala

    Let us give credit where it is due.

    The Odd Waitic truth: Higher the Iyer is Iyengar

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  89. Niyogi(Telugu version of Iyyer) Avatar
    Niyogi(Telugu version of Iyyer)

    Lemme guess, you are either the Iyer or Iyengar married to the opposite. I’ve been itching to vent my feelings on bapinism for long. A brahmin(Niyogi) married to a brahmin(Vaidiki) but much to the chargin of my parents I married way below my sub-caste and I thought they’d flip if I married a sardar.

    Ur blog rocks dude… U are abundantly bestowed with the sarcasm reserved specific to the brahmin breed.

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    1. Mr.Iyer Avatar
      Mr.Iyer

      wat d hell u niyogis r doin in here?? pls keep away these telugu wordings….niyogi and all…it sounds like rogi! hahahaha

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  90. uma chandrasekaran Avatar
    uma chandrasekaran

    Phew! Sabaash seriyaana poti … this post and the comments rock ‘garu saar 🙂

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  91. Srikanth Iyer Avatar
    Srikanth Iyer

    Hilarious one….supreme court varaikum poidum intha argument 😛

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  92. Ranga Avatar
    Ranga

    Did you hear about the Iyengar who went for Iyer studies ? :)..
    Does the child of an Iyengar-Iyer marriage become a christian?

    Having married an Iyengar, your Iyer Vs Iyengar blog strikes a familiar chord..

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  93. dfw_sparta Avatar
    dfw_sparta

    Hilarious post…..

    Being an engineer, I came up with this one a long time back and now I have an opprotunity to share it with ya.

    Disclaimer: you gotto know what a fourier transform is to understand this.

    The relation between iyers and iyengars is that one (iyers = vibuthi = horizontal line = constant function) is the Fourier transform of the other (iyengar = naamam = vertical line = dirac delta function).

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    1. Raghu Avatar
      Raghu

      This is the best comment I’ve ever seen… wow! 😀

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    2. Brahmin Avatar
      Brahmin

      Beautiful….analogy…but the reverse is true too..!!

      Reply
  94. Ashwin Avatar
    Ashwin

    Vi Editor …ya Sucks big time …!!

    u certainly belong to Accused iyer & iyengar caste !!

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  95. Ramya Avatar
    Ramya

    Am an Iyer married to an Iyengar, so thanks for adding colour to our daily debate LOL!

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  96. soin Avatar
    soin

    all movies ack only ayers..see nayagan also.but we got thirupathi.
    lol @dwfsparta..arrear in dsp?

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  97. Nitin Avatar
    Nitin

    Unrelated to the story, but Sehwag’s #tampunk name can only be Veerasamy Sehwaga Chettiar (RT Santhana Bharathi’s path-breaking role in Mumbai Xpress, topped only Gunaa villain in his magnum opus performance as Mr. Sexena)

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  98. Shyam a.k.a Petre Avatar
    Shyam a.k.a Petre

    Why do Iyengars tend to become specialists and Iyers generalists ??

    ‘cos the Iyengars are fond of their verticals and the Iyers their horizontals !! 😛

    For the uninitiated — http://bit.ly/ctPs0T.

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  99. aravinthan Avatar
    aravinthan

    I stumbled upon this blog on this iyer/iyengar duel,at the same time i came across a matri website that promotes unity between Iyers and Iyengards and an exclusive site for these two communities, thought this might help few out here:)

    http://www.iimatriseva.com

    Horizontal vs vertical comment is awesome!

    Thanks
    Aravinthan.

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  100. Aparna Srivatsan Avatar
    Aparna Srivatsan

    It was too hilarious and especially the vi editor part was brilliant

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  101. whatsupdoc? Avatar
    whatsupdoc?

    the vi was hilarious! and also iyers are racists “Say Whites”! Iyengars are against racism! Why Snow white? (they question why “Snow white” was white…)

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  102. S Thiagarajan Avatar
    S Thiagarajan

    A GREAT FRIEND (?) forwarded this site link today and I took timeoff to go thru the ENTIRE blogs.
    Wow I never knew we can WASTE precious time on such frivolous TOPIC.

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  103. Dociyer Avatar
    Dociyer

    I was once told, not sure if I care now – “Iyers are wise, Iyengars are otherwise”

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    1. Brahmin Avatar
      Brahmin

      The “otherwise” is true..!!

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  104. srivas Avatar
    srivas

    Both are same it all changed somewere in 17th century we all are bramhins. thats it. some practises change that too minor diffarance.

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    1. Brahmin Avatar
      Brahmin

      Much before may be…!! Google Alwars, Nathamuni, Alawandar, Vedantha desikan etc…

      Reply
  105. Raghavan Latha Narasimhan Avatar
    Raghavan Latha Narasimhan

    Really Funny,I happen to be of Iyengar Ancestry and seriously enjoyed reading this.Nothing amuses me more than these Iyer-Iyengar Fights.

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  106. abi Avatar
    abi

    kewl!!! though some were high for me!! enjoy every word of it!!! remembered me the scenes in ponniyen selvan!!!!

    Reply
  107. Prasad R Avatar
    Prasad R

    Hilarious!

    Brilliant wit !

    After reading several of ur wonderful blogposts, I think I should give up my frail attempts at blogging!

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  108. mccbala Avatar
    mccbala

    Ashok, you’ve missed one point… Even Iyer Iyengar poonal differs… Iyers’ are thinner than Iyengars’… No offence to any merc benz iyengars (thanks lavanya for the term 😛 ), their poonal would look and feel like you’re wearing some lanyard… 😛

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    1. Venkatarengan Rajaram Avatar
      Venkatarengan Rajaram

      @mccbala
      May I please know as to what you know of Poonal ? Does not these sound a cheap humor ?
      Wish that better wisdom and better levels of decency prevail on you GUYS.

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      1. Bala Subramanian Avatar
        Bala Subramanian

        Sir,

        Having studied vEdam for more than a year, I guess it is safe for me to say that I have learnt the sanctity and values of poonal to a certain extent… I also happen to know that it isn’t a crime to see humour in most things in our life and when that humour is portrayed without ridiculing a single human, it should be enjoyed or ignored… Right interpretation depends on the reader’s outlook and perspective… Nevertheless, I firmly believe that there exists no form of indecency anywhere in here and also, no values were diminished from any of the sacred elements of our faiths that might have been mentioned in this post…

        Thank you for giving me a chance to explain myself… Sincere regards…

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  109. Venkatarengan Rajaram Avatar
    Venkatarengan Rajaram

    Dear Krish
    This blog, to say the least ,is in bad taste. We expect better things of you instead of such cheap write ups

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  110. meghavarshini Avatar
    meghavarshini

    this is great! my grandmother is a fan (ha!)

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  111. IengarChick Avatar
    IengarChick

    It’s hardwork being higher than an Iyer but someones gotta do it.

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  112. ramanan50 Avatar
    ramanan50

    இன்னிக்கி வடகலை தென்கலை கல்யாணம் காமன்
    ஆயிடுத்து ,ஐயர் ஐயங்காரும் கல்யாணம் இன்னும் ஈஸி.
    இல்லேன்னா பிராமணன் காணாம போய்டுவான் கொஞ்ச நாள்லே.
    சும்மா சொல்லக்கூடாது ,நன்னாவே படுத்தறேள் ,அழகா இருக்கு .

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  113. Rajeshwari Laxmanan Avatar
    Rajeshwari Laxmanan

    C’mon guys, spare VI editor. It is the only editor which made me feel like genius working on Rocket Science project!!!! When u crack doz shortcuts, u feel heavenly like achieved noble prize!!!

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  114. Divya Srikanth Avatar
    Divya Srikanth

    OMG! I love it:D

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  115. Anupama Avatar
    Anupama

    Best!!

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  116. Shivakumar Avatar
    Shivakumar

    We, brahmins, always maintain that Vedas are the supreme authority and our main goal should be to get liberated from the cycle of birth and death and attain Moksha. Do Vedas talk about Iyers, Iyengars etc. and do they say that we will not attain Moksha if we cease to call ourselves with these distinctions? I also understand that attaining of Moksha is irrelevant to smearing of Vibhudhi, Namams etc on on our forehead. When this is the case, how elders of our community give undue importance to these superficial things and insist and force the younger generation to follow them? Let these elders first understand the core meaning of the Vedas. practice them and guide the youngsters.

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  117. Priya I. Mandal Avatar
    Priya I. Mandal

    This is exactly the place where even replying in English wud luk inferior/downmarket. And suddenly u start feeling y nt give a nice word(sentences, infact) of appreciation to this genius in Madras street language. Soooper machhan. Inda mardi blog naan padachade illai. (dont mind my Tamil, dude. Got corrupted beyond recognition living in the north) 🙂 ULTIMATE!!!!

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  118. Hari Iyer Avatar
    Hari Iyer

    In the beginning it was only Iyers. Iyengars are an offshoot of Iyers practicing Vaishnavisim. Such narrow domesticated approach in their life made Iyengars lowly in front of the more broad looking outlook of the Iyers!!! So… why this big debate on that which is AXIOMATIC?

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    1. Kosmo Kramer Avatar
      Kosmo Kramer

      Really, Hari Iyer? The mere fact that you jack yourself up on the branch as ‘broad looking’ makes you lower than lowly, dude! Well, I better not get down to your level; people who see wouldn’t distinguish between a fool and a rational guy.

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  119. Sree Sarma Avatar
    Sree Sarma

    As a Chozhadesa Vadama I have no problem with Iyengars. They’re all our people anyway. 😛

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  120. Asokan Avatar
    Asokan

    At the end of the day we are livin’ la vida loca, all shades of the color of mocha…in a davara tumbler, of course.

    Reply
  121. daya Avatar
    daya

    brahmins are stupidest people they have no political power as they are divided lot.& politicians like to make fun of hindu gods because hindu brahmins are divided

    Reply

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