People come up with peculiar or funny answers in interviews or exams:

Interviewer: Why is a thicker conductor necessary to carry a current in A.C. as
compared to D.C. ?
Candidate: An AC current goes up and down (drawing a sinusoid) and requires more
space inside the wire, so the wire has to be thicker.

Interviewer: How will you tell if that wall outlet carries AC or DC ?
Candidate: I will put my finger in. If it is pushed away, it is DC. If it gets stuck, it
was AC.

Interviewer: How will you reverse direction of an induction motor?
Candidate: I will remove the four bolts at the base, turn the motor around, and put
back the bolts.

Interviewer: How do you start a synchronous motor?
Candidate: Vrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (in rising pitch)
Interviewer: Stop! Stop!
Candidate: rrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (in falling pitch)

Interviewer: How do you limit surge current within an integrated circuit?
Candidate: By using a miniature circuit breaker.

External (to student) : ” Why does a capacitor block DC but allow AC to pass through
?
Student: See, a capacitor is like this —| |— , OK. DC Comes straight, like this —–
—–, and the capacitor stops it. But AC,goes UP, DOWN, Up DOWN and jumps right
over the capacitor!”

Examiner : “What is a step-up transformer?”
Student : “A transformer that is put on top of electric poles.”

Examiner (smiling): “And then what is a step-down transformer?”
Student (hesitantly):”Uh – A transfomer that is put in the basement or in a pit?”

Examiner (pouncing): “Then what do you call a transformer that is installed on the
ground?”
(student knows he is caught — can’t answer)
Examiner (impatiently): “Well?”
Student (triumphantly): “A stepless transformer, sir!”

A bookie calls Hansie Cronje before the match between India and SouthAfrica.
Cell phone rings. Hansie picks up.
Cronje : hello
Bookie : I am ……. Here.
Cronje : yes tell me
Bookie : how is the pitch
Cronje : ya dry and good for batting
Bookie : I want u to loose today’s match
Cronje : impossible
Bookie : I will pay u $200,000
Cronje : will be difficult to make India win.
Bookie : I will pay u $250,000
Cronje : May be I could help you by reducing the margin… u tell by what margin we should win… will be much more easier
Bookie : no India should win
Cronje : OK. I will try my best
Bookie : no make it.
Cronje : OK.
Bookie : what will be the score
Cronje : 300, if we bat first
Bookie : no make it 220
Cronje : Impossible. Agarkar and Joshi are playing.
Bookie : 220 no change.
Cronje : I will try
Bookie : OK. If India bat first
Cronje : 180
Bookie : no make it 275
Cronje : no u are asking too much. Dravid is playing.
Bookie : OK make it $300,000
Cronje : This would be the toughest match in my life
Bookie : OK, deal is made.
Cronje : yes
Bookie : bye.

Match starts India bats first. India score only 220 in 50 overs. During the lunch break Hansie’s cell rings.
Cronje : hello
Bookie : its me. why did India score only 220. Our deal was 275.
Cronje : What can I do ? They run one when they could run three, defend full toss, get out on wide balls, all catches and shots… I mean, if there is any… exactly directed to the fielders. But I will tell you this, Indians are too good at this, I tried re-arranging the field…but they never miss a fielder.
Bookie : still u could bowl more no-balls. We got only 63 extras.
Cronje : I asked all my bowlers to bowl badly. I also made Kirsten and Gibbs bowl.
Bookie : Okay… leave that… I want u to loose the match.
Cronje : I will try.
Bookie : South Africa should be all out for 180
Cronje : OK.
Bookie : bye.

S. Africa bats. They are making a serious attempt to not hit the ball and if at all they hit trying their best to hit to the fielders. They try to run only singles for doubles. But sometimes, they can’t stop themselves from running. All South African batsmen charged down to Joshi’s bowling and they purposely miss the ball hoping at least one would hit the stumps. But they got to run a bye for that as Dighe is still searching for the ball. Inspite of the bad display of batting, they score 218 of 49 overs. Last over, 3 runs required, the worst part is that its an Agarkar over.
Hansie is batting with Strydom. Bookie gets really furious. Hansie is ready to face the last over his cell rings (he plays with his cell).
Cronje : hello
Bookie : its me! . What are you upto ?
Cronje : We tried the best we could
Bookie : OK forget it. I want u to loose the match
Cronje : what can I do. Fate !!! Agarkar is bowling
Bookie : I don’t know… u are loosing
Agarkar bowls… Hansie tries to hide his bat behind his back. But the ball hits the bat and goes to third man. So they take a single.
(cell rings)
Cronje : sorry what can I do I was hiding my bat but still the ball comes and hit my bat. If I play much worse than this everybody will find out.
Bookie : (gets really tensed). OK I can understand. But please don’t take last two runs.
Hansie talks to strydom. Agarkar bowls… a juicy full toss. Strydom uses all his batting skills to restrict that one to a single. Scores are level.
(cell rings)
Bookie : OK. Past is past. Atleast finish it in a tie. I don’t know what u are going to do u are not taking a single or u give u’r bat to the umpire.
Cronje : OK. OK. Don’t worry this time I will! see to it we are not taking the single. Let it be obvious also. I am not taking the single.
Agarkar bowls, unfortunately he bowls a no ball. South Africa wins the match.
Bookie goes mad and Hansie faints in the field itself.
Moral – With a team like ours, who needs to fix a match

Word and the Meaning – by rearranging the letters

DORMITORY — — DIRTY ROOM

THE EYES — THEY SEE

PRESBYTERIAN — BEST IN PRAYER

GEORGE BUSH — HE BUGS GORE

ASTRONOMER — MOON STARER

THE MORSE CODE — HERE COME DOTS

DESPERATION — A ROPE ENDS IT

SLOT MACHINES –CASH LOST IN ME

· Light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off as a part of cost cutting!
· There are some things that money can’t buy. For everything else, my salary isn’t sufficient!!
· I always try to go the extra mile at work, but my boss always finds me and brings me back.
· They can’t fire me, slaves have to be sold.
· Home is where the television is.
· Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
· Death is hereditary.
· Many things can be preserved in alcohol. Dignity is not one of them.
· Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
· When you’re right, no one remembers. When you’re wrong, no one forgets.
· Experience is what a comb gives you after you lose your hair.
· Well done is better than well said.
· Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make them when nobody is looking.
· Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.
· You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
· I like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
· If you can’t see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
· Pessimist: A person that looks both ways when crossing a one way street.
· The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an approaching train.
· Where there’s a will there are five hundred relatives.
· I have a drinking problem – I can’t afford it.
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· There are three sides to every argument: your side, my side and the right side.
· An expert is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.