Comments on: Just a Few Seats Left for the Prajalpa Retreat in Youngstown, Ohio

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:59:57 +0000

Taco Bell chapatis are made with Grade A lard

By: lgh

lgh — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:07:26 +0000

There’s something about those Taco Bell chapatis that just don’t seem right.

By: NiceLikeAnything dasa

NiceLikeAnything dasa — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:54:26 +0000

“RELEARN how to properly speak English without an affected Bengali accent and head-wobble.”
This is so much very offensive and not funny. This is so very much being not a good thing, to make some writing like this.
I am not knowing why you are making some statement that devotees are doing talking like this. I know I am not so much doing this and I have been in Sanga of Vaishnava’s more than twenty years past.
Sometimes, yes, admittedly, head may wobble, little bit, during talks…
But speaking is most normal…
I easily can say speaking style is not making any change after two decades time serving devotee of Lord Sri Krsna.

By: asta sakhi

asta sakhi — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:10:51 +0000

I think you will need a followup session to “RELEARN how to properly speak English without an affected Bengali accent and head-wobble.” It’s a hard one to shake simply because everyone else is doing it (at the temple), and it so clearly indicates spiritual advancement.

By: Mandakini

Mandakini — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:46:08 +0000

Hilarious!!! Sadly, my life seems like a prajalpa retreat more often than not. Ah well, at least it’s free ;0)

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:28:32 +0000

RELEARN how to properly speak English without an affected Bengali accent and head-wobble. Now this one is really important. If you spent a lot of years in ISKCON, you might find when you talk, you speak a funny style of English. It really cost me. I was interviewing for a job with a major corporation about 20 years back, but speaking in broken ISKCONese English cost me the job. That was the last thing the interviewer told me is I talked funny.

By: chatsky

chatsky — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:12:19 +0000

Okay! Now your back on track with real funny stuff! Bravo!!

By: budbuba-budhi dasa

budbuba-budhi dasa — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:35:02 +0000

Aw, man! I had some more suggestions I came up with just today, I was gonna send them to you when I saw you already posted the article. Oh well, maybe I’ll come up with something else. Funny article though…

By: Dwija

Dwija — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:23:10 +0000

Very funny Eric. Maybe we could also make lots of money by staging similar retreats. Or has Iskcon totally cornered the market on that one?
Something that surprised me was the topic of “How to Quote Srila Prabhupada to Fit Your Needs.” I felt sure that most Iskconites would already be expert at this due to their many years of practice. Or am I still living under the illusion that anyone actually bothers to quote Srila Prabhupada anymore?

By: bull

bull — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:36:50 +0000

night court!!!!