Mental Gym for
Seniors: Sentences with progressive word length
SSS-GLOBAL is a
web based discussion group for senior citizens on Yahoo. It has 700+ members
out of whom some 150 are active on daily basis. About sixty messages are
exchanged daily. One member, Prof V Seshadri, sends out every day one puzzle or
quiz question to solve. The query or question could be word / language based
puzzles, arithmetic problems, logic based puzzles etc. Match the following,
pick the odd man out, fill in the blanks etc are routine. Answers are sent to
him and discussed next day in the group. This mental gym exercise is
appreciated by many and on a daily basis at least ten seniors take part in
answering the puzzles.
Recently he posed
a task: “Construct sentences containing of increasing word length successively”.
First word must
be of one letter; second one having two letters; third word having three
letters and so on. How far can you go, he asked us. I guess that this was
inspired by the famous quote about physicians scribbling of prescriptions:
I
do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting
nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing
indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications
incomprehensibleness.
Several members participated, each excelling the other in coming up
with brilliant answers. Some of them are reproduced here.
1.
I do say
that other rumour mongers' attempts backfired (RK chitrapu)
2.
I am sad that their Maruti crashed.
(Jayanti Menon)
3.
I do not lend money. (RV Rao)
4.
I am the best known writer
warrior. (Doraiah Babu)
5.
I do not want blank cheque anymore
(RV rao)
6. I do not like bland pickle (P Vyasamoorthy)
7. I do cry over nasty jokers (P Vyasamoorthy)
8. 'I am the best green garden traffic managing directory'.
(V Seshadri)
9. 'I do not want other skills because teaching institute
vandalised'. (VS)
10. I am now well known Kerala Ayurved Hospital in-patient. (SV Ramana)
11. I am not very upset person amongst cheerful
gathering. (Anureeta Saigal)
12. I am not very happy person amongst negative gathering. (Anureeta Saigal)
13. I am not like saint living without ambition. (Anureeta
Saigal)
14. I am too good child always admires /respects beautiful quotations.
(Anureeta Saigal)
15. I am one rare oldie
having motions properly (P Vyasamoorthy)
I liked item 10 most. It was sent by Sri SV
Ramana from a Nature Cure hospital as he was admitted there for a knee problem.
He wrote that sentence depicting his position. What an extemporization!
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