Planet Gilbert: Gopal, the buffalo whisperer

C-isms

Mom (in the AM, before breakfast): "Sweater? It is cold?" C: "No. I want a blanket." C wraps around herself, shuffles around and says: "You have done well young Padawan, you have done well." 9/8/12

C: "A great teacher would remove the word 'impossible' from the classroom dictionaries." [Why?] "Because nothing is impossible if you set your mind to it."

Mom, lost in a park near their house, "I can't find a trail." C: "Lets blaze one!"

C: "Steph-anne Hawkins is not as smart as Einstein because Albert Einstein could do quantum physics and quantum mechanics in his head, while Steph-anne Hawkins, with all due respect, can only do physics. No offense to Steph-anne Hawkins, partially because he is the smartest man alive." Mom (in all seriousness, and remember that she is a regular reader of Scientific American): "What is quantum mechanics?" C: "It is how particles move." 9/26/11

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Gopal, the buffalo whisperer

Posted by Leigh Anne Miller

One of our staff drivers is Gopal. He is a former boxer with a warm heart. While he and Leigh Anne were toodling around Mastan Nagar the other day they saw a forlorn buffalo (there are LOTS of buffalo, but this one looked particularly unhappy):

Upon closer inspection, Gopal and Leigh Anne saw that he had something stuck in his hoof! Ouch! Observe:

So Gopal "did the needful"...he parked the car, jumped out, and pulled the shrapnel from the buffalo's hoof. The cow was happy and everyone got back to business:

Thank, Gopal, for being such a nice (and brave) person.