RAMAYANA............

A young second generation Indian in the US was asked by his mother to

explain the significance of "Diwali" to his younger brother, this is

how he went about it...

" So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and people liked him.

But, like, his step-mom, or something, was kind of a bitch, and she

forced her husband to, like, send this cool-dude, he was Ram, to some

national forest or something... Since he was going, for like,

something like more than 10 years or so.. he decided to get his wife

and his bro along... you know...so that they could all chill out

together.

But Dude, the forest was reeeeal scary shit... really man...they had

monkeys and devils and shit like that. But this dude, Ram, kicked with

darts and bows and arrows... so it was fine.

But then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up his babe

(Sita) and lures her away to his hood. And boy, was our man, and also

his bro, Laxman, pissed..... all the gods were with him... So anyways,

you don't mess with gods. So, Ram, and his bro get an army of

monkeys.. Dude, don't ask me how they trained the damn monkeys... just

go along with me, ok...

.

so, Ram, Lax and their monkeys whip this gangsta's ass in his own hood.

Anyways, by this time, their time's up in the forest..and anyways...it

gets kinda boring,you know... no TV or malls or shit like that.

So,they decided to hitch a ride back home... and when the people

realize that our dude, his bro and the wife are back home... they

thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something nice... and

they didn't have any bars or clubs in those days... so they couldn't

take them out for a drink, so they, like, decided to smoke and

shit...and since they also had some lamps, they lit the lamps also...

so it was pretty cooool...

you know with all those fireworks... Really, they even had some local

band play along with the fireworks... and you know, what, dude, that

was the very first, no kidding.., that was the very first

music-synchronized fireworks... you know, like the 4th of July stuff,

but just, more cooler and stuff, you know. And, so dude, that was how,

like, this festival started."