Pun Fun With Dunn ! —-Vengrai Parthasarathy

Pun Fun With Dunn !

Subject: Pun-fun with Dunn
Vengrai Parthasarathy

Here is an interesting episode, a report on which I had preserved among archives.

An elderly lady of Los Angeles had lost touch with her son who had gone to New Jersey.
“He had not written or called. Will you be kind enough to contact him and ask him to write” She was making this request to Mr.Spence,a family friend who was going to New Jersey.All that the lady could give was her son’s name which was John Dunn

Spence went to New Jersey and seeing the name “Dun and Bradstreet” on a board went in and asked the receptionist

” Is John in your hotel? ”

” Yes, go straight and turn left; you can’t miss”
So he went and saw a man coming out of a place with ‘Men’ board on the door.

Spence asked him ‘Are you Dunn’

“Yes” said the man zipping up his trousers.

“Say, why are you not writing to your mother?

(NOTE for those un-familiar with American slang–‘John’ is for Men’s room))

About Vengrai Parthasarathy

A profile of Vengrai Parthasarathy (from Sahitya Akademi): Mr.V.V. Parthasarathy (Vengrai) the author is 88+ years old.He graduated from the Madras University and stayed on to complete his Law degree in the same Uiversity. Again in that University, he did a two-year course in International Law and Constitutional Law under late Professor C.H.Alexandrowicz. He had also done a course in Mass Communitations . Mr. Parthasarathy has had his professional career in the Public Relations, all of them in Public sectors like Indian Airlines, State Trading Corporation,Bharat Electronics and lastly in the Bharat Heavy Electricals, Hyderabad from which he retired. Over the years Mr. Parthasarathy has published several rticles in a variety pf Dailies and Periodicals, including The Hindu, The Statesman,The Hindustan Times, the Indian Express and The Indian Year Book Of International Affairs.Over a hundred of them have been embedded in the Vengrai.com Mr. Parthasarathy has published two books One titled THIRUPPAVAI published by the Ramakrishna Mission and a book titled SELECT HYMNS FROM THE DIVYA PRAPANTHAM published by the renowned Sahitya Akademi. He is now a retired Author who has settled down in USA with his two children, son VijayParthasarathy married to Hema, ( a Dentist) and daughter Rohini married to Partha Mandayam, a Computer Scientist, —besides grandchildren.

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