2006-06-07 18:23:13 · 32 answers · asked by junior 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
It's enough to make a person go positively postal, isn't it?
2006-06-07 18:27:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
It is an accounting terminology glitch that has now taken over everyone who uses it. In accounting whatever is mailed would be called shipped and the actually shipped(by ship or aeroplane) material is called cargo.
However, one more difference is the type of shipment, if it is within the country it is called shipped and if it is outside of the country it is called cargo. Hope this helps.
2006-06-21 10:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by Ranjeet 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HOTEL KERALA-FONIA
On the road to Trivandrum
Coconut oil in my hair
Warm smell of avial
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a bright pink tube-light
My tummy rumbled, I felt weak and thin
I had to stop for a bite
There he stood in the doorway
Flicked his mundu in style
And I was thinking to myself
I don't like the look of his sinister smile
Then he lit up a petromax
Muttering "No power today"
More Mallus down the corridor
I thought I heard them say
Welcome to the Hotel Kerala-fonia
Such a lousy place,
Such a lousy place (background)
Such a sad disgrace,
Plenty of bugs at the Hotel Kerala-fonia
Any time of year
Any time of year (background)
It's infested here
It's infested here
His finger's stuck up his nostril
He's got a big, thick mustache
He makes an ugly, ugly noise
But that's just his laugh
Buxom girls clad in pavada
Eating banana chips
Some roll their eyes, and
Some roll their hips
I said to the manager
My room's full of mice
He said,
Don't worry, saar, I sending you
meen karri, brandy and ice
And still those voices were crying from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them pray
Save us from the Hotel Kerala-fonia
Such a lousy place,
Such a lousy place (background)
Such a sad disgrace
Trying to live at the Hotel Kerala-fonia
It is no surprise
It is no surprise (background)
That it swarms with flies
The blind man was pouring
Stale sambar on rice
And he said
We are all just actors here
In Silk Smitha-disguise
And in the dining chamber
We gathered for the feast
We stab it with our steely knives
But we just can't cut that beef
Last thing I remember
I was writhing on the floor
That cockroach in my appam-stew was the culprit,
I am sure
Relax, said the watchman
This enema will make you well
And his friends laughed as they held me down
God's Own Country? Oh, Hell!
(c) The Yeagles
The lyrics of Hotel California from which the above song was inspired as a parody is below...
2006-06-20 21:52:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's called a conundrum...you know, why do you park in a driveway and drive in a parkway....or why do the call the apartments and put them so close together... Just another way to show how screwed up the English language is...
2006-06-21 13:25:58 · answer #4 · answered by Outman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cargo ussually means heavy stuff and shipment is just a general word for everything being transported by ship.
2006-06-21 14:50:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that you drive on a parkway and park in a driveway.
2006-06-21 11:17:24 · answer #6 · answered by Edward K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because when they send it by mail they ship it out
when they send it by ship its a load of cargo
2006-06-21 08:31:54 · answer #7 · answered by red 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason you drive in the parkway & park in the driveway.
hmmmmm
2006-06-07 19:01:22 · answer #8 · answered by Ruthie1959 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you didn't say it right.
"Why is it, when you send by car, it's a shipment;
But when you send by ship it's a cargo?"
Get your act better
2006-06-15 01:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by Par'o 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOW I can understand why none of us will ever be called on to run any aspect of our respective countries.
2006-06-21 10:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by Thom Thumb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋