A Textbook Sri Lankan
A government textbook featuring me dressed as Mahinda
Kids have been telling me they saw me in a textbook. I didn’t believe this till a friend sent me a photograph. So my photo is in some government textbook as an illustration of South Asian races. Only thing is that in the particular photo I happen to be dressed as Mahinda Rajapakse. And it’s not actually national dress, it’s a Hameedia’s kurta and a woman’s scarf. It’s funny cause this particular outfit got me banned from the Colombo Rowing Club for life, and the photo is from that night. What are the schools coming to nowadays.
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LOL .. indi
WTF?
neat . I always thought those text books were boring.
I think they liked your new spin on the national dress.
make it more fun and colorful as opposed to the white ,boring thing.
That is sooo cool.
How come only you end up in these hooks? Thanks for the laugh anyway!
In 20 year..you have a great story for u r grand childeren…..thats me in your text book..they’ll be amazed
Haha.. sounds about right. They’ll probably be using the same text books. I.e. the same content
LOL, the IRONY!
Well, there are so many, in fact!
But it’s cool to make it to a text book anyway.
hahaha :D
Awesome
AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! This just made my day!
how much?
I lol’d in RL
So this is how the history is made
Fantastic !
Mongoloid Indi I think you have made your first step to beeing president one day now that all the kids in country already know you to be looking like a mini-president.
Jesus, man. I am stoned and that was comic gold.
way to stick it to the man!
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[...] images on the net are considered fair game. I, for example, am in O/Level history textbooks dressed up as Mahinda Rajapaksa. Presumably they searched for Sri Lankan national dress and that is what they got. I actually think [...]