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Arjun's before Levis

So continuing to ruminate on the theme of how life was 3k years before the carpenter made an appearance is endlessly fascinating.

Once kings started realizing the delays caused on the tarmac before war were due to ketchup spills on fine silk which itself posed other strategic challenges during action, someone came up with Arjuns.  This was the name given to a piece of durable and long wear cloth that did not need washing since everything looked haute couture.

It was later misspelled as Jeans by Levis.  During the days of Mahabharata folks had already discovered Rjuns.  That Arjun later got royalties after the war was over was oversimplifying.  He therefore had the best deal going with Draupadi - with fine wine and dining any time she desired -who found that the other four were not as enterprising as Arjun spending time in '23 hour fitness' et al.  The remaining one hour each on average was spent with Draupadi if you know what I mean.

Kaikeyi was always in hospital growing up since she hit the all time high of delivring a 100 kids that were battle ready... so it is surprising that she was also able to pull off back seat politics with Shakuni as the PM.

I mean Kaikeyi's pregnancies should be part of any defense contractor how-to training material.  Forget Sun Tsu and others who simply wrote some drivel.  This was actual production scale fully deployable army.

The blue denim now so famously popular was thanks to a patent that Krishna had filed knowing what was to come before anyone did.  This is where his skin tone played a crucial role and everyone wanted to look like him.  Krishna let Arjun use the color for his new fabric brand after winning the war.  That was all part of the deal.

It was going to be called Krishan Arjuns and company but accidentally they speared the only CPA at the time and the incorporation never took place.

Shakuni tried to get into the gig being an accountant in former life but was disqualified due to his crimes against humanity.

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  1. there might be patent wars in the offing soon.

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  2. lol..could it be a class use case for the new breed of MBA?

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