Subject: Fw: HOW TO RECOGNIZE A GUYANESE YOU KNOW YOURE A GUYANESE, IF... * You know what a TAW is. * You know what COMMONESS is. * You know what COCOBEY is. * You know what it means to be a LAMITER or to be PAGALEE. * You always first try to POPE the event before paying the admission. You know bout Abna babna lady snee......Ocean potion sugarand tea... If you know that Number 63 is a beach. You know that pokey and lowlee are polar opposites as it were. You can understand how the words yuh big scunt can be either an affectionate greeting, or a gross insult. During a conversation someone mentions the word backoo and you know what it means. Further you know that they are kept in brown bottle and live on bananas and milk. You find it impossible to explain to colleagues exactly what a labba is...but you know that you can curry it. You always stir your rum on the rocks with your finger. You know how much is Jonah Crown, and only big eye people tek dat much. You know when is Dig Dutty Day. You know Coolie water rice, poke-n-spice, wash u-b-t with dhal-n-rice. Black man sala, pound massala, thief e mumma choka n run a koka. You know bout Half A Head Man, Dutch Man Pan Eh Horse, Fire Rass, Ole Higue, And Jingle Lady Ya is a girl ya play dolly house baking mud pies in coconut shells and ya dolly is de pointa broom. You know that molee biscuit and vhum-vhum cheese dont refer to a delicacy. You know exactly what caanta means. Either you know how to mek it or you know somebody who does mek a good kankee. At some time in yuh life yuh played weigh saltfish, weigh poke. Yuh know that no big ting was a radio program. YOU KNOW YOURE A GUYANESE, IF... * You can relate to Buck Bead, Razor Grass, Congo Pump and Black Sage. * You use to say as a kid: Do you want mango?, and someone will answer: yeah, and you will say: Dance tango. * Also, you might ask Do you want jammoon?; someone will answer: Yeah, and you will say: touch the moon. When you pickney get bad eye you ga fo tek em to de pandit or magee fo jaarah am. You know that Married man poke is not flesh from pigs. You know what a ole higue sucks. (If you know what a ole higue sucks, but don know what to do wit de pointa broom and de rice - you are a Guyanese born in North America. Come back home and learn some thing nah.) You know NOT to cut you eye on de neighba. You are a pretty Guyanese girl if you was able to cut you eye and suck you teeth on de boys and get away with it. Ya lying Uncle Lionel (dat like he rum) seh he see a Moongazer and ya Grandmuda, who ya Mudda said shudda a know better, back he up. You know that Putagee does get big foot. You know what flim show is. You was a rangatan if you go to flim show in the pits and had to search for bedbugs with a lighted match stick at the same time baring the kanks on you head. Yuh know what happens when a man off side. Yuh know what happens when a man got a goad-dee. Yuh know what is a frenchie. You know what is sugar cake.... rice cake... chi-nee cake....black cake... Patta cake Yuh know what is a ganga egg. I guess we is Guyanese
Posted on: Sat, 10 May 2014 12:41:06 +0000