"cold bowl" means a hot bowl of rice  serve in a small restaurant or food that was save over night for the next morning.

 

"Office boy" means an adult male office attendant

"car boy" means an adult car attendant

"Using your head" means thinking"

"Drinking water through your nose" means stupid.

"DI" means different intention

"Gorbachev" means corruption

"chopping" sharing the loot or draft

"pot belly" is associated with wealth and good living!!!!!

You Know You Are L I B E R I A N If?

You refer to certain grocery items by the brand name: i.e.

- cornbeef = Exter

- laundry detergent = Omo or Tide Soap

- milk = Nido or Klim

- magarine = Blue Band

- corn flakes = any brand of cold cereal (Frosted Flakes, Cocoa Puffs, etc?)

- oatmeal = Quaker Oats

- scrubbing powder = Vim or Dutch Cleanser

- headache medicine = Phensic

- insect repellent = Flit

- carbonated soft drink = Fanta

- meal = Rice

- refrigerator = Ice Box

- vegetable oil = Argo Oil

- bouillon cubes = Chicken Soup

- soup = any dish that goes with rice

- meat odds and ends = Nyma-Nyma

THEN YOU MUST BE LIBERIAN

You will also know You are L I B E R I A N If...

 You dip your bread in tea, Horlicks, Ovaltine, or Bournvita

 You go to a party and you are bound to find one of your relatives

 You order rice at a fancy restaurant

 You learned how to say "goodbye" in several different languages
from the afternoon radio show

 In elementary school you had at least one classmate who was 18
years old

 You or someone you know was flogged by parents in front of
the whole school

 You or one of your school mates sold one of the following:
milk candy, eight donut or kala

 PE consisted of everyone standing in a circle singing "Ring-
Around-A-Rosy" or doing jumping jacks

 The PE teacher is the fattest teacher in the whole school

 The Boy Scouts have 'grown men' as cub scouts

 You begin a story by saying, "Once upon a time." and won't
continue the story unless someone says, "Time!" 

There are several teachers in your school that taught your
parents

 Detention in high school was cutting the grass in school yard

 The fattest girl in school is always the best at "nahfoot"

 You know how to open a can with a knife

 You know how to open a bottle with your teeth

 After doing laundry, you iron everything, including underwear

 When the Tang is almost finished you put water in the container
and mix it

 You used to eat sardines for dinner

 You never go a function early, but always leave late

 "going DOWN" means going to Monrovia

 Your "lil? thin" is your girlfriend

 The chicks (girls) dig (like) you because you got "speed"

 You have succeeded, when someone says "na you cooking wif
geas" 

"using your hay" means "thinking"

 Cold water means bribery or money for the pocket

 godpa means child molester ***** LOL!!! Older men who see pride in having under aged girlfriends

 Sunday goes to meeting means your favorite outfit

 grona means grown up or go around

 holay-holay means busses

 counting light poles means walking

 you know what "eating goathead" refers to

 the event of the day was to see a crazy man or woman walking
naked in the street 

your morning wake-up call is "rogue! rogue!"

 the rogue is flogged by the entire neighborhood

 parents proudly parade their children in the street and allow
strangers to chant "pee-pee pot, jaan colico."

 you know at least one person who has been peppered

 you consider caustic soda to be a beauty product

 you know someone who has colored her hair with kool-aid

 you know at least one Bendu Sudan, kaka Kolo, spider
or Mammie Wata story

 santa clause dances for money instead of giving out gifts

 juke finger in your eyes means cheating

 "do your work" means physical harm

 give you five fingers means stealing

 watta police means prostitute

 "Club beer open your mouth wide!" and "Quilly-Quilly make
eyeball red!"

 bluffer jo means showing off

 at lunch time you can go to the movies

 the taxi driver says he still got one more seat and you already
six

 you sympathize with someone by telling them to "Never Mind" &
"Nama yah!"

 a fat person tells you, "you dry, you need to put on some weight"

 "dress small" means to move over

 "war-ker-bor" means walk about/going out

 "My friend or good friend" means someone you don?t know

 "Ha-do" means hello 

Putting a rock under your tongue and throw another one over

your head behind you and don?t look back, to prevent your parents from beating you when you?ve stayed out too late. 

Gwen is not a name, but means going somewhere

 and Gwen-Come means you?ll be back later

 you grew up playing "Free Ki-Ki" & "Boofeh Ground Hold It"

 you ask a favor by saying, "If I plant you, you will grow?"

palama chieft means Paramount chief

your parents woke you up with cold water because you did not wash the dishes the night before.

ratan means your switch, not the wicker chair

outside games are not completed until you played i declare war or touch

when you 'blance' someone with the ball

if you went to camp lawanna

you knew the commercial- you having party and the people on the pole cutting the light? cutting the light?

every rice is called pusawah

ground pea means peanuts




THEN YOU MUST BE LIBERIAN

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