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Tuesday, October 18



You Know You're Jamaican When....

1.You can distinguish between "cocoa-tea" "bush-tea" and"green-tea".
2. When someone sympathizes with you, you comment "Yuh tink seh it easy?"
3. You point with your lips.
4. You can't say "three" or "thing" ... you say "tree" and "ting".
5. You say words like Heg (instead of Egg); Hingland (instead of England).
6. You give directions with your hands, even if it is in another state.
7. You go to parties for the food and drink and then cuss afterwards when the food and drink run out.
8. You say bathe instead of shower.
9. You nod your head upwards to greet someone.
10. You always find yourself standing next to plenty of luggage and boxes at the airport.
11. When you travel home, you bring an extra suitcase going down, it has none of your clothes; returning, it has food.
12. You have one big pot you call curry pot when you are not even cooking curry & you have another pot you called dutch pot.
13. You say "boy" at the beginning of a sentence and "man" at the end of it.
14. You say zed.
15. You always hang something on your rearview mirror.
16. You think eating ackee and saltfish, plaintain and fried dumplings is a great morning breakfast.
17. You can't go a week without a rice dish.
18. You can never seem to get along with Haitians.
19. You must put dumplings and yam in all soups.
20. Greens to you is known as callaloo.
21. You say flim instead of film.
22. You get mad when people say speak Jamaican.
23. Your choice of fish is Escovitch.
24. You know what tan pon it lang, tallowah, and Mr. Mention mean.
25. You can tell a jacket when you see one.

4 Comments:

Blogger courtney said...

Love your blog! :)

October 18, 2005 at 5:40 PM  
Blogger masterbetong said...

ei! thanks for droppin' by my blog

October 21, 2005 at 10:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great blog. Love the icons.

November 5, 2005 at 9:07 PM  
Blogger Alice B. said...

hey jap,

funny list, but according to it you and I should not be getting along. (I'm Haitian.) LOL.

November 6, 2005 at 9:38 PM  

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