Saturday, 30 July 2011

The very best Tanzanian quotes so far (Joe)

Fr Innocent: “Oh sorry, I did not see it” – after driving the car into a large hole in the floor and nearly killing Gaz.
Fr Innocent: “Do not worry, it is Africa!”
Gaz: “No mate, yer in a grave!”

Brother Kevin: “Planking’s old news. You wanna go owling.”
“erm...?”
“Aye, it’s when you go behind something and you do this” – (does an owl impression)

Children in primary school on seeing Dan: “Harry Potter! Potter! Potter! Potter!”

Child in primary school while talking about music that’s popular in Tanzania “do you know Rihanna? Can you get me her number?”

Nurse to Sara: “do you know what a cervix is?”

Dave: “you should juggle in class, Dan.”
Dan: “I would but I don’t have the balls”

Children in primary school, waiting for Dan – “when is Harry Potter coming?”

Joe, while Dave is stuck, naked, behind two locked doors:
“Dave, you there?”
 “Yeah, Joe?!”
 “Yeah, Dave can you get my belt”
“I’m stuck in my room, can you help me out?”
“What? I can’t tell what you’re sayin’, Dave”
“Joe, I’m stuck in my room!”
“Right Dave, don’t worry about it, I’m just gonna go cause I can’t tell what you’re on about. Laters” – and Dave was stuck in his room for another ten minutes. And it wasn’t the only time it happened.

Lou: “Do you have any pets?”
Kids:“Yeah, course, I’ve got an elephant, some lions and a tiger!”

Deputy head of primary school to Rob: “English people fat, Tanzanian people slim. Me, thin. You, fat.”

Kevin: “In England, we have metaphors like ‘raining cats and dogs’- do you have any of these in Tanzania?”
Secondary school child, after a lot of thinking by the class: “Yes, we have ‘mama na jiko’”
Kevin: “What does that mean literally?”
Child: “Wife”
Kevin: “And what do you take that to mean?”
Child: “Kitchen”
- classic sexist quote.

Passing grinning woman, swinging a live chicken in one hand and waving her phone in the other to Jonny: “Eh, number?”

Dave (while taking questions on preventing the spread of diseases ): “No, class, excessive masturbation does NOT cause AIDS.”
--         - Joe

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