See what am saying.. he guy was just chit chatting and put something down... imagine if he sits still, seriously focus and do what he does best writing from the heart...Cousin Haruna I need your counseling as well (blood is thicker than water) so harness this Gainako Resource... Oh well, school will be over soon so hopefully I will get him back! Or else I shall protest publicly Yero! So Janney Ebbeh Kelo fatala, sonko fatafolo... Demba On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Haruna, > > Suntou and Demba are pulling my legs. I rely on you when they do. > > Humor aside, thanks all for the encouragement. I wasn't really intending > to write anything big. I was just doing the normal chit-chat and it turned > into a bit bigger piece. I have no immediate plans for book publication. > You never know. Perhaps with your continued encouragement, maybe some day, > inshallah. Well noted. > > Much Love and I am currently reviewing LJD's submission on Gunjur. I will > join the discussion after my reading. > > Thanks all again... > > Yero > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:06:09 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: [G_L] Ramadan's Humor: Yeteh-hono? > To: [log in to unmask] > > Yero, I join Suntou in encouraging you to put all these jokes and > Sanawyaa to paper and publish in print and audio. Very easy. NOT time > consuming. If you feel overwhelmed, you can collaborate with Niamorkono or > other who is equally proficient in such anthologies. > > Haruna. > > -----Original Message----- > From: suntou touray <[log in to unmask]> > To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Mon, Jul 22, 2013 9:33 am > Subject: Re: Ramadan's Humor: Yeteh-hono? > > Yero > An interesting piece as usual. I think you should do a collection of this > humours for the youngsters. We may be neglecting passing our inter-family > humour to those of our children born abroad. I will seriously encourage you > to do so. I know time is a problem, but you can do it. Thanks, > Suntou > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Y Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Ramadan’s Humor: Yeteh-hono? > By Yero Jallow > Yeteh-hono was fasting. The African sun was too hot and you could see > blazing rays drying the leaves. He decided to buy time (make his Ramadan > fast go faster) by going to sleep. Nanoseconds turned into seconds, seconds > into minutes, and minutes into hours. The mighty yeteh-hono is awake. He > rushed to his backyard to observe how far the sun has traveled. It was > right over head smiling at him. He reluctantly retreated to the room again > and crept under that cold blanket. He was consumed in time consciousness > entirely. He was up again sooner than you will imagine gazing the distant > sun. To his surprise, the sun was overhead still. He again agreed and went > back to the room. He came out couple of times after that to look at the > sun's position. The truth is not much as he didn't allow enough time to > elapse. Mighty yeteh-hono has gone nuts this time around. He came out with > his traditional gun locally called "Kartuse" on his fifth outing and aimed > to shoot the sun. In a crazy tone, he said "I am not saying that you will > get my fast over with, but I want you to leave my backyard as you are right > overhead in position,” and he repeated this loud and even louder. > In another occasion, yeteh-hono was late to get up for his mourning meal > (shuhur) as by the time he woke up, the sun was already out. Well, he was > out of luck. His mind jumped around for a bit and he came up with an idea > that darkness could be created in the room by getting the curtains (blinds) > down. He would do just that to create darkness to enable him eat his > “shuhur” meal and then he started fasting from there. > I now want to ask you readers: Yeteh-hono? You probably already know the > answer and I am just saying it is….(Fill in the dotted line). > *Yeteh-hono is a Fulani word meaning, “whose surname”. 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