You Know You are an Old-timer Belizean if:
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06/12/02 01:09 PM
06/12/02 01:09 PM
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You Know You are an Old-timer Belizean if:
You Know Paslow Building You have to cross swing bridge before it swings at 5:30 You buy a pack of bread every day Your get your free calendar from the grocery store You know Georgie August meat market You used to get your bun from Sonny and Tan You eat either kraft cheese and bread, fry cake and beans or Johnny cake and fry fish for tea You chew up your chicken bone Your neighborhood grocery store used to give you credit and mark it on paper or in a book You feed your dog with table scraps You eat fish on good friday You know Catto rules the canal You go to the cayes on Holy Thursday You listen to cross country bicycle race on Holy Saturday You know it will rain when the Harriers (roaches) start flying around You burned fish (mosquito coils) for flies You argue which meat pie is better Gunns or Darios You know Gunns sells the best tamales and panades You get new clothes for easter sunday You Get Box from States and keep enhaling the box to smell "states smell" You eat apple and grapes around Christmas time You go to Brodies to see the electronic Santa waving in the show window You pull out your old sweater when Joe North(Christmas drizzle) arrives You only get toys for Christmas There are always three glass salad bowls among your wedding presents Your birthday presents included a wash cloth and a cake of soap You know where Shubbu got shot (butt) You know Mass Man (bucket covered his face) You Know they say that George Price and Seffe da batty man You know Rudy Cabral and Shirley were Belize first queens(transvestite) You know Bialzibug and Chicky Chick You know Tablada You try to ride Ramsey Mule & Cart You buy Craboo at Bridge Foot You know Simon Quan only wear bilgy T-shirts and rides a bike You know Augusto Quan's kids were security guards, on the ladder in the store Every oriental person is a chiney You listened to Doctor Paul or chechie You got a birthday request on Radio Belize You listened to Saturday night top 10 on Radio Belize or childrens corner before school You wait up to hear boledo play at 9'o'clock at night and lottery on Sunday You walk home for lunch, if you did not get a piece of pig tail in your beans you felt cheated You Goal in Life is to go to SAM You good shoe is your Sunday pair You went to the faucet to get bath water You bathe with a dipper, brush your teeth at the back step and wash your face in a basin You peed in a white bucket You know the scent of a canal anywhere You wade through high tide when it rains hard You have used Lifebuoy or Lux soap before You use cuticura powder to dust your chest after a bath Your first tooth paste was colgate Sometimes you cleaned your butt with hard paper Your Grandmother had a Glass Scrubbing Board and wooden clothes pin Your Grandmother shopping cart is a big hand bag The "bouy" was the star of the show You washed your clothes in a bath pan and used Soap Powder You used Yodora or mum (deodorant) You fresen up with Limacol, Bay rum or dettol You varnish your furniture, get new linoleum and curtains for Christmas You use Batty Bus to get to Chetumal or Merida You dance behind Lord Raburn band in the parade You only eat turkey for Christmas or New Year Every sunday you eat Rice & Beans, chicken & salad You eat Megan smokey Rice & Beans after dance You eat McClarens hops & Pies at break time You know Malick eye drop in the ice cream You know cashew wine or seed come from Boom or Crooked tree You know scissors Wednesday is sewing factory pay day You drink chevans lemonade before coke came to town You just had to have an ideal, greasy greasy, honey bun or a wangla You went to big hospital once in your life You had a romantic walk at the Fort (Baron Bliss grave) You bathe at barracks or hanger You went to birds isle at least once You know the weed smoking bad boys hang out a Yabrough bridge or Majestic Alley You know Jane Usher is queen of credit union You purge with castor oil, worm oil or serossie before school opens Your school supply were two exercise book and a pen You had to dodge your friends to empty the bucket in canal
If you read all this and agree with at least five you are either a Kruffy, Kerub, Panya, Koolie, Wiika, Engin or half Limey, no buts or maybe.
You are a true Born Belizean, All a-wi da wan -----Sub Ombre Floreo
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Re: You Know You are an Old-timer Belizean if:
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06/12/02 11:02 PM
06/12/02 11:02 PM
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Posts: 7,057 South Texas
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Hope...........my grammies too......most sounded familiar for any southern small town in USA, back when.
Dare To Deviate
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Re: You Know You are an Old-timer Belizean if:
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06/13/02 11:33 PM
06/13/02 11:33 PM
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Re: You Know You are an Old-timer Belizean if:
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06/17/02 07:39 PM
06/17/02 07:39 PM
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I think I saw this same list for, Your a real Hillbilly, if... PS. I don't think the Paslow Building was referred too, although they asked if you every heard the story of a man named Jed.
Gone fishing!!
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