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Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by nnenneigbo(f): 11:42pm On May 10, 2007
ne4real:

igbo kwenu !!!!!!!!

hanekwu na oku re ru father, ginwa na ju kwa mo oreru afo-onu ya !!!!!!!!

translation :- people r saying fire has burnt the father, but you're asking if the fire also burnt his mustach !!!!!!!!
LOL
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 12:01pm On May 11, 2007
@ne4real

You are trying your best, keep it coming grin grin
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 12:19pm On May 11, 2007
Cutie do I take it that you have finaly thrown in the towel?

Ihe nwata amaghi dika otu nne ya
What a child doesn't know is like his mother's kitten

Ofo ka idide ji awa ala
The earthworm burrows the ground by shear integrity

Esu si na ya azoro ukwu n'isi etighi mkpu, oburu onye zoro ya ukwu tiri mkpu
The milipeed says that he that was marched upon didn't shout, but he who marched it shouted

Youngies rules!!!! cheesy cheesy
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by v24m(f): 12:33pm On May 11, 2007
ok let me try
oturu kpo kpo si ihe obula onuru a si mere nne ya o ga eji onu ya gbuda oshi shi nile no na ugbo. Ehi nne ya wuru, otito e to ya na onu----- it means the wood pecker said if anything should happen to its mother it will use its beak to bring down all the trees in the forest the day the mother died it had boil ini ts throat cool


nkita si na ma owughi maka eze ya na oma oso agba a ma ndi madu ejiri ya ye onyiye na ulo uka ka ewu--- dog says if not for my sharp teeth and also cos it can run we humans would have offered it for thanksgiving in church like the goat


owughi madu ga gwa onye nne ya wuru na obe akwa---- Nobody tells a person whose mother is dead to start crying

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Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 12:37pm On May 11, 2007
cheesy cheesy cheesy You are a true son daughter of your father cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by v24m(f): 12:41pm On May 11, 2007
i have another

oke si ihe na ewute ya abughi na egburu ya ma obu mbge onwu chara madu abia kwa bia gba ya elu------the rats said its not killing him thats annoying him but after he has been killed some still kicks him up in the air.

a na si oku gbara fada ga na aju ma ogbara ahu onu ya----- they are saying the revrend father caught fire and you are asking if his beards caught fire to
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 12:46pm On May 11, 2007
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

Keep it rolling dude!

Asi na mgbe onye jiri teta ura bu ututu ya
Whatever time one wakes up is his morning
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by cuteass1(f): 2:34am On May 14, 2007
Erimeri na-atô utô ma osi n'akpa ônye ôzô puta
Dining and squandering is always sweet when it comes out from someone else's pocket

Nkita na anaghi anu ndumôdu na-eso ozu ala
A dog that doesn't listen to advice goes with the corpse
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by cuteass1(f): 2:37am On May 14, 2007
Mmadu adighi afusi ebe a na-agba ôfala, jebe ebe a na-akwa ozu
No one forsakes a happy ceremony for a burial grin

Amaghi ebe a na-anyalu akpa ahu anu
You don't know when or where you'll see a hunt
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 1:50pm On May 17, 2007
@people
@Cute-ass

I am sorry for my long absence, I shall make it up wink
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 2:00pm On May 17, 2007
Igbo na asi na

Odighi ihe anya huru gba mmee
There is nothing that the eyes will see that will make it shed blood

Ihe anya huru ka onu na ekwu
Whatever the eyes seeth the mouth speaketh

Ihe roro utala rachala ofe
Whatever swallows the poundi is also responsible for licking the soup

I greet you my people!! cheesy cheesy
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 1:13pm On May 18, 2007
~~ enters thread, noticed that cute-ass has not been here~~

~~frowns~~
angry angry angry
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 1:19pm On May 18, 2007
Ihe kwuru, ihe akwudebe ya
When something stands, somethins else will stand beside it

Nwa mara nna ya amarara ndi gboo
A child that knows his father has known the ancestors

cool cool
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 2:49pm On May 18, 2007
Sad news sad sad

I just heard that one of the great sons of ndi Igbo highlife musician Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, (OON) is dead at 71.
He passed on last Friday in USA, according to his family in a statement.

May his soul rest in peace.
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by nnenneigbo(f): 10:06pm On May 18, 2007
cute-ass:


[color=#000099]Nkita na anaghi anu ndumôdu na-eso ozu ala

A dog that doesn't listen to advice goes with the corpse

i thought na o bu ijiji(flies)
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by cuteass1(f): 4:32am On May 21, 2007
nnenneigbo:

i thought na o bu ijiji(flies)

lol . . thanks dear wink

youngies:

Sad news sad sad

I just heard that one of the great sons of ndi Igbo highlife musician Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, (OON) is dead at 71.
He passed on last Friday in USA, according to his family in a statement.

May his soul rest in peace.

May his sould really rest in peace, I really like some of his songs cry cry cry Guess we have that to keep his memory going cheesy

youngies:

~~ enters thread, noticed that cute-ass has not been here~~

~~frowns~~
angry angry angry

Please eehn, don't be mad. I won't dissappear again grin
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by cuteass1(f): 4:38am On May 21, 2007
Ebe otu ônye na-ejebe putA, ka ônye ôzô na-ejebe tô
Where one goes and comes out, someone else goes and gets stuck grin


kA CHI FO NU - GOOD NIGHT ALL!!

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Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 1:20pm On May 22, 2007
cute-ass:

[color=#000099]

kA CHI FO NU - GOOD NIGHT ALL!!

Have a good night rest, lol
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by viee(f): 1:28pm On May 22, 2007
onye weliri ihe nwata enu, aka fuo ya ufu, owetue ya

(he takes something from a child and holds it up, when his hand starts paying him he will bring it down)
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by viee(f): 1:30pm On May 22, 2007
ukwu na ama ogoda adighi mma igba oto

(the waist that is always covered with cloth should not be left exposed|)
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 1:31pm On May 22, 2007
Chinchi si umu ya we ndidi na ihe di oku ga emesia jua oyi
The bed bug told its children to be patient that whaever is hot must eventually cool down  grin  grin

Isi kota ebu ogba ya
The wasp must sting the head  that stirs it
cool
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by viee(f): 1:41pm On May 22, 2007
ikuku kuo afu ike okuko

(when the wind blows u see fowl yansh cool grin)

okoro etoghi eto wara ogodo, ikuku kuo, o buru ya na ogogdo

(a young man that starts tying a wrapper when he is not of age, when the wind blows, it will carry both him and the wrapper)


afu okorobia afu ogologo ihe
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 1:54pm On May 22, 2007
Ojemba enwe iro
A traveller has no enemy

Onye ajo ife, mmiri na afa ya na eze
A wicked man always finds water stick to his teeth grin
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 1:56pm On May 22, 2007
viee nwayi oma

Some of the proverbs your posting has already been posted wink
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 12:28pm On May 23, 2007
Nkita tara okpukpu ayawara ya n'olu, osiri ka anyi juo onye?
The dog that ate the bone that was hung on his neck, who does it want to ask?

Nkita n'ile na eri nsi, mana obu nke risia bulu na onu akpoya ori nsi
Every dog is a potential shit eater, but whichever one that has shit on his mouth after eating is called a shit eater cheesy

Cute-ass biko ana m ario gi ka iroghachi azu na this thread cry
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by joz(f): 2:47am On May 27, 2007
egbe belu ugo belu, nke si na ibe ya amam be , grin
lol de nke nadighi na ilu nke oburu na ima ya grin grin
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 3:19pm On May 28, 2007
Ebe ana akuzuri nwa amadi ihe ka nwa ohu na amuta ihe
The slave learns where the prince is being taught

Ana egbochi idei, ona awa
As you try to control the rampaging flood, it willcontinue to cut the ground open
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by cuteass1(f): 4:50am On May 30, 2007
Can't believe i've been gone for such a long decade, wonder where i've been undecided lol

But i'm back to whip asses, missed y'all though cheesy


nkita nyalu akpa, nsi di n'ohia agwu
When the dog raises his bag, the sh*t in the forest/bush finishes grin

Ka o rie nne na ebuta izi azi
Waiting to gather enough, makes it seem you're stingy sad grin

night all!!
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 3:13pm On May 31, 2007
I also can't believe that you could go for that long, where have you been?  

I missed you though, but trust me on this one, you ain't gonna whip no ass here cos I'm the don around here  cheesy
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 3:25pm On May 31, 2007
Onye ji mmadu n'ala ji onwe ya
He hold someone down is also down himself

Onweghi onye ma ebe mmiri siri ba na opi ugboghuru
Nobody knows where water entered the stem of pumkin leave hope I got this one correct grin
Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by ryu11(m): 3:32pm On May 31, 2007
Onye ajuju anaghi efu uzo

He who asks questions never gets lost


ije nkilika akwa ijee nkilika ozi

Dress as you want to be addressed

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Re: Igbos come show your proverbs skills by youngies(m): 3:42pm On May 31, 2007
Onye si na ihe na ato uto, okwue ihe ona ato ka ya
He who says something is sweet, must also say what it tastes like

Ihe dara n'ala eburu ra aja
Whatever falls on the ground is already dirty

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