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ola olabiy:
Let's revisit these phrases:

"Not to talk of"

"Talkless of"

Are they correct?

What say you, guys?

"Talkless of" is obviously incorrect;

"Not to to talk of" is also grammatically incorrect, but in this age of slang, and this ever-so-dynamic English language, I expect we'll come to find it is now in the Guinness Book of English Language colloquialism or some such. lol 

ola olabiy:
I dey, bro.


This thread don dey bore me small.

awww.  Why?  If you hang in there for another month, you can celebrate the one-year anniversary of your thread and, if you still have no interest, shut it down in style.

I sympathise though.  My thread started with a somewhat limited scope, but rapidly went off-topic and off on a tangent from the introductory post; gradually becoming a general purpose thread.  Just about any posts can be related to issue of interest to "Naijas abroad."   

maclatunji:
@bolded, interesting submission. I think the sister sinned with her judgemental expression. [/b]It is okay for her to have a standard for the man she wants as her husband (remember this man will possess her being- no small matter). However, she would have created some degree of hatred in the brother's heart (no matter how sincere he is or how good a Muslim he has become). On the extreme side, [b]the man may even begin to hate Muslim women or the religion all together.

This sounds too harsh against the woman.

She has every right to set a standard for her life and the father of her children.  (It is her choice; she has to live her life, just like we all live ours the way we choose.) If a man said he did not want a "fornicator" for a wife, not too many will say "well, she used to sin, but no more"? It's his choice.

And if the man starts "hating Muslim women or the religion," he can go pick amongst the numerous other religions out there.

There is no compulsion in Islam.

Ramadan Mubarak to all my brothers and sisters in Islam.

Fasting is the easiest thing I do, and have for years, but this Ramadan has started off a challenge o. The last three hours before sundown, I am so parched, I have to try hard to focus on anything else other than how hot it is outside and and how I much I want ice water! lol.

But that little challenge is nothing compared to the suffering others have faced and continue to face daily.

My challenge is easy, in comparison.

Assallam Aleikum.

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Beautygyal:
it depends, coz usually men shows more love coz their, the ones who buys the rings, and the necklaces but most of the time, they are the one who ends up breakin women's heart. Its really hard to decide.

Beautygyal:
We are both madly in love, but most ppl wuld say he is coz he is the one who buys the jeweleries and things.

Wow!  I know this is an old post, but whoa!  What does buying gifts have to do with the intensity of one's devotion?  So, if he doesn't have money to buy necklaces, he doesn't truly love you?  What if your friend gets a more expensive necklace from her mate, they're more in love than you and yours?  No offense, this is a very warped mentality.  Maybe I misunderstood.  Take this site seriously to your own detriment.  SMH.

Oh my!   

OP, I hope you know you will never get help or meaningful advice on Nairaland.  My earlier post was just in jest.  Dude, you gotta figure it out yourself.  We don't know you or her.  Maybe you crazy kids are just in love, but her crying is over the top childish/cunning behavior (unless you hurt her feeling).   

isiegbe:
Guys my girl will always want me to take her to many places she want to go to. And i have asked her why she want s it that way . She will simply say  ''i want u to be with me'' As for me sometime i like it and sometime hate it .she will cry if i dnt go with her . Please guys someone with an idea of of what this means .

a) She is spoiled; her parents indulged too many of her whims
b) She has separation anxiety
c) She wants to show the other girls she's got a man
d) She has trust issues and want to know where you are at all times
e) She's bat-sh#t crazy!  
f) All of the above

Looking forward to this all year.  It will be a good Ramadan, Masha Allah!

Salaam aleikum, Poster. 

"Love, Me"
Writers/Composers: Skip Ewing and Max T. Barnes
Vocalist: Collin Raye

I read a note my grandma wrote back in nineteen twenty-three.
Grandpa kept it in his coat, and he showed it once to me. He said,
"Boy, you might not understand, but a long, long time ago,
Grandma's daddy didn't like me none, but I loved your Grandma so."

We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together.
Get married in the first town we came to, and live forever.
But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet, instead
Of her, I found this letter, and this is what it said:

If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long I'll be.
But I'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
And between now and then, till I see you again,
I'll be loving you. Love, me.

I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away,
In the doorway of a church where me and Grandpa stopped to pray.
I know I'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years;
But as he said these words to her, his eyes filled up with tears.

If you get there before I do, don't give up on me.
I'll meet you when my chores are through;
I don't know how long I'll be.
But I'm not gonna let you down, darling wait and see.
And between now and then, till I see you again,
I'll be loving you. Love, me.
Between now and then, till I see you again,
I'll be loving you. Love, me.


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Songfacts: "Love, Me"
Dale and Martha Hector had the sort of marriage that endured; a solid, loving relationship that inspired Skip Ewing to write this song. They were his grandparents.
Thoroughbred ranchers in Southern California, Dale was the kind of guy who called his wife "Mother." As in, "Mother, what did I do with those boots?" When it was time to feed the horses, Skip would scramble out over the top of the kitchen window, jump on the bale of hay his grandfather had put on the back of his flatbed truck, and go with him. "He let me stand up on it so that I could take these leaves of hay and put them down in the feeders," recalls Skip. "All the racehorses had individual feeders. And man, I thought he was the coolest thing. He was my John Wayne."

Later, Skip discovered that Dale was his grandmother's second husband, and he wasn't biologically related. "But it didn't matter. To me, he was my grandfather. He was the grandfather that really touched me. And my grandmother, too. And at any rate, I guess they met and they got married in weeks of being together. And they were together the rest of their lives. And it was just wonderful. Not that they didn't have any difficulties, but they were wonderful. And I learned so much about that.

So when he passed away, I know how she felt, that she could never remarry. She never really had another relationship. She had loved him, and that was who she loved, and there wasn't gonna be another Dale, and that was it. And I just know how he touched her. And I also know that he was there for her and she knew she was gonna see him again. No matter, whatever someone's spiritual or religious beliefs are, if someone believes in Heaven in that space, that's how they want to feel, and that's how many people do feel. But in order to feel that way, you really have to love someone. And that's what they did." And it was that knowledge, and his experience with growing up around that environment, that prompted Skip and co-writer Max T. Barnes to begin this song. "We just took the ball of the pieces of these powerful loves and we were doing our best to weave them into a song that expressed that. It seems we did, a bit."

There was another major inspiration for this song, says Skip. He tells the story about a card given to him by a girlfriend in 1988 or so. "She didn't sign it with her name, because she knew I would know who it was," he remembers. "We all do that. What struck me was not that that was a hook, but that there was such an intimacy about that that everyone would understand. Those are the places that I love to touch. Many of us have written, 'Love, Me,' or we'll use an initial or whatever, knowing that the other person knows that. And there's a connection in that. There's an energy of acceptance and love, and closeness, intimacy there that can't be found in other spaces necessarily, especially when things are written, actually written."

"This was very personal to me, and I read it, and I reflected upon that. And Max T. Barnes was playing electric guitar for me on the road while we were touring." And one night Skip approached Max with the general idea for this song. They spent the entire night talking about relationships with people who were important to them. "We were talking about the scope and power of love, and the connectivity of that across generations, and across the spiritual connectivity. And we really had a conversation. That's me, that's what I like to do when I write. I like to look deeply into that."

"Well, the 'Love, Me' part of that, I was kind of working with that, because I love to find ways to say something one way, and to say exactly the same thing and have it mean a much different thing. Because, to me, that's an invitation to look at something deeply. We looked at it the first time, and we saw one thing. We looked at it a second time, and we saw very deeply. It's like looking at the surface of water and you see the reflection on the surface. But then if you make your eyes adjust a bit you can see all the way down into the well. And so we wrote it about a relationship with a grandmother and a grandfather, but it wasn't my grandmother and grandfather. It was just a good way to do it. And it was inspired because of them and their relationship."

Skip: "This past Mother's Day on Regis and Kelly, they had a special. And the special, of course, was on mothers. And there was a mother on the show whose son had died in a motorcycle accident. And her wish was to meet Collin Raye, because one of her favorite songs of all time was 'Love, Me.' And actually on the headstone of her son's grave, she had written, 'Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you, love, Me.' She had that put on his headstone. Which is huge. That's just a big, big deal to me. Well, what I found interesting was she wanted to meet Collin Raye, who was the singer of the song. And yet she wrote the words that Max T. Barnes and I wrote, on the headstone. And it was the words that were really important to her, one of the things. She didn't mention Max and myself, Collin didn't mention Max or I, Regis… none of them mentioned us at all. Not the writer of the work that they were talking about. And I had a couple people call me feeling outraged. They were like, 'Oh my gosh, you guys worked so hard, and then all of a sudden you have the chance to be on national television, and they don't even mention you. They only talk about the singer.' One of them said, 'The woman wrote your words on the headstone, and then didn't even put your name like they would quote any poet or writer.' And 'aren't you angry about that?'"

"And I'm not. Would I have been honored to have my name mentioned? Oh my gosh, absolutely. Do I think that when the works of someone, when their words are repeated or written or featured in that way, that the person should receive fair recognition? Absolutely. Do I think that's the most important thing? No. What I think is the most important thing is touching people. And the words that we wrote, and the song that we wrote, was powerful enough that without ever knowing us at all, maybe never thinking about who wrote the song, it moved her enough that of all songs written in all the world, that was the one she connected with enough to write on the headstone of the person that she may have loved more than anyone in the whole world. Now, if that's not reaching people, then I'll never do it."

Communication is a particular passion of Skip's. Whether it's written, verbal, musical, tangible - communication is key. And connecting with people in communication is ultimate. "I think that there are some people who say they write because they have to," Skip says. "Because it's like that's the only way they can get themselves out. I think for most writers it's a form of passionate self expression. For me, I have, I think, gone through a number of phases of the reasons why I write. But the roots of it remain the same. And those are to express my heart with as much candor as possible. And to do so, in order to illuminate what it is to be human, what it is to love, what it is to feel, and to reach other people in doing so. In me, that's what I needed to be doing. I started playing guitar when I was 4 years old, I don't even remember. Started writing songs, I think I wrote a song for a girl when I was 11 or something, messed around with poetry. But language, all the ways we communicate, how we communicate, even the dialogue in our own head is our experience of life and the world. And I would prefer that our experience of life have as much joy and happiness as possible. I would prefer that we endeavor to cultivate compassion and loving kindness and understanding and patience. That's with ourselves to ourselves. Our inner dialogue. And with others. And to water the seeds of those – for lack of a better word – virtues, in others, as much as possible, in a world where we never even realize that we are watering seeds. I get letters from people who say, 'Oh, this song moved me, this song moved me.' Gosh, I want that three minutes to have those qualities. That's why I write. Because I can reach people, and it does that kind of thing in the world."

"A lot of writers will say, 'Oh, I wrote this song in 10 minutes.' Well, I might respectfully disagree with that. I've never met someone who wrote a song in 10 minutes. And what I mean is that our brains, for years, are working with songs, listening to songs, feeling the ways that things go together, and what we've thought, the way we've loved, everything is a part of the song we're writing right now. I like to say the past is always a part of the present."

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Husband of drunk, stoned driver and killer of 7 sues New York
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Wrong-way driver's husband sues state, others over crash
USA Today
July 27, 2011

The husband whose wife killed herself and seven others in a horrific wrong-way crash on the Taconic State Parkway is suing the state, claiming poor highway upkeep and signage are solely to blame.

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Toxicology reports released days after the July 26, 2009, collision determined Diane Schuler of Long Island, N.Y., was drunk and high when she crashed her minivan into an SUV occupied by three men.
But her husband, Daniel Schuler, contends it was the state's "negligence, carelessness and recklessness" in its design and maintenance of the highway that "solely" caused fatal injuries to his daughter, Erin, 2.

His lawsuit, filed Monday in the New York Court of Claims, is on behalf of the estate of Erin and his son, Bryan, 5, the sole survivor.

In a separate lawsuit, Dean and Angela Tallarico, who suffered minor injuries in the crash, sued the estate of wife Diane Schuler on Friday in state Supreme Court, arguing that she bears the responsibility.
Schuler claims that the state "negligently allowed" unsafe conditions; "failed to properly mark and/or delineate the appropriate lanes"; and failed to put up proper warning signs such as flashing arrows, barriers and cones. The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages for financial and emotional hardship, noting Bryan Schuler is disabled after the crash.

Also killed were the three occupants of the SUV: Michael Bastardi Sr., Guy Bastardi and Daniel Longo of Yonkers.
Michael Bastardi Jr., who lost his father and brother in the crash, said Tuesday that Daniel Schuler is blaming "everything and everyone except his wife."
"He's just avoiding the true reasons on why this all happened," the younger Bastardi said. "It's pathetic and it's an insult to all of us."

Daniel Schuler's attorney, Kevin Grennan, did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

The New York Post reported Tuesday that Daniel Schuler also filed a separate lawsuit last week in state Supreme Court against Warren Hance, whose daughters Emma, 8, Alyson, 7, and Kate, 5, were killed. That case argues that because Hance owned the minivan that Diane Schuler was driving, he is in part liable, according to the Post.
The Journal News could not independently confirm the Post report Tuesday.

Kevin Conklin, a Mamaroneck lawyer representing the Bastardi estate, declined to comment on the possible lawsuit against Hance.

In the Tallaricos' lawsuit, attorney Steven Grant said Tuesday that the Freehold, N.Y., couple still suffers from "physical and obviously psychological injuries" two years after the crash.
Grant declined to specify the type of injuries his clients received, saying only that they "pale in comparison to the real tragedy of the day," referring to those who were killed.
In late 2009, Michael Bastardi Jr.'s sister Roseann Guzzo filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Schuler's estate and Hance. Depositions still have not been taken.
Last month, Longo's brother, Joseph, also sued, not just Schuler's estate and Hance, but also Guzzo, alleging that Guy Bastardi bore some of the responsibility for the crash. Guzzo's lawyer, John Kelly, recently told The Journal News he wouldn't expect anyone to prove negligence on Bastardi's part.

"You can't blame the driver of a car that's hit by someone driving the wrong way," Kelly said.
"The signs aren't the problem on the highway. It's the people who drink and drive," Guzzo said.

A spokesman with the state Department of Transportation did not return a phone call regarding Schuler's claim.

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2 years after crash, victims expect few answers from HBO film
USA Today
July 25, 2011

Two years after the Taconic State Parkway crash in New York that took eight lives, Michael Bastardi Jr. is still waiting for answers, justice and some peace of mind.

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He's not expecting to find any Monday night when HBO debuts There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane.

The documentary explores what might have led Long Island, N.Y., mom Diane Schuler to speed the wrong way down the parkway with a van full of kids and then slam into an SUV carrying Bastardi's father, brother and a family friend.

"It's almost impossible to live with losing them and still have to listen to people talk about how she was the perfect mother," Bastardi said.
Schuler, her 2-year-old daughter, Erin, and her nieces Emma Hance, 8, Alyson Hance, 7, and Kate Hance, 5, died in the July 26, 2009, crash, as did the three occupants of the SUV: Michael Bastardi Sr., Guy Bastardi and Daniel Longo.

The lone survivor was Schuler's 5-year-old son, Bryan.
She and the kids were returning from an upstate camping trip in her brother's Ford Windstar. Instead of heading southeast to Long Island after passing over the Tappan Zee Bridge, Schuler inexplicably headed north to Mount Pleasant, N.Y.
Just after 1:30 p.m., she drove past "Do Not Enter" signs and entered the northbound Taconic heading south.
For 1.7 miles, she sped down the road as cars veered out of the way and honked warnings — then she crashed head-on into the Bastardis' Chevy Trailblazer at 85 mph.

It was the worst crash in Westchester in more than 75 years, and a national story even before the bombshell news broke the following week: Schuler had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent — double the legal limit and the equivalent of 10 drinks — and enough THC in her system to show she had been smoking marijuana during the trip.

Last month, Bastardi's own account of the crash's aftermath was published. The Taconic Tragedy: A Son's Search for the Truth, written by his wife, Jeanne, tells how Bastardi's initial grief was compounded by the mystery of why Schuler would act the way she did.
Five days after the crash, a state police investigator let his family know about the toxicology report.
That made things clearer for him, but the unbearable pain lingered and became mixed with "unbelievable anger," his wife wrote.
It only got worse for his family as they watched Daniel Schuler's public pronouncements denying that his wife had been drinking, questioning the autopsy results and suggesting that a medical problem — maybe even an abscessed tooth — was responsible.
And when Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore ruled out presenting the case to a grand jury, saying Diane Schuler was the only one responsible for the crash and that any criminal charges died with her, Bastardi feared the truth would never come out.

The book focuses on his family's suspicion that Daniel Schuler knew about his wife's condition that morning, and that her brother, Warren Hance, failed to call 911 when he learned there was a problem because he might have suspected she was drunk and wanted to find her before police did.

The film tracks the route Schuler took using witnesses who saw her driving and surveillance video from places she stopped.
Much of the focus is on efforts by her husband and her sister-in-law, Jay Schuler, to clear her name.
As Jay Schuler said in the film, they didn't want the other victims' families thinking their loved ones were killed by a drunken driver, and they didn't want Diane Schuler to be the poster child for moms who drive drunk.
Schuler still hopes to have his wife exhumed so a new autopsy can be performed.

The film also offers interviews with Diane Schuler's friends and co-workers. And there are glimpses of Bryan as he struggles with oculomotor nerve palsy and must do daily eye exercises.
Bryan is not asked about the accident, but Jay Schuler insists he has told her that "Mommy's head hurt. She couldn't see. And I flew out of the car like Superman."

The Hance children's mother, Jackie Hance, recently broke her public silence about the tragedy, writing a poignant account of her loss in Ladies' Home Journal. She revealed that she was pregnant again, expecting a new baby in the fall.
She doesn't think she'll have the strength to watch the documentary, the title of which is particularly painful for her.
They were the words the family said Emma used when she spoke to her mother from the car less than an hour before the crash.

Jackie and her husband, Warren Hance, declined to participate in the documentary.
Bastardi also refused to participate because he thought the film would focus on Daniel Schuler's effort to clear his wife's name.
But he will watch it — he keeps on top of everything related to the tragedy — and suggested it was in bad taste to release it the night before the anniversary, particularly because there are graphic photos from the crash scene.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-07-25-wrong-way-crash-film_n.htm

lol     I forgot the (non-existent) sarcasm smiley.

Just kidding, bro!  Love will find you. 

claremont:
Anyone who believes that his/her heart is leading him/her to an online relationship should slap him/her self away from dreaming. It's like continuing to believe that the earth is flat, when the overwhelming scientific facts point otherwise!

Why are you stressing, old boy?!  You don't believe in love at all, so what's it to you where love happens?  
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-710247.0.html


Isale_Gan2, You Will Meet Your True Love Online
You value deep, authentic relationships. You're not big on small talk.
You are a complex and deep person. There are many layers to who you are.
Your true love is a person of substance. You are repelled by superficiality.
http://www.blogthings.com/wherewillyoumeetyourtruelovequiz/

Oh dear gawd, say it ain't so!  If the crystal ball says it's Claremont, I will kill my internet and my computer. lol.

Copa America final match

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Uruguay leading 2-0 against Paraguay.

There's less than 10 minutes left; anything could happen in that time - enough time to score a couple of goals. 

But, the Uruguayans are insane for futbol.  If they don't win, watch out! 
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Play by play here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/24/copa-america-2011-uruguay-paraguay

Stop interrogating the sister. State your case. lol. Where are your friends? Who are your people?

What segregation?  Nothing wrong with it.  It sounds like a cultural and political summit.  It'd be even better if they included Igbo representatives from Cameroon and Togo/Ghana and any other areas where Igbos may have migrated in the 19th century after world slavery or settled in large numbers after the Nigerian the civil war.

As long as it's not a front for separatism.  Even then, they have a right to discuss it and put it to a vote.

Make my small print bold and large, why don't ya?  Your dude still sucks.  You can dress him in the finest suits and give him the most colorful erudite speeches, he's still a fake, faker! 

And I'm from Isale Gangan, not Isale-Eko.  Why do folks keep mixing it up? 


The Katsumoto character is a _____________ and a ______________ who _________________________ then he _________________________ . 

  I'm only kidding o.  None of it is true.  It's called "fan fiction." 

Jesoul 1 - 0 Isale

We'll meet again

JeSoul:
@oga maclatunji,

   siddon. I am quite possibly married to the most incredible man to ever walk on this planet. My best friend, lover and confidant. I trust him with my next breath & I will die before i would dishonor him. Infact i am ready to jump off the washington bridge if it will bring him joy .

 

Tell him that.  In fact, show him your post.  Add the words, ". . . and I make this vow to you. . ."


This Jesoul is too much[i] o jare[/i].

i've learnt my lesson- no more sex with any nler no matter the airbrushed picture.

   

hmmmm.  Seun still hasn't added the sarcasm smiley. 

40K04:
. . . Please bear with me,  this is my first online BS.

BS?  B.S.? Bull-S#it?  Sorry, that's the first thing that comes to mind being in USA.

(where the hell is the spell checker?)

LOL    

claremont:
Thats right, I have come to the conclusion that love does not exist. I say this because if you look at the fail rate of marriage and every other relationship it is huge. >50% of all marriages fail.

What people term Love actually is only old-fashioned lust, desire, extreme frendliness. Eventually all people who claim to 'love' will end up just being great friends, no more 'loving' to each other than two best mates.

Studies have shown that couples who marry on the basis of "Love" do NOT last as those whom marry on the basis of mutual compatibility. The same studies went on to conclude, albeit controversially, that couples who use "Love" as a reason to be together would rather be better of apart, because such relationships never last. An ideal relationship is when both partners consider themselves to be best of friends firstly, and good bed mates secondly.

It will interest you to know that the western world who gave us the concept of love have the highest divorce rates today, yet love is practised there. So it therefore means that there is no correlation whatsoever between love and a sustained relationship. In India, arranged marriages is the norm, yet India has the lowest divorce rates worldwide, Go figure!

There most definitely is LOVE.  Even a LOVE that survives time space and distance, for infinity.  But, those who are too jaded, bitter, or too immature to see it, here's hoping you don't have to get involved with those who do believe in LOVE.  The world will be a more harmonious place that way.  Nothing worse than some hopeful cheerful optimist finding himself in the company of some angry jilted misanthrope. 

To the believers, "Keep hope alive!"  

It sounds like the OP's issue isn't so dire.  The husband simply wants younger relations to come and help them be nannies, clean and "iron his clothes." lol.  Some people just simply refuse to do the minimal things for themselves.  Maybe the husband trusts family more than going out and hiring someone.

DK,
So if [someone] were to marry you, she'd have to welcome your ragtag band of relatives and like it too? 

AjanleKoko:
Well, his character is kind of annoying and snobbish. Just[b] take out the dysfunctional geek out[/b], and you have me

Then you'd be Leonard, the only "normal" one of those guys. 
P.S. Leonard isn't annoying/snobbish. Never mind.

*Obama in background on TV spewing rubbish.  Dude is so full of it.  I can't stand him*

The long-lost clued-in "aunt" reappears!   

If we have a momma and a poppa, I'm thinking that should be NB and DK, or NB and Kilode.  But I'm not sure we want to go the parental route. 

As the parents, Naijababe and Katsumoto will bring in the audience though.  Yeah!  I think I've got it. 

Just thinking out loud. . . fleshing out the characters, working the script.

lol.  You're so cute.  And easy. 

Okay, write my character, if you wanna. Be

Wolfdogman,

Artistic License!  Literary freedom.  We're just casting for a sitcom.  Don't you ever watch those things?  The quirky guy always gets the accolades; the normal (boring) characters get bupkis!  I'm writing you an Academy Award and you're pouting?!

Do I have to hug you to calm you down?  lol.  Please don't make me have to give you a kiss o.  I am jealous of my kisses.  They are not easily dispensed.

Anyway, I plagiarized the whole thing. 

Write yourself better, or write my character.  That'll teach me!

Cast The Thread Regulars In A Play Or TV Show - Sitcom(?) 

I'll start:


[Name of show]
OAM4J = the nice popular kid
Dayokanu = the randy uncle (or horn.y dude)
Ajanlekoko = the annoying snobbish cousin. . . with a heart of gold 
Naijababe = the aunt who knows everyone's secret or thinks she does
Debosky and Blacksta = the black sheep of the family a/k/a Gunners
Katsumoto = ?
Ola Olabiy = ?
Kilode?! =
Isale =
________ =
________ =
________ =
________ =
________ =
________ =


Note: I may have plagiarized some or all of the above.    Still working on it.  Don't know how far I can go before the fists start flying.

Feel free to start a production or story-idea all your own, or build on the above.

So, fell asleep during the semi-final match between Venezuela and Paraguay.  Was it really that boring or was I just too exhausted and sleep-deprived? 

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By now, most of us know Paraguay won on penalties.  I would have forced myself awake for that!

Final match on Sunday will be Paraguay v. Uruguay.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6e_K4BEezM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mj1GvibTM

At end of 1st half. . .

Paraguay 0 - 0 Venezuela

A goal was disallowed. Dunno if it was any good - I don't understand the offside rule (sooooorrrryyyy), and no one can explain it succinctly. Whatever! Doesn't change my enjoyment of the game; just like I don't mind posting live game updates right here.

2nd half just started.