Posted: under "LOVE is LOVELY", "YUMMY FOOD FOR THOUGHT".
Tags: admiration, beauty, bliss, Britain, care, celebration, celebrity, ceremony, character, cheer, cheerfulness, companion, couple, culture, custom, dad, designer, embrace, family, fashion, father, flag, food, friends, granny, happiness, history, husband, joy, kisses, laughter, life, lifestyle, London, love, man, marriage, mother, mother-in-law, nation, palace, partner, personality, Queen Elizabeth, relationship, smiles, spouse, style, thought, wedding, wife, woman
Happiness is found in life itself!!!!
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“Happiness is inward
and not outward;
and so it does not
depend on what
we have,
but on what we are”
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– Henry van Dyke
May 02 2011
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish ~ Louise Bennett", "SMILE" Jamaica ~ "Once You Go --- You Know".
Tags: activities, age, beauty, bliss, Caribbean, celebration, celebrity, cemetery, comedian, country, culture, dialect, doctor, earth, elderly, event, feelings, genius, ghost, happiness, health, heritage, honor, humor, icon, Idol, inspiration, island, Jamaica, Jamaican, job, joy, labrish, language, laughter, legacy, legend, life, lifestyle, love, Miss Lou, Montego Bay, nation, obituary, patois, school, seniors, smiles, society, task, taste, thought, time, truth, universe, vernacular, words, work, world
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The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission has earmarked the month of September to celebrate the life and work of Hon Dr Louise Bennett-Coverley OJ, OM.
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The amazing Miss Lou was born on September 7, 1919. She was a Jamaican poet and activist for the Jamaican language and is described as Jamaica’s leading comedian. Miss Lou has been lauded as the only poet who has really hit the truth about her society through its own language. She has managed to capture Jamaican thoughts, feelings and lifestyle through her poems in the vernacular. This has been done through masterful taste in use of the dialect which is acceptable to and appreciated by all in Jamaica and the Diaspora.
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In September, Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) staged a series of activities across the island. St. James hosted ‘MoBay Ring Ding’ as part of the celebrations.
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‘MoBay Ring Ding’ is a mini concert with a mixture of poems and storytelling. This year the National Exhibition
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Oct 18 2010
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish ~ Louise Bennett".
Tags: age, beauty, British, culture, custom, dialect, English, era, eyes, feeling, feelings, heritage, history, honor, humor, Irish, Jamaica, Jamaican, labrish, language, laughter, lifestyle, man, Mathematics, Miss Lou, music, originality, others, patois, period, pride, respect, scotch, smiles, spring, time, understanding, vernacular, woman, words
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Louise Bennett (Miss Lou) 1919-2006
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“Bans O’ Killing” , 1944
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So yuh a de man, me hear bout!
Ah yuh dem sey dah-teck
Whole heap o’ English oat sey dat
Yuh gwine kill dialect!
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Meck me get it straight Mass Charlie
For me noh quite undastan,
Yuh gwine kill all English dialect
Or jus Jamaica one?
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Ef yuh dah-equal up wid English
Language, den wha meck
Yuh gwine go feel inferior, wen
It come to dialect?
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Ef yuh kean sing “Linstead Market”
An “Wata come a me y’eye”,
Yuh wi haffi tap sing “Auld lang syne”
An “Comin thru de rye”.
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Dah language weh yuh proad o’,
Weh yuh honour and respeck,
Po’ Mass Charlie! Yuh noh know sey
Dat it spring from dialect!
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Dat dem start fe try tun language,
From de fourteen century,
Five hundred years gawn an dem got
More dialect dan we!
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Yuh wi haffe kill de Lancashire
De Yorkshire, de Cockney
Posted: under Jamaican Jokes.
Tags: beaches, beauty, bliss, Caribbean, country, culture, entertainment, fun, funny, funtime, happiness, hilarious, humor, island, Jamaica, Jamaican, jokes, joy, laughter, lawyer, link, Montego Bay, music, northcoast, photos, satire, smiles, sunrise, sunset
Sea, Sun and Sand — on the North Coast, Jamaica
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Douglas the ‘Roots and culture’ lawyer
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Raathaaar… a veritable FEAST … Some so-so… But… ENJOY !!!
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This is a withering satire on many an ” Uppercrust”
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Jamaican Uppercrust
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "LOVE is LOVELY".
Tags: America, birthday, blessings, bliss, celebration, country, culture, family, friends, God, happiness, heritage, history, Independence Day, joy, laughter, life, love, man, nation, smiles, woman
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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AMERICA
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AND
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ME
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(*)(*)(*)(*)
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Jul 04 2010
Posted: under "Jamaica Labrish Korner", Jamaican Jokes.
Tags: age, attention, beaches, beauty, behavior, Big Boy, blacks, Caribbean, carnival, celebration, children, community, contest, cop, country, culture, custom, dancer, dialect, dreadlocks, elderly, example, fashion, festival, fun, funny, funtime, future, game, hairstyle, hilarious, history, humor, independence, island, Jamaica, Jamaican, jokes, journey, labrish, land, language, laughter, license, life, lifestyle, man, memories, morals, neighborhood, Ocho Rios, officer, patois, patrolman, police, pride, queen, rastafarian, rastaman, respect, road, role model, seniors, sheriff, smiles, sport, St Ann, style, television, time, travel, treats, trip, trooper, value, values, vehicle, vernacular, waterfalls, woman, words, youth
“SWEET, SWEET JAMAICA”
Waterfall at “The Ruins” in Ocho Rios, Jamaica
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I GUESS I may be getting just a teeny-weeny bit old, because I can remember when it was considered
rude to whistle in front of adults, the biggest bad words pickney used to cuss were ‘blouse and skirt’,'rahtid’ and ‘blow-wow’; and slackness was talking big bwoy stories.
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I am probably not so young anymore, I guess, because I can remember when people used to charter JOS bus to go to outing at Gunboat beach. And the beach dem was clean! And bad boys were the ones riding skate, and playing marbles and racing board horse in the gutter water after rain... I remember when children were afraid of Johnkunnu - now even police fraid a pickney, ’cause pickney a shotta!
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Call me archaic, but I remember when school children never had such a wide range of colourfully creative
chemical concoctions and toxic adventures to choose from such as sweets and snacks. For example, I saw one
recently marked cheese tricks and when you read the fine print carefully, you realized that the ingredients did not include any cheese - so-so tricks!
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But I suppose it must be old age, because I also remember that children used to eat jackfruit, juneplum, naseberry, guinep, hogplum and tinkin toe; we used to relish treats like bustamante-backbone, drops, gizzada, toto, cut-cake and grater-cake. MEN USED TO DANCE WITH WOMEN after asking if they could have this dance!!
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I must be clearly approaching dinosaur status, because I can vividly recall a period when independence time meant street dance on every corner, and we never had to import carnival to have revelling in the streets, and float parades were magnificent. I must have come from them dark ages, but I remember when man used to go party to dance with woman, not to “par wid man”, and women never had to walk naked to get attention.
“Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2008″
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But I am not quite ready for the rocking chair and adult diapers just yet. No papa! Still, I remember when Rasta was a lifestyle. Now dreadlocks is a hairstyle. I remember
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Apr 02 2010
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