Funny but edifying Ibo proverbs
FUNNY BUT EDIFYING IBO PROVERBS...
Ibos are one of African tribes with great sense of humour; even when inculcating wisdom... Few of these proverbs can explain better!
If a plantain refuses to ripen because it doesn't want to be fried, then it will be used for plantain chips
When the dog was asked why it licks it's own scrotum, it said "because nobody will do it for me".
A man who believes that he can do everything, let him dig a grave and bury himself.
A man with a missing tooth does not eat ugiri with relish.
He who desires to swallow the udala (cherry) seed must first consider the size of his anus
He who sleeps with an itchy anus will wake up with a smelly finger
The goat that resorts to laughter when it meets a lion should be examined of the kind of grass it has been eating
A person who arrives at a feast when the cooked meat is being pulled out of the pot does not know what was endured by others to catch and cook it.
When a drunken man meets a mad man, he learns the difference between being merely drunk and being truly mad.
When the leopard has a broken paw, the antelope comes to collect an old debt.
Whether it was the tenant who seduced the landlord's wife, or the landlord who seduced the tenant's wife, it is the tenant who would leave the house.
When the music stops, a deaf person continues to dance.
While the wooden idols are tormenting me, the termites are tormenting them.
If a woman decides to make the soup watery, the husband will learn to dent the foofoo before dipping it into the soup.
The female toad said that husband is so sweet that when she got married, she carried her husband permanently on the back.
Tell a child to wash his body, he washes his stomach.
If a snake fails to show its venom, little kids will use it in tying firewood.
The grasshopper that runs into the mist of fowls ends up in the land of spirits.
If a child lifts his father, his scrotum will blindfold him.
If one fails to lick his lips, the harmattan will do it.
"Our wife, our wife": come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is.
When the fowl farts, the ground becomes a nuisance.
If you bite me on the butt, despite the danger of sinking your teeth into fecal matter, then if I bite you on the head, I will disregard the danger of sinking my teeth into cerebral matter.
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
#laugh&learn
#igbokwenu!
§Dr¢y~$kywalk¢r™§
Ibos are one of African tribes with great sense of humour; even when inculcating wisdom... Few of these proverbs can explain better!
If a plantain refuses to ripen because it doesn't want to be fried, then it will be used for plantain chips
When the dog was asked why it licks it's own scrotum, it said "because nobody will do it for me".
A man who believes that he can do everything, let him dig a grave and bury himself.
A man with a missing tooth does not eat ugiri with relish.
He who desires to swallow the udala (cherry) seed must first consider the size of his anus
He who sleeps with an itchy anus will wake up with a smelly finger
The goat that resorts to laughter when it meets a lion should be examined of the kind of grass it has been eating
A person who arrives at a feast when the cooked meat is being pulled out of the pot does not know what was endured by others to catch and cook it.
When a drunken man meets a mad man, he learns the difference between being merely drunk and being truly mad.
When the leopard has a broken paw, the antelope comes to collect an old debt.
Whether it was the tenant who seduced the landlord's wife, or the landlord who seduced the tenant's wife, it is the tenant who would leave the house.
When the music stops, a deaf person continues to dance.
While the wooden idols are tormenting me, the termites are tormenting them.
If a woman decides to make the soup watery, the husband will learn to dent the foofoo before dipping it into the soup.
The female toad said that husband is so sweet that when she got married, she carried her husband permanently on the back.
Tell a child to wash his body, he washes his stomach.
If a snake fails to show its venom, little kids will use it in tying firewood.
The grasshopper that runs into the mist of fowls ends up in the land of spirits.
If a child lifts his father, his scrotum will blindfold him.
If one fails to lick his lips, the harmattan will do it.
"Our wife, our wife": come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is.
When the fowl farts, the ground becomes a nuisance.
If you bite me on the butt, despite the danger of sinking your teeth into fecal matter, then if I bite you on the head, I will disregard the danger of sinking my teeth into cerebral matter.
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
#laugh&learn
#igbokwenu!
§Dr¢y~$kywalk¢r™§
Comments