Humor Articles
Just what does that word in that CV mean?
Resumes! Or as I like to call them, lies hidden in professional language. Whenever I see a resume/CV, I always imagine a person looking for difficult words that scream NICE GUY and cramp them up onto an A4 document in a bid to appease potential emplo...
Kenya Budget 2011
The minister for Finance yesterday presented the budgetary estimates to parliament. In a budget that was hailed by many as pro-poor (or professionally poor is you like) the Minister outlined key measure to be put in place this year to increase econom...
Kenya strikes oil. Oil threatens to retaliate.
President Keybaki announced Monday morning that Kenya has struck oil in Turkana, a district located about (1,2,3...21 ... Ummh, my projections fail me) kilometres North of Nairobi. While undressing journalists who included Jully Geychuru, Janet Mboo-...
Kenyan hotel menus
This was on a blackboard menu at a hotel in Bungoma town
MENU
Tonut na maantasi 5.00/=
Homelet Blain 4.50/=
Jai na zgonji 5.00/=
Tenku na ukali 6.00/=
Jabati Pantika 6.40/=
Gugu ya ingo 50.00/=
Gugu ya genjik 25.00/=
Mgade Poflo 6.50/=
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Kenyans and Bad Toilet Etiquette ...
Latest reports indicate that Kenyans have some of the worst toilet manners. Well, the problem with toilets is that they have toilet bowls whereas most Kenyans have buckets for backsides. Trying to fit a bucket-mouth on the bowl is an obvious problem ...
Kenyans and Bargaining
I blame it on markets. The bargaining problem I mean. Markets are the place where the bargaining disease in Kenya was born. Now its everywhere. Shops, bus terminus, clothing outlets, stalls, name it.
And soon it will go out of control and may soo...
Kenyans and Peculiar Business Names
Kenyans have been called peculiar many times. I always tend to agree because lets face it, we are peculiar. And the area where we are most guilty is business names. Based on what I observe, I fear that soon, with the name syllables' combinations that...
KGB
The phone rings at KGB headquarters.
"Hello?"
"Hello, is this KGB?"
"Yes. What do you want?"
"I'm calling to report my neighbor Yankel Rabinovitz as an enemy of the State. He is hiding undeclared diamonds in his firewood."
"This ...
Kiswahili is DAMN hard ...
They say its easier for a Camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a Nairobian to speak correct Swahili. Am not talking about the broken swahili (more like broken and powdered really) that most of us Nairobians talk. Am talking about Kiswah...
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