GoK and bananas and phone calls
OCD tendencies have me worrying this like a doggie of Mtaa (east-side!!!) with a bone from the local.
Digression One
Do you know that my neighbor’s mum used to send us to the local to get scraps from the bar & butchery for their doggie? And we used to have to sift through that mess with no latex gloves- to seperate bottle-tops from nyaks and mukimo? I’m so telling on her to my mum 26 10 years later 
I used to see BestBix ads on TV and wonder who the target audience was… I mean, I used to wonder whether the people buying bestBix didn’t have friendly relations with Professor (as all bar-maids with specs were called “professor’ and they were the go-to gals in all things ‘mabakishio’ )
Digression 2 (I know, I know… blame these people)
Speaking of which there’s this guy who went to KSPCA to adopt a doggie and he was being asked if he was financially capable of having a dog and he takes umbrage at this:
“What do you mean ‘Can I afford to feed him’? I have money— my family eats meat at least twice a week– where do you think we take those bones eh? You think we make soup? Those will be for Shimba (sic)” — um… he didn’t get the dog as he had to build a kennel for him but all the dude had was a rope and a ka-post by the gate and he’d figured that was going to be enough….
Digression 3:
I went to shags and these old men ask us “Who is your mother?” So me I’m like ‘Mutumia wa Mucii’ and they turn to my buddy and he’s like “Mbugua”… so they get this look on their face and one of them asks him “Kwani you have one name like a dog?” (sounds far, far worse in the vernacular)…..
Yeah– I was saying, I’ve been obsessing over Who/what/where the hell is “Shokobangoshe?” … I’ve googled, MSN searched, but wheya? Can’t find it… Ms. Prou gave me a ka-small hint ati it was West African in origin but I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
Do you want to know what I think? Regardless, I’ma tell you. I think it was a GoK plot— kama those KG-used to-B sleeper agents that were placed strategically in the USA and they did not know that they were double agents until they got a phone call and they were told “onomatopoeia” and immediately, sub-conscius knowledge kicked in and they became lean, mean spying machines…
‘Cause how is it possible for a whole country to know a word but not know what it means? Eh??? I think that one day, NARC will call all of us on a mass-phone in thingie and whisper “Shokolokobangoshe” and we will all catatonically invade Uganda…
Conspiracy idiot you call me?! Ignore me at your peril… I think the groundwork has already started being set up with the whole banana-orange campaign.
Think folks! What is the national vegetable fruit ginene of Uganda? Banana!!! So, what they did was set it up that we’ll be hostile to bananas and then - Kapow!! One shokolokobangoshe phone call later, it’s an Entebbe Raid- the 2006 remix.
I just wanted to be the first one out of here (out as in going strait to bed) but hey, doing a ‘Dear Robert’ and getting straight outta here.. will read when the ‘washed masses’ are in sight.
Comment by Guessaurus — February 27, 2006 @ 11:13 pm
Mutumia- You know, today I decided I needed some laughs…so I thought-hey, KBW may have some, and boy oh boy(ati now I’m posh..none of that haiya, or heh! stuff) Anyhoo..I just thought you should know, I’ve read your last three posts..and I’m cured. That ‘kwani you have one name like a dog(i translated) line..OMG- I’m so going to rewind that one today. ROFL..
Comment by Medusa — February 28, 2006 @ 1:17 am
Third
Comment by KM — February 28, 2006 @ 4:57 am
There is no way. I refuse. This habit of coming in the morning and rushing to your post like some caffeine fix has gosta stop. And worse is how loudly I burst out….you know the ones you shikilia and they juz chuck!!
LOL, ati you used to wonder whether the people buying bestBix didn’t have friendly relations with Professor.You know I am so feeling you there. You know mbwa koko and all? The first time my folks bought dog food, I coulda eaten it…it was all attractive looking and stuff, you know, in real packaging, and you are like ’surely that cannot be for dog’.
LOL @ shimba. and a rope and ka-post by the gate. LOL mara fifty. Was that for a dog or for a goat?
Tihihi. I have gone me. Me I have gone.
Comment by KM — February 28, 2006 @ 5:11 am
etymology attempt: 4/10
Try again
I read it in a book recently; it’s a character’s name. And, unless I’m wrong, it’s from Cyprian Ekwensi’s Jagua Nana or Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters. I was consuming too many books to keep track.
Will check, when I have time.
Comment by Keguro — February 28, 2006 @ 5:14 am
Gives doggystyle a whole new meaning I tell you!!
LOLOLOL at the sub-liminal messages sparking a mass invasion… LMAO
I can just imagine a frenzied group of Shokolokobangoshed Kenyan zombies rowing furiously on canoes in Lake Victoria towards Uganda… LOLOLOL
Comment by Milo — February 28, 2006 @ 8:22 am
“onomatopoeia”? My Shokolokobangoshed brain has just activated - all systems are GO. Firing on all cylinders, Houston we have NO problems..
I swear I am now barring myself from you and Keguro’s blog - I have no idea where the hell you guys get your stuff from (I, G, I am giving up and going back to kunywa thufu wa mahindi…)
Comment by Guessaurus — February 28, 2006 @ 10:40 am
@guess there is something like “thufu ya mahindi?”
You learn everyday but darkening mutumia’s doorstep is likely to leave your fuses burnt out.
That you have one name like a dog is complete trauma!!
Comment by Prou — February 28, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
Those storos of dogs being chained to posts with no beds,kennels,bones or toys disgust me.I wonder how that dude would have liked it if I chained him to a post but then again he might be one of those kinky freaks mutumia likes so he’d enjoy it.As for manual bone selection duty pole sana, at least we got those that had already been presorted.As for your polysyllabic word let us know when you find out what it means!It could come in handy!
ps:It’s besbix not bestbix.I should know I developed supreme ugali cooking skills and strong forearms from cooking for 3 alsatians since I was in primo!
Comment by acolyte — February 28, 2006 @ 6:19 pm
ps:degredation of dogs by certain geriatrics must stop!There is nothing wrong with having one name.All the big stars do!!!
Comment by acolyte — February 28, 2006 @ 7:07 pm
Midnight Madness
Comment by shokolokobangoshenot — March 1, 2006 @ 9:46 am
I promised Aco I would tell on him…just go see the mean things he said about Ms K and I.
Try ombaring sugar altho’ I am sure he will so not give you any. He will prolly pull a ‘Gosh darn! umekuja tu saa ile yetu imeisha’!!!
And post something bana….I have mad withdrawal symptoms. Tihihihi, a teacher in my high school (which thoroughly neshed this year by the way, used to say ’symboltoms’. Like symbol first for signs, then he adds toms( like many male cats) LOOOOOOOOOL. It always sounded like what you would call ‘male cats that do not demamd too much’like simple, you know, not high maintenance, like men (yep! this was leading to Aco. Tsk, ati men are simple. Has he forgotten the one who was crying after shag the other day?.
Okay, why am I making jokes? I came to report Aco.
LOL @ symboltoms …. see I’m scandalously working my way down blogs as I get a ka-quick minute in between meetings …. addiction my guy! Addiction… It’s so scandalous as we’re in a ka-place with wifi and ati I’m chewing a thoughful pause and saying, “Gimmie a minute, I put all this down”— but I can’t pull that one again as I did it on d’s blog and keguro’s and I’m scared to go to yours as I won’t be able to weka sura ya kazi… this is so shameful— ebu I go back to the discussion– I’ll be back soon to see what my potential hubby-baby-daddy-homie-lover-freind (once he stops protesting) did to you…
Comment by Queen of girlie posts, according to Aco, — March 1, 2006 @ 2:39 pm
LOL. Yenyewe the “shokolokobangoshe” just made me pasua. coz i do remember that word. I thought it was a lunje word
Comment by udi — March 1, 2006 @ 5:11 pm