Manicou’s List of Carnival Dos and Don’ts
Since Saucy and Hottie gave their lists of Carnival Dos and Don’ts, I decided not to be upstaged and submit my own unscientific list. Here is my list of 6.
- Know who is vagrant. Come carnival and worse yet Jouvert morning, everybody does look the same. Vagrant does begin to look like ordinary people. Sometimes, they walking along with the band and pick up two/three piece ah costume and they look like normal masquerader. This warning especially for tourists who does wine and jam with everybody. Don’t wine on the vagrant. One good way of telling who is who, is the footwear test. If the footwear not matching, run. If on the left is a Nike, and on the right is Adidas, run. If one slippers red, and the other side green, run, run , run. However, the footwear test is not the end all of it. Some vagrant does have family who does give them clothes and shoes although they still living on the streets. So if in doubt, check out their hair. If it matted (not dreaded mind you), and nasty-looking, run. Overall if the winer looks a little off, run.
- Do however wine on the hard-working police officers on our streets. Police officers are people too and appreciate a good wine. Do not however wine one the female officers or the horses. That may get you aressted. While I’m on it, don’t pet the horses or talk to them. Women, if your winer-man is talking to the horse, run.
- Learn that cute children can steal and pickpocket with the best of them and they can run faster than your drunk self.
- Know that a doubles on any given day, does not cost $5. If you pay $5 for a doubles is because you are a tourist or looking like one.
- Over the course of that weekend, don’t take your drunk self and go and say you taking a sea bath. You will die.
- Don’t drink any “juices” that aren’t labelled and sealed. You will get the runs first, then you will die.
24 Responses to “Manicou’s List of Carnival Dos and Don’ts”
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 27, 2006 | Reply
LOL! LOL! OH GOD! HELP! ROFL!!!!!!
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 27, 2006 | Reply
BUT MANICOU! Yuh remove meh from yuh favorite links! Wham? I’s not a favourite anymore!?
By Mani on Sep 27, 2006 | Reply
Hottie, I’m glad you approve, lol. Hottie, How can I remove you? Yuh still dey darling. You are listed as “The Modest Goddess”.
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 27, 2006 | Reply
Oh hor! I was looking on de wrong side, hehe… I get frighten. I say we fall out! Muaaaa! De site cork man! (When last yuh hear dat?)
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 27, 2006 | Reply
Mani, check out dis site.
http://www.geocities.com/alieninthecaribbean/lookting
It cork too bad!
By Mani on Sep 27, 2006 | Reply
lol, we eh have nothing to fall out for. Cork, oh gosh that is an old word. Remember when the word was “massive”? And back then everything was massive?
I checking out the site now.
By Anonymous on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
Mani, I did wine up on a cute policeman last year. 2 days later I had an important appointment with a government official and guess which policeman was by di security booth!!
Mani boi, yuh sound like yuh feelin di feelin .. thinking of joining me and Hottie in Dragon? gettin di symptoms..
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
I coming to find him wherever he plan on hiding! Spice, you in dat girl?
By Mani on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
Hottie gyu, even all the sales were massive.
Nah Spice, dat is for allyuh so. Allyuh want to come find me? Manicou does have real place to hide eh, lemme tell allyuh, lol.
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
Mani, yuh check out de link? Yuh see de cartoons? Funny like hell eh.
By Anonymous on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
LOL LOL LOL
“If yuh winerman talking to the horse, run.” LOL LOL
That is real kicks oui. And I dare someone to charge me $5 for doubles. I will give them 5 stink cuss in dey tail. LOL
By Anonymous on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
I ent hear Cork and Massive in AGES! LOL LOL
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
But Destra hit we a massive this year man! Remember?
‘MASSIVE! Jumping! Jumping! Take out alyuh rag and start the waving, waving!’
By Anonymous on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
allyuh is tears in the morning yes!! Mani, we will see if u refuse when the time comes..
btw Mani, I know you didn’t ask my foolish opinion but I preferred the dotish talk etc on the left and i liked the post-it theme.
Travelling today.. catch up with u guys later.
By ttfootball on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
Police officers are people too and appreciate a good wine…HAHAHAHAHA…I have a pic of my cousin wining on a officer in NY!! Dem eh easy neither..lol
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 28, 2006 | Reply
Well am… I kinda guilty a dat too. Dem ocifers LIKE dey slackness!
By Mani on Sep 29, 2006 | Reply
Hottie - Yeah gyul, I forgot to mention it. They are funny. I had seen that girl’s blog before but I never came across the cartoons. Daiz true, i forget Destra was bawling out “massive”.
Spice - To tell you the truth, I like the Post-It note icons a lot better. However I think it was one of those things that was better in theory than in execution. I always thought they made my site look a little sloppy and disorganized, and I decided I couldn’t take it any more. I wanted a cleaner look for the site and that’s why I decided to redo the icons. Ah well, if I think up something better later on, I can always redo them again.
About the placement of the sidebars, I liked the ability to just look at one side and be able to see all the content of the sidebars in one place. Plus I needed to put some ads up - not to make me rich - but hopefully to help with the cost of my website hosting (which I can tell will make me a poor man). And so the ads just function better with sidebars side by side.
By the way, your opinion is not foolish. I like feedback of all kinds.
ttfootball - lol, well I’m sure police officers don’t really mind all that much about having to work on Carnival (unless they intended to play mass) with all the eye candy running around. Especially as they know they’re liable to be wined upon.
Hottie, ah eh surprise, lol. Just make sure yuh do bounce them up later like Spice. Spice, did he recognize you by chance?
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 29, 2006 | Reply
MORNING MANI!!!!!! I glad like crab this morning (payday nah). I had liked the Post it notes too - I don’t think it made teh site look sloppy. All in all I think you’ve made a well designed blog better. It’s a clean layout - only thing sometimes it uploads with the stuff sort of jumbled but I suspect that’s Blogger and not you. You have a good eye for design. I’d tell you how I know that but it’s a LONG story :)Laterz
By Hottie Hottie on Sep 29, 2006 | Reply
Whey yuh comments for the story upstairs?
By Mani on Sep 29, 2006 | Reply
Hottie, all them post it notes together was just irking me gyul. I loved the icon, just the sum of them together to me looked bad. But thansks for your compliment. You think I have a good eye for design? If you knew me you wouldn’t say that. I’m the most unartistic person I know, lol. By the way, you full ah stories eh?
…and I fixed the comments above…not sure how that happened.
By a chic fro on Oct 5, 2006 | Reply
On second thought I think it was less of a spelling error and more of a grammatical error.
By Mani on Oct 7, 2006 | Reply
yeah it was
By Carnival Jumbie (Diva) on Oct 11, 2006 | Reply
LOLOL Oh lord!
By Mani on Oct 15, 2006 | Reply
Thanks diva, I’m glad u approve.