Dipo Tepede

Actually, the ‘toosh-er’ headline will be ‘cluck cluck’ or a birdie chirpy chirp but since I’m yet to see a chicken actually cluck cluck…. I didn’t do it! Yes I‘m chicken… all talk, no action, chicken, etc- I didn’t do it. The ‘no time’ excuses wont work- I had an extended weekend (oh, dear, I …

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Here’s the deal- I’ll also let you in on totally absurd stories Warning: ‘Absurdity is highly subjective.) Click here for something on a Nebraska state senator who filed an action against God. And here for God’s (?) defence. Poor Joke- bad taste.  Credit goes to Diamondhawk for the link Listen to this podcast

I didn’t even know Saudi Women were not allowed to drive! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/middleeast/28drive.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin Listen to this podcast

   Location: At work (- what ‘employer’ pays for) (and actually busy and all seriousey) (I usually can’t stand eavesdropping I don’t even like it. I don’t even do the ‘acceptable’ Lagosian gawking . I’m laying all these down so you can be sure I didn’t even try hard to listen, it just sorta ‘filtered’ …

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  About six years ago, I had an ‘accident’. It was one of those adventurous periods of my life- I braided my hair, and wanted to dye it mid-night blue. Unfortunately, since the hair refused to dye, my hairdresser suggested that I re-dye it and leave the dye in for a couple of hours. Well …

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THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD THIS WEEK: LIVING RIGHT?. I grew up as a Christian- that really meant I, along with the rest of my then-nuclear family was chauffeured by my dad to church every Sunday. I didn’t have a choice. No one in my family did. Besides the free chauffeur privileges, it also meant that …

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  “Woman:” n, bearer of the hymen.”   In 1981, Britain’s leading Newspaper, quoted the Fifth Baron Fermoy’s words, affirming a teenaged girl’s suitability for the throne of England said (with no trace of a wink):   “To my knowledge she has never been involved in that way with anyoneӀ   But that was in …

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Sometimes, love doesn’t make sense.   No, this is not another cheesy piece, extolling the virtues of foolishness, masqueraded as the “L” word. So, I won’t bother with the finer details of what “love” is (I don’t even know what it is) but just so no one thinks my IQ is a point less than …

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Has anyone caught the Maltina thinge on TV? Oh well, I did, and managed to get amused, entertained, and upset (maybe that’s a bit hyperbolic but it was something close), one emotion flowing into the next. Dance has become a Naija thing. “Dance” being anything from the Don-Moen choreography, with the gloves and headbands, to …

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