Tuesday 30 September 2008

Spare change?

If George Bush knew anything about Iraqi cultural festivities, he'd be utterly miserable right now - not that he isn't. On the night when Iraqi kids go around houses -in a trick-or-treat sort of way- singing "majeena ya majeena, shugee il chees winteena (majeena o' majeena, rip the bag and give us) he admirably plucks up the courage to ask for a hefty $700bn to save an economy that seems to be having a paralysing stroke. Having waited for a couple of weeks for an answer, he gets an ego-crashing rejection the same day that Iraqi children collect their "eediya", a small sum of money given to children in celebration of Eid.
I couldn't help but make an association and laugh when I saw a sign in a cafe near college. It read: "Please do not ask for credit. A slap on the mouth often offends."
Poor George.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

majeena ya majeena, shugee il chees weteena, iteena law titeeekum lbait allah nwadeekum!

Get it right! =)

Little Penguin said...

I didn't grow up in Karrda.. sorry! jeez..

Anonymous said...

Listen, I feel the love for the Karrada and it's people ;-) but give ahl ilnajaf a lil credit as well :-)

Anonymous said...

By the way, that's not how you spell 'Karrada' it's Karrada...your not always right after all.

ahmed said...

ماجينا يا ماجينا
حلي الجيس و انطينا
تنطونا لو ننطيكم
بيت مكة نوديكم
هاي مكة المعمورة
مبنية بجص و نورة
ماجينا يا ماجينا
نور رمضان و جينا
طيب يا عمة الفطور
شنو السبب علمينا
السبب...السبب
مصانع تعليب كربلاء