Conversation with Alex

Hi guys, I am almost done with my dissertation, so I'll be back in full force soon. I have so much to blog about, but in the meantime, enjoy this beautiful conversation I had with Alex the other day :)

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Alex: "I am just kidding"

Me: "Why do people say "just kidding" in place of "just joking"? If kidding originates from "kids" is it       because it is assumed that kids joke alot? Because I don't think all kids joke a lot... Some kids are very serious. Asin more serious than adults.. while some adults joke a lot. So why can't we say "just adulting"?

Alex: "Abbuurriigga buriiigogootosdbbfvnda jcbad" *that's his way of saying I am saying rubbish*

Me: "I can write a research paper on this... It is something to ponder on"

Alex: "The word "ponder" originated after the cold war, then most people used to watch "porn" but now people don't watch porn that much again, they watch action/romance/horror movies, so the word ponder should be replaced by "actionder" or "romanceder" or even "cartoonder"

Me: "You are such a fool..."

Alex: "LOL"

Me: "Did you know lol used to mean lots of love, but then people started saying it so much it had no more meaning, so when a guy tells a girl LOL, the girl just laughs.. Because she knows he doesn't mean it. Now the newer generation did not understand why people laughed out loud when someone told them "lol". So they just naively assumed LOL meant laugh out loud. That is why today people use lol as laugh out loud and not lots of love. Beat that niggga"


Alex: "Well, let me tell you a true story. First of all do you know the capital of Nigeria"

Me: "Abuja?"

Alex: "Ok, do you know how they chose the name? I guess not.. Not to worry, I'll tell you"

  "The original people there were called gwari people, known for violence and rituals. When Naija wanted a new capital, they sent some soldiers to check out that place. The soldiers went, but were attacked by the villagers. One of the soldiers was shot with an arrow and captured, the colleague that was with him by name Abubakar Ibrahim (popularly called Abu) wanted to rescue the wounded soldier, but seeing it would be a wasted effort, the injured soldier started shouting to his friend "Abu ja" (meaning Abu run in pidgin), the injured soldier was killed, and in his honor they decided to call the area the last thing the soldier said, hence ABUJA"

Me: "All in all.. I'll give you a 4 out of 10"

Alex: "My classic jokes"

Me: "Do you want to know the origin of classic?"

Alex: "Go on..."

Me: "Lol.. I have nothing to say"

Alex: "Dry!!"

Me: "Dry? Do you know that the word dry had only one meaning? it was the opposite of wet. Then in the late 1970s, with most countries finding oil, a small country in Africa still hadn't found oil in its grounds. 
One day, during a parliamentary meeting, one of the policy makers seeing the sad looks on the faces of the other parliamentary members, decided to crack a joke, and said "I am something, I am the state of our grounds. What am I?" the other parliamentary members all guessed out loud DRY. Seeing as their lands were actually dry. 
However, a foreign parliamentary member not knowing what was going on, thought the man cracked a rather uninteresting joke, and assumed "not funny" in their language was called "dry". Afterwards, he went back to his own village, and started calling dry the opposite of funny. Till today, people like you still say dry when you don't get the joke"


Of course, it is easy to see who the winner was.

This guy right here is my mentor.

Debbie :)