Good Heavens! Look where we reach
February 18, 2008Headlines on Page nine of the Trinidad Express on Sunday February 17:
Baby Jesus back in Mom’s hands but….. ( Reference to a 15-month-old baby that was kidnapped from his home at Bon Air Arouca on February 10)
‘God’ shot dead in his bar ( A suspected drug lord from El Socorro nicknamed ‘God’ was shot down in a bar he owned by three men pretending to be customers.)
So Jesus was kidnapped and ‘God’ is dead. My word! Look where we reach. Nobody is safe in T&T anymore. Who can we turn to now? My beloved country, I grieve for you.
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Or is it “cry, the beloved country”?
Did you read Kim Boodram’s article on Trini nicknames? I tell you, nothing is as funny as a Trini sticking labels.
I had a real chupid neighbour.. he get stick with ‘Hoghead’ poor man. His brother was ‘Balaam’ (of the ass fame) and Balaam’s son was Baccando (skinny tall tree in Trinidad). Hoghead’s son was ‘Chest’ (he is a mechanic and fell asleep at work one day in his youth many years ago with a car’s engine on his chest, under the car – granted he was well drunk the night before).
I could go on and on, but your post reminds me that it’s not so much the religious aspect (i.e. Jesus and God) but the penchant for slinging a name to a man till he dead that is funny.
Sometimes the names are self-inflicted.I remember at a former place of employ there was a fella whose nickname was “Boom”. Apparently he was a former felon and was regularly sodomised in prison.. a fact he announced at every opportunity with some level of glee. He thus spoke of what happened to his “boom”, hence the nickname.