Dele Omotunde
What’s the meaning of that, “Taurus Me, Taurus You”?
KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU.
Na lie! Uro! Talk true nah! Abi ABBA dey sing for your ears?
Not a Case of ABA or OWERRI singing for my earlobes but I will talk true, the true and nothing but the true.
You mean the TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH? No be so?
Yaah! “Omi eko, eko nah ni”. Whether TRIBUTARY or DISTRIBUTARY na the same liquid content.
Na truth you ‘kill’. You no ‘assassinate’ LIE at all. So, you can “Spoke on”. You’re protected with executive BULLET-PROOF Crest “like no man has ever seen before”.
Hmm? I hope you are not quoting the unquotable man across the Mighty Ocean. Well, na you sabi your early Monday Morning gobbledegook, sha.
Taurus people are gentle, even tempered, modest and slow to anger. But woe betides whoever takes for granted their amiable character.
Leave that AGIDIGBO drumbeat for now. Spoke on! Permission granted for you to “suicide yourself” grammatically, if need be, on your own DAY on the QUICKSAND of TIME (on Facebook). O ya!
Thank you. As I was trying to say, MAY 4 is a Cool BD. Let everybody Come on Board and Know More. It’s turn by turn after all. Emilokan.Iwolokan! AWALOKAN, “Awa Omo MAY” Ready to make HAY while the MAY Sun shines.
Sure?
Sure. The Taurus group is here.
Who are they?
People born between April 20 and May 20 are the special of the Homo sapiens.
What makes them special,if I may ask, whether they are OMO “serpents” or OMO detergent?
OMO serpents ko, OMO snakes ni!
Wetin me I kuku know? Sebi you know say I no know book.
If you no know na today you go know say these people are of a special breed whether you label them OMO or SURF Detergent. Na you sabi that one. Me I no dey there. I don WARM you o!
“O ya, na straight like that iya alamala for Ibadan” make we see. We just dey hear sounds of Dundun and Shekere every time a new bunch of birthday guys is around. It is always celebration galore. And you can’t blame them. If you share birthday dates with notable figures like the late Queen Elizabeth II, who was born April 21 or Mike Adenuga, the founder of GLO who was born April 29…
I like that but how I wish you can concentrate more on the big names of the past before pointing in the direction of latter-day BULLS like the Mike Adenugas.
If you so wish, why not? By the way, have you heard of Catherine, the great?
Who the hell is so called?
Students of History know that Catherine was the Empress of Russia in the 18th Century who ruled Russia with “,enlightened absolutism”, (so they say) , expanding the territories of Russia and at the same time extending the frontiers of Russian Arts and Culture. Trust, na MAY Woman be that. Actually she was born on May 2. Great Taurus of the Eastern Bloc.
Really?
Other big names of history who are Taurus include Karl Marx, the revolutionary ideologue who was born on May 5 and Sigmund Freud , father of Psychoanalysis, May 6. And of course we have the great Florence Nightingale, celebrated English Nurse, May 12, who started the Nursing profession. And even we have a tough military guy called Moshe Dayan, the one – eyed Israeli military commander who became a household name during the (“Fast Food”)1967 Six-Day-war between Israel and Egypt. A tough Taurus in military fatigue, you would say?
Yes! Now, let me ask this, what are the common traits among these Tauruses that make them tick?
That’s asking what make Taurus people special among the rest. Abi? Or what makes them stand out in a crowd? Why do people like them?
That’s exactly what I want to know.
And I’m ready to give it to you as it is. “Loju Paali”. Wholesale! No colouration, no complexion, no circumlocution, no “operation Wonyosi”, just as it is. Taurus people are gentle, even tempered, modest and slow to anger. But woe betides whoever takes for granted their amiable character. That one na “ina piti”! Fire on the mountain! “Inanjo ogiri’osa”!
How do you mean ?
They are not easily irritated but when they are, which is very rare, they can explode into violent outbursts of ferocious anger in which they seem to lose all self control. No entreaties will move them as they will “tanda gidigba” like Olumo Rock on the same spot unmoved, unshaken.
Lobatan!
Na “rererun” be that!
Just don’t push a Taurus to the wall. If he loses his cool, a drunken bull in a china shop will be better behaved. You dare not, and I mean it. Don’t blow their fuse, I warn. To be forewarned is to be “five armed”. Sixarmed paapa! No be joke. Eewo! Taboo!! Tabunnde!!!
You don’t mean it, do you?! But I learnt these people are very cool, introverted sons and daughters of Adam (and Eve), how come they can so easily fall off the handle, just like that?!
Don’t misunderstand them. They are human beings like you and me, and when they are not angry, which is less seldom so, they have a strong aesthetic taste, enjoying ART, for which they may have talent, BEAUTY, especially of the environment, And, wait a minute, they do occasionally plunge into fits of humour, with a capital ‘H’, and, of course, MUSIC. They love the sound of music. And they can easily commune with the spirits of the floor with their naturally choreographed dance steps. You can bet on that! They are ever loaded with FUN, be it on the dance floor or on the canvas of creation. Talk less of in the class or staff room or whatever room!
Not like the famous Buhari Third Room, sha.
No, they are too serious, if not too saintly, for that kind of inner recesses shenanigans.
Alagba! Elonkoko? By the way can you spare a few seconds to intimate us of what their zodiac sign is.
The Bull, of course, while their ruling planet is Venus.
Venus like in Venus and Serena Williams, the legendary “tegbon taburo “ super lawn tennis stars?
“Kilanwi? Kininwi?” What are we saying? What are you talking about? Not that kind of Venus, nah.
Which Venus then, like in body cream on the Vanity table?
Just “farabale”. Be patient. In astrology, Venus is the ruling planet for Taurus. It represents: love and relationships, beauty and aesthetics, values and finances and, of course, PLEASURE and SENSUALITY..
Say that again! Pleasure and Sensu-“kinni”? Kilope?! Kilowi? Kiliwe?!
Here we go again. “As Taurus is an earth sign, Venus’s influence emphasizes practical sensual, and material aspects of LIFE. Tauruses are often drawn to comfort,beauty, and stability, valuing loyalty and sensual pleasures”.
Akiika! That word again?! Hope you won’t quote yourself into AISHA trouble, sha.
You now know why they call Mike Adenuga, the GLO man, the BULL. It represents his Zodiac Sign. Now coming nearer home, MAY 4, there are some world and local figures born on the 4th of May.
It is a spectacular DAY on the American calendar and people look at you with envy for belonging to this special breed of “Mayfarers”…
Who are the Mayfarers? Are they people who passed out of Tai and Sheila Solarin’s Mayflower School, Ikenne?
Suegbe! Maawo e! Look at you! Ikenne ko, Palm Kernel ni. We dey talk about IRU (locust bean) You think say na ORU (IJEBU) we dey talk about. Well, MAYFARER is a name coined to refer to all people born in the month of May and who are likened to wayfarers on the Road of Life, the journey everybody embarks on the very day they crawl out of the cradle. A journey that only terminates in the GRAVE. It is inevitable. It’s only the exact EXPIRY DATE that nobody knows.
Hmmm…Akiika! But why is May 4 so special and so spectacular?!
I don’t know of Naija but in America May 4th is famously known as “Star Wars Day” due to the pun on the phrase, “May the Force be with you” becoming “May the Fourth be with you”. I remember the day I was first made conscious of the special significance attached to May 4. It was at a clinic in Albany, NY, (that’s the capital of New York State) and as part of check-in formalities your DOB (date of birth) is as good as your paper ID. Immediately I mentioned May 4, “ 19 Kinninkan “, it was as if an African prince was in town. Almost everybody’s attention was focused on me. I didn’t know why the seeming commotion. Needless to say I was a little embarrassed until I got to know why. Yeyenatu!
Today I feel happy sharing same birthday, May 4, with figures like Stella Parton, singer, song writer, author, sister of the more famous Dolly Parton, my favourite Country music maestro (apart from Don Williams and Kenny Rogers) . She was born on May 4, 1949. Same with Cesc Fabregas of the Arsenal football FC fame who was born on May 4, 1987. There is also Jackie Jackson, a member of the famous Jackson family that produced the likes of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson of the famous (?) wardrobe malfunction…
Don’t push a Taurus to the wall. If he loses his cool, a drunken bull in a china shop will be better behaved.
Haba! Which one be that nah? Wetin concern wardrobe ‘accident’ for May 4?
Not to worry. “AJINOMOTO ni gbogbo e!” Don’t answer (mind?) me, jare.
Anybody from the homefront here?
Dem boku but as our people are wont to say, let’s allow “omo ko ku wa lati owo iya e”.
Itumo? What kind of gobbledegook be that? This is OJUELEGBA proper. Total confusion, Texaco disorientation and Mobil standstill! Chaos!
Hmmm…Baba Whizkid!
Let them celebrate themselves as they are wont to. All I can do is to wish them well as they mark a new May 4 milestone today. Let them forge ahead in the march towards the final denouement in glory with amazing grace.
Happy birthday to fellow Fourth of May-farers and all Taurus ladies and gentlemen who are lucky enough, like ME, to reach yet another milestone today. Happy New WE!
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