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    Default Greek Proverbs in free translation (ellhnikes paroimies :P)

    Prin ligo mou steilan ena gamato mail me ta ekshs korufaia. Diabaste:

    You are definitely a Greek if:
    a.. you can distinguish between kefalotiri and kefalograviera
    b.. you can spell kefalograviera
    c.. you are an adult and you are forced to be with your family at
    midnight on new years eve
    d.. your grandmother (mother/aunt) has a miracle cure for everything
    e.. your mother (father) still feels the need to tell you, "katse kala"
    in public
    f.. you have ever been hit with a pandofla
    g.. you can dance kalamatiano, tsamiko, zebekiko without music
    h.. at every point in your life were not talking to at least one family
    member
    i.. you must name your children after your in-laws
    j.. you have at least 5 Maria's and 9 Dimitri's in your family as a
    result of the above
    k.. you have ever heard the phrase : "Sto leo yia to kalo sou"
    l.. you have a bottle of OUZO in your house right now
    m.. you know what a komboloi is
    n.. you know how to work a komboloi
    o.. you have been threatened to be eaten by the baboola/yero/pontiki
    when you were little
    p.. someone in your family owns any type of restaurant
    q.. your family inheritance includes olive trees
    r.. you can't understand why McDonald's rejected your idea for the
    "McFeta" sandwich

    And the final test:
    a.. Are you working me ?
    b.. You changed my lights
    c.. I did her from hand
    d.. Welcome my eyes the two
    e.. I've played them !
    f.. I made her lottery !
    g.. I stayed bone !
    h.. I saw the Christ soldier
    i.. It happened the come to see
    j.. Like the unfair curse
    k.. Something's running down to the gypsies
    l.. It didn't sit on us
    m.. He gives her to me
    n.. It breaks her to me
    o.. You owe me your horns
    p.. Who pays the bride ?
    q.. I don't know Christ
    r.. He doesn't understand Christ
    s.. Your mind and a pound and the painter's brush
    t.. It rains chair legs
    u.. I don't have face to come out in society
    v.. How from here morning morning ?
    w.. I don't know my blindness
    x.. I see it pale
    y.. This is dewatered !
    z.. You are for the festivals
    aa.. I don't chew
    ab.. Does the goat chew taramas ?
    ac.. Slow the cabbages !
    ad.. Catch the egg and mow it
    ae.. Are we gluing coffee pots ?
    af.. Marrows drums !
    ag.. Marrows with the oregano
    ah.. I made them salad - I made them sea
    ai.. We became robes - Robe unbuttoned !
    aj.. He ate bunch
    ak.. I throw you to the ears
    al.. Shit high and gaze !
    am.. Milk rabbits and mow turtles
    ao.. I take them to the skull
    ap.. Whatever you remember you are glad
    aq.. Are you asking and the change from over ?
    ar.. We confused our thighs
    as.. He farted me
    at.. Of the gay
    au.. She's taking him
    av.. The bad your weather !
    aw.. With this side to sleep
    ax.. Your eye the cross-eyed !
    ay.. I am dog bored
    az.. We did black eyes to see you
    ba.. Like the snooooows !
    bb.. He made us the three two
    bc.. I took my three
    bd.. You are a shopping
    be.. Shit and fromshit
    bf.. At the end they shave the groom
    bh.. You reckon without the hotel owner
    bi.. The madness doesn't go to the mountains
    bj.. Better your eye goes out than the name
    bk.. Will I take out the snake from the hole ?
    bl.. He sleeps with the hens
    bm.. He stuck me to the wall
    bn.. I'm sitting on ignited coals
    bo.. From here go and the others
    bp.. You will eat wood
    bq.. They returned me the entrails
    br.. He sat me on the neck
    bs.. I balded ! - You balded me !
    bt.. If ... [e.g. ARIS wins OSFP] ... pierce my nose
    bu.. You ate my ears
    bv.. Has the weather turnings
    bw.. I do the duck
    Ravel: There is no room for '2' in the world of 1's and 0's, no place for 'mayhap' in a house of trues and falses, and no 'green with envy' in a black and white world.

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