1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.
5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

yah palpali,

bumper sticker wud be :

"i got this vehicle as a daijo"

only in nepal do people say "e" in front of every english word that starts with an "s"
"e-school jaane"
"e-student"
"e-skush" (you know, squash!)
"sir le e-stick le pitnubhayo"
WHAT IS THAT?!?!

keep them coming guys, good ones Confused and Palpali.

I was trekking in Nepal with my American friends and the repeating words is the first thing they noticed, every morning Sherpas would bring tea into the tent and go like
" Chia Chia", and when ready to walk go " Jum Jum", and to rest "Rest Rest". They spoke english the same way repeating like "Eat Eat" etc. Gotto love it.

another true story Palpali:

A Nepali guy new in DC area got a ride from a non-nepali and was asked to drop him off at YUM Estreet, after driving around town for 1 hour the driver figured out "M" street.

Only in America do people a short sleeves shirt outside longsleeves and sideways baseball hat

Hamro gam tira:

They put "road closed" sign right at the trouble spot that caused the road to close.

--- hunchha ni---batako bich.cha ma yatro khaldo khanera chhodya hunchha pipe ko kam garne rey bhanera--khanne ko atto patto hudaina ---ani tyai khaldo sangai "road closed" sign alapatra pari ra hunchha--raato taalo sangai linthinga---tyo khaldo khanya batama chhirne thau tira po road closed bhanera sign rakhnu parchha---aba tyai khaldo samma pugise ta everyone knows bato banda re chha bhanera---kya bore garne bhane--

bedrock, that wasn't you, was it?!?! funny though. and i love short sleeves outside long sleeves, but i did see a few nepalis doing that too.

only in america do they sell shot glasses in school bookstores (encouraging underage students to drink, perhaps....)
if they had shot (raksi) glasses in school bookstores in nepal:
"shree saraswati ma.vi. GO SWANS!"
"shree garuda ma.vi. GO EAGLES!"

you get the idea.....

only in america do we have way more than we need:
in america we can find two toilets in one house, in nepal we can find one toilet for two houses

in america we can find 3 sinks in one house, in nepal we can find one water tap for three families

only in nepal do people "namaste" electricity when it comes back on ("line aayo!!!")

nly in Nepal
you eat Daal Bhat Tarkari three times a day, 365 days a year.

tauko dukhe ni Cetamol, Pet duke pani cetamol, Ghau bhaye pani cetamol, Jiu haat dukhe pani cetamol

exactly. that's the reason I am allergic to cetamol.

Only in Nepal, you have to have strong index fingers to stop the safa tempo. For that glorious "twakka" sound.
Only in Nepal, you have to be really cautious when walking alongside a beautiful girl during holi to avoid all those lolas which will come every two houses.

Only in Nepal
do people never use an Answering Machine
People have to say "At the Rate" while giving out the email address
Ambulances are seen while taking kids to / from school

hahaha " at the rate" hahahahhaha....

passinthru- that "twakka" sound is awesome, my knuckles are still hurting..
only in nepal motorcylce is known as honda e.g Kawasaki honda, Yamaha honda, Suzuki honda (this is pretty classic)

Only in Nepal do we call

Glass, Geelass
Film, Feelem
Time, Tam
Park, Parak
Form, Faram
Pant, PiEnt

Bedrock, that YUM was hilarious. In fact I know a nepal here in US who still says that, and what about "fa ave" for "five?"

i may add some more to the above list

Cement = Cebanti
Tank = Tanki
Doctor = Dangdor
Bank - Baink
Cinema = Saynima

un sacchi,

brush = burush
crewcut = burush cut

Alexander = Sikandar
Jack = Jug (you know to lift the car)
Coal Tar = Alcatra
Tool = martol

chewing gum, famously know as GUm in america is said to be "CHING GUM" in Nepal..\\

hahaha hahaha..and till today i havent understood, what is one one za one?? or two two za four?? i understand 1 times 1 is 1 or 2 times 2 is 4, but how did "za" evolve in nepal..hahah thats halarious..

I suspect that evolved from:

two one is a two
two two is a four
two three za six.......u get the idea........well, thats my guess

Confused, that was funny. It brings back memories of sitting on the floor "pallati kasay rey" early in the morning and reciting the tables loudly.

I love this part of Sajha.....its really cool to read such stuffs...while reading i cant control my self to add some....

ONly in America We dont eat regular foods...We give baal to our diet........KHali khayo Bhane Pani masu bhat...kina ki pakauna pani sajilo ra sasto pani ra nepali lai k chaiyo......

One=Wone
Eight=aight

thats all!!

only in nepal is your status of wealth directly proportionate to your access to milk

curriculum- karikaram

they may call chewing gum "ching gum" in nepal, but they also call paste "gum"!

my students could never say "now"....it always came out like "meow"

In Nepal,

Milk = Mi-lik
H = Yach
L= Yal

We dunn need those tracks for dirt bike races in Nepal ! Most of the bikes are dirty ( esp. during the raing season), and then there are the innumerable potholes and the speed breakers @ silly places and the black top chipping here and there, and dangerously samll curves and yada yada!

Anyone up for Formula One ?

P.S. great driving pratice tho!