I know that graffiti is not to be encouraged but I was mightily amused by this addition to the town sign of Matata. Matata is a small town (population less than 900) on the Bay of Plenty coast of northern North Island, New Zealand.
Surely there can be few readers who will not know of the phrase from the song in The Lion King where a meerkat and a warthog, named Timon and Pumbaa respectively, teach the main character, a lion cub named Simba, that he should forget his troubled past and live in the present.
As for the phrase? It is a Swahili phrase that is literally translated as "There are no worries." It is sometimes translated as "no worries", although is more commonly used similarly to the American English phrase "no problem"
It'll not be too long now before I'm back in the land of my personal place where hakuna matata.
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GB, I wouldn't encourage graffiti either, but I did chuckle out loud at this!
ReplyDeleteThis is great......How you kept it to yourself is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteI like it and you know I'm well aware of that phrase {and movie} :)!!
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ReplyDeleteEven the most law-abiding citizen might find himself (or herself) tempted by this one!
ReplyDeleteSeeing that I have to wonder why it took so long to appear! You have some smart graffiti artists in your (other) part of the world!
ReplyDeleteIf only all random acts of graffiti were so morally uplifting, or even so creative!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great life you have, Godwit. You avoid winter and her miseries.
ReplyDeleteI came via another blogger that you play croquet. Just a block away from me, there is a croquet (field/ground?) at Pt Chevalier in Auckland.
That blogger is DawnTreader. Croquet holds emotions for me, my dad used to play it in London.
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