FAMOUS CUBAN PHRASES HISTORY: “THE DONKEY OF BAINOA”.
History tells that in the province of Havana there is a friendly and cozy village (Bainoa) where you could distinguish a small borriquillo that was loose in the streets of the small town.
Apparently he had no owner or he had died and left uncared for the donkey, people considered him an inhabitant of the population.
In one house they gave him corn, in another water. The harmless little animal wandered through the streets at his own pace and there was no shortage of people who tried to have fun at the expense of the horse’s precarious intelligence, doing all sorts of mischief and abuse. They gave him beer to drink and drunk him to see him do pirouettes in the streets trying to keep his balance, in a very comical way, and to have fun in his vulgar and cruel way.
At other times he was tied empty cans to his tail to watch him run scared from one end to the other of the small village. Thus, an endless number of other cruelties to which the unhappy spleen reacted, of course, according to his proverbial awkwardness. But it seems that their awkwardness is not so much as is credited, I am informed that the little animal used to knock on the door of the houses where they used to treat him with affection and gave him to eat or drink. This little village must be very grateful to this unfortunate and famous colt. The anodyne village came out of the anonymity of its habanera geography thanks to its peculiar animal, the burrito of Bainoa.
The Donkey of Bainoa, despite his notorious stupidity, proved to have more nobility than those who made him the object of his ridicule and mistreatment.
Unfortunately, at that time there were no animal protection societies, nor was there in the town that put an end to the outrages of those who had fun at the expense of the animal.
This is how the story of this burrito is engraved in the legend of the small town of Bainoa, provincia de la Habana.
Since then, when someone does stupid things, or commits such stupidity, they are often jokingly said: “That is dumber than the Donkey of Bainoa.”
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HISTORIA DE FRASES FAMOSAS CUBANAS: “EL BURRO DE BAINOA”.
La historia cuenta que en la provincia de la Habana existe un pueblecito simpático y acogedor (Bainoa) donde se distinguia un pequeño borriquillo que andaba suelto por las calles de este pequeño pueblito.
Al parecer no tenia dueño o éste había muerto y dejado sin cuidado al borrico, la gente lo consideraba un habitante más de la población.
En una casa le daban maíz, en otra agua. El inofensivo animalito deambulaba por las calles a sus anchas y no faltaba quien tratara de divertirse a costa de la precaria inteligencia del equino, haciéndole toda clase de maldades y abuses. Le daban de beber cerveza hasta emborracharlo para verlo hacer piruetas por las calles tratando de conservar el equilibrio, de una manera muy cómica, y para divertirse a su vulgar y cruel manera.
Otras veces le amarraban latas vacías al rabo para verlo correr asustado de una punta a la otra del pequeño poblado. Así, un sin fin de otras crueldades a las que la infeliz acémila reaccionaba, claro está, de acuerdo con su proverbial torpeza. Pero parece que su torpeza no es tanta como la que se le acredita, me informan que el animalito acostumbraba a tocar la puerta de las casas donde solían tratarlo con cariño y le daban de comer o de beber. Este pueblecito debe sentirse muy agradecido de este infeliz y famoso pollino. El anodino pueblecito salió del anonimato de su habanera geografía gracias a su peculiar animalito, el burrito de Bainoa.
El Burro de Bainoa, a pesar de su notoria estupidez, demostró tener más nobleza que los que lo hacían objeto de sus burlas y malos tratos.
Desafortunadamente, en aquella época no existían sociedades protectoras de animales, tampoco había en el pueblo quien pusiera fin a los desafueros de los que se divertían a costa del animalito.
Así es como la historia de este burrito se queda grabada en la leyenda del pequeño pueblo de Bainoa.
Desde entonces, cuando alguien hace cosas torpes, o comete tamaña estupidez, se suele decir en son de broma: “Ese es más burro que El Burro de Bainoa”.
Agencies/Juan Pérez/Bustamante/Internet Photos/ Arnoldo Varona/ TheCubanHistory.com
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