Category: News

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The National Skirt Extension Project

Life really is going south in SA – now even short skirts are prohibited according to this national program: While it is too late for an April fools joke (I noticed the first ad in the Sunday Times and this...

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The 2009 SA Blog awards

It’s the 5th annual 2009 South African Blog Awards, and the first time I am participating. So click on the link below (or on the sidebar) and nominate your favorite blogs: If you have your own blog, get your nomination...

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Apology to the Shrine Clowns

In a previous Friday Picture I posted a picture of a clown funeral. While I thought this was a staged event, I only found out today, that this was actual footage of a burial. I have subsequently removed the offending...

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The R114 roadsafety/upgrade petition

I travel the R114 (commonly known as the Lion Park Road between Lion Park and R511) frequently to drop my son off at school (Heronbridge College) and on the way to work. The road is covered in potholes with taxis...

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Rabobi – iSpiderman!

I have always been an eternal optimist, and whenever destiny throws me a boomerang of bad luck (such as the recent spider-bite), I throw it right back at her. Three days in hospital brought on enough boredom and a good...

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Fuck Little Miss Muffet

So little Miss muffet had the wrong idea and snuggled up with me on New Year’s Eve. It is not unusual to wake up on 1st January with an enormous headache, shaking body and a dry mouth. I was still...

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Happy New Year 2009

New Year’s Eve, 1999, was supposed to be as far as it got for humanity. Thanks to short-sighted computer programmers, automated missile launching systems, some form of bug, and the accurate prophecies of Nostradamus, this was the big one; the...

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Around the dinner table

With all the social gatherings with family and friends during the festive season, you are about to run into one of those mundane “I-wish-I-was-somewhere-else” events – that’s when I took mental note of the following “double-ended” conversations over turkey and...

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Woolworth’s gone bankrupt?

I have not really followed international news and became only today aware that Woolies in the UK has gone under administration and failed to be sold to a buyer. With 5th January 2009, 32,000 workers will be on the street...