“Bloody Agent”

April 14, 2010

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  Download now or listen on posterous REVOLUTIONARY_HOUSE.mp3 (3995 KB) Posted via web from Gus Silber’s Twitter Overflow Blog

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Valentine

February 14, 2010

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  The things about you I appreciate May seem indelicate: I’d like to find you in the shower And chase the soap for half an hour. I’d like to have you in my power And see your eyes dilate. I’d like to have your back to scour And other parts to lubricate. Sometimes I feel… [Read more…]

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Untitled

February 11, 2010

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Mandela Posted via web from Gus Silber’s Twitter Overflow Blog

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Fun New Internet Game: Google se Engelse Vertalings vanaf Nuss24 se Webwerf

February 8, 2010

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Fishermen ask for help from Dirk’s ‘seksslaaf’ 2010-02-08 08:06 Cézanne Visser earlier outside the High Court in Pretoria, where evidence in mitigation of her sentence because of more among the indecent assault of children of today will be heard off (Liza van Deventer, Image). Related links Cézanne ‘tales “about Dirk’s verdict Jones is not extradited… [Read more…]

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The $30,000 Paycheque: a new South African Urban Legend?

January 10, 2010

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Heard from a friend at a braai, that a friend of his, a highly-qualified cellular telcoms techie, had been offered a job by a telco in the Gulf. He was tempted, and when they asked him what his earnings expectations were, he said he was earning 30k a month in South Africa. The prospective employers… [Read more…]

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The $30,000 Paycheque: a new South African Urban Legend?

January 10, 2010

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Heard from a friend at a braai, that a friend of his, a highly-qualified telcoms techie, had been offered a job by a telco in the Gulf. He was tempted, and when they asked him what his earnings expectations were, he said he was earning 30k a month in South Africa. The prospective employers were… [Read more…]

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No wonder we have a crime problem in South Africa. Here’s Woolworths, openly advocating shoplifting.

January 7, 2010

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I am reminded of the scene in “Take the Money and Run”, where Woody Allen, playing a small-time crook, painstakingly uses a diamond-cutter to saw a small circle of glass from the window of a store stocked with luxury goods. Then he saunters off, proudly carrying the small circle of glass in his hand. Sent… [Read more…]

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Zombietown RSA: the Secret Joys of Xmas in Johannesburg

December 29, 2009

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Once a year, for reasons known only to themselves, thousands of Johannesburgers flee their beautiful city to spend the summer high holidays in Clifton/Plett/Umhlanga or a whole bunch of other places that would be attractive and relaxing if they weren’t so full of Johannesburgers. Not that I’m complaining. Because from the beginning of the December… [Read more…]

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“They’ll call me Freedom, just like a Waving Flag”

December 19, 2009

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Somehow, I missed the memo about the official FIFA 2010 World Cup song, which I had automatically assumed was going to be a fusion of “World in Union”, Special Star”, and “Doo Be Doo”, each of which will be highly familiar to any South African who has ever had to hold on for the next… [Read more…]

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A Cartoon Invictus

December 8, 2009

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I am an amateur collector of original artwork by professional cartoonists, and this watercolour work has pride of place in my humble collection. It’s by Tinus Horn, a great South African caricaturist, and it first appeared in the Saturday Star a week after the Rugby World Cup Final at Ellis Park on June 24, 1995.… [Read more…]

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