Two emails that I received this week deserve
to be answered on a public forum.
Both mails referred to the posting of ‘half-naked’
girls on the site.
The first mail enquired very simply ‘Why is all
girls light-skin.’
The second one was a fanatical outcry
against the ‘evil practice of sexism against women.’
Old hat I know, but I every so now and again get this
kind of mail.
In answer to the first
mail:
‘There is obviously something wrong with your sight.
You seem to be enquiring as to why all the girls in the
world have light skin. This are not true, and if all the
girls in the world appear to have light skin to you, I
strongly recommend that you consult an ophthalmologist.
If perhaps you meant 'Why is all girls (on the yummie
galleries) light-skinned,' this are also not true. At
the very least go see an optician.’
As for the second mail:
‘Once, when I was managing the Galaxy, the club
hosted a Boy’s Night party. The poster advertising
the event on the street poles had a sexy girl in a bikini
on it.
This was the time when PAGAD (People Against Gangsterism
And Drugs) were on the rampage, killing suspected gangsters
and drug dealers at random.
Subsequently I got a call from an organization called
M.A.O (Muslims Against Oppression), who were insanely
offended by the poster
The conversation ended with the guy telling me ‘We
know who you are brother. We know where you live. I suggest
that you start watching your back.’
So, you don’t scare me anonymous111@hotmail.
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ANOTHER FOOLPROOF BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITY - Monday 30 March 2009
As with religion, fear of the unknown
and curiosity in the future is a human trait that presents
and ideal business opportunity.
Most people have no qualms about using
their hard-earned money to invest in the church and thereby
secure their future in the hereafter.
Likewise, fortunetellers, psychics and clairvoyants do
a roaring trade all over the world.
I personally know some pastors who wear
Armani suits as a rule, and I have already written about
the ‘Dukum’
with the BMW, and designer dogs who is a regular at
the Palace of The Lost City.
But, imagine you were able to get government
funding as start-up capital to launch your business to
teach people how to "communicate with the dead".
This is exactly what happened to Paul
and Deborah Rees who have been awarded £4 500 under
the Government's Want2Work job creation scheme for their
center the Accolade Academy of Psychic and Mediumistic
Studies in Wales.
Mr Rees, 40, a former upholsterer, said:
"People who have lost mums and dads or a child deserve
all the respect in the world in their grieving, and they
deserve a medium who can give them that respect.
Worth proposing to the DTI?
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I STARTED PLAYING THE
PIANO IN MY MOTHER’S WOMB - Friday 27 March 2009
Ok, as far as singing goes, I don’t
think that she is exactly a Charice Pempengco or even
a Bianca Ryan.
If you haven’t heard these girls sing you’d
better go and search for them now on youtube.
They are nothing short of sensational.
Charice and Bianca are now both about
16-years-old I think.
Gabi Wilson is 10-years-old, and is an
accomplished pianist, bass guitarist and drummer. Her
singing is not too shabby either.
In one of the interviews posted on youtube she tells the
presenters that she used to hear her dad’s band
practicing while she was still in her mother’s womb,
and that is where her talent stems from.
She is also a published poet and a straight
A’s student.
Her confidence during the interview and while performing
is mind-blowing.
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MAKE FREE CALLS FROM
YOUR MOBILE - Thursday 26 March 2009
Like me, I am sure many of you are aware
of web-based instant messaging and free calls on Skype.
We are also very familiar with exhorbitant tarrifs by
both Telkom and mobile servers when it comes to actually
‘making that call’.
Classic voice over IP (VoIP) is old technology,
but we had to wait a while while Telkom figured out how
to monetize and monopolize it.
The good news is that Mobile VoIP is about
to become mainstream.
This software allows you to talk and instant message via
your handset’s internet connection
It is global, good quality, ready to use and mostly free.
You will still pay for your internet connection, but not
for the calls.
Skype, Fring, Nimbuzz, Truphone and others
are all offering mVoIP through your cellphone's Internet
connection.
One of the top rated is Nimbuzz, as it
works across popular communities like Skype, Yahoo, Google
Talk, Windows Live Messenger and social networks like
Facebook and Myspace.
You can download the free sofware by visiting
www.getnimbuzz.com diectly
from your cellphone’s web browser.
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ENTER
THE KOMODO DRAGON - Wednesday 25 March 2009
I thought that Jurassic Park was a film
on how things used to be on earth a few million years
ago.
On the island of Komodo off the coast of Indonesia, Jurassic
Park is alive and well.
Yesterday, two Komodo dragons mauled 31-year-old
fruit-picker Muhamad Anwar, when he fell out of a sugar-apple
tree.
He died shortly afterwards at a clinic on the neighboring
island of Flores.
Known as ora
buaya darat (The Land Crocodile) by locals,
the Komodo dragon grows up to 3m and on average weighs
around 70kg.
They are carnivores that feed largely
on carrion, but they will also ambush live prey with a
stealthy approach. When suitable prey arrives near a dragon's
ambush site, it will suddenly charge at the prey and go
for the underside or the throat.
Komodo dragons have also been observed knocking down large
pigs and deer with their strong tail.
With
larger prey, like horses, cows, humans and even
baby elephant, the dragons eat by tearing large
chunks of flesh and swallowing them whole while
holding the carcass down with their forelegs. For
smaller prey up to the size of a goat, their loosely
articulated jaws, flexible skull, and expandable
stomach allow it to swallow its prey whole.
After digestion, the Komodo dragon regurgitates
a mass of horns, hair, and teeth known as the gastric
pellet, which is covered in malodorous mucus. After regurgitating
the gastric pellet, it rubs its face in the dirt or on
bushes to get rid of the mucus, suggesting that it, like
humans, does not relish the scent of its own excretions.
They are known to consume humans and human
corpses, and often dig up bodies from graves.
Komodo dragons also possess virulent bacteria
in their saliva, and if an initial bite does not kill
the prey and it escapes, it will commonly succumb within
a week to the resulting infection.
The video is quite gruesome, so if you
are in the least bit sqeamish, rather not watch it.
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ALCOHOL SURVIVES THE
ECONOMIC SLUMP - Tuesday 24 March 2009
The economic crunch is causing a lot of
stress. People are losing their cars and houses and they
are extremely concerned with job security.
Businesses are folding, others are downscaling and people
are losing their jobs left right and center.
This is causing widespread stress and worry for most.
Historically, it is proven that when times
are tough, people turn to escapism.
Any business offering a temporary escape from reality
thrives in hard times.
No wonder then that alcohol sales are going strong.
In South Africa, liquor shops and companies
have reported little or no change in figures in recent
months, with South African Breweries even reporting a
slight increase in sales, and revenue generation at Tops
liquor stores at Spar is still doing "exceedingly
well."
Interestingly, the market trend also reflects
how ego and image driven we still are. We would rather
die than dent our image.
Statistics show
that liquor stores have seen a sharp swing to cheaper
brands. From Jamesons to First Watch, from Peroni
to Castle.
But, it seems that this is so because the cheaper
brands can be consumed in the privacy of your home.
Away from the public eye.
In clubs, restaurants
and bars people are still drinking premium brands
even though they can barely afford it.
This is because here they are drinking in public,
and they have an image to maintain.
There is also a shift from cheap whiskey
to brandy.
There is not much difference in price between a cheap
whiskey and a premium brandy, and a premium brandy is
far cheaper than a premium whiskey.
Most importantly, the image is intact.
At least in your own mind.
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WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS
WHAT YOU GET - Monday 23 March 2009
There are three main types:
literal optical illusions that create images that are
different from the objects that make them, physiological
ones that are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive
stimulation of a specific type (brightness, tilt, color,
movement), and cognitive illusions where the eye and brain
make unconscious inferences.
In the first example, the horizontal and
vertical lines are actually perfectly straight. The dots
in the squares create the illusion of a 3d effect
Now, stare at the dot in
the centre, and then move your head away from and back
towards the screen, while keeping your eyes fixed on the
dot The wheels turn. This picture is not animated. You
can copy and paste it anywhere for the same result..
And finally, a real scary
one.
View the video in full screen mode. Stare at the image
until prompted to look away.
Then look at anything else. You friends face, the picture
on the wall.
Look at the skin on your arm to be truly amazed. Its best
to allow video to load fully before viewing it.
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EXPERT MARKETING
SERVICES - Friday 20 March 2009
Advertising agencies and professional
consultants are coining it.
It is common practice for companies to outsource their
marketing campaigns to these professionals, to ensure
that comprehensive studies and a complete knowledge of
the potential client is effectively incorporated into
the campaign.
Let’s say the company is introducing a product to
assist chickens in crossing the road.
This is what the advertising agency’s report would
be like.
Deregulation of the
chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant
market position. The chicken was faced with significant
challenges to create and develop the competencies required
for the newly competitive market (NCM). Andersen Consulting,
in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the
chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy
and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration
Model (PIM) Andersen helped the chicken use its skills,
methodologies, knowledge capital and experience (SMKCE)
to align the chicken's people, processes and technology
(PPT) in support of its overall strategy (OS) within a
Program Management framework (PMF). Andersen Consulting
convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and
best chickens along with Andersen consultants with deep
skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day
itinerary of meetings (TDIM) in order to leverage their
personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and
to enable them to synergize with each other in order to
achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully
architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value
framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median
processes (PCMP). The meeting was held in a park like
setting enabling and creating an impactful environment
(IE) which was strategically based, industry-focused,
and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market
message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision,
and core values (MVCV). This was conducive towards the
creation of a total business integration solution (TBIS).
Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become
more successful.(MS)
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DEALING WITH THE ECONOMIC
MELTDOWN - Thursday 19 March 2009
Three women strapped a corpse to a wheelchair
to collect his pension.
The women apparently "borrowed" the wheelchair
from the Post Office in Witbank, and strapped the man
by the waist and legs to the wheelchair.
When witnesses told them that the man looked uncomfortable,
one of the women held his head in her hands to stop it
from falling forward.
Post Office clerks refused to hand over
the pension money because it was obvious that the man
was dead.
But the after the women pleaded, saying they did not have
money to bury him, they were handed R960.00
This being South Africa, the supervisor made an imprint
of the corpse’s thumb before paying out the money.
The women then carried the corpse back to their car and
returned the Post Office's wheelchair.
Meanwhile, in Europe last year, Enric
Duran took out 68 loans from 39 banks by using fake documents.
He used the R8.25-million lent to him to fund an anti-capitalist
magazine that was distributed for free.
"I stole from those who steal the most from us to
denounce and build an alternative society," he wrote
in the magazine.
He said he had given banks various fake reasons for seeking
loans, from purchasing a car to renovating an apartment
or buying audiovisual equipment for a non-existent firm.
He was apparently demonstrating how capitalists operated.
Duran, who has been on the run in South
America since September last year, was arrested in Spain
recently.
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BRAZIL IN MOZAMBIQUE
FOR 2010 Wednesday 18 March 2009
I am eventually beginning to realise the
magnitude of what hosting the 2010 Fifa World Cup could
mean for South Africa.
China has injected a total of $60m to
construct a stadium in Mozambique as a way of tapping
into the 2010 World Cup tournament.
A vittoria
e certa?
Mozambique is hoping to entice
fellow Portuguese-speaking teams, including Brazil, to
train at the stadium.
Chinese and Mozambican construction teams
are not fazed by the fact that they have only a few months
in which to complete the stadium if they expect teams
to come and train there.
On the site on the Maputo outskirts, the
Chinese have set up a small village with a vegetable garden,
communal dormitories, dining and bathroom areas, and a
ping-pong table.
"They work very hard - 24 hours -
and they look for daily results," said Jose de Sousa
Pereira, the Mozambican sports ministry spokesperson.
"They are high performance workers, so we are learning
from them, this culture of working."
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SPY MINISTER’S
WIFE IMPLICATED IN DRUG DEAL -Tuesday 17 March 2009
Tessa Beetge, a 31-year-old South African
woman, was arrested in Brazil in June last year, when
en route to Johannesburg, a 9kg block of cocaine was discovered
in a her suitcase at Sao Paolo airport.
Beetge has implicated the wife of South
Africa’s newly appointed Minister of Intelligence
Siyabonga Cwele.
Sheryl Cwele, a high-ranking municipal
official on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, is linked to
the unemployed Margate woman, Tessa Beetge, through scores
of e-mails and sms’.
One email, sent from Cwele’s official
email address on June 4th, contains flight arrangements
for Beetge from Peru’s Lima airport to Sao Paolo,
and one of the sms' states that Beetge would receive R25
000.00
Cwele claims that the sms’ were
sent as a favor to Beetge, who had told her parents that
Cwele organized the trip, and that she –Beetge –
needed to prove this.
She also denies any knowledge of Beetge being in Peru.
Over 30 sms’ Sheryl?
And the flight details emailed to her when she was indeed
in Peru Sheryl?
Beetge’s parents, who had accompanied
their daughter to Cwele’s office in Uvongo to discuss
the trip, claimed Cwele had offered their daughter a job,
and had told them that Tessa would be sent to London to
do administrative work and would return home on June 5.
Where there is smoke there is usually
fire, and police have confirmed that Cwele is under investigation.
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BODY
OF VAMPIRE UNEARTHED - Monday 16 March 2009
It turns out that Braam Stoker’s
1897 novel ‘Dracula was not entirely original.
He simply took an ancient myth and commercialized it by
depicting an aristocratic and elegant blood drinker as
opposed to the more gruesome - and possibly original -
middle ages suspected vampires.
An archaeological dig near Venice has
unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick
stuck between her jaws - evidence, experts say, that she
was believed to be a vampire.
It was common practice for mass graves
to be re-opened to bury fresh corpses during epidemics
like the plague.
Diggers would often find older corpses that were bloated,
with blood seeping out of their mouths and with an inexplicable
hole in the shroud used to cover their face.
Today we know that these characteristics
are all tied to the decomposition of corpses, but in the
Middle Ages they saw people who were undead.
They believed that these corpses slept during the day,
but at night drank blood and ate their shrouds in order
to sustain themselves.
The stake-in-the-heart popularized by
later literature and movies was not enough to kill vampires
during the Middle Ages.
They believed that a brick or stone had to be forced into
the undead creatures mouth so that it would starve to
death.
The well-preserved skeleton was found
in 2006 on the Lazzaretto Nuovo island, north of the lagoon
city, amid other corpses buried in a mass grave during
an epidemic of plague that hit Venice in 1576.
AN
UNLIKELY END FOR A COOL MILLION - Friday 13 March
[ South
Africa ] The Reserve Bank has decided what to do
with the R1-million found in a mud-covered cooler box
this week. Full Story...
This was the headline on
IOL today.
So what do you notice that does not make sense. Oh shit.
I forgot this is South Africa.
It does make sense after all.
After posting the story about
25-year-old Rodgers
Nkuna who discovered R1.5-million in a cooler box
I noticed another report on the story.
In this report the amount was a bit vague - ‘more
than R1-million.’
Then today I saw this one
stating clearly ‘R1-million.’
This is easily explainable.
Maybe the initial count was an estimate. Maybe the second
count was wrong.
Nkuna reported the find to
the police and the SAPS took possession of the cooler
box.
Gauteng SAPS spokesperson
Senior Superintendent Eugene Opperman has now stated that
the R50 and R20 notes were all stained and soaked in mud.
"It was not counterfeit money, but it was totally
damaged. The wet ground and the mud have made it impossible
for the notes to be re-used. We will hand over the money
to the Reserve Bank and they will destroy it," he
said.
What?.....stained
and soaked in mud? All the notes? In a closed cooler box?
Hand it over to the reserve bank? All of it? Destroyed?
All of it?
I know exactly how R1.5-million
became R1-million.
Don’t you.
Come on.
SAPS? Used R50 and R20 notes? No one knows who it belongs
to or where it comes from? No paper trail?
After writing this story
I clicked on the IOL link to read the full story.
Just to make sure that I got my facts right, you know.
I was disappointed to see that in the actual article it
is stated that ‘the notes were worth R1.5-million.’
Jeez!
One can’t even depend on the corruption in this
country anymore.
Or maybe they meant ‘were
worth R1.5-million’ but ‘now
worth R1-million.’
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THE LOTTO MURDERER -
Thursday 12 March 2009
Junaid-Jason Canterbury
from Kulsriver was South Africa’s youngest Lotto
winner when, aged 19, he won the Lotto jackpot of R6.7-million
in 2003.
Jason refused the free services of financial advisors
offered by the Lotteries board.
In
2006 Jason was arrested for murder.
It is claimed that Canterbury turned to
drug dealing and gangsterism when his money started to
run out, and everyone is astounded that he could have
wasted his life and the money in this way.
The nicknames of the people involved in
the trial tell a story of its own.
Jason himself is known as ‘Pang’. The murder
victim is Henry ‘No Rules’ Stevens.
The co-accused is Wilfred ‘Wimpie’ Gouws –himself
murdered the day after he was named the gunman in court
– and Russell ‘Sniper’ Johannes.
One of the state witnesses is called ‘Montas’,
and in the public gallery sat none other than Quinton
‘Mr Big’ Marinus.
Jason is simply a product of the Cape
Flats.
Every youngster who grows up on the Cape Flats, aspire
to, and dreams of one day being a big-time gangster.
R6.7-million made it possible
for Jason to realize his dream.
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THE PRETORIA DRUG MULE
- Tuesday 10 March 2009
Guilty or Extremely Naïve?
I am not sure if 41-year-old Zenolia Du
Plooy from Pretoria is innocent, as she claims.
I find it hard to believe that people can be so naïve,
but do contend that there really are people out there
who are.
What I do know is that the Nigerian drug cartels are ruthless
and that they are very active in South Africa.
Zenolia
was divorced last year. She went through a deep
depression and lost her job as she was admitted
to clinics so often. Then she got a job with a Nigerian
group who claimed to import and export African clothing.
Extensive international travel with all expenses
paid was one of the perks of this ‘job’
Happier
Times
Her first trip was to Venezuela.
Her story goes that one evening while waiting
for one of her Nigerian colleagues in the lobby of her
hotel in Venezuela, someone grabbed her bag and ran away.
Her bosses bought her a new bag, and it was this one that
she packed for her trip back to South Africa.
I must admit that this defense is so lame that it is probably
true.
The rest is history.
Du Plooy was arrested when airport security found 799g
of cocaine hidden in the compartments of her bag.
Apparently, in Venezuela you are guilty if found in possession
of drugs. They are not interested in investigations.
Her lawyer told her that if she pleaded guilty she would
be sentenced to eight years in prison. If she pleaded
not guilty, she would get a far heavier sentence.
So she signed an admission of guilt document.
Venezuela's prisons are notorious for
violence, drugs and weapons. In 2007, 498 of the 21 201
prisoners were murdered.
Also, prisoners have to sustain themselves in prison and
have to buy their own food, blankets, toiletries, medication
etc.
Imagine that you were determined to make
a lot of money.
Imagine that you were unscrupulous in your quest to make
this money, and that you did not care how you went about
getting the money.
Imagine you were a gigolo and that you
managed to charm a super rich heiress to give you close
to R90-million.
Would that be enough for you or would you want more?
Swiss-Italian
gigolo Helg Russak, also known as Helg Sgarbi, seduced
46-year-old BMW heiress Suzanne Klatten, and enjoyed
several trysts with her in places like the South
of France, Monte Carlo and Munich.
During one of these trysts, Mr Sgarbi
is said to have unloaded a terrifying personal problem
on to his girlfriend: he told her that, while travelling
in the United States, he had been involved in a car smash
during which a child had died. The child's parents were
members of the Italian-American mafia, they blamed him
for the death and they wanted millions in compensation,
or Mr Sgarbi was in trouble. Mrs Klatten gave him €7m
"to get the mafia off his back".
She gave him the money in the underground
garage of the Holiday Inn in a cardboard box containing
14 plastic folders each with a thousand €500 banknotes.
But this was enough for Helg.
He then asked her to leave her husband
and put €290m into a trust to fund their new life
together.
When she refused, he demanded €50m, threatening to
send compromising video footage of the two together to
the press and to her husband, among others.
She went to the police and Sgarbi was
arrested at the meeting place where Klatten was supposed
to hand over the money.
During his trial, it came to light that
Sgarbi had conned at least four other billionaire heiresses
in exactly the same way.
He was sentenced to six years in prison. R450-milliom
richer?
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FATMAN ON A ROLL - Monday
9 March 2009
In 2006, Mexican Manuel Uribe entered
the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s heaviest
man.
He weighed 560kg.
The
world's heaviest man still can't walk, but he will
soon be able to roll.
In fact, he is already on
a roll!
In October last year, 43-year-old Uribe,
who has spent most of the last six years confined to his
bed, married 38-year-old Claudia Solis.
A flatbed truck was brought in to tow his custom-made
bed decorated with a canopy, flowers and gold-trimmed
bows to the wedding at a local event hall!
For the traditional first dance as newlyweds, Uribe and
Solis held hands and swayed to a romantic ballad.
Solis wasted no time in putting
her new husband on a diet and he has apparently lost 226kg.
Now Manuel is having a Chevrolet Astrovan converted into
an open-air, flatbed pickup of sorts. Manuel says he will
put a bed on the back of the van to drive around town,
with his new wife at the wheel.
Manuel, whose friends call him Meme, says
‘I am going to call it the Mememobile, just like
the Batmobile.
Surely you mean Fatmobile Meme?
When at home, he will hang out in a remodelled
garage that will include a forklift to help raise his
regular bed up to the level of his car bed, allowing him
to switch locations from time to time.
As soon as he can roll that is.
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DOGFIGHT TO RULE THE
WORLD - Friday 6 March 2009
The Americans and Russians, at the height
of the arms race, realized that if they continued in the
usual manner they were going to blow up the whole world.
One day they sat down and decided to settle the whole
dispute with one dog fight. They'd have five years to
breed the best fighting dog in the world and whichever
side's dog won would be entitled to dominate the world.
The losing side would have to lay down its arms.
The Russians found the biggest, meanest
Doberman and Rottweiler ------- in the world and bred
them with the biggest meanest Siberian wolves. They selected
only the biggest and strongest puppy from each litter,
killed his siblings, and gave him all the milk. They used
steroids and trainers and after five years came up with
the biggest meanest dog the world had ever seen. Its cage
needed steel bars that were three inches thick and nobody
could get near it.
When the day came for the fight, the
Americans showed up with a strange animal. It was a nine-foot
long Dachshund. Everyone felt sorry for the Americans
because they knew there was no way that this dog could
possibly last ten seconds with the Russian dog.
When the cages were opened up, the Dachshund
came out and wrapped itself around the outside of the
ring. It had the Russian dog almost completely surrounded.
When the Russian dog leaned over to bite the Dachshund's
neck, the Dachshund reached out and consumed the Russian
dog in one bite. There was nothing left at all of the
Russian dog.
The Russians came up to the Americans,
shaking their heads in disbelief. `We don't understand
how this could have happened. We had our best people working
for five years with the meanest Doberman and Rottweiler
in the world and the biggest, meanest Siberian wolves."
"That's nothing," an American
replied. "We had our best plastic surgeons working
for five years to make a crocodile look like a Dachshund."
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A COBRA IN YOUR CAR -
Thursday 5 March 2009
The Mozambique spitting cobra, or M’fezi
as it known locally, is a deadly reptile whose venom attacks
the central nervous system.
Imagine you were driving along merrily in peak traffic
on a mountain pass when you felt something on your leg.
Looking down, you see an 85cm spitting cobra winding itself
around your leg, its head close to your knee.
Without an inkling of a doubt, I would panic. Wildly.
I would slam on the brakes and jump out
the car before it even stooped. I would not care about
traffic and mountain passes. I would jump out screaming,
and I would probably be dead now.
Not so with
Gordon Pallet, a 69year-old Pretoria man who was driving
from the Kruger National Park with his 65-year-old wife.
Gordon remained calm and
told his wife they had a ‘passenger’!
They stopped at a taxi
rank in Hazyview, but being a South African, Gordon knew
that it would not be safe to get out and leave the car
at a taxi rank, as the car would be stolen, and they would
probably be robbed.
So, he drove to a reptile park in Hazyview, but they couldn’t
find the snake.
Brave Gordon drove on
and again the snake appeared next to his foot, but he
couldn’t stop because he was on a pass.
At Sabie they stopped again, but again couldn’t
find the snake.
"About 15km from
Lydenburg the snake wound itself around my left leg and
ankle. Its head came up to my knee.
"The traffic was heavy and it was raining hard, but
I kept calm," he said.
Just before Lydenburg the couple stopped and enquired
about a snake expert. Hein Geldenhuys, 49, was called.
After dropping his wife off at a guesthouse, Gordon drove
to Geldenhuys's house.
Geldenhuys caught the cobra.
"All you could see was venom flying," Gordon
said.
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CRIME DOES PAY - Wednesday
- 4 March 2009
Are we really expected to be that gullible,
or is this just another confirmation that our government
does not care what we think or feel?
The Department of Correctional Services is so far keeping
mum about the reasons why convicted fraudster Schabir
Shaik has been paroled.
Read More…….
Shaik was convicted of fraud and corruption in relation
to payments to then Deputy Prime Minister Jacob Zuma.
Read More……
On Tuesday Shaik was delivered to his
family home in an ambulance with a bakkie full of officials
from Correctional Services in tow, two years and four
months after he was sentenced to an effective fifteen
years in prison.
In terms of the law, a prisoner can only
receive medical parole if they are in the last stages
of terminal illness.
When reporters asked for comment on his
release, his brother Yunus told them to ‘Hold that
thought.’
Here is the thought that I am holding
Yunus.
Here are a few thoughts that I am holding Yunus.
1. Schabir is not ‘in the last stages
of a terminal illness’
2. Schabir’s money is what got him out of jail –
or rather hospital, because that’s where he has
been since being sentenced.
3. Schabir’s connections orchestrated his release
4. If you are properly connected in South Africa you are
not an ordinary criminal.
5. The ANC never forsakes it’s own.
6. Depending on who you know, crime does pay – at
least in South Africa it does.
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SEX AT THE WORLD CUP
- Tuesday 3 March 2009
South Africa’s National Department
of Health has announced that
they will work closely with police to control prostitution
during next year’s Soccer World Cup.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors from
all over the world are expected at the tournament, and
like most other businesses, prostitutes are looking forward
to a bumper period.
But, the only details that the health
department has revealed is that ‘pamphlets will
be widely distributed to warn visitors of the dangers
of sexually transmitted diseases’ and especially
HIV/Aids.
This simply creates a greater opportunity
for the international prostitution rings that already
largely control the sex industry in South Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest number
of people infected with Aids in the world, and using the
services of a local prostitute is already very risky.
I can picture the pamphlets advertising
the services of international prostitutes in South Africa,
being distributed along with the ones warning of the dangers
of aids.
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HOW TO MAKE A MILLION
BUCKS - Monday 2 March 2009
It seems that the easiest way to make
a million is to sell something to someone who has more
money than they know what to do with.
So what exactly would these people buy you ask.
It seems that the more ridiculous your
idea, the better your chances of someone paying for it.
Take for example Alex Tew, the 21-year-old
who came up with the idea of creating a webpage with a
million pixels, and selling it at $1 a pixel.
He sold every pixel.
Then there is Byron Reese who set up a
postal address in the North Pole and charges parents $10
for him to send a ‘Letter from Santa’ to their
kids.
He has over 200 000 sales to date and the business is
growing.
Then there was the guy who stuck ‘eyes’
on rocks and sold millions worldwide as Pet Rocks.
But all of these ideas required at least
some period of time to make the millions.
No so for the family who owned the building
from which JFK was shot, who placed an ad on eBay ‘Own
a Piece of History.’
The window and frame – supposedly from where Lee
Harvey Oswald fired the shots in 1963, fetched $3-million!
This despite claims that the building had been sold to
a man from Tennessee who years ago removed the window
and left with it.
If you do manage to come up with a rather
useful idea or concept, it is much harder to make millions
from it.
