Category Archives: that’s a bit mad

George Bush is Dead

By 6000 | 6000 | February 11, 2009

Well – not really. But if you were watching the pisspoor South African Sky-wannabe eTV News (or more especially, their annoying little rolling banner thing across the bottom of the screen) then you would have seen those exact words on your TV. The “misbroadcast” happened when a technician pressed the “broadcast live for transmission” button [...]

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“Playing Table Tennis”

By 6000 | 6000 | January 26, 2009

The Molton Brown Boys monthly curry evening was moved forward this month to the 15th. This was due to the Tall Accountant having Chicken Labrador* withdrawal symptoms because we canceled the December meet. Well, I say it was him – I think we were all suffering and when TA just suggested we moved things a fortnight earlier, we jumped [...]

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Heathrow alternatives – the Runwet

By 6000 | 6000 | January 16, 2009

On a day when the big news in the UK was the Government’s long overdue approval for a third runway at Heathrow airport, a pilot in New York went out of his way (literally) to show how Gordon Brown et al could have saved £9 billion by simply utilising the River Thames as an alternative landing [...]

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Is Zuma appealing?

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2009

Well, not to a lot of people as our future President anymore, since fraud and corruption charges were re-instated against him yesterday, following the National Prosecuting Authority’s successful appeal against Zuma’s previous appeal to get the charges against him dropped was overturned. It remains to be seen whether, having considered the NPA’s successful appeal against Zuma’s [...]

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Oudekraal statue mystery

By 6000 | 6000 | January 8, 2009

A statue has appeared on the rocks on Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard and the local newspaper and residents are getting unduly excited about it. Statue Alien. Tribute. Mime artist. Religious statement. Mummy. A gift from God. These are just some of the suggestions offered by baffled onlookers as to what could be gracing rocks beyond Camps [...]

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