The mix of afrikaans, english and the most brillent spelling is a laugh alone. Without even enjoyng his views :thumbs:

Cheers Hagar

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Lansdowne RoadNaand se..

As toets rugby net drie minute lank was, sal ek se dit was 'n ***
wonderlike wedstryd Saterdag aand. Ons het alles reg gedoen, geen foete

gemaak [ other than a fluffed skepskop deur Pretorius met 'n overlapout
wide] en die eerste punte aangeteken. Ons sal die toets gewen 3-0. Nou
ja, die res van die game was as inspiring as 'n Groot Krokodil victory
speech.

Fortunately league darts begin 7.30, so ek het die res gemis.

Take 1 step forward if you have a job next week.....not so fast Andy
Robinson en Jake White. Miskien moes julle twee, "paper, rock,scissors"
speel om te sien wie die kukkest coach is. As jy verloer Jake, you'll probably

blame the rules. "Rock is always heavier, and heavy is
good.....like Danie Rossouw".

Lansdowne Road: Jake White, not only were you not even in the same
road; jy was nie eers in dieselfde fokken neighbourhood nie.

When are you going to learn that the rush defence is about as effective
as Ashley Giles at the WACA. Then to come out and say it IS working and
blame the provincial coaches and the players for the execution, wat die fok
is in jou kop.

At least Rudolph Straeuli weet hy was dof - kom terug Rudolph
alles is vergewe. Jake jy steeds dink jy's 'n fokken genius. 6 defeats
out of last 8 games is nie so slim nie.

The Wereld Beker is oorsee volgende jaar - ons het nie een wedstryd
hierdie jaar oorsee gewen. And you are the only coach obssessed by
size - you join the dots Jake, your game plan was from another era - Same

Jersey, same Pant might as well have the same game plan as the 1906 Boks.

Chilliboy, dit kry koud op die bench ne? Maak warm, John Smit is op
dieselfde skip as Jake.

Jy weet die manne *** gespeel het wanneer Danie Rossouw jou best
voorspeler is. Ek het gehoer dat an even bigger flank is going to start Saterdag,
Hilton Lobberts [ Ek het gedink sy naam was Hilton Roberts, en dit was net

Hugh Bladen na 'n paar gins wat hom Hilton Lobberts genoem.]

Great tactic - As jy kan nie twintig pies in een session eet, gaan
staan daar in the agterlyn, en comb Wynaand se hare.

We certainly missed Kabamba Floors or Luke Watson Saterdag.

Playing Brian Havanna at outside senter - might as well have played him
outside the stadium. Hoe kies jy al hierdie positions, Jake? Is dit in the
order they come off die bliksem bus of wat?

Die midfield se verdediging was absoluut afwesig en jou kon 'n fokken
Guiness truck, met 'n sleepwa, deur die groot gapens in middleveld dryf.

Daardie Fortuin cookie daar agter, hoeveel kiere moet die bal bounce
voer jou dit gaan vat; dit gaan nie byt nie - dis nie 'n fokken police dog
nie. Ek het altyd gese, jy is 'n average Currie Cup speler; you were more
exposed than a polariod picture..and you were shaking more than one too.

Combined age of our locks was north of 70 years old - fokken goeie tyd
om hulle to bloed voer die World Cup Jake. Bakkies en Victor are kukking
in their pant for their places - another great plan B. I wasn't too sure
whether Johan Akermann even turned up or the game. Ek het nie eers 'n
yellow card gesien, so ek het gedink hy nie gespeel het nie.

En die ander ou lang draad, Albert van den fokken Drakens Berg, jou tyd
is op, gaan terug Berg toe. You are as old as the hills - so you'll fit in
nicely and have lots of friends your own age.

Lawrence Se(mother)phaka, ek hoop jy die game geniet as 'n spectator -
het jy betaal vir jou kaartjie? Even if Paul Roos was still alive, I would
have picked him ahead of you. In fact, I wouldn't have made too many changes
to the starting lineup in 1906. They might have been old, but at least
they would have had passion.

I believe Jake White het vir Rassie gebel om hom te help. Bliksem, talk
about a hospital pass. En wat gaan Rassie doen daar bo op Twickenham se
Grandstand dak, in die koud, met al sy ligte. Only thing he will do is divert al die
fokken planes vanaf Heathrow.

100 years of SA rugby. It is sad that it finally died on its 100th birthday - R.I.P; nag ou grote.

Lee Glendinning

The oldest person in the world, Elizabeth Bolden, has passed away in her nursing home in Memphis Tennessee, aged 116

Known as Lizzie, she had 40 grandchildren, 75 great-children, 150 great-great-grandchildren, 220 great-great-great grandchildren and 75 great-great-great-great grandchildren.

Lizzie was born on August 15, 1890, according to the Gerontology Research Group, an organisation based in Los Angeles which tracks the ages of the worldÂ’s oldest people.

It was the same year that the modern acoustic guitar was created in Spain, the first train ran in Ohio, and Los Angeles was incorporated as a city.

She married at 19, and had two daughters and two sons. Her sons have since passed away. In the 1950s she was widowed and after suffering a stroke in 2004, she spoke little in the last years of her life she slept most of the time, her family said.

James Bolden, her grandson who came from the Phillipines last week to visit his grandmother said she died on Monday in the Mid-South Health and Rehabilitation Centre in Memphis, a nursing home where she had been living for several years.

"She was always very family-oriented. She gave good advice and the family listened. She was a hard worker, and a farmer for most of her life," he said.

Lizzie became the oldest person in the world in August following the death of Maria Esther de Capovilla of Ecuador who was also 116.

Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, of Puerto Rico is now thought to be the oldest person in the world oldest person.

The oldest person ever is believed to be Jeanne Louise Calment. Born in France on February 21, 1875, she died on August 4, 1997, aged 122 years and 164 days.Source: Times Online


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116 years is very, very old!!

Beeld-deurloop:


Deur Johanna van Eeden
Ek loop die Amerikaner een aand by Â’n vriendin se huis raak.

Die gesprek kom nie heeltemal op dreef nie, want die Amerikaner het net een ding op die brein. Sy is in “Africa” en wil dolgraag aan ’n leeu vat voor sy terugkeer na die “States”.

Sug. Ek sien al die koerantberigte: “Mak leeu byt wilde Amerikaner dood”.

Die gesprek loop boeke se kant toe. Boeke? Nee wat, seg die Amerikaner. In haar lewe het sy nog net twee boeke gelees.

Sy is 23 jaar oud en ek sit regop. Twee boeke. Watter twee?

Twee boeke wat sy gevoel het sy eenvoudig móét lees, om te sien waaroor die bohaai gaan.

The Da Vinci code en The devil wears Prada.

Maar hoekom, wonder ek in my stilte. Jy kon net sowel die twee flieks gaan kyk het en jouself die moeite gespaar het om die boeke te lees, synde dit so erge inspanning vir jou is om te lees.

Wat my laat wonder het . . . veronderstel ek mag net twee boeke lees. Wat sou dit wees?

Iets wat Â’n mens iets vertel van mense?

To kill a mockingbird van Harper Lee. Of George Orwell se 1984. Miskien eerder Orwell se Animal farm. Verseker Die klein prinsie uit die pen van Antoine de Saint-Exupery .

Of wag, as jy regtig iets wil lees wat jou iets gaan leer oor mense . . . Lord of the flies van William Golding.

My arme man is tot in sy kleintoontjie geskok toe ek hom vra om net twee boeke te kies.

Onmoontlik.

Maar as dit moet, sê hy, beslis iets van Franz Kafka, Fjeodor Dostojefski en Roland Barthes.

Twee, keer ek, nie drie nie.

Ek wonder of dit was hoe Salomo gevoel het toe hy moes kies watter van die twee vroue is die ma van die kind?

Hoe kies Â’n mens net twee boeke?

Want deur boeke – en ander se stories – word jou eie wêreld groter.

Boeke vat jou na plekke toe waar jy nog nooit was nie en laat jou dinge in jouself ontdek wat jy nooit geweet het nie.

Ek onthou steeds Elsabé Steenberg se Soek-soek op soek – ’n boek wat ek as sewejarige gelees het. Daar was so ’n groen kaboutermannetjie op die voorblad. Ek onthou dié boek omdat dit die eerste boek was wat my laat huil het.

Dat iemand wat jou nie ken nie, wat jy nog nooit ontmoet het nie, wat niks van jou weet nie, se woorde dít aan jou kan doen . . .

Dít is die krag van ’n boek.

Nou wonder ek oor die Amerikaner.

Hoe het sy deur haar skoolloopbaan gekom sonder om te lees?

Ja, natuurlik was daar hier en daar in my twaalf jaar op die skoolbanke ook Â’n boek waaraan ek bietjie stadiger gelees het.

Maar ander diamantjies in die gruis het opgemaak daarvoor. Soos daardie dag in st. 7 toe die Engelse juffrou Nevil Shute se A town like Alice uitgedeel het.

Die Amerikaner draai die gesprek in Â’n ander rigting.

“Waaraan dink jy dadelik as ek ‘America’ sê?” vra sy.

Sy vang my onkant. Ek sê die eerste ding wat in my kop kom.

“McDonalds.”

Sy is verstom.

“But why? Is McDonalds American?” en die verbasing dreun deur haar neus.

Boeke, besef ek toe weer net daar, maak jou wêreld groter.

Of baie, baie kleiner.

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A modern version:

'Twas the night before Christmas and Santa's a wreck...
How to live in a world that's politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to "Elves"
"Vertically Challenged" they were calling themselves
And labor conditions at the north pole
Were alleged by the union to stifle the soul
Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety
Released to the wilds by the Humane Society
And equal employment had made it quite clear
That Santa had better not use just reindeer
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid
Were replaced with 4 pigs, and you know that looked stupid!

The runners had been removed from his sleigh;
The ruts were termed dangerous by the E P A
And people had started to call for the cops
When they heard sled noises on their roof-tops
Second-hand smoke from his pipe had his workers quite frightened
His fur trimmed red suit was called "Unenlightened"

And to show you the strangeness of life's ebbs and flows
Rudolf was suing over unauthorised use of his nose
And had gone on Geraldo, in front of the nation
Demanding millions in over-due compensation

So, half of the reindeer were gone; and his wife
Who suddenly said she'd enough of this life
Joined a self-help group, packed, and left in a whiz
Demanding from now on her title was Ms

And as for the gifts, why, he'd ne'er had a notion
That making a choice could cause so much commotion
Nothing of leather, nothing of fur
Which meant nothing for him. And nothing for her
Nothing that might be construed to pollute
Nothing to aim. Nothing to shoot
Nothing that clamoured or made lots of noise
Nothing for just girls. Or just for boys
Nothing that claimed to be gender specific
Nothing that's warlike or non-pacific

No candy or sweets ... they were bad for the tooth
Nothing that seemed to embellish the truth
And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden
Were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden
For they raised the hackles of those psychological
Who claimed the only good gift was ecological

No baseball, no football ... someone could get hurt;
Besides; playing sports exposed kids to dirt
Dolls were said to be sexist, and should be passe;
And Nintendo would rot your entire brain away

So Santa just stood there, dishevelled, perplexed;
He just could not figure out what to do next
He tried to be merry, tried to be gay
But you've got to be careful with that word today
His sack was quite empty, limp to the ground;
Nothing fully acceptable was to be found

Something special was needed, a gift that he might
Give to all without angering the left or the right
A gift that would satisfy, with no indecision
Each group of people, every religion;
Every ethnicity, every hue
Everyone, everywhere ... even you
So here is that gift, it's price beyond worth ...
"May you and your loved ones enjoy peace on earth"

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The unny: is out today! A good reason to :jive: It was so dark, wet and cold yesterday!

Today in 28 days I will experience the warm SA unny: !! ue: Oh boy, I am sooooooo ready to go. Sorry, but you most probably hear me say this for the next 27 days! :haha:

Have a great day everyone!

:bunch:

Happy Birthday Gulf Coast

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have a great day

Wow! Asked little one why we have Christmas and the reply was "So we can get presents". :yikes: It's not as if she's in pre-school she's in year 2. The school is teaching them but she's not interested - only in presents. So I tried a new tact and explained the Jesus was born on Christmas and as he is such a nice man he said that instead of him getting presents, all the children can have them. Reply "I must not trust nice men". I've told her the story and she got that blank look that children get when they are not listening

What are the schools teaching the kids? Sure they have the Nativiety play but the understanding is not there. Kids are scared of nice men - even Jesus.

Sure I'm not a practicing Christian but I feel it is important that little one has an understanding of the bible and the message. Partner not to happy about it.

Everyone has a right to have a choice in what they believe but children need guidance before a balanced view can be reached - of their own choice.

Is anyone else having a problem trying to get their children to understand the meaning of Christmas? Or is it a sign of the times where the new religion is shopping, marketing and "What's in it for me?" :noway:

Zara Phillips claimed a third of the public vote as she won the 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

But as the equestrian star declared she was "amazed" to lift the famous trophy, her victory was already beginning to divide opinion.

Supporters heralded a deserved triumph for a young woman who has worked hard to reach the top of her sport.

Opponents slated a success for privilege, and style over substance in a lean year for British sport.Source BBC

Personally I think she deserves it. She worked hard all the way. Some people are really upset about her award and are saying pretty nasty things. It is true that she is at a privilege place to compete in this sport, but she still had to work hard!

What do you think?

:am: Morning all!

Two weeks before father Christmas comes! Hope all your :xmasprep: is done. Have a great day and an even better week!

A litttle bit late this morning as I decided to sleep in as I've a day off today

Which U.S. presidents served as delegates to the Continental Congress?