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Casual Day 2011

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Do you have a Casual Day?

Here’s how it works, one day a year (usually the 1st Friday in September) people are encouraged to buy an official sticker for R10.00 (less than £1) and on that day they can go to work, school, university, wherever in casual clothes.

The project has been running for 16 years now, organised by The National Council for Persons with Physical Disabilities in SA (NCPPDSA) but the big difference this year is that we Autism Eastern Cape are an official distributor.

Which means that we are allowed to keep R4.00 of every ticket sold! 🙂

We’ve been working on this project since about May, hassling friends, walking up to complete strangers, Continue reading “Casual Day 2011”

Not that funny…

A Chinese man walked into a pub in the US late one night and saw Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushed to him and asked for his autograph.

Instead, Spielberg gave him a slap on the face and said “You Chinese bombed our Pearl Harbor, get out of here.”

The astonished Chinese man replied “Chinese did not bomb your Pearl Harbor, it was actually the Japanese”.

“Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, you’re all the same.” responded Spielberg.

In return, the Chinese man gave Spielberg a slap on the face and said “You sank the Titanic; my forefathers were on that ship.”

Shocked, Spielberg replied “It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me.”

The Chinese man replied “Iceberg, Spielberg, Carlsberg, you’re all the same.”

This particular joke won the best joke in a competition in Britain .

Sarcasm alert.

This is my last week of holiday before I am sadly obligated to return to that “other” place for the majority of the year with only small bits of time in which escape is possible.
The previous week has not inspired much optimism. Nutso the Clown, the strange little Chinese man who has come to worship the ground I walk on for no other reason than the accident of my having been born in Germany, left me 5 voice mail messages after not having bothered me for several months. Well, at least since that time he rang me up over 80 times in 2 days after I told him to sod off. (I’ll spare all of you the sordid details, but will state with full confidence that the man is a slime and more than a little disturbed)

Other than that, the university has inspired another rant. Continue reading “Sarcasm alert.”

We’re Talking Crabs – part 1

It’s the peak of crabbing season here and this is all about crabs and crabbing. I am told that when get on a subject that interests me I often have to be brought up sharply with a loud “Shut up man! You’re boring people”.  So don’t say you were not warned.

The crabs in question are the Atlantic Blue Crab, more specifically those that thrive in what H. L. Mencken (one of my favorite drunks) called “that great protein factory, Chesapeake Bay”.

Here’s a bushel basket of blues just to set the scene

Continue reading “We’re Talking Crabs – part 1”