Dummies

Ha ha, I’d love to buy this guy a drink.

How on earth do you stand there for how many hours next to an untold number of V.I.P’s and not burst out laughing?

Where on earth were the C.I.A, M.I.5 or is it 6? This guy could have … who knows?

My daily read today tell me that the A.N.C employed him, they of course deny this and point the finger at our very own S.A.B.C. who’ve made it quite clear that they have their own signers in a separate studio (which I believe.)

My newspaper also reports that “The Deaf Federation of South Africa said it has warned the A.N.C about the man more than a year ago after a member complained.”

It was apparently all unintelligible gobbledygook, but surely he could have been signing “let’s declare war on China” or ” I never really knew Madiba but … ” the possibilities are endless.

Anyway, one national newspaper claims to know his name, if they read this buy him a beer on me 🙂

Flights of fancy

Cameron and Clegg are on a plane journey,when Cameron says

“You know, I could throw £1000 note out the widow rght now, and make someone very happy”

“Ah ha” says Cleggie “I could throw ten £100 notes out of the window right now and make ten people very happy”

Pilot turns to the co-pilot and says

“We could throw the two of them out the window right now and make thirty million people very happy”

 

Nelson Mandela Bay 7’s – 2013

My programme

What a day! What a weekend! What an event! What a crowd! What an atmosphere!

On an emotionally charged weekend, how fitting was it for the very first International sporting event to be held on South African soil after the death of Nelson Mandela to be held in the stadium that bears his name?

16 teams, 45 games, an extravaganza of rugby if ever there was one!

It’s fair to say that we probably spent more time in the bar / lounge during the day on Saturday then in the stand (except of course when the Blitzbokke were playing) it is after all a day of preliminary group stages where the minnows get the chance to play against the big guns but today (Sunday) was the main event, and what an event it was.

The beauty of this format is that it splits into 4 competitions during the course of the final day (Shield, Bowl, Plate and Cup) with all teams having a chance of gaining a medal and silverware as late as the mid-afternoon!

We got the dream final we wanted. The Blitzbokke cruised through their quarter and semi finals as did the All (cough) (splutter) Blacks.

I’ve written elsewhere that I thought that the Ref had a couple of ‘Mandela moments’ during the final but who cares? Final score Blitzbokke 17 – AB’s 14 (3 tries to 2)

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