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Of course, as it's still early in Winter, that can wait until September/October

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Gmail warns me that similar messages have been used for identity theft!
Not that I needed the warning. After all, what would Google need Correctional Officers for?


I'm tempted to bait this one just for the fun of it!

These are the songs that remind me of her, and this is the story behind it.

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If you were growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, you'll know this question! You'll also know the following song!

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(reproduction rights purchased from cartoonstock.com)

Well, actually it was my brother who was in the news. Well, sort of anyway!

Prince Charles inspects New Zealand armed forces at Government House in Wellington.
Prince Charles celebrates birthday in Wellington

My Brother is the one who looks like he doesn't belong there!

My niece posted this on Facebook or we'd never have known!


:edit: I had to use a screen shot because I couldn't download the photo! (I got the wrong photo)

Muahaha!

I receive a lot of spam but so do some of my friends. Here's an entertaining job offer that one of my friends received (and forwarded to me )
Pay special attention to job position number 11. I'll even highlight it for you!

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Wow!
Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CxMm0ksJ8Y

Every year around this time, business start gearing up for Christmas
This parody of Jingle bells is a cynical look at this phenomenon.
Warning - This post contains inappropriate language and excessive cynicism - do not read if you are easily offended or even if you just love Christmas

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Lyrics

Daar kom die Alibama,
Die Alibama, die kom oor die see,
Daar kom die Alibama,
Die Alibama, die kom oor die see...

Nooi, nooi die rietkoi nooi,
Die rietkoi is gemaak,
Die rietkoi is vir my gemaak,
Om daarop te slaap...

O Alibama, die Alibama,
O Alibama, die kom oor die see,
O Alibama, die Alibama,
O Alibama, die kom oor die see...


English translation
There comes the Alabama
The Alabama (which) comes across the sea
There comes the Alabama
The Alabama (which) comes across the sea

Maid, maid the rotang bed maid
The rotang bed is made
The rotang bed is (was) made for me
In order to sleep on it

Oh Alabama, the Alabama
Oh Alabama (which) comes across the sea
Oh Alabama, the Alabama
Oh Alabama (which) comes across the sea

Explanation of the lyrics:

This song was inspired by the USS Alabama, a Confederate Navy merchant raider, that sailed in to Cape Town harbour in 1863.
While the song is considered an "Afrikaner folk song" now, it was originally created the the Cape Malay minstrels and has only recently been adopted by the Afrikaaner.

As this is an informal song, there is no set order for the first two verses and they are often sung several times.
The last verse is used to close the song. A common practice of the Malay minstrels is to sing several songs in a continuous medley.

The lyrics of the second verse are strange. The word 'nooi' is Afrikaans for a young and/or unmarried woman. The term was also used for female slaves and servants at some point. (later, the term 'maid' was used. Pronounced 'mate' in Afrikaans and used as a pejorative term)
Some websites that I've come across have speculated that it's a reference to interacial sexual relations. However, it seems more likely to me that the words, 'rietkoi nooi' was an older Afrikaans term for 'chamber maid' rather than any reference to sexual activity.
Rotang furniture has a very long tradition in South Africa as is was lighter and easier to transport than furniture made from other material. So references to rotang furniture is to be expected in South African music and literature. (historical literature at least.)


It's interesting to note in this video that the audience is mostly white. They certainly seem to be enjoying the music.

I received the following email from ADAY.org today.

A DAY IN THE WORLD - DIGITAL EXHIBITION


In May 2012, we all took photographs of those things close to us.

Over 100,000 images were submitted by people from 165 countries.

Through these visual documentations of our own lives and the existences of others, we can see how - on an apparently ordinary day - our world can be beautiful, ugly, fragile, frightening, joyous…but always remarkable.

This Monday (8th October) 45 of your images will be simultaneously displayed throughout the day on 85,000 digital screens across the world.

From Sydney to London, Dublin to Moscow, Shanghai to Cape Town, this will be the world’s largest photographic exhibition, with a potential audience of 46 million people.

To find out which images are being shown and where you can go to see the exhibition, visit www.aday.org

Please Tweet, Facebook post, shout, email, sing and do whatever you can do to make people visit www.aday.org and find out about Monday’s exhibition. Start now!

We think that the world will enjoy and learn from what we did in May…

In his introduction to the forthcoming ‘A Day In The World’ book, which documents the Aday project, and will feature 1000 of your images, Archbishop Desmond Tutu best explains what we all did – and why.

“The photograph is an important component of collective memory, of history and the documentation of life. But the photograph is also a story of here and now, a tool for seeing each other, understanding each other, and thereby creating the potential for a better world.”

Thank you for participating in the Aday project.

Best Wishes
the aday.org team


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Ok, so does anyone know how to unsubscribe from a blog I can no longer access?
I tried blocking that user but new stuff still keeps appearing on my feeds!
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