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brix25
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@da krypsta: Love those old notes, especially the R20 one...brings back some memories...If I was sent to the shop and came back with the wrong change a hiding is what I would get. Now you can't fill up a shopping bag with a R20.
EDIT: Just came across this story on IOL.co.za about a family who are so desperate, they've contemplated suicide.
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amawanqa
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Hei, O Kryptik One,
Now you've stirred up the memory banks! I remember trying to draw/ copy Van Riebeeck's 3 ships as a lighty, from the one note. Those big R1 coins also bring back distant memories too, as do most of those notes.
@ da brixsta,
That's quite a disturbing article; I count my chickens and lucky stars almost daily, particularly when I read stuff like that. Most of us here have so much to be grateful for.
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francoislr
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man those notes and coins look way too familiar! old jan's pic on them looks like me with my hair loose. scary!
so the whole creative thing versus others influences on that-i found many times as much as i love music i would for months on end not listen to any actively when i could. keeps my stuff different than when i listen to lots of music:)
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amawanqa
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Mrs Amawanqa has just returned from Tesco. There's this competition running with the 'Redbush Tea' company: (Rooibos is becoming increasingly popular here.)
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Kryptik
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Having read that story about the Schloss family, i realize that i have nothing to complain about. God willing the proper person will read that letter, and make a difference in their lives.
Sooooo, you boys got your starlights all ready for tonight?? I suffer acutely from Vegrandis Puer Morbus, so we're off in a while to a designated area at the beachfront to go make some noise and pretty lights 
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amawanqa
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On 2006-11-05 16:39:00, Kryptik wrote:
Sooooo, you boys got your starlights all ready for tonight?? I suffer acutely from Vegrandis Puer Morbus, so we're off in a while to a designated area at the beachfront to go make some noise and pretty lights
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LOL Kryptik, you've been delving in those Latin sites again? I think most of us of the male jender suffer from symptoms of this disease at many stages of our adult lives... 
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brix25
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Hope to catch an awesome fireworks display even though we're not "celebrating" Guy Fawkes Day.
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medusa
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Happy birthday to the SA thread! Keep it up guys! |
amawanqa
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Another stunning sunset over lower Essex and east London..isn't it supposed to be Winter here already?!
Hope we're able to catch some half-decent fireworks pics with the cellphones in the obvious poor light settings; methinks I'll be putting the ol' 3230 to work later tonight... 
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dr_thug
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Happy Birthday South Africa thread!!!
a nice Video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D65vuzlPEX4
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mario2004
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You chaps have a good time - I, on the other hand, am in 'darkenes' (again). For the 17-th day this year, Jeffreys Bay is for more then 12 hours at a time without electricity. The Mayor is pathetic indeed. I swear next time he desperately calls the police to help him (the locals have a bad habit of wanting to burn his house down) my only police vehicle attending to complains, will have a puncture. If the politicians can't sort him out, the people who voted him in will get him 'out'. I strongly believe in the 'jungle law'. After all we are in africa and that law seems to be the only one which works every time, all the time. Greetings from a 'blacked out' Jeffreys Bay :-(
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amawanqa
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Thanks, doc. :-) Out watching all the Guy Fawkes fireworks at the moment; will check out the video when we're back home.
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Kryptik
Joined: Jun 24, 2005
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@Wanqa, yebo madoda, that's so true, tis an illness which lingers and never really goes away, lol!
@Mario, you guys are really getting the short end of the stick with the electricity situation! I recall that a commentator on the radio mentioned something about it the other day, to the extent that the situation is liable to get worse until the mayor and his crew lift themselves up and make arrangements with one of the bigger municipalities to provide additional power when needed... One of the callers also said much the same thing, about the police having to save his butt time upon time from the crowd, usually after his haughty and abrupt replies to their questions. He'd best get his act together, if one considers what happened to Komga's mayor's house not too long ago...
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francoislr
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the people should not serve the politicians, the politicians should be serving the people. driving a beamer comes at a cost if you had to use marketers to sell you. politicians seem to get away with a lot, but at some point it will smack them in the ass.
sitting outside, the guys playing need for speed on the laptop, after us watching the latest smallville(which we download as they show in usa)
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amawanqa
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@ doc,
Just watched that youtube vid.
LMAO, the David Blaine 'stare'....ooooh...hope I don't find any playing cards in my nether regions...!
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