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I did wonder who 'stringer' was... 
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Apparently, he's in "The Wire"[^] - but I've never watched it, so I wouldn't know...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Stringer Bell was exactly who I thought of when I read your original reply.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I got back from S'Efrica yesterday morning. Springtime temps where we were staying got to 32 deg C which ain't 'arf good seeing they just clawed their way out of winter. The food, as always, is excellent as was the wine. Mrs. Wife is staying for a third week so I have caught up on some "crafty" shopping this morning and ordered a new keyboard/mouse and mono laser printer. As they say, while the cat's away, the mice implement their own playful agenda. 
Mrs. W's niece studied physio/OT in Joburg and completed a year's community service at a children's orphanage in Kawazulu-Natal a few months ago. She phoned a friend of hers who's still there and asked if we could go there and see the place. We drove along dusty roads where there was mile-after-mile of veldt. When we arrived, niece's friend asked the orphans to sing for us. It completely moved me to shed a few tears. Bloody heck, it was beautiful to hear those kids sing. We later asked if we could give money to the orphanage. Giving was the right thing to want to do, but sometimes you give into things that don't always "get" to where it's needed but both she and Mrs. W's niece told us it will. We looked around the place and how clean and tidy it was kept and a mobile clinic operating from a converted camper-van calls twice a day and the local farmers give the young'uns fresh veg and meat to keep them healthy.
One little lad who could only speak Zulu told the five of us about particular insects and birds he likes to watch. Perhaps he'd been taught to say it but we laughed aloud when the principal who translated for us told he said "he doesn't want school to get in the way of his education!"
When we got back to Joburg my wife and her other sister (who came over from Adelaide) decided we'd give the orphanage £2000 each...
...a little while back I mentioned about an inheritance I was unexpectedly given by the hubby of one of my wife's friends (she nursed them both through cancer, though Jim sadly died at the hospice where she works), anyway, the three sets of golf clubs he left to me have yielded a good return. I gave one set to the local club to teach newbies; the second set was given to someone to sell and he got £450; the third set was held in storage at the posh golf club, Wentworth, where he'd been a member for over 30 years. His wife contacted someone there and they arranged to sell the third set of clubs which were a couple of years old but only every used once. They were apparently really expensive but I don't know yet how much somebody else at the club bought them for. No matter what the total, everything we make from them will go to that orphanage. I don't know if that's what Jim had in mind but I really couldn't think of a better place to give the money to.
Yes, the food, the wine, the beer, the braais, meeting old mates, the climate, the exchange rate, spending no more than £200 in two weeks, were all things to make it a lovely vacation.
But right now, and I hope it stays with me, a dusty road leading to an orphanage in the middle of nowhere, run by dedicated staff and medical teams for the benefit of lovely young'uns singing beautiful songs and whose faces can still laugh at things I'd not notice. A short three hour visit to that place eclipsed everything else by a mile and more. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I remember your quandry about 'what to do with the golf-clubs'
Glad you had a great holiday, food for the body, mind and soul, great idea about donating to the orphanage
- I lived in Kenya for two years as a lad, I wish I could go back to the rift valley, smell the rains approaching/the earthy murram (dirt) etc etc - I dont need to go that far to see poverty though, Aus has issues that people seem blinded to
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: I dont need to go that far to see poverty though, Aus has issues that people seem blinded to
I'm not completely destitute you know. Just in need of a consistent job, even one that requires the movement of large loads of sh*t with a teaspoon.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: requires the movement of large loads of sh*t with a teaspoon.
Even someone with constipation?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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chuckle - I was thinking of further west than 'Western Sydney'
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To few literature quotes in here methinks. How about:
'Twas the best of times, 'tis the worst of times.
Ok ok, forget it. Just kidding. Had to check if you were awake.
Now here it comes, the first CP LQOTD, to my knowledge:
"Tobe was posted out of Egypt just when Mubarak's little local difficulties started to appear on the horizon, weren't you, Tobe?"
First published 2013. Which book?
Hint to follow if no one cracks it.
Life is too shor
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Tintin's adventures in Egypt.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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The Post Office's Got Talent
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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It is a far far better thing I do than I have ever done before, it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Nice to see such an avid book loving crowd here :p Seriously, this is probably the best book I've read this year.
Life is too shor
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Wheres Wally?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Lord of The Rings: Middle East version.
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"So sorry Frank had more than Edith."(7)
Just love this one.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: Just love this one.
I don't.....
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You will!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: more than - EXTRA
Edith - CT
EXTRACT  doesn't fit!
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Well, it has 7 letters, just not the right ones.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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I don't know what you're having, but I've had a few too 
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Rook and heron sounds rude.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Initially reluctant, Edith got really excited to sing laments (7)
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That is an &Lit too!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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An earlier attempt:
Confusing energy about back way woes (7)
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