The news that gets the baby oil flowing

Enough to get your goat

Bok sports in Belfast

Look, we don't easily give opposition publications credit, but Nadine Ramone with Huisgenoot's story about one Magda Vermeulen from Belfast in Mpumalanga is a five-star winner. Vermeulen literally has  the town dancing on horns with her more than 128 farm goats who apparently roam where they please and destroy gardens and other property. It has all the right elements: A woman walking around with a whip who deploys it on her enemies, names like Cherry pit, Whisky, Mallas and Miss Hartjie, fights during which the bricks fly, a BMW rammed by a goat and goat assassinations.

Bok sports in the shebeen

The guy who posted this video of a proactive South African cop  reckons he spoils a party like Manie Libbok towards the end of proceedings.

Bok sports in the Kiwis' heads

The dance of the quotation marks

Journalist Gus Silber lives for those linguistic mistakes that significantly change meaning.

Elsewhere it’s even worse ...

The Don hands out charges in advance on beloved American companies.

The dogs just won't lie down ...

Worst is when things can’t be combed over

Al Capone with baby oil?

The slippery scandal of sex, violence, drink and drug abuse, rape, manipulation and who-knows-what-else surrounding hip-hop star and producer Sean Combs (also known as Puff-Daddy, P-Diddy, Diddy, PD, Love), is the kind of situation that cheers you that your grandmother has already passed away.

If all being alleged is true (and some of the abuse of women is clearly captured on video), it is nothing to joke about, of course, but some of the facts surrounding Combs' lifestyle are so bizarre and extreme, that they are worth mentioning.

His sex parties, (so-called freak-offs) involving a group of friends, acquaintances and employees revolved around Combs as the central figure and continued for days, sometimes at a house of his and sometimes in hotels. He would rent scores of prostitutes, men and women, for marathon sex sessions, according to the FBI sometimes with the participants under duress.

Combs would apparently often film the sexual interaction himself while he adjusted the lighting and regularly masturbated along. Combs' sex empire began to unravel when a former mistress of his, Cassandra Ventura, in November last year charged him with various forms of abuse during his sex orgies in a civil case.

The evidence that has emerged in the meantime has forced the state to arrest Combs and to be charged criminally, and the case has now gained momentum.

Drugs were apparently dished out in abundance by Combs, to control people or give them stamina among other things.

In their raids on his Miami home, the FBI came across a thousand bottles of baby oil and lubricants and medical equipment for guests to be put on drips after days of drug abuse and sex. In his backyard was a 50 ft-long bed, probably with the idea of ​​full party participation.                                  

Diddy is being held in a federal prison in Manhattan, until he reappears in court.

Probably the smartest comments on Combs' doings in the last few years came from the rappers Eminem and 50 Cents. If only the police had listened more carefully.

Don Daddy, Don Diddy ...

Political comedian Jimmy Kimmel couldn't pass up the chance to take a jab at Donald Trump either.

When comedy took down a taboo

Before the great religious satirists, such as George Carlin, Bill Maher, Eddie Izzard, Ricky Gervais and Jim Jefferies arrived in the world of comedy, two Irishmen held the fort in the early 1970s, Billy Connolly and one Dave Allen. 

Three cheers for hobbies and crafts

Grandpa gets into colour

A 93-year-old man turned his town's fortunes around when one day on a whim he started painting on the nearest wall. Huang Yung-fu was a young soldier who fled China in 1949 with 2 million other people after Mao Zedong's Communist government crushed all resistance and created the People's Republic of China.

The refugees in Taiwan were housed in temporary villages, which became more established over time. But ten years ago the government wanted to start demolishing these villages and resettle the villagers. It was the only home that Huang Yun-fu and many other people had ever known and loved, and all he could do was paint walls. It's hard for him to find a bare wall to paint on these days, but it doesn't matter because the Rainbow Village has become an international tourism destination, and no one is going to knock it down anymore.

Grandpa gets into drama

A former karaoke bar owner from Hiroshima, Takashi Fujita, has Instagram buzzing (or whatever happens to Instagram when one guy attracts 200 million pairs of eyes), with its mini-drama scenes that mainly consist of figurines made of tissue paper. Check out this underwater scene.

Not quite the candy floss at Bitterpan's bazaar  ...

Picassonini or Pollockini?

Art collectors are reportedly bidding close to $350,000 for the three-year-old Laurent Scwhartz's paintings. A pinch of salt, please, but what is true is that a fuss is being made. Of course, his mother, Liza, put his work on Instagram first, and it was so popular that it was put on exhibition, and the fussing has been on for longer than six months now. Decide for yourself. At least Mother says he can stop painting whenever he feels like it.

Get to know Gen Alphababbling

September 26, 23 years ago

During a summit between the South African government and the ANC, the parties agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding. The memorandum set up a timetable for the establishment of a constitutional assembly, an interim government and the handling of political prisoners.

The government and the ANC agreed that all political prisoners whose freedom could contribute to reconciliation should be released. They agreed that the release of prisoners who committed crimes with a political motive on or before October 8, 1990, would be carried out in phases. However, the deadline for that process was November 15, 1992.

The memorandum was signed shortly after the burial of victims of the Bisho massacre on September 7, 1992, when 29 people were killed by the Ciskei army. In his statement, the ANC president, Nelson Mandela, described the incident as nothing less than warranting a charge of murder against the apartheid government.

Old yet Gold

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Remember Tito Lupini? He was a Transvaal tighthead frontrower and restaurateur. And apparently a Lion Lager fellow. Also dearly departed now.

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