WITH last month's Costa Concordia disaster still fresh in our minds, sea travel cannot be an option for anyone right now.
Who will forget the day when at least 11 people died after the luxury cruise liner they were sailing in struck a rock and sank somewhere in the middle of nowhere? The horrific accident, which took place coincidentally on Friday the 13th, left Guluva quaking in his boots even though he was nowhere near the ill-fated ship.
But the shocking images emanating from the doomed passenger vessel, posted on YouTube and other internet platforms, did not stop another leading international cruise liner, MSC Starlight Cruises, from offering a diverse range of attractive packages to those brave enough to venture into the sea at this time. Not even the news that another ship, MV Rabaul Queen, had sunk in bad weather off Papua New Guinea this week could take it off its course, so to speak.
The company says, for example, that one could cruise from Durban to Cape Town over three nights at a reasonable cost of R1750 a person. You could even live it up on the luxury vessel cruising to Maputo and Barra Lodge over four nights for between R3250 and R4355. Mouth-watering indeed!
Over and above that, MSC Starlight Cruises offers, for R2040, what it calls a "fun cruise to nowhere".
But, wait a minute, is "nowhere" not where the Costa Concordia ended up on that fateful Friday night in January? Maybe it's just Guluva's sinking feeling.
Floyd's death wish
FOUL-MOUTHED Floyd, the suspended Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's kindergarten's spin doctor, either has a death wish, a premonition of his political demise or is just simply bored or tired of doing his job as a communicator.
With his future - and that of his boss, the Woodwork Boy aka the Inconvenient Youth, and four others - now in the hands of the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's national appeals committee, the F-word specialist seems to have resigned himself to the possibility that he might not live to see another day, politically speaking.
Approached by journalists for a comment after the Inconvenient Youth was voted joint winner of the National Press Club's 2011 Newsmaker of the Year award - sharing it with a person of no less a stature than Public Protector Thuli Madonsela - Foul-Mouthed Floyd basically told them to go jump in the nearest lake.
"We are not participating in any of these things," Foul-Mouthed Floyd said. "You can go ahead and no leader of the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's kindergarten will be involved and no message will be sent. Please stop any form of communication with the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's kindergarten."
A pinch of salt
THE US special operations force that took out Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan last year and later went on to sensationally rescue two women - including an American - held hostage by armed Somali pirates a few weeks ago is curiously called SEALS.
But the correct acronym for Sea, Air and Land Teams - the name by which the special force is known - is SALT.
This is another reason why we must always take everything the Americans give us with a pinch of salt.
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It's a 'fun cruise to nowhere'
WITH last month's Costa Concordia disaster still fresh in our minds, sea travel cannot be an option for anyone right now.
Who will forget the day when at least 11 people died after the luxury cruise liner they were sailing in struck a rock and sank somewhere in the middle of nowhere? The horrific accident, which took place coincidentally on Friday the 13th, left Guluva quaking in his boots even though he was nowhere near the ill-fated ship.
But the shocking images emanating from the doomed passenger vessel, posted on YouTube and other internet platforms, did not stop another leading international cruise liner, MSC Starlight Cruises, from offering a diverse range of attractive packages to those brave enough to venture into the sea at this time. Not even the news that another ship, MV Rabaul Queen, had sunk in bad weather off Papua New Guinea this week could take it off its course, so to speak.
The company says, for example, that one could cruise from Durban to Cape Town over three nights at a reasonable cost of R1750 a person. You could even live it up on the luxury vessel cruising to Maputo and Barra Lodge over four nights for between R3250 and R4355. Mouth-watering indeed!
Over and above that, MSC Starlight Cruises offers, for R2040, what it calls a "fun cruise to nowhere".
But, wait a minute, is "nowhere" not where the Costa Concordia ended up on that fateful Friday night in January? Maybe it's just Guluva's sinking feeling.
Floyd's death wish
FOUL-MOUTHED Floyd, the suspended Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's kindergarten's spin doctor, either has a death wish, a premonition of his political demise or is just simply bored or tired of doing his job as a communicator.
With his future - and that of his boss, the Woodwork Boy aka the Inconvenient Youth, and four others - now in the hands of the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's national appeals committee, the F-word specialist seems to have resigned himself to the possibility that he might not live to see another day, politically speaking.
Approached by journalists for a comment after the Inconvenient Youth was voted joint winner of the National Press Club's 2011 Newsmaker of the Year award - sharing it with a person of no less a stature than Public Protector Thuli Madonsela - Foul-Mouthed Floyd basically told them to go jump in the nearest lake.
"We are not participating in any of these things," Foul-Mouthed Floyd said. "You can go ahead and no leader of the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's kindergarten will be involved and no message will be sent. Please stop any form of communication with the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's kindergarten."
A pinch of salt
THE US special operations force that took out Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan last year and later went on to sensationally rescue two women - including an American - held hostage by armed Somali pirates a few weeks ago is curiously called SEALS.
But the correct acronym for Sea, Air and Land Teams - the name by which the special force is known - is SALT.
This is another reason why we must always take everything the Americans give us with a pinch of salt.
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