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The latest from KFC. Check out the newest snack!

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2008

Sod2

Sod2

Beware!

Beware!

Airport hotties

Airport hotties

Have you ever had trouble getting to sleep on a plane because the temperature was set too cold? South African Airways' latest bus adverts proudly show their solution to the problem.

Toasty!

Beware!

Beware!

Isn't being opened what doors are, ummm, for?

What happens when you upset the interpreter

What happens when you upset the interpreter

The people writing the covernotes for locally produced fake DVDs have their own special way of mangling the English language. Whoever wrote the cover of this disc (The Secret Society) seems to have chosen the "Yoda" option on his automatic translator program. (Click the photo for a closer look.)

If you're curious to know what the film is really about, check out the unmangled synopsis here.

Nits

Nits

In my schooldays, a visit from the "nit lady" was bad news - it meant that the teacher had found some of the pupils with headlice, and we'd all need a checkup. So I was surprised to see this advert drive past today, apparently offering 200 nits with every notebook computer.

After scratching my head (sorry!) to try and understand what they meant, a quick google showed that in these days of squeaky-clean students, Nits "is the standard which LCD manufacturers rates the brightness of their panels".  Read more »

Leave your paraphernalia at home

Leave your paraphernalia at home

Patriarch

Patriarch

PatriarchB and ToddlerB found this one on an expedition to the local shopping arcade.

Hi, smoothy

Hi, smoothy

Why be content with shampoo that only promises healthy hair, when you can demand smoothy and shinely?

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