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December 3 2012 at 11:22

Marketing to make us remember our mortality

As I grow older I get more and more elaborate brochures aimed at undermining my confidence in my immortality. The most disconcerting I have received read: “Why not make your own cut-price funeral arrangements – NOW – and so save your loved ones the trouble and expense?”

The messages begin getting get blunter as you leave middle age. And plainly they hope you are neurotic.

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November 26 2012 at 11:25

Sexy senior citizens tell it like it was

A reader has sent me some personal ads that, she says, indicate that senior citizens have a sense of humour. I think somebody started it by placing a personal advertisement in The Villages, a Florida, USA, newspaper:

FOXY LADY: Sexy, fashion-conscious blue-haired beauty, 80s, slim, searching for sharp-looking, sharp-dressing companion. Matching white shoes and belt a plus.

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November 23 2012 at 10:07

Changing names gives you a massive babanangu

With the current eagerness for giving new names to South Africa’s towns, I asked Threnody Higginbottom, my secretary (I call her Miss Smith around the office) to find some columns from the 1990s when readers were invited to suggest probable meanings for South African town names.

Many of the suggestions received were too late for publication. But I kept them.

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November 19 2012 at 11:41

Lightning-quick way to understand storms

We’ve had some good thunderstorms lately and the question has, once again, arisen: how dangerous is lightning?

And is it true that one should put the phone down, or get out of the shower, or not use electrical equipment when lightning is near?

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November 12 2012 at 10:22

Twitchers’ big day of ticking and twittering

Saturday, November 24, is Birding Big Day (BBD) in South Africa, when thousands of people in various stages of insanity rise at dawn – some even at midnight – to twitch.

Twitch? This is a universally-accepted verb to describe the act of seeing how many bird species one can positively identify in a given time – usually 24 hours – within a radius of 50km of a fixed point. The BBD record stands at 276 identified in a day by a team of four in Zululand.

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