<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID\x3d15169782\x26blogName\x3dThoughts+of+a+dying+humourist\x26publishMode\x3dPUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT\x26navbarType\x3dBLACK\x26layoutType\x3dCLASSIC\x26searchRoot\x3dhttps://runawaypoet.blogspot.com/search\x26blogLocale\x3den_GB\x26v\x3d2\x26homepageUrl\x3dhttp://runawaypoet.blogspot.com/\x26vt\x3d1050306562470254072', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe" }); } }); </script>
Thoughts of a dying humourist
Sunday, October 30, 2005


No postings :(

Hey all !

Sorry its been so quiet around my blog, exams have started and so between the studying Ive managed to squeeze in 2 nights of debauchery, which will be written about soon, promise. Hope youre all well :)
Anni
12:06

3 comments
Monday, October 24, 2005


Just to put things in perspective


If you ever wondered how the four SA people would look on a map:
Anni
15:02

4 comments


Very Hot


Enjoy kids! :D
Anni
14:37

0 comments
Saturday, October 22, 2005


Scentillating


Hey there :)

Good to be posting a bit again, had a bit of a slump in terms of that...(and we're being loaded with work like you wouldnt believe)
With regard to the previous post, about attracting / chasing/ etc - scent actually plays a very big role : Im going to go all biologist and say that it has alot to do with pheromones and certain lobes in the brain being stimulated by different scents. So now the question is: What fragrance do you use? And what do you like to smell on a person of the opposite gender?
Anni
19:11

4 comments
Friday, October 21, 2005


Test Results

Tickle.com has some pretty cool tests, so I did this one "Which kind of girlfriend are you" , with quite interesting results ::

Anni, you're an Amorous Adventurer

Carefree and fun, you are easily excited when it comes to new experiences — and that includes relationships. It's not that you see boyfriends as frivolous pursuits, but you enjoy the art of the chase, and you work to make sure that long-term relationships maintain that sense of adventure and surprise.You may not be the type of girlfriend who spends every waking hour with her man, but that doesn't mean you're not thinking about him. You're just an independent woman, and it's important for you to feel challenged and creative in most things you do. That's what makes any relationship an adventure.
I think its true, its up to my friends to contradict this! Willow? Soffy?
Anni
23:38

6 comments
Tuesday, October 18, 2005


Damien Rice Wisdom

He said something pretty profound in an interview, something that I found to be true from personal experiences :

“It’s a song about getting so close,” he explains, “so close to somebody that the intensity of the love that you feel for that person has this amazing potential to make you feel amazing hatred for them when something goes wrong, because you have that capacity. You feel like you know them so well, you feel like they know you so well. So they can really get into you and disturb you.”
Anni
22:52

0 comments


Strange Cultures

Whew , long time no update huh?
Thing is, we have more English assignments (cleverly disguised under the name "writing a reaction paper" meh. And as for the other subjects, for some reason our Afrikaans lecturers seem to be set on making us read the most boring (and ironically,the most important) novels in the history of the language. So now we're stuck with "The travels of Poppie Nongena" , apparently a famous book that has been translated into several languages.
This book just highlights for me what cultural differences there are between people ; like the indigenous tribes (yes there are still tribes in South Africa, whoohoo!) and their habits and customs. A few I have gleaned from the pages ::

1. First and foremost, the men are honoured and the women are posessions purely there for caring for her husband and bearing offspring.
Women are "bought" from a family, the man pays 'lobola' (a wedding price so to speak, an example would be a small herd of cattle ) So there's no emotion involved. The women also have to marry very early, by the time they are 26 they typically have 4 children or so. So there's no contraception to speak of

2. When the wife finally meets her parents-in-law, she may not look her father-in-law in the eye or shake his hand, simply go to sit on the other side of the room, and not on a chair. The men sit on the chairs, the women sit on blankets on the floor. They may also not call their husbands by their name, they must call him (e.g. Tata-ka-Themba, which means "Father of Themba", where Themba is the firstborn) Also, they try to have alot of children ,because they live together in one house (anything from 3-9 people in a two-roomed house) and everyone has to contribute to the household funds. Daughters above 13 stay home to care for the mother's babies.

3. The food: their staple food is maizemeal and sour milk. They often crush maize and let it soak in water overnight , then cook it the following morning and add sour milk, its then called "inquoqo" or something like that. Also cooked meat and potatoes.

Just goes to show you...
Anni
21:51

2 comments
Friday, October 14, 2005


Video Shop Casualties

This post isnt purely family guy rant, before you get all excited. I just saw an episode, the one where Brian goes on The Bachelor. There's two scenes where Stewey's making fun of him and the novel he has been writing for 3 (or 4, I can't remember) years. He just goes on and on, way beyond the point of being appropriately burnt...hahahaha. The second scene is funnier because his voice kind of goes higher until its almost a squeak.

We were in the video shop today, and just randomly I picked up Stander,and reading the back part caused me burst a bloody artery I was laughing so hard : One of the guys is played by a British actor, Dexter Fletcher. The dumbasses that wrote the description on the back of the dvd announced him as (wait for it:)

Dexter Flexter

I almost died laughing.

Oh and if you're looking for movies that are like the ones you already like , go here .
Alright Kids
Enjoy!

Anni
22:49

0 comments
Wednesday, October 12, 2005


The Kids arent alright

Hey! update ! yay!

Got a pleasant surprize on Faceparty this morning...its seems that our little community is very involved in other things besides blogging, which is good, I mean....external interests and all that. :P
BUT I also found my sibling, who is a little punk/emo kid (mike, is it possible to be both at the same time!?) with a vendetta against society (although Im not sure if she knows why, but such is adolessence). One of her (online) buddies is this kid, he's like all hardcore i-dont-give-two-stuffs-about-the-world kind, its actually very pathetic, because he tries *so* hard to not care that he's absolutely overcompensating. He mentions things like death, bleeding and pain alot, I wish I could ask him to not be such an ass and send him a prescription for Prozac....
He's 16 for goodness sake! Ok fair enough I wrote a great deal of utterly depressing poetry that was riddled with concepts of poison, blood, dying, being saved blah blah blah, but I didnt go out and publish this crap everywhere so that people are forced to read about my crappy life!
(this may be a good time to mention that I have nothing to complain about, im blessed with a functional and happy family)

HA!, and just as a sidenote, to add insult to injury, he posts a pic of his naked upper body, for which I almost incapacitate myself laughing...he's a little stringbean with not a single hair to show! (If this is normal then im sorry, i dont have any brothers with whom to compare it with...and my male friends won't let me investigate bwahahahaha)

Yah. So there ya go. Kids today eh?

p.s and the other day me and soffy went to go check the blogs and she updated me on slopmaster's latest scandal...i think I may have said the word "awful" at least 35 times in the following hour and a half. After which it became very annoying and I decided to shut up.
Anni
12:20

6 comments
Monday, October 10, 2005


*sigh* photoshop.....


Yet again, I waste countless minutes on this. I thought Angelina with the evil eye would be amusing. The second is some random person disguised as a fairy in a botanical garden. Tomorrow I'll post news. promise.
Anni
12:44

1 comments
Saturday, October 08, 2005


Comedy

Recently I've come across a series called "Not the 9 o'clock news" .(Inone skit they're making fun of ABBA's music videos, its really cool...) It showed here a few years ago (despite having been made in the late 70's , early 80's....hahaha so much for reruns)
and its very funny...mind you not full-blown Monty Python funny, but still, its more up to standard that today's sitcom drivvle. I mean, you can kick out a sitcom under every bush these days. As for very popular sitcoms, Im going to be controversial and say that I never found Friends funny or entertaining in the least.
As for the actors, no matter what movie they do, they're still being their Friends' persona, just with another name and co-stars.

One of the good things about this series is Rowan Atkinson being bitingly funny, its actually a shame he began with the stupid Mr Bean character cos now most people associate him with the character - he's so much more talented than a guy with a teddybear who only makes little grunts and drives a mini......

And plus he was very young there, so he had extremely 70's hair...
Other shows to watch::
Red Dwarf , Black Adder, Thin Blue Line.....
And of course "And now for something completely different" which is a film that contains the best from the Monty Python and the Flying Circus skits.
Go watch it :)
Anni
18:43

1 comments
Friday, October 07, 2005


Characters


I have no idea what the purpose of this post is, but here they are. There will be more guys I think, but this is how far its gone.

Anni
16:11

3 comments
Thursday, October 06, 2005


Im ready for my closeup Mr De M...You pervert! Not THAT close!!!

Hola

Ive just written psych research meth, went ok, except when they asked what a "Ho" and a "Ha" was, these being abbreviations of goodness knows what, but I was tempted to write "A female of familiar relations" and "An uncompleted laugh"....

Anyway.
I havent started the movie yet, still trying to map out the range of emotions they can show (with every expansion pack they increase these) and trying to find original bhav animations. And of course the fricken plot. And thanks Mike, the idea is cool, but I was thinking in indulging in some scenes that would not be suitable for a senile old bag and her toy boy. Or at least, I sure as hell don't want to see that. Do you guys want to see the leads? I think I made one that looks a bit like my sister, which is weird...but meh...

Speaking of the familias, Will, Kirstin and myself were talking this afternoon about y'know, origins and races and stuff.
South Africa is a mishmash of alot of cultures, because we were colonized by different countries. They came from the UK (missionaries, scottish teachers, british generals waging war against everyone and their aunt) , Europe (most notably France, Portugal, Italy and Spain) and well, then there are the native Bushmen, Xhosa and Zulu tribes.
So basically we're all some kind of mix, I suppose, you just need to do a bit of reading up on your last name (and even your looks could be a giveaway, can't it?)

We were jsut speculating anyway, but came to the conclusion that Will must be some kind of British incarnation (im over generalising, just a warning) because she's fair, has very straight, typically caucasian hair and big blue eyes. The whole milkmaid thing going on :P
Kirstin refuses to be pinned to a single thing, but finally we decided on Greek..
As for me, I don't know, but I have a bit of an olive skintone, and dark hair with kinks in, so maybe Mediteranean....

What do you think?
Anni
20:37

5 comments
Wednesday, October 05, 2005


Plot crisis

Help! Now I know why most Hollywood movies are so bad! Its difficult to come up with a totally original storyline.....

Here is what ive come up with:
1. Cohabiting couple - about to break up, guy gets run over, goes into coma, dreams about his gf, wakes up and doesnt want to leave her anymore. (this plot uses alot of cool shots that ive thought of, hence the patchy storyline)

2. Guy recovers from hangover only to find that the fox in the nightclub is one of his colleagues at the office.

3.!?!?!?!???!?!?!?! Some stupid coming of age story.

Ideas! please!
Anni
11:42

4 comments
Tuesday, October 04, 2005


Nightmares and Movies

The two aren't related mind you.

I went to sleep over at Will's and we came upon an interesting video while pottering around on the network : 101 most embarassing sex accidents.
It wasnt as much entertaining as gruesome and cringeworthy...what some stupid bastards (all male) would do to get off....!
Some of the ..um....jewels...that were shown :

1. A dude that used a vacuum cleaner, but not the pipe, he just stuck it directly into the machine and as a result had half of his weener shredded. (The best part is, when 911 arrived he told them that he got assaulted by a hooker that he picked up at a bar.....lol)

2. And in a twisted spin off to American Pie, one guy put a melon in the microwave, took it out with oven gloves (he should have seen the warning signs right there), bodged a hole in it and tried to bonk the melon. All he got was 2nd degree burns.

3. A few blokes were having some very , exceptionally rough, sex when the organ accidentally slipped out and hit the female's pelvis, causing it to....break. They actually showed the after pictures. Its literally bent in half.

4. Some dude couldnt wait for sufficient lubrication and actually tore his skin. Im not going into too much detail, but you can imagine.....

Hehehehe, Im showing Soffy this tonight. If you hear screaming on that side of the globe, its us freaking out again. lol

If you ever happen to watch anything, please let it be Robot Chicken, brilliant and random. I crown it Series Of The Month.

AAAAAND on to movies.....
The Sims movie is going to take a while, I finally got Uni and Nightlife, bringing along a slew of new social interactions for me to plot out into a storyline. Not to mention architecture (big up, mike! some help with the sets maybe!?) Characters have to be created.
And I found a really cool resource that explains how to shoot action sequences and other difficult things. The Storyline is going to be crap, but hey, its an amateur effort.
Any input will be appreciated (maybe not always used, but definately appreciated ;P)
Anni
15:56

4 comments
Monday, October 03, 2005


Comments

If anyone comments under anonymous : could you please leave a name or something, so I know who you are? (which kind of defies the point of anonymity but ok.....)

Thank you :)
Anni
12:48

3 comments
Sunday, October 02, 2005


Movie

Hey here's a bright spark : what about I make a movie?
Have you guys ever seen Sims2 movies?
Its a bitch to make, but highly entertaining - as it happens , I have a dusty one in the archives, featuring a band (ahem, no names mentioned). But as it borders on weird, Im not going to post it.


If you havent seen any, go here
For particularly good ones, go to the button "contest" and watch the winning movies.
Ones Ive seen:
"Everyday" (winner of June 2005)
And The Awakening.

Comment! Movie or no movie?
Anni
20:32

2 comments


Living in a rose labyrinth

For some inexplicable reason, I have flung myself into The Sims2 again. I was in rehab for this mind-mangling drug in June, but sadly my powers are nothing against the urge to digitally try and create the most beautiful offspring and living quarters. Its madness I tell ya.

Yesterday, trying to find (read: download) some interesting furniture and things to put into the houses, I came upon a interior decorating nightmare. Well, there are alot of people out there who think that your whole room should match to a tee, me not being of them..but just look at this::

If youre not crazy after two minutes in this room, you'll surely be prying the lampshade from its place in an attempt to off yourself with the rod as quickly as possible.
I think in general I like to lean towards a clean, minimalistic, but interesting environment, with bold colours and focal points...what do you guys like?
Maybe I'll post a pic or something one day of a room, I dunno.
And in the meantime I will be trying to hunt down the expansion packs University (which I have at home but forgot to bring, hence gameplay sucked a bit this time around) and Nightlife.
And feel free to donate any one of these to yours truly.
much love.
Me
Anni
20:21

3 comments
Saturday, October 01, 2005


Cognitive Tomfoolery

Yay! First decent post in ages. To tell you the truth, there's been quite alot going on, but ironically I seem to be blogging when nothing is going on and then I type out pure nonsense. But anyway. News on the farm this week is that yours truly has found a very cosy flat, with 5 female flatmates (oh yes Im feeling the love from all the males out there....) who are all between the ages of 20 and 23. Very fetching. Flat includes huge rooms, two bathrooms, tv with cable (not the wire obviously) and gym equipment. Meh. Guess whose bum is going to be extra firm next year! hahahahaha

Recently Ive been thinking about words and the human tendency to try and conjure up a mental image of abstract terms. Take the word love. I bet when you say it some image of pink bubbles or whatnot fills your mind. Ok maybe not exactly that but you know what I mean. Its human nature to try and put a visual tag on everything.

Now, my grievance lies in some words that are plainly, crappily constructed. (And yes, Im enough of a language nerd to post ridiculousness like this)

Infatuation. If it comes to being in love, people do not want to be reminded of the word fat. Especially not the female variety among us. It sounds like being bloated. "Im so infatuated." "Oooh, sorry to hear about that..." Why couldnt it have been inflituated, which sounds more flightly and airy?

Puberty. Its just too close to pubic. Too....close. But conversely maybe there's a reason why it sounds like it does, because face it, the lifestage in question is about nothing more than writing suicide poetry (read: emo) (no offence mike) , thinking the world is conspiring against you, having bad skin, and mourning the loss of countless crushes that, truthfully, don't know you exist.

Penalize For the imaginationally blessed out there, you can figure this one out, why it sounds wrong, its conjures up images of probing. Of course it depends on how you pronounce it. I have trouble stifling giggles when someone uses it in a serious public speech...

And, like Soffy pointed out earlier , Subpoena. Im not even going to start. Sounds too much like a foreign cousin of a whale that has no blow hole.
Anni
22:13

5 comments