If there ever was a brand that has always been around the block, it’s Wimpy. Waves of nostalgia and memories of road-trips to Plett enter my mind, with me servicing my dad a fresh cold beer every couple of hours and a glass (real glass – plastic gives her Ladyship moth ulcers) of wine (with [...]

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There’s a crisis in the Middle East, ladies and gentlemen. For centuries, the mullet has stood on the threshold of visual offense and radical expression of freedom. And in yet another move to isolate itself from the global Wayne’s World generation, Iran has banned that most majestic and elusive of creatures, the mullet. Imagine a [...]

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I was browsing the overseas newspapers on my iPad and spotted something on the front page of yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in the UK. Check it out – bottom right: With the launch of 2oceansvibe Radio, I am naturally drawn to articles like this – especially when they’re on the front page. Really interesting stuff here [...]

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Famke vs Penelope In The 2010 World Cup Final Famke Janssen Takes On Penelope Cruz In The 2010 World Cup Final – We said goodbye to Germany last night as they were conquered by The Red Fury in Durban. They will have to work harder on their Vorsprung Durch technique before the next World Cup. [...]

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When you think “Irish movie”, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? You think dreary coastlines, people with a strange affinity for potatoes, seaweed and fish (usually together in a pie), the IRA and The Cranberries. At a push, you might be thinking Gerard Butler and posthumous love letters (why, Gerard, why?). But [...]

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Jim Carrey is gay. Well, at least in his latest outing, I Love You Phillip Morris in which he portrays the real life story of Steven Jay Russell, a cop, a conman, an inmate and a big fan of musicals. If you desperately want one of those golden statuettes, play someone famous, someone that’s mentally-challenged [...]

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The biggest Old Spice ad to hit the internot was surely the one which ends with the guy on a horse. It’s been watched nearly 12 million times so far on YouTube. Check it out here if you missed it. Once you’ve done that, cast your beautiful eyes over to this video below, which is [...]

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Cycling fans out there must be rock-hard when looking at this pic of Lance Armstrong’s new helmet. And if not, they will be when I tell them that this new helmet gives Lance 20-30 grams less “drag.” Lance Armstrong’s new helmet – picked up on Gizmodo website Apparently: [A concept] that has a short tail [...]

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Okay, so some of you may have sniffed out the Bulwer-Lytton Award in the press recently. In a nutshell, it’s an annual prize for the most heinously horrible complete sentence known to the English language, penned in the year of the award. No, the IOL sub-editors did not clinch the prize this year. Without further [...]

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Hello beautiful babies! Daddy was just browsing through the Vanity Fair magazine on his iPad, and he came across this picture of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, taken at Heathrow airport in 1970. Daddy wants you to look at this picture carefully. You see what Liz did there? With those shorts and that top? And [...]

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Shock Decision – Paul The Octopus Picks Spain Paul The Octopus STUNS Germany And Picks Spain To Win Semifinals – Paul, a brilliant German octopus, has impressed fans worldwide with his uncanny ability to correctly predict the outcome of Germany’s World Cup games. Most recently, the omniscient octopus selected the Germans to beat favored Argentina. [...]

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Remember that band that made that sick “My Cape Town” song? The one that went viral and brought down the Seacom cable? Ja, that one. Ok, it didn’t really bring down Seacom, but it did manage to get Helen Zille to comment on their Facebook page. We’ve also featured it a couple of times on [...]

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No spice, the Dutch soccer team needs a place to stay. While the Uruguayans were getting an undeserved peaceful night’s sleep in Newlands (despite a small Twitter campaign calling for Capetonians to please “not” blow vuvuzelas and bang drums outside their rooms), the dutchies were bumming around the Cape of Good Hope looking for a [...]

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If the FBI are looking for any new recruits they should please go ahead and drop me a line. You see, what I did was I noted the words “Playboy model” in the articles describing Jennifer Rovero, the chick that Paris Hilton was caught smoking weed with. I was naturally drawn to the article because [...]

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Sydney Restaurant, Mundo Global Tapas, may have a silly sounding name, but they are rocking the their technological potential as an eatery. Picture this: You walk into a restaurant, and instead of being handed the usual crusty leather-bound tome of a menu fitted with pseudo-brass corners, you’re handed an iPad. You think, “Cool! A pre-drinks [...]

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I’ll give these Nando’s characters one thing, they move pretty darn swiftly! Behold the latest viral ad to get cooked on their flame-frilled ovens. This time it’s targeted at Paris Hilton, following the marijuana skandaal in Pretoria last Friday. If you can’t read the small print, it goes like this, “Whether it’s for lunch, supper [...]

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We saw their posters a few months back and noted the tongue-in-cheek angle they were going for, playing on the 2010 World Cup with the words “The Biggest Event Of The Year.” But now they’ve gone one step further, with this “reel.” I was sent this from someone at “Ogilvy.” Probably one of the “creatives.” [...]

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Anna Chapman – The spy who loved you Extremely Hot Russian Spy Joined Mile-High Club – Finally we get the confirmation that we were waiting for. According to her ex-husband, Anna Chapman, the extremely hot Russian spy who surfaced in New York, was incredible in bed. This latest top-secret intelligence also confirms that she joined [...]

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In the most stunningly apathetic move since Marie Antoinette told the dirty kids to shove off and eat their cake, Moscow’s regional governor suggested that residents should buy a helicopter if they’re suffering with road traffic congestion. “I fly in a helicopter. (You) should also buy helicopters instead of cars – then you do not [...]

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You should be well aware of Chat Roulette by now. If not, I’ll save you from sure social emboerrissment and fill you in – It basically connects you to other people with webcams. So they look at you and you look at them. If you both have microphones, you can also chat. Or you can [...]

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The smaller half of Die Antwoord’s vocal duo, Yolandi Vi$$er, has just klapped Hollywood in the hol, ek se. She was approached by some corporate naaiers who tjooned her to play the main betty in a movie-film version of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Moreover, my pedigree chums, the film is to [...]

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I got this video clip from a reader. It looks pretty real but I don’t recognise which stadium it is. Is that Cape town? Were you there? Does anyone know anything about this? You can see the plane flying off at the end. Did you catch that? [thanks reese]

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Rafa Takes Wimbledon Nadal Wins Wimbledon – Well the poms will be horrified that Andy Murray didn’t win. They had better start putting pressure on him for next year’s Wimbledon ASAP! God forbid they don’t jinx him like they do every one of their sportsmen (I know – he’s Scottish – the irony etc.). The [...]

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As we wrap up this eventful week with the news that Jackie Selebi has been shafted, there’s no better browsing than a bizarre but thoroughly humurous site, Accidental Penis. It’s not the “I was on steroids for five years as a professional woman body builder and ended up with an accidental penis” kind of accidental [...]

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