Here's a quick question for all you ex OrANJEMUNDERS:
1) Where in town would I be , if I was driving on a double laned one direction road?
idontknow
would you be driving past the school at the front towards the hospital ???
mmmh! I think that was way too easy.... My next Oranjemund Quiz Idea, is photograph various buildings or doors and ask where in Omund Am I.... bring the camera 2 work 2morrow!
Well Done! Another point to the Irish!
Question for the really old timers, was 11th ave outside the school always a one way double lane?
idontknow
Wouldn't this be one for the games board?
I didn't OM had any one-way roads at all.
You're right Georg, I'll start the Monud Quiz on that board, once I have a few snaps.....
No it wasn't always a one-way.Actually it's the first I hear of it and I left in 1980.
Quote from: georg ruf jr. on March 10, 2008, 11:44:30 AM
Wouldn't this be one for the games board?
Consider yourself well and truly uitgek*k Michael. Don't mess with the Germans.
What.... how sure are you about this, considering you only got a drivers licence last week in Guguleto, shack 5 for the first time.... you only rode a camel down 8th ave.....
laughpoint
Sounds to me like the makings of a 'treasure hunt' for the reunion...........same teams as we had in school; red, blue, green...............teams of 2 or 3 people including one ex O'munder and one resident O'munder.......
If its me you talking to Michael I'm very sure it was two way street.
I often talk to myself, this typing to myself though!, it's new to me!
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I have never known it to be a one way. As long as i lived there it was a two way and i left in 1985.
...and do you guys remember there being speedbumps?
No speed bumps.
Well there are now 4 sets of speedbumps along 11th ave.... and down 5th ave.... also one by the admin block also... that was done sometime in the late 80's or early 90's.....
No robots yet? :36_2_35:
Speedbumps? boobs What for??
Quote from: Rhona on March 10, 2008, 06:34:44 PM
Sounds to me like the makings of a 'treasure hunt' for the reunion...........same teams as we had in school; red, blue, green...............teams of 2 or 3 people including one ex O'munder and one resident O'munder.......
...and we all know Rhodes will win again. meanpuff
Is that a dare....?
Robots? At the bridge, well sort off! :36_2_35:
A dare, Mike? Oh no........in Europe we don't do dares - we do double dares!!! And so I double dare you to run some sort of a competition during the reunion; maybe it could entail a swim, a treasure hunt, and I don't know - you decide; have the teams from our schooldays and I bet you Rhodes will wipe the floor with the rest of you guys.........
hoolahoop1 fireworks1 hoolahoop1
T'is a good idea, I'll give it a bit of a thought and add it to my to do list for the reunion...
If you need us to do anything,, just say the word -Hey maybe I could organise the trophy and post it out to you - I reckon if I put 'Rhodes 2008' on it; that would be a safe bet.......whatcha reckon Jnr
.... and there I thought that everything that came from Ireland was GREEN!
Yeah Rhona! That's perfect.
:36_2_35:
Only green for this coming weekend.............
Shamrock is an inosent green. lol
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Put my name on the rhodes team please. X.x.x
Et Tu' Brutus?
Looks like this competition is taking off on it's own Mike - start making the banners; the cheerleaders are coming back to town (disguised as pole-dancers)
GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME - Barnato ! ! ! !
Doe a dear, a female dear...
Come on. Wehere's the rest of you?
Ray, a drop of golden sand...sun...er uhm!
Who's making up songs.... :emot19:
ME a name I call myself
FA a lon , long way to run
SO a needle pulling threat
LA a note that follows SO
TE I drink with jam and bread
Which brings me back to DO DO DO DO
DO a dear a female dear.
f**k I could kill that music teacher , she drummed that dam song into us for years. MRS CONNAN , no offence.
Quote from: Claire Mc Cullagh on March 18, 2008, 01:43:47 PM
ME a name I call myself
FA a lon , long way to run
SO a needle pulling threat
LA a note that follows SO
TE I drink with jam and bread
Which brings me back to DO DO DO DO
DO a dear a female dear.
f**k I could kill that music teacher , she drummed that dam song into us for years. MRS CONNAN , no offence.
Hi Claire.
already out of bed? What was St. Patricks Day like? :emot19:
Had to be good - Went out on Friday night for a party - faided at about 2.
Then on Saturday our two neighbours came around for a drink - I think it was about 3:30 and litre bottle of vodka later, and that was just me. They were on the rum. Had to get up at 7 and make Breakfast - full Belfast Fry , Yum Yum
Didn't have a drink yesterday - had to be a sencible Mommy. Spent the day with the kids and took them to see there grannies and grandads. But will make up for it this easter weekend.
At OPS, they never ever gave me an instrument to play, the cool kids got to play a xylophone (spelling) and us useless kids got a frigging tamborine...hey I came from a musical family and the school stunted my potential.... grrr!
swink
could be worse - all I ever got was the spoons at the Braai, that's the closes to a musical instument I ever got.
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You should be glad you didn't have to use one of those wooden flutes (can't remember what they were called in English). They stank >yeach< like >eaugh< after being gobbeled about 500 times.
Hey, talking of the spoons, who remembers Roy Fields playing the spoons, man he was awesom, spoons, mouth organ and a trumpet.... thanks for the memory....
George jnr - I cannot dig around in my brain for the English names of those flutes you are talking about, but in Afrikaans it is called a 'blokfluit' - that's the smaller thinner one and the bigger thicker one is called an 'altfluit'. These days they are made of plastic, but it seems as if the sound does not compare to the old wooden ones.
Yuk, ja - I remember the school had some of them and they were given to the lucky one for the day who had to squeeze out a tune that sounded somewhat like the tune prescribed in the notes! If you took lessons, mostly you had your own flute. I still have mine and my daughter Susan used it about 3 years ago when she decided she wanted to take lessons - she gave it up - her reason: the thing has a sound like an African bush flute being played by a beer sodden 'tate'. Told her it was her making it sound like that - she stuck to her version and switched to piano lessons.
the recorder
that's what they were called and still are.
Quote from: Dalene Steenkamp (Coetzee) on March 18, 2008, 04:30:17 PM
George jnr - I cannot dig around in my brain for the English names of those flutes you are talking about, but in Afrikaans it is called a 'blokfluit' - that's the smaller thinner one and the bigger thicker one is called an 'altfluit'. These days they are made of plastic, but it seems as if the sound does not compare to the old wooden ones.
Yuk, ja - I remember the school had some of them and they were given to the lucky one for the day who had to squeeze out a tune that sounded somewhat like the tune prescribed in the notes! If you took lessons, mostly you had your own flute. I still have mine and my daughter Susan used it about 3 years ago when she decided she wanted to take lessons - she gave it up - her reason: the thing has a sound like an African bush flute being played by a beer sodden 'tate'. Told her it was her making it sound like that - she stuck to her version and switched to piano lessons.
In German they're called "Blockfloete". So maybe it's blockflute in English. I wasn't sure.
The "music" we made at school in the 70s... $%#*+
My wife plays the block and altflute. She's great at it. If you've got the right techniques...
hahaha. Forget that one. Maybe somebodies getting me wrong...
.... and do not forget about the awesome Triangle..... I never saw the sense of those classes.... the same withg woodwork..... I was never technical at school ...hated the stuff.... hated being forced to do woodwork.... only in the last 12 years have I enjoyed tinkering with wood.....
Hey, who remembers TONKA toys......?
Don't even know what they are, so how can I remember them? :sorriso2:
Yeah Michael. Lighting a fire with wood for a good old braai :buffo9: :emot19:
I remember Tonka Toys, still got my sons yellow tip truck. Now something I've been looking for and can't find is "Tinker Toys" Those WOODEN (not plastic) sticks and disc's with holes in them.
I also like playing with tinkertoys...
Hey Diana, ask Dunja to share her famous "tinker toy" story with you. I still LMAO every time I think of it.
OK Dunja do share.....
DOES SOMEBODY KNOW WHERE I CAN BUY TINKER TOYS!!!!!!! tHE PEOPLE IN THE TOYSHOPS HERE HAVE NO CLUE WHAT i'M TALKING ABOUT.
Try on the net Diana - maybe eBay???
Well hello everyone
this talk of tinker and tonker, model building and scalelectrix got me thinking about lego and Knex etc
did a search and found tinker very available in USA
I did find a UK based site selling a 250 piece box with plastic bits for £19.99 not including postage
the collector kits original 1920 go for ridiculous prices but I guess you could get lucky
any way here is a history of most popular toys last 50 years -
how many of you know these toys.......
1901 Meccano goes on sale in the UK. Invented by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, it captures the spirit of the age with a challenging construction toy. One of the century's leading toy makers and creator of Hornby train sets (1920, and see 1925) and Dinky Toys, Hornby died in 1936.
1902 In the USA, the Teddy Bear is created by a Russian emigrants Morris MiTchtom who had seen a report of US President Teddy Roosevelt who declined to shoot a bear cub while out hunting. Clifford Berryman's celebrated newspaper cartoon captured this moment and Mitchcom launched his range of "Teddy" bears in his Brooklyn shop. German toymaker, Margarete Steiff began making jointed toy animals including bears, and they were also able to cash in on the teddy bear craze in the USA, which spread worldwide.
1903 Edward Binney & C. Harold Smith produce Crayola crayons.
1908 Plasticine goes on sale.
1909 The Kewpie Doll devised by Rose O'Neill. Patented 1935.
1910 Daisy Air Rifles go on sale.
1914 Tinker Toys - interlocking construction toy.
1925 Hornby produce the first electric train sets in the world.
1929 Rediscovered by Frank Duncan in Los Angeles when he saw waiters from the Philippines playing with their tradit-ional Yo-Yo. It can be traced back to Ancient Greece - in the Philippines it was a weapon (like a boomerang) for hunting and war until later it became a sporting item then later a plaything. In 1930 Frank Duncan brought over demonstrators to Europe to play the music halls - and the craze took off.
1930 Charlotte Cla in the USA starts making Micky Mouse dolls based on the first Disney cartoon first screened in 1928.
1934 Corgi starts to manufacture toy cars and other models. In 1965 their model Aston Martin from the first James Bond film became the very first BATR Toy of the Year.
1932 US architect, Alfred Butt begins work on what will become the board game, Scrabble. He calls it Lexico. (See 1940) In Denmark, Ole Kirk Christiansen started his Lego toy company. Lego means 'play well' in Danish. (leg godt). Later he discovered Lego in Latin means 'to put together'. (See 1955)
1935 Monopoly arrives in the UK. Invented in the USA by Charles Darrow in 1933, patent filed 31st August 1935 while on sale in America. It was made under licence in the UK by Waddingtons. Darrow died in 1967.
Minibrix made by the Premo Rubber Co. using the studs and cavity device which paved the way for plastic interlocking bricks pioneered by Hilary Page in the 1940s.
1943 Richard James, researching a suspension device develops the Slinky. It goes on sale in 1945.
1948 Criss Cross Words invented by Alfred Butt (originally Lexico) fails to sell well and is sold to James Brunot who changes the name to Scrabble. Sales average just 8,000, but from 1953 - 55 it suddenly takes off - sales reach 4.5million sets. (See 1954)
1949 Leeds-based Waddington's produces mystery board-game, Cluedo. This year (1999) it celebrated its 50th birthday.
Were in Oranjemund would you be if you can see alexander bay , sea ,mine and the town?
And its not in an Airplane!
Am I allowed to answer this one?
Oh! Go on so.........
Huh ? Can I? Can I?
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First bring my boobs back.
On the dune where that water and pump thingy is behind the yacht club?
I did'nt hide yer boobs... speak to MikeS
Mike S took the boobs and logged off for the night - :wow1:
Just wait until tomorrow Mike S - you are in so much trouble............Koos and the Bot Squad are after you shooter
So whats the answer Michael?
On the roof of the Yacht Club! bravo
I was close.
Yeah thats another place but I was thinking ontop of the quarry on the outskirts of the town!
That thought also crossed my mind Jeremy.