Remember the good old bad old days? We all smoked, sometimes behind the bike shed at school. It’s a no-no now. Movies dating back pre-1990s had police detectives, spies and...
An old African saying goes like this: I am not the one It means denial. Did you take my bicycle? I am not the one It also shifts the blame....
Once upon a time here at home in Zimbabwe a swap meant a fair swap – in the playground, two marbles for two crayons, one football card for another, licorice...
If you saw my offering on schools in Zimbabwe, here are some of Winston Churchill’s quotations, wisdoms or otherwise that pupils at Churchill School might enjoy. (Sources credit:everywhere.) ...
Mr Churchill and Mr Roosevelt enjoying humour at the height of WWII. Churchill apparently could be quite an amusing fellow. Here it looks like FDR is having a good...
In parts of the English speaking world builders and plumbers in loose trousers, when bending down for tricky tasks, show what’s known as ‘builders bum,’ or more politely rear-end cleavage....
You can buy false bookshelves these days by the metre in length. Commentators and experts being interviewed on TV or Zoom and stuff almost always have books behind them to...
With all that’s going on in the world today, it might be time to look at peculiarities, the off-beat and the humour prevailing in past and present times. Exactly 50...
Smoking very bad. War very bad. The Great Plague very bad. Most things very bad in the olden days. It’s different now! In Afghanistan, starving children are sold to...
So it’s just two years since our playboy ‘Ginimbi’ Kadungure died in his Rolls Royce on the way home from all night revelling and drinking at his now closed Harare...
