Tag Archives: South Africa

Alex the Lion Stroke-King

British wildlife expert Alex Larenty, 50, calms savage cats with gentle foot-rubs. Alex, originally of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK, moved to South Africa in 1999. He started massaging Jamu, nine, after putting insect repellent on him one day. “I gave him a scratch and massage and he rolled around with his tongue out. Now he …

Last Dictator Standing

Here’s a controversial Chicken ad from a company described in Wikipedia as “a casual dining restaurant group originating from South Africa with a Portuguese/Mozambican theme. Founded in 1987, Nando’s operates in thirty countries on five continents. Nando’s specializes in chicken dishes with either lemon and herb, medium, hot, extra hot or extra extra hot Peri-Peri …

UPDATE: Clever British Geeks Release Paper Planes in Space, and They Land in Turlock, Allegedly

It’s been a while since I first posted in EPB about this website, Project Space Planes, and their delightfully Anglocomic Youtube video below which shows a group of British engineers launching paper airplanes into space on behalf of the Samsung Corp. to see where the planes, and their sturdy microchip cargo, would land. Most of …