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Posted: **June 18th, 2010, 6:07 am**

They are a big part of the World Cup coverage these days, these fan toys called vuvuzelas. I've had to read about them, and have a look at these things to be sure. But we had them when I was a kid, and my family took me to watch Duke football games -- back when Duke football was GOOD.

They didn't call them by that name, though. They were just plastic horns. And they appeared at all college football games, and no one cared, because they were just another way for the fans to make noise. Odd, that...

Posted: **June 18th, 2010, 7:22 am**

I just found out a friend of mine in SA is probably sending me one. I will be sure and bring it to all my meetings at work.

Posted: **June 18th, 2010, 7:24 am**

Sanjuro wrote:I just found out a friend of mine in SA is probably sending me one. I will be sure and bring it to all meetings.

Now THAT would add value to any corporation's daily life. :character-beavisbutthead:

Posted: **June 18th, 2010, 7:50 am**

Posted: **June 24th, 2010, 8:36 am**

At least you pronounce it correctly.

I heard someone on the radio trying to be "in the know" but he made it very obvious that he's not watching World Cup when he referred to the vuvuzela as "vooVOOZehLuh" as opposed to "voovooZEHluh"

Posted: **June 24th, 2010, 8:58 am**

I finally got to hear the blasted things in action at the Cup. Fort a second, I thought there was some screw-up in the sound transmission. The thing was never that widespread in my experience at the football games in my youth. That would have really screwed with visiting teams, I bet.

It's a kind of a same I don't have my old horn from back then. Be cool to pull it out and try it out. In my back yard. At midnight.

Posted: **June 24th, 2010, 9:19 am**

We had the stadium horns when I was in high school, but instead of performing the B-flat concerto, it was more like a few quick blasts. Not sure if it was a honk honk honk or a toot toot toot. Sometimes it was one blast for a couple of seconds, but nowhere near the "buzz without ceasing."

Posted: **June 24th, 2010, 9:27 am**

They sound like an Invasion of African Killer Bees

Posted: **June 24th, 2010, 11:22 am**

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Posted: **June 24th, 2010, 9:01 pm**

Apparently Youtube has added a vuvuzela button now:

Go to a youtube video such as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iDtvoAS8b4

and click on the soccer ball!

Posted: **June 25th, 2010, 12:14 am**

I may never become completely fluent in French... but I figured out this headline:

Il arrive à l’hôpital avec une vuvuzela dans le... derrière

=

He arrived at the hospital with a vuvuzela in the ... behind

At the end of the match between South Africa and Uruguay, a man went to the hospital with ... vuvuzela in the behind. And he was no longer able to remove ... cite

Posted: **June 25th, 2010, 9:37 am**

There's a job for him at FOX

Posted: **June 25th, 2010, 9:53 am**

The mental image reminds me of animation from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Posted: **June 25th, 2010, 10:09 am**

I was going to post that too, but got distracted by work

Posted: **June 25th, 2010, 11:39 am**

A Person wrote::lol:

I was going to post that too, but got distracted by work

Work... always getting in the way of the important stuff...

Posted: **June 25th, 2010, 6:27 pm**

Read the reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003HBN9DY/

Posted: **June 25th, 2010, 8:08 pm**

I just got word mine is on its way from Cape Town.

Apparently with a few "surprises". Consider me worried. :lol:

Posted: **June 26th, 2010, 1:00 am**

Sanjuro wrote:I just got word mine is on its way from Cape Town. Apparently with a few "surprises". Consider me worried.

Well, if it gets past customs, I guess you can rest assured it isn't lethal...

Posted: **June 30th, 2010, 12:16 pm**

“Satan wept. This is pure unequivocal evil. There isn’t a hell hot enough or deep enough for the person who made this.”

Posted: **July 6th, 2010, 3:43 pm**

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