Yesterday Dilbert’s boss started a blog – well kinda
Today he’s not too impressed
Hehehe – I’m sure this storyline will keep me laughing for a while.
Meanwhile have you notice how similar these two characters look?
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4 comments Friday, April 27th, 2007 at 4:29 PM
On Monday I tested your brain juice with some teasers. Here are the answers. For all the questions with the original pictures check out this post.
Question 1
I asked you what the man was doing lighting a fire in a straight line in the middle of the night.
Answer
SIAFU also know as Safari Ants. We found a line of ants between two buildings when we got home. They had already started attacking livestock and people walking between the two buildings. The fire was to stop them in their tracks or rather to scatter them. Stopping Siafu is almost impossible as we found out one month back in the day. But that is a blog post for another day. Just to prove that “Kakamega chickens are the craziest” check out these kuku feasting on the left over ants in the morning. Siafu can kill cows, horses and even (very drunk) people but in Kakamega our chickens download them like maize.
Question 2
I ask what signs are there in the picture that a major event is about to take place.
Answer
The banana plants (yeah the ones pointed at by the big red arrows).
The event that was taking place was a Harambee for a secondary school. We had asked for signboards to be put up to direct people to the school. When we got there in the morning there was only one signboard up, about a kilometre away on the main road. We asked where the rest of the signboards were we were told, “Didn’t you see the banana leaves along the route?” before they walked away muttering something about how city slickers are bleeding useless.
Question 3
I asked at what level of education does the owner of this desk study.
Answer
Secondary school. Not because the desk is big (you should see the size of some of the kids in Standard 8). There is one main clue:
The desk has a lock.
Primary school students, if they are lucky enough to have an individual desk, would not get a lock. Secondary students however, probably as a symbol that they are becoming more responsible, get their own desk with a lock.
Question 4
I asked at what level of education the boys performing the play study.
Answer
This was probably the easiest one. They are in secondary school. The trousers are the big clue. Primary school students wear shorts. (This must be all very confusing to people who went to “American style” schools where you can wear what you want all the time and uniforms did not exist. I remember being in a school where someone turned up for the day at school in a “Fuck the Police” t-shirt. I was scandalised.
School uniform is one of those things that you hate when you are in school but look at with pride once you leave. Some of my brothers were in Lenana School and a couple of years after they left we bumped into some Lenana boys standing at a bus stop with their shirts tucked out and ties loose. Man my bros jumped on those kids telling them that if they want to dress like that they should remove their school badges from their blazers so people think they go to Kabarak Boys (which apparently has the same colours as Lenana).
I remember bumping into some students from my former primary school and they were (and yeah this is shocking so you better sit down) the kids were wearing the Sunday uniform (white shirt, red blazers, grey shorts) WITHOUT TIES! I lectured them. For a good 5 minutes. In the middle of Sarit Centre. On a busy Sunday. Still it was their fault. If you do not want to wear the school tie then wear the “everyday uniform” (grey shirts, red sweaters, grey shorts). If you want to wear the “Number 1″ then wear the flipping tie ok!
Still on the subject of uniforms I was watching a Kenyan music video on TV the other day (what I can’t spend all my time solving the world’s problems) and in the music video, which was all about sex and smoking, the kids were wearing their school uniforms. I hope that those kids had all left the school by the time that video came out. Otherwise I’m scared to think what happened to them once they got back to school. I know the man we still THE Doctor would have finished us.
Question 5
I asked whether the girl guides were raising the flag or lowering the flag.
Answer
They are lowering the flag.
As any Scout or Girl Guide will tell you (and I speak as a veteran here; scout, Buffalo Patrol leader and later on Troop Leader (BDIS) of the 8th Nakuru Scout Troop) when the flag is being raised it is tied up in a bundle comme ca:
Congratulations to all of you who tackled the questions successfully. As for Mitzy, what are you? A brain reader or something? 
An extra big thank you to all of you who responded to my SMS for contributions for the Harambee. I was touched by the response. I will send pictures of the event to your email addresses soon.
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3 comments Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Here is a simple set of questions to test your brain juices this Monday afternoon. They really are easy and you should get at least 4 out of 5 right.
Question number 1
Observe the following picture
It is the middle of the night and this man is lighting a fire in a straightish line from a building across a patch of grass. What possible reason could there be for this behaviour? A strange African midnight ritual, an arsonist at work?
Question 2
Observe the following picture:
It is obvious that there is a big event about to take place here. What is the main sign that an event is about to take place?
Question 3
Observe the following picture
This is a school desk. At what level of education does the owner of this desk study?
Question 4
Observe the following picture
These three school boys are performing a play. At what level of education do they study?
Question 5
Observe the following picture
Are these Girl Guides raising or lowering the national flag?
Answers in the comments please.
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8 comments Monday, April 23rd, 2007 at 5:01 PM
The following article is from hipFox
In the words of Marcus and Chris of The Jam on Capital FM, is true or is it bullcrap? Let me know what you think.
Dandora, Kenya - In a strange turn of events, would be burglars got the shock of their lives when they broke into what they thought was an empty house only to stumble into the home’s owner who was getting a midnight “valentine” present from his wife.
John Kamau, 29, got an ipod from his older brother who lives in Kansas, USA as a christmas gift last December.
Lacking a radio set or receiver of any kind, John was lying next to his wife in the darkness of his living room and was holding the ipod in his hands while his wife had the headsets on her ears listening to romantic music that John’s brother had also sent from the US.
John had used the ipod to get his wife into a more loving and giving mood and was smiling from ear to ear when the wooden window behind him was suddenly smashed into pieces.
One of the pieces landed right next to John’s head on the floor almost popping his right eye out.
He says he turned and looked up from where he was lying on the floor with his wife to see a man’s gigantic foot rise up and almost crash his face in.
It was at that moment that John’s held his hands up as a sign of giving up.
But before he could even say anything, the two thieves, not knowing that the owner of the house was lying on the floor with his wife, got scared and ran back out via the window apparently thinking that the light from the ipod was a ghost.
John immediately put on his clothes, left his wife and trekked the 12 miles to the nearest police station.
The cops, who’d never seen an iPod before, confiscated it and sent John away calling him a liar and rich with imagination.
John’s brother later sent him another ipod, calling it “better than those Kenyan cops”
Thanks M4 for the link!
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5 comments Tuesday, April 17th, 2007 at 4:21 PM