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		<title>Reading Comprehension Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey y&#8217;ulz. Read this thrillsome interview with me and answer the following questions based on what you learnt:
1. What is my favourite colour?
2. What is my favourite food?
3. Team Edward or Team Jacob?
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5. Do I prefer chunky or smooth peanut butter?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Hey y&#8217;ulz. Read <a href="http://www.mandylives.com/?p=91" target="_blank">this thrillsome interview with me</a> and <span style="color:#99cc00;">answer the following questions based on what you learnt</span>:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong>1. What is my favourite colour?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>2. What is my favourite food?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#99cc00;"><strong>3. Team Edward or Team Jacob?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong>4. Am I in love with Eric Northman?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>5. Do I prefer chunky or smooth peanut butter?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#99cc00;"><strong>6. Am I a cat or a dog person?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong>7. Chocolate or vanilla?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>8. Should I &#8216;go blonde for summer&#8217;?</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#99cc00;">9. True or False: I am a hermaphrobro</span><br />
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<p><strong><span style="color:#ff00ff;">10. Should I sue my parents for not getting me a CitiGolf?</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Please leave your answers in the comments section. The first person to answer all 10 correctly will win <span style="color:#99cc00;">&#8216;my love &amp; loyalty 4 life&#8217; <span style="color:#000000;">as symbolised by the<span style="color:#ff9900;"> fern leaf</span> I am wearing in this picture</span></span>. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Y&#8217;ulz think about that now.<br />
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		<title>the third coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[watch and learn y&#8217;ulz. WATCH AND LEARN.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>watch and learn y&#8217;ulz. <span style="color:#ff00ff;">WATCH</span><span style="color:#ff9900;"> AND</span> <span style="color:#99cc00;">LEARN</span>.</strong></p>
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		<title>still 2 scared</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 blog y&#8217;ulle. too much pressure. what should i do? should i &#8216;off myself&#8217;? should i &#8216;do lines off my keyboard&#8217;? what to do y&#8217;ulle?

Appreciate your support during this &#8216;turning point&#8217; in my career. Am well aware it is &#8216;make or break&#8217; time. Do y&#8217;ulz have any advice 4 me as i &#8216;transform&#8217;? Thinking of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybrandedlife.wordpress.com&blog=1989943&post=1535&subd=mybrandedlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong><span style="color:#ff00ff;">2 blog</span> y&#8217;ulle. too much<span style="color:#ff9900;"> pressure</span>. what should i do? should i <span style="color:#99cc00;">&#8216;off myself&#8217;</span>? should i &#8216;<span style="color:#ff00ff;">do lines off my keyboard&#8217;</span>? what to do y&#8217;ulle?</strong></p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 303px"><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091110-f9qbtre5hr5mjurn1tafurhxm6.jpg" alt="" width="293" height="407" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Feel like my electronically synchronised life is mocking me.</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 303px"><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091110-qmgd33xn8f999bt3tf2tfd7cs.jpg" alt="" width="293" height="407" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Think I might have a case of &#39;The Imposter Syndrome&#39; starring Matt Damon</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 303px"><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091110-h56mb86hu12kcnd92xryiw1h4.jpg" alt="" width="293" height="407" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Am I a PussyCatDoll Song (via being careful what i wish for coz i might just darn got it)?</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 301px"><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091110-mjeu91k5wqcgbnqgc1d1drh943.jpg" alt="" width="291" height="407" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Gonna do a post about how a healthy lifestyle is how I keep my blog so skinny &amp; that I shun drug use via getting annorexia in protest.</p></div>
<p>Appreciate your support during this <span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8216;turning point&#8217; </span>in my career. Am well aware it is <span style="color:#ff9900;">&#8216;make or break&#8217; </span>time. Do y&#8217;ulz have any advice 4 me as i &#8216;transform&#8217;? Thinking of <span style="color:#99cc00;">shaving my head and smacking up a pap</span>. What y&#8217;als thank?<br />
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		<title>Has my blogging career peaked?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Y&#8217;ulz Seth Rotherham from 2OceansVibe reads my blog y&#8217;als! He said so on page 78 of December Elle Mag! (not on shelves just yet&#8230;be patient.) The one with Lily Allen looking like a naughty l&#8217;il slut on the cover.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Y&#8217;ulz <span style="color:#ff00ff;">Seth Rotherham from <a href="http://www.2oceansvibe.com">2OceansVibe</a> reads my blog y&#8217;als!</span> He said so on<span style="color:#99cc00;"> page 78</span> of December <a href="http://www.ellemagazine.co.za/" target="_blank">Elle Mag</a>! (not on shelves just yet&#8230;be patient.) The one with <span style="color:#ff9900;">Lily Allen</span> looking like a naughty l&#8217;il slut on the cover.</strong></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 387px"><strong><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4079714795_baacf873b1.jpg" alt="" width="377" height="500" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Page 78! Go!</p></div>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">I could die</span> y&#8217;als! <span style="color:#99cc00;">Should I die?</span> Should I <span style="color:#ff00ff;">end it all RIGHT NOW?</span> Has my <span style="color:#ff9900;">blogging career peaked?</span> Should I quit now, <span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8216;while i am ahead&#8217;?</span> Wow y&#8217;ulz. Never imagined this day would come. Srsly. Need to lie down. Need to sit up straighter. Need to &#8230; dunno y&#8217;ulz. Just need to. <a href="http://img.skitch.com/20091105-dcsw4pu5wc4gn5fn5bk2ba6667.jpg" target="_blank">Click Here </a>to read a scan of the article. See the full article <a href="http://www.rivercityvibe.com/?p=3093" target="_blank">here</a>. But wait &#8211; there&#8217;s more. He does it <span style="color:#99cc00;">again </span><a href="http://www.izimvo.com/seth-rotherham/" target="_blank">here</a>. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Srsly y&#8217;ulz. <span style="color:#ff00ff;">Should I die? </span>Can&#8217;t handle the expectation. The pressure. Might have to <span style="color:#ff9900;">tweet it 20 thousand billion times </span>and <span style="color:#99cc00;">post it on my fbook status</span> and <span style="color:#ff00ff;">RT my fbook status on my blog on twitter <span style="color:#000000;">&#8216;just to deal&#8217;</span>.</span><br />
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		<title>Mediocre and proud y&#8217;ulz.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Y’ulz this whole new national logo has totally inspired me. Feel like now that ‘mediocrity is celebrated’ I can rly take my place in the world. Makes me think back to those days at Ad School when Brian Searle-Tripp told me my design work ‘looked like a plumber did it’ and see it in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybrandedlife.wordpress.com&blog=1989943&post=1521&subd=mybrandedlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Y’ulz this whole <a href="http://mybrandedlife.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/the-new-national-logo/" target="_blank">new national logo</a> has totally inspired me. Feel like now that <span style="color:#99cc00;">‘mediocrity is celebrated’ </span>I can rly take my place in the world. Makes me think back to those days at Ad School when Brian Searle-Tripp told me my design work <span style="color:#ff00ff;">‘looked like a plumber did it’</span> and see it in a whole new way. I was being praised y’all! Shouldn’t have quit design &amp; become a writer instead. Should have <span style="color:#ff9900;">‘embraced my mediocrity’!</span></strong></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 486px"><strong><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091106-8pi7xmtdnthas1r2kmdbe13ai1.jpg" alt="" width="476" height="349" /></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Exceptionally unexceptional.</p></div>
<p><strong>Wish someone told me that <span style="color:#ff00ff;">‘the world hates competence’ </span>sooner. Wish someone reminded me of &#8216;<span style="color:#ff9900;">what happened 2 piggy&#8217;</span>. Could have had a lot more fun<span style="color:#99cc00;"> ‘doing drugs at varsity’ </span>and <span style="color:#99cc00;">‘binge-eating junk food’ </span>instead of <span style="color:#ff00ff;">‘working rly hard at being a good writer &amp; not fat’</span> so I could ‘come out on top’. Wish someone had told me<span style="color:#ff9900;"> &#8216;everyone hates an achiever!&#8217;</span> sooner. Feel like I have born the burden of <em>&#8216;taking pride in wot i do &amp; who I am&#8217;</em> 4 too long now.</strong></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 439px"><strong><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091106-cd5kmbyffumgxbdjy1hg2rfi76.jpg" alt="" width="429" height="319" /></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">2 dumb 2 be liked (via S-ingTFU)</p></div>
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<strong>You know how<span style="color:#ff00ff;"> ‘life is filled with contradictions &amp; mysteries’?</span> Think this is one of them y’ulz. Repeat after me:</strong></p>
<h2><em><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;"> “if you want to be the best, don’t be the best, and you will be the best&#8221; &#8211; Alex van Tonderstein</span> </strong></em></h2>
<p><strong>Feel like I’ve discovered <span style="color:#99cc00;">‘the meaning of life’</span>. </strong></p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 231px"><strong><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091106-f1hip7k57u3ee2udtx6j48waip.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="166" /></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">An inspiration 2 designers / people everywhere.</p></div>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Y&#8217;ulz was googling &#8216;how 2 sue your parents&#8217; when i read that SouthAfricanland has a new logo and that this is it.
Feel very relieved y&#8217;ulz. Was real worried SA would brand themselves as &#8216;aspirational&#8217; via using 1 of the 15 classic fonts &#38; make all the rich ppl of the world want 2 live here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybrandedlife.wordpress.com&blog=1989943&post=1518&subd=mybrandedlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Y&#8217;ulz was googling<span style="color:#ff00ff;"> &#8216;how 2 sue your parents&#8217; </span>when i read that <span style="color:#ff9900;">SouthAfricanland has a new logo</span> and that <span style="color:#99cc00;">this is it</span>.</strong></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 231px"><strong><img title="south africa" src="http://img.skitch.com/20091105-f1hip7k57u3ee2udtx6j48waip.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="166" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Our New National Logo.</p></div>
<p><strong>Feel very relieved y&#8217;ulz. Was real <span style="color:#ff00ff;">worried SA would brand themselves as &#8216;aspirational&#8217; </span>via using <a href="http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/25-classic-fonts-that-will-last-a-whole-design-career" target="_blank">1 of the 15 classic fonts</a> &amp; make all the <span style="color:#ff9900;">rich ppl of the world</span> want 2 live here thereby <span style="color:#99cc00;">&#8216;making sushi unaffordable 2 the masses&#8217;</span>. So glad there&#8217;s no danger of <span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8216;appearing world class&#8217;</span> (via hiring a designer 2 design the logo). So glad SAfricanland decided to <span style="color:#ff9900;">&#8216;give the youth a chance&#8217; </span>&amp; <span style="color:#99cc00;">&#8216;created a job&#8217;</span> via commissioning one of Jacob Zuma&#8217;s 5-year-olds to design it. </strong></p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 492px"><strong><img title="new national logo" src="http://img.skitch.com/20091105-tcpxgia1ngs2ihwk66q1ubpk4r.jpg" alt="" width="482" height="349" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;Every cabinet member is competent until proven incompetent, okay y&#39;als?&quot;</p></div>
<p>How do y&#8217;ulz feel about <span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8216;brand SAfrica&#8217;</span>? Does it<span style="color:#ff9900;"> compliment your personal brand</span> / <span style="color:#99cc00;">make a kiff bumper sticker</span> / <span style="color:#ff00ff;">inspire u to &#8216;fuck some stripper and snort CAT because your wife is a pregnant cow &amp; u were meant for greater things&#8217; </span>/ <span style="color:#99cc00;">make u want 2 start a racist trending topic on twitter?</span> Let me know y&#8217;als. Wanna <span style="color:#ff9900;">&#8216;know who you are&#8217;</span> via your reaction 2 our National Logo. So glad we&#8217;re on this &#8216;journey of discovery&#8217; together.<br />
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still real sad about being deprived of an authentic post-teen-pre-adult experience, but &#8216;I am willing 2 heal&#8217;. Got a CitiGolf in the post this morning y&#8217;ulz. Is not a real one, but &#8216;what is real anyway?&#8217;. Is the thought that counts. Is kind of sad that the 1st CitiGolf I eva own is one made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybrandedlife.wordpress.com&blog=1989943&post=1512&subd=mybrandedlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Still real sad about being deprived of an authentic <span style="color:#ff9900;">post-teen-pre-adult experience</span>, but <span style="color:#99cc00;">&#8216;I am willing 2 heal&#8217;.</span> Got a CitiGolf in the post this morning y&#8217;ulz. Is not a real one, but <span style="color:#99cc00;">&#8216;what is real anyway?&#8217;</span>. Is the thought that counts. Is kind of sad that the <span style="color:#ff00ff;">1st CitiGolf I eva own is one made out of chalkboard</span>. Whatevs y&#8217;ulz.  Y&#8217;all can&#8217;t take my fake  memories away from me. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Y&#8217;ulz, srsly now.</strong></p>
<h2><strong> <span style="color:#ff00ff;">Should I sue my parents 4 not buying me a CitiGolf?</span><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey y&#8217;ulz. Went for a stroll round the internet. Met the video below in a park. We chatted. I watched the video. Then the video said &#8216;See ya round’ and let someone else watch it. Little slut. Sorry – I didn’t rly mean that. Am just ‘feeling hurt’ that I cannot share the branded ‘rite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybrandedlife.wordpress.com&blog=1989943&post=1508&subd=mybrandedlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Hey y&#8217;ulz. Went for a stroll round the internet. <span style="color:#ff00ff;">Met the video below in a par</span>k. We<span style="color:#ffcc00;"> chatted</span>. I <span style="color:#99cc00;">watched the video</span>. Then the video said &#8216;See ya round’ and let someone else watch it. Little slut. Sorry – I didn’t rly mean that. Am just <span style="color:#ff00ff;">‘feeling hurt’ </span>that I cannot share the branded<span style="color:#99cc00;"> ‘rite of passage experiences that accompany driving a citigolf&#8217;</span> as expressed in the video by this <span style="color:#ffcc00;">‘highly agreeable chickbro with nice soft boobs’</span>.</strong></p>
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<span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://mybrandedlife.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/should-i-sue-my-parents-4-not-buying-me-a-citi-golf/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/xfLEWXDRfTk/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></strong></p>
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Y’ulz, am <span style="color:#ff00ff;">rly rly bummed that I never had a CitiGolf</span>, and now they&#8217;re <a href="http://www.goodbyeciti.co.za/" target="_blank">not even making the car anymore</a>. <span style="color:#ffcc00;">H8 my life</span>. <span style="color:#99cc00;">H8 my parents</span>. Wish they’d <span style="color:#ff00ff;">‘shown some tough love’ </span>when giving me my 1st car &amp; got me a <span style="color:#ffcc00;">‘piece of plastic crap’</span> Citi that<span style="color:#99cc00;"> ‘fell apart slowly’</span> instead of a brand new Corsa Lite that ‘started 1st time every time all the time’. Feel <span style="color:#ff00ff;">‘totally deprived’</span> of an authentic <span style="color:#ffcc00;">‘coming of age’ </span>experience via driving an Opel. </strong></p>
<h2><strong><span style="color:#ff00ff;">Fuck-my-so-called-post-teen-pre-adult-life y’als.</span></strong></h2>
<p><strong></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091103-bqbif7emjndmh1chtiqbiba3gb.jpg" alt="" width="470" height="352" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">A memory I could have had, but NO.</p></div>
<p>Anyone else feel this way?</strong></p>
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 483px"><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091103-g5fie1wa7j41edd16nf4f3mq6a.jpg" alt="" width="473" height="333" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Another memory that could have been mine. H8 my life.</p></div>
<p>Really wish my parents <span style="color:#ffcc00;">‘hadn’t trusted me for shit’</span> &amp; bought me a Citi because <span style="color:#99cc00;">‘I was bound to write off my first car anyway’ </span>(I did, but it was a Butler&#8217;s Pizza dude&#8217;s fault, not mine). Wish I never had such<span style="color:#ff00ff;"> ‘free thinking parents’ </span>who let my boyfriends stay over in my room instead of forcing us to <span style="color:#ffcc00;">‘dry-hump on the roof of my Citi Golf’</span>. Wish my mom hadn’t <span style="color:#ff00ff;">‘slapped me on the pill as soon as I grew hips’ </span>so I could have had an authentic <span style="color:#99cc00;">‘pregnancy scare while wrestling with the choke on my Citi Golf&#8217;</span>. Feel like the Corsa roof is ‘too high to confuse with the bonnet’ in any case. </strong></p>
<h2><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong><strong>Fuck-my-so-called-post-teen-pre-adult-life.</strong></strong></span></h2>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 507px"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091103-kqtb6ytbfeyd5bp6p5a1a9gmca.jpg" alt="Yet another important part of 'growing up' snatched from me. Want 2 die." width="497" height="337" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Another memory snatched from me. Want 2 die.</p></div>
<p><strong>What do y’ulz think? <span style="color:#ffcc00;">Should I sue my parents?</span> Should I <span style="color:#99cc00;">‘seek treatment for my past wounds’?</span> Should I <span style="color:#ff00ff;">‘let the healing start’ </span>by making a fake video of fake memories of my Citi Golf? In so much pain right now.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Y&#8217;ulz, went to Milnerton on the weekend. Was rly scary. Y&#8217;all ever been there? Wish someone had warned me. Went to &#8220;go fetch my ID book which was stolen 1.5 years ago and was found by an old lady in a Reader&#8217;s Digest in the pensions office in Milnerton&#8221;. Is that not the biggest mindfuck? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybrandedlife.wordpress.com&blog=1989943&post=1505&subd=mybrandedlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><strong>Y&#8217;ulz, went to<span style="color:#ff00ff;"> Milnerton </span>on the weekend. Was rly scary. Y&#8217;all ever been there? Wish someone had warned me. Went to <span style="color:#ffcc00;">&#8220;go fetch my ID book which was stolen 1.5 years ago and was found by an old lady in a Reader&#8217;s Digest in the pensions office in Milnerton&#8221;</span>. Is that not the biggest mindfuck? Read it again: </strong><strong> Went to <span style="color:#99cc00;">&#8220;go fetch my ID book which was stolen 1.5 years ago and was found by an old lady in a Reader&#8217;s Digest in the pensions office in Milnerton&#8221;</span>. </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><strong> Mind. Fuck.<br />
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 424px"><strong><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/4067311607_54017f19b8.jpg" alt="" width="414" height="500" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">This is Milnerton. Frightening. </p></div>
<p><strong>But more frightening even than this, is this <span style="color:#ff00ff;">THING</span> I found.<span style="color:#ffcc00;"> WHAT IS THIS?</span> Found it outside the guest house next door to<span style="color:#99cc00;"> On The Rocks Restaurant.</span> Thought it might be some Halloween fun but there was no reference to Halloween near it. Seriously y&#8217;ulz. <span style="color:#ff00ff;">WHAT IS THIS?:</span></strong></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 442px"><strong><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2631/4067311593_cca5453738.jpg" alt="" width="432" height="500" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Is it a tokoloshe? A &quot;Zulu Orc&quot;?</p></div>
<p><strong>Let&#8217;s take a closer look. </strong></p>
<h2><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong>WHAT IS THIS???</strong></span></h2>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 510px"><strong><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/4067311597_65d3410a6b.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="500" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">WHAT IS THIS???</p></div>
<p><strong>I need to lie down.<br />
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		<title>Which faded international celebrity should i humiliate (via writing them into an ad?)</title>
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A new trend is slippy sliding round the S-Africanland advertising ideas adoption curve y&#8217;ulz. Am HUGE proud of Ogilvy CT for starting it. Y&#8217;ulz are geniuses. This trend is called:
 
&#8220;Humiliate a faded international celeb via writing them into an ad&#8221;. 


Loves it. Can&#8217;t wait 2 humiliate my own faded international celeb. Who d&#8217;yulz thanks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mybrandedlife.wordpress.com&blog=1989943&post=1494&subd=mybrandedlife&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><a href="http://mybrandedlife.wordpress.com/wp-admin/Ice Ice .. baby? Wish Dre would do a remix. &quot;Ice Ice Middle-aged dude&quot;."><img class="alignnone" title="vanilla ice" src="http://img.skitch.com/20091030-84xekduh7bs2i5uyaji2gde79k.jpg" alt="Ice ice... baby? More like grown man? Middle-aged dude? &quot;Ice-Ice Middle-Aged dude.&quot; Has a ring 2 it." width="512" height="386" /></a></p>
<p><strong>A <span style="color:#ff00ff;">new trend</span> is slippy sliding round the <span style="color:#ffcc00;">S-Africanland advertising ideas</span> <span style="color:#ffcc00;">adoption curve</span> y&#8217;ulz. Am <span style="color:#99cc00;">HUGE proud of Ogilvy CT</span> for starting it. Y&#8217;ulz are geniuses. This trend is called:</strong></p>
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<h2><strong><span style="color:#ff00ff;">&#8220;Humiliate a faded international celeb via writing them into an ad&#8221;. </span></strong></h2>
<p><strong><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://mybrandedlife.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/which-faded-international-celebrity-shall-i-humiliate-by-writing-them-into-an-ad/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/crtmxaFPUaU/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></strong></p>
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Loves it. Can&#8217;t wait 2 humiliate my own faded international celeb. Who d&#8217;yulz thanks it should be?</strong></p>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 484px"><img title="tanner" src="http://img.skitch.com/20091030-d9h4hhc7b6fea66xrc78st1hwd.jpg" alt="Stephanie &quot;I did meth to cope with the lameness of Full House&quot; Tanner?" width="474" height="397" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Stephanie &quot;I did meth to cope with the lameness of Full House&quot; Tanner?</p></div>
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 369px"><img title="miyam" src="http://img.skitch.com/20091030-df3s4fb5rj7g46qu6mw3rj92pe.jpg" alt="" width="359" height="448" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Miyam Balik aka Blossom? She&#39;d be gr8 in an ad 4 &#39;how rad it is 2 be jewish&#39; (via her degree in neuroscience, Hebrew &amp; Jewish studies)</p></div>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd">Think Bob Sagett would be great in a zany ad that is a montage of ppl tripping over vacuum cords advertising a new cordless vacuumer. What u think?</dd>
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<p><strong>Which faded international celeb would <span style="color:#ff00ff;">y&#8217;ulz l</span>ike 2 see humiliated? </strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#99cc00;">***UPDATE**** </span>Quick fact-correction here, <span style="color:#ff00ff;">Jupiter</span> actually started this trend (via <span style="color:#ffcc00;">Louis Gosset Jnr Snr Mr bro</span>). Sorry y&#8217;als, 4got about that. Am HUGE proud of y&#8217;ulz for  starting this trend. Y&#8217;uls are what legends R made of. Y&#8217;ulz can watch one of <span style="color:#ff00ff;">The First Humiliations</span> (there were 5 involving this faded celeb &#8211; they went all out) here:</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://mybrandedlife.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/which-faded-international-celebrity-shall-i-humiliate-by-writing-them-into-an-ad/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/QFzsbXyvULc/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><strong>****EVEN FURTHER UPDATE****</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>A <a href="http://www.twitter.com/s1mz" target="_blank">very good-looking and smart and amazingly awesome hot bro</a> just informed me that <span style="color:#ff9900;">ACTUALLY, Jupies didn&#8217;t invent this trend</span>. Whomever does the advertising for <span style="color:#99cc00;">Silver Sands Casino</span> and humiliated faded Swedish &#8217;star&#8217; Dolph Lundgren via <a href="http://www.silversands-casino.co.za/2009/07/casinonews/" target="_blank">writing him into their advertising</a> invented this trend. <span style="color:#ff00ff;">Does anyone know what agency does Silversands?</span> Does anyone know who the un-named genius is? Don&#8217;t worry Ogilvy / Jupies &#8211; y&#8217;alls are still early adopters for <span style="color:#99cc00;">&#8216;copying it before the masses copy it&#8217;</span>. Still respect / love y&#8217;all.<br />
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<div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 352px"><strong><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091104-b936efk2sgyee3amaq86nyr324.jpg" alt="" width="342" height="512" /></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Pls pay me $$$ so I can get health insurance. Kinda &#39;spent all my cash&#39; when I was young + stupid. Thanks y&#39;all.</p></div>
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