The silence of the vuvus.
Pansy went giddy with excitement when she walked into Cresta last week and was greeted by a sign banning the blowing of vuvuzelas in the mall.
She wrote a limerick in honour of the occasion:
There was a loud trumpet called Vuvu,
Whose B-flat made people go cuckoo.
They promptly complained,
"This noise must be tamed!"
And now it's no longer an issue.
Origin of the word vuvuzela: a reader wrote to me and said that the word comes from Debussy's visit to Cape Town. Debussy saw a vuvuzela in a shop window and asked, "Avez-vous vu cela?"
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