Tom Brown

Pre-Science

By Tom Brown on Tue, 22 Aug 2017

The knowledge and beliefs of alchemy and astrology are ignored scorned and ridiculed as superstition and are termed pseodosciences. The fact is...

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Little Bear Brrr!

By Tom Brown on Thu, 03 Aug 2017

Icy cold shower! Charrlie Bear says Brrr! Fresh and strong! Bear up! Charlie says he is a fireman with yellow and black fire jacket and helmet. He...

Children's

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The Endgame

By Tom Brown on Sat, 03 Jun 2017

At last .. .. Mathematician– “Coffee or tea? “Yes thanks.” Talk about squaring the circle! At the Kruger Park while three bigshot maths profs were...

Humour

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Cokes Jokes and Smokes

By Tom Brown on Fri, 26 May 2017

“Please wake up your friend there at the back. “You wake him up Professor. You put him to sleep.” “Hawkins is one of the most famous scientists in...

Humour

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I asked my love

Posted on Mon, 28 Jan 2019

I asked my love to take a walk just a little walk, down where the waters flow, down by the banks of the old Iho. Do you know the song Parson? Your poem also reminds me of "Diep Rivier" of Eugene Marais.

Your poem's tragic end is masterly...

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This is really lovely

Posted on Thu, 24 Jan 2019

This is really lovely Donna! So beautiful in its simplicity. The kind of poem I most like to read.

Keep well! Tom

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Lost on the internet

Posted on Fri, 25 Jan 2019

So true &

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This one guy

Posted on Thu, 24 Jan 2019

This one guy called a friend of mine "deep" so he answered "Then you must be shallow". Reminds of Shakespeare hey? Fascinating dialogue yes. Couragous. And originail is it? Good idea- to keep it short. Good idea yes.

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wine

Posted on Sat, 15 Dec 2018

Indeed. Drunkenness and anger speak truthfully -Old African proverb

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I didn't know of this jelly

Posted on Mon, 26 Nov 2018

I didn't know of this little jelly blob thing 'till I got blind in one eye for about 2 minutes at work, so later I went to see a doctor he looked he said it's fine the same story as yours. He's got machines and stuff. It happens to everybody they...

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Sala kahle!

Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018

“Sala kahle” is a Zulu greeting for goodbye. It says “stay well”. For “go well” the greeting is “hamba kahle!”

I gave an attempted phonetic English spelling. I am learning isiZulu it's going slowly but steadily. I find it very difficult....

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Sounds good!

Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018

Sounds good! We don't ever get snow here in South-Africa. Never. Most of us haven't even ever seen snow. Only when it's terribly cold sometimes it snows on the mountains. The Cape mountains and the Drakensberg. There in the northern hemishere is...