Whatever’s happening in Najaf today, it’s never going to be half as frightening as South Africa. IOL tells of a newsreader trying to interview an on-the-spot reporter while, unbeknown to her, the latter is being robbed by a gunman:

My first joyful encounter of this kind came during a 1995 CU-SeeMe video-conferenced job interview with a university faculty based in a fishing port. It was a very hot summer and the techies’ room was unbearable, so I figured that, since I’d be sitting behind a desk, I could get away with jacket and tie upstairs and some rather interesting Hawaiian shorts down below.

The connection was fine, but it soon became apparent that, while the enemy could hear everything I said, the only sound that emanating from their huddled faces was going to be that of several thousand exceptionally hungry seagulls.

Drunk J it was who saved the day, if not my job: staggering in, completely unaware of what was going on, he saw a camera running, and, as was his wont, lowered his equally exotic trunks and presented his posterior end for remote inspection. Things just got ridiculous after that.

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