Vince the Vagabond Hofmann.

30Sep08

He was wearing a faded t-shirt with the words “Freedom of Movement?” splashed across his chest. He recognized us, remembering the times we’d shared when he was still a successful blogger – before the Ryler incident. He slurred “wheresh my fukin money” and stuck his head into the open window, bringing with him the smell [...]

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Tags: probably a lot more piss taking of myself to come, taking the piss again, vincent.h so hot right now, vincenttheass

Rob Stokes wants the world to know something

30Sep08

Rob Stokes, founder and owner of online marketing company Quirk has something he wants to clear up. 
“For so many month I’ve been hearing rumours on the Internet that I am an evil genetically mutated super human with a vendetta against a short, cute little Asian man” said Stokes in an interview today. “I had no [...]

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Tags: Heroes, Quirk, Rob Stokes

Shaun Oakes not actually an Oke

29Sep08

Super blogger and officially “Cape Town’s favourite son”, Shaun Oakes has revealed that the character is in fact a “nom de plume” and more of a “social experiment”. 
Speaking from Polokwane, a repentant Jucinda Matabane admitted that it was all just “a big joke” and that she hoped that she hadn’t offended anyone with her thinly [...]

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Tags: Shaun Oakes

Mandy Demon Crusher De Waal – top three least influential bloggers

29Sep08

Kneeling over her latest victims, who’d been torn into bite size pieces, she looked up to us and growled “that was numbers four and five on my fucking list”. “A..a…a..cool no problem Mandy, none at all..none at all”.
We’d arrived as Mandy had invited Beatmag for an interview and to help her construct one of her [...]

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Tags: dave, mandy, matthew, taking the piss

Dear Tyler

28Sep08

We’re really sorry. We thought it was a joke but clearly we went overboard. Just to make sure everyone know that Tyler is not actually a pedophile like we accused him and this was purely an overboard joke that went nasty. As I’ve said to Tyler, this is not within the typical style of the site [...]

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Rafiq The Guru Phillips.

28Sep08

Bio adopted and adapted from Quirk.biz :
Legend has it that Rafiq Phillips was conceived of and in the interweb. This self appointed SEM Guru is the love child of Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is said by his peer, that Rafiq has been the industry, in one way or another, long enough to [...]

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Tags: rafiq phillips

Simonb in traditional medicine debacle

28Sep08

Local Fring blogger, Simonb, has had to have his Muti login revoked due to what site owners describe as “excessive usage”.
Speaking to the media last night via Skype cast, Muti founder Neville Newey had the following to say: “At first everytime Simonb posted a link he suddenly got close to 4 extra votes for that [...]

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Tags: Muti, Neville Newey, Simonb

Mike Stopforth retires and creates his own religion.

27Sep08

Recent rumours have suggested that Mike Stopforth of Cerebra / 27dinner’s fame has retreated from the limelight, in favour of a remote sanctuary in the Port St. Johns.
We asked Mike’s colleagues about his decision to bow out, in spite of being in the prime of his extraordinary career. Asking to remain anonymous, Mike’s employees said [...]

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Tags: 27dinner, mike stopforth

Gustav Bertram admits to being a robot

27Sep08

In an unsurprising twist, open source activist, Gustav Bertram has admitted that he is in fact a cyborg.
“This isn’t that big a surprise to us in the community” said Web 2.0 demi-god Mike Stopforth. “We all knew he had no sense of humour and I guess it only makes sense that he is actually a [...]

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Tags: Apple, Gustav Bertram

Nick. Rocky. Haralambous | Stirred but not shaken – yet.

26Sep08

Nick is the kind of guy who gets sent into the “pit” by his employers, the last time we heard from him was at the iphone 3g launch. Who knows if he’ll ever come back. I for one fear that the deadly combination of iPhone ironic stupidity and Fresh’s ironic humour might just provide Nic’s [...]

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Tags: charlnorman, nick, nick haralambous, sarocks