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History of Danie Cronje I have been a teacher since 1979 and my cartoons are based on true incidents during my career. I started drawing cartoons at a very young age and when I was 12 years old, my first cartoon was accepted by a family magazine, Die Huisgenoot. I went on to draw cartoons for our town's local newspaper. When I left school I went to university where I was kept busy drawing cartoons for various university publications (while studying for my degree of course!) My "SIR" cartoons were featured at first in Die Volksblad, a South African newspaper, for 4 years since 1987. When my original cartoons got lost(?) for the 3rd time in a row at the newspaper's offices, I stopped drawing cartoons for a while. In 2000, however, I turned to the internet to share the humour in my classroom with the outside world. Although we seldom get the opportunity to speak English in our town, I translated all my cartoons to English myself. I was married at the age of 31 to a 24 year old girl who was a preschool teacher. Although we have a happy marriage (through the grace of God), my wife never reads my cartoons! We have a son and a daughter. I teach Maths and Computer Studies for grades 10-12. And no, I do not resemble SIR in any way! I make no money out of my cartoons, but it is very rewarding when somebody puts a nice message in my guest book. |
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EXAM BLOOPERS The following are actual exam bloopers somebody sent me. Unfortunately I'm not able to tell the original source. 1) Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere. 2) The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?" 3) Moses led the hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada. 4) Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. 5) In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. 6) Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them. 7) In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature. 8) Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah." 9) It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper. 10) Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained. 11) During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. 12) One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. 13) Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms. 14) Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career. 15) The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children. |
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