Greetings from Dakar
What up Two Bobs? (That is apparently local slang for idiot white guys.)
Made it in safely, at the Hotel in Dakar now, preparing to head south to the Marine outpost in Toubakouta. My Marine PAO is a good dude, got to meet with embassy staff this morning, and set up an interview hopefully with the Ambassador for later next week.
For now, fricken exhausted. Judging from the size of the seats, people from South Africa must be tiny homunculous people. So, just about drooling on myself, and the local breakfast has eaten a hole through my stomach, so I have that going for me. My luggage made it, so I have a camera, but it isn’t charged yet, so you get no lovely sea scape pictures out the window.
Hope all is well back in the land of the big PX.
TSO out.
Category: Politics
Just tell them all ‘jambo’…the African guys at Disney’s Animal Kingdom say it all the time, so I’m sure it’s hip and cool and shit and probably doesn’t mean ‘please cook my head and eat it with a side of mashed bananas’.
Be safe. Write if you find work. 🙂
Bwana: Do you think that you can just drop “homunculous” and think no one will notice? Okay, I’d like to know if anyone knew what that word meant before looking it up in the online dictionary. Correct guessing in context of its usage doesn’t count.
Thrilled to read you and your luggage are there safe and sound. Very cool about the potential embassy interviews. Excited for you and this newest adventure. Be safe.
If the water is crunchy, stick to the bottled stuff.
Can you bring me a monkey?
I’ve always wanted a pet monkey…
Let us know if you find and American-Africans while you are there. Now that would make a great story!
One other thing, if you run out of fire wood … I hear elephant dung burns very hot with little smoke. One problem, the little smoke that is produced smells like sh*t!
FYI, according to Bear Grylls you can drink the water out of elephant dung if you get really thirsty.
Monkey, shmunky. I want a cobra.
I want a Smilodon. I hear they’ve been spotted in the wild over yonder …
A monkey throws his crap around. Cobras cannot be trusted. I don’t know what a smilodan is but it sounds too happy.
To #12:
A smilodon is (to the best of my recollection) a saber-toothed cat, long extinct from this plane of existence…
Yo TSO! Look, if you don’t land any kind of decent employment over there, when you get back home would you please restock the beer supply, we are out steaks and taters(those Navy types ate ’em all). I am out of those fancy, sahweet tasting cigars I like, oh and by the way, please empty the butt cans and clean up the dayroom and get rid of those empty beer bottles before Lilyea gets back. mmk?
PS: One more item. Be safe over there, knucklehead!
I want a meerkat. Please bring me a meerkat. Or a gnu. I hear there are cobras the size of your arm snorting around in the bush, so watch where you step.
And watch out for stobor.
In all this turmoil, have we forgotten Our Man in Darkest Africa?
Hey, TSO, how are things over ther? When you comin’ back home?