Re: RIP Mynah

by PeterCS Thu 15 Aug 2013, 20:46

South Africa v Pakistan, 3rd ODI, Johannesburg, 17 March, 2013

taipan wrote:Are McLaren, Kleinveldt and Tsotsobe the new triumvirate?

You can say of each of them in action that he is bound to bowl a devastating ball soon. The question is, though: Devastating to which team?

LLL:

Good thinking, and it would be a small but good commemoration.

You can find mynah's posts (in reverse-chronological order) from this page via the list of FB members.
In some cases you will have to click on the link to find the context, though.

http://www.flamingbails.com/spa/mynah

Her very last post, although on a trivial topic, was typically droll.

by Gary 111 Thu 15 Aug 2013, 20:49

Very sad news, I always enjoyed her witty contributions to the forum.

by lardbucket Thu 15 Aug 2013, 20:49

Her best work was on C4, I think, with a couple of 'most embarrassing moments' posts typically self-effacing and quite hilarious.

Hilda or Debbie might have saved something; they were in contact with her the most I think.

by taipan Thu 15 Aug 2013, 20:58

lardbucket wrote:
eowyn wrote:Shocking news. My condolences to her family and friends.

I was a friend of Mynah's on facebook and I knew she had been fighting cancer, the last posts she made sounded like there may be some hope. Possibly she was, as always, being positive.

RIP.

same here - but sometime only in the last month or two, after a period of inactivity, that account has been deleted or at least the connection to mine has disappeared

very sad news - I enjoyed her stories of travel and human frailties and embarrassments played down

Strange, the account is still open to me.

by taipan Thu 15 Aug 2013, 20:59

lardbucket wrote:Her best work was on C4, I think, with a couple of 'most embarrassing moments' posts typically self-effacing and quite hilarious.

Hilda or Debbie might have saved something; they were in contact with her the most I think.

Don't think Hilda has been much in contact with her lately. She is bit a shocked.

by lardbucket Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:00

found something amongst old emails; edited to remove addresses:

On 05/12/2007, Ange wrote:

Subject: Re: Give a friend the clap for Christmas!

http://www.giantmicrobes.com/uk/main/venereals/

Great toys!

On 6 December 2007, Demelza wrote:

Subject: Re: Give a friend the clap for christmas!

The infirmaries look really cute.

On Dec 6, 2007 mynah wrote:

Subject: Re: Give a friend the clap for christmas!

Imagine buying The Pox or Rabies for your kid ... wouldn't go for The Clap, it looks kind of sinister. Typhoid is cool, though, and I love Flesh-eating's hands ... ;-)

Gentle, observant, curious.

by taipan Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:03

taipan wrote:
lardbucket wrote:
eowyn wrote:Shocking news. My condolences to her family and friends.

I was a friend of Mynah's on facebook and I knew she had been fighting cancer, the last posts she made sounded like there may be some hope. Possibly she was, as always, being positive.

RIP.

same here - but sometime only in the last month or two, after a period of inactivity, that account has been deleted or at least the connection to mine has disappeared

very sad news - I enjoyed her stories of travel and human frailties and embarrassments played down

Strange, the account is still open to me.

Google her name and Facebook.

by lardbucket Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:06

I was looking in the wrong area of my own account.

by PeterCS Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:16

D'ohhhhh! You are clearly no iGenner! Wink

by taipan Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:18

http://www.urbandictionary.com/author.php?author=Niki+Wessels

by skully Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:20

It's been said, but I think MB put it best - "Cancer is a qunt".

by Brass Monkey Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:35

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Genuinely saddened. She had a brilliant curiosity for many and varied things. Never a bad word when some of us were acting more shamefully. Not even a mild reprimand. By all accounts a lovely lady and I hope she had a great life. RIP Mynah.

This.

I mean, we're all qunts. She genuinely wasn't. And she put up with us? Double bad times.

by taipan Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:45

http://perskor.blogspot.com/search/label/Niki%20Wessels

by Henry Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:46

Found this- https://www.facebook.com/niki.wessels?fref=ts

by taipan Thu 15 Aug 2013, 21:56

http://translate.google.co.za/translate?hl=en&sl=af&u=http://perskor.blogspot.com/2013/04/merkwaardige-niki-het-dinge-op-haar.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dniki%2Bwessels%2Bvaderland%26client%3Dsafari%26hl%3Den

Not a great translation but tributes from colleagues

by Big Dog Thu 15 Aug 2013, 22:06

Wow...not the sort of news i wanted to log onto today. I remember Mynah from back in the C4 days. A great loss.
R.I.P.

by Brass Monkey Thu 15 Aug 2013, 22:16

taipan wrote:http://translate.google.co.za/translate?hl=en&sl=af&u=http://perskor.blogspot.com/2013/04/merkwaardige-niki-het-dinge-op-haar.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dniki%2Bwessels%2Bvaderland%26client%3Dsafari%26hl%3Den

Not a great translation but tributes from colleagues

I'm sorry man, but I had to laugh. That translation is funny in parts.

And I'm sure Mynah would've found it funny

by taipan Thu 15 Aug 2013, 22:18

Brass Monkey wrote:
taipan wrote:http://translate.google.co.za/translate?hl=en&sl=af&u=http://perskor.blogspot.com/2013/04/merkwaardige-niki-het-dinge-op-haar.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dniki%2Bwessels%2Bvaderland%26client%3Dsafari%26hl%3Den

Not a great translation but tributes from colleagues
I'm sorry man, but I had to laugh. That translation is funny in parts.

And I'm sure Mynah would've found it funny

I could possibly clean it up a bit if some bits aren't clear.

She would have.

by Brass Monkey Thu 15 Aug 2013, 22:24

" A male colleague (yes, I'm old and wise enough to have his name withheld) had a habit of our women kept to the shoulder pinch. Then we go on about women's rights, eerskending and stuff and he got the response he wanted"

That sent me into orbit. Cheers for the bits I can glean - it's nice to know a bit about her.

by taipan Thu 15 Aug 2013, 22:30

The irony is that she was a highly skilled translator.

by Brass Monkey Thu 15 Aug 2013, 22:38

Mynah - Thread: Poor, poor FAF du Plessis.... wrote:
You've got to sympathise with the guy. Got thrown into test cricket so abruptly that they didn't have time to send him to choke school. As a result he spends extended periods out there, facing hostile conditions and running out of partners

by Brass Monkey Thu 15 Aug 2013, 22:42

Mynah - Thread: Where's the Stuart Broad thread? wrote:Stuart Broad looks to me like a paragon of Hitler Youth who had just discovered his grandmother was Jewish. After such a realisation, it is hard to look at him any other way again.

by Henry Thu 15 Aug 2013, 22:43

Good stuff.

by lardbucket Thu 15 Aug 2013, 23:05

I see her name's been published here now.

Here's another bit from private correspondence:

>>>

It wasn't as painful as I expected, though no-one had warned me about the needles in the stomach and chest... What really got me was when they left me to lie motionless for half an hour, like a freezing porcupine with lots of bare flesh and bristles, and with the In-flight magazine of Air Seychelles to read without my glasses. I spent ages thinking I was going blind until I discovered the article was in French. The massage afterwards was quite nice - it saved me from frostbite, at any rate. Then Rita sat me down and said I should avoid mushrooms. (I was surprised, taken aback, and a little shocked...) And peanuts. (No great loss, but I sensed there was more to come.) And dairy (God, how will I get through my day without many cups of tea?). And vinegar, and seafood, and red meat. She didn't mention wine, so I'm having a glass...

<<<

by Brass Monkey Thu 15 Aug 2013, 23:11

Heh - nice Lard.

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