Name change / you can call me Al

[Al]

Hello everyone

I have changed my user name from THE UMFAAN to Al, reason being the difficulty in pronouncing UMFAAN (as I found out on the ride last weekend) .

Now is the time for the "cheesy" bit from the Paul Simon song:

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

Al

[LED]

Cheers Al.

[FEINT]

UMFAAN was ok... but AL is fine too.. nice meeting you last week!

[Waylander]

You copy cat!!! Nah Just kidding mate. Never had a problem pronouncing your name but I may have been doing it wrong. I always wonderd what the significants of it was though.

[Zed]

Hello everyone

I have changed my user name from THE UMFAAN to Al, reason being the difficulty in pronouncing UMFAAN (as I found out on the ride last weekend)

Hey Al, it sounds like you're a new man!

Was good meeting you last weekend.

[Coyote]

Good name, us simple folk shouldn't have any problems pronoucing it

[StoneChucker]

No problem, Al it is. Umfaan is unusual, what WAS the origin of it? I've heard it somewhere before???

[Al]

It was great meeting some of you guys last weekend too... As for the significance of UMFAAN, in the Zulu language, umfaan is "little boy" (I'm definately not little in stature!) The name was given to me by one of my Dad's farm labourers when I was very much younger and has stuck with me through most of my life in South Africa, but now things and circumstances have changed and it is good to have a "new" identity...(hahaha)

Al

[riffer]

And here I was thinking you were a little fella.

Glad you haven't changing the chimp avatar though.

Nice to see you finally Al.

[Joni]

Sawubona my friend....

[StoneChucker]

Of course, that makes sense then, I would have heard it!

[wari]

Hello everyone

I have changed my user name from THE UMFAAN to Al, reason being the difficulty in pronouncing UMFAAN (as I found out on the ride last weekend) .

Now is the time for the "cheesy" bit from the Paul Simon song:

If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al

Al

ILike dat song Al ... nott cheesey att-all .. :spudgrr:

THe bass iner-lude-thingamajiggavich® is brilli-ant ... :spudguita

GRrreat to have ya herre too just quiettly ... :spudwave:

[sAsLEX]

well I always thought it was UFFMAN, damn that dsylexic reading thing!

[SPORK]

well I always thought it was UFFMAN, damn that dsylexic reading thing!

Seconded. Don't feel bad.

[Al]

Thanks to our friend Wari for the change.
SM, the correct spelling is Bobbejaan, meaning baboon.... The fella on my avatar looks more like a chimp, aaah, whatever!
Jo, sawubona thombozane, ninjane?

Ladysmith Black Mambazo made a name for themselves and everyone around the world likes their music. Joseph Sahbalala is an associate professor of ethno musicology at the University of Natal and has been offered a teaching position with UCLA in California.

Rubber to the tar people!

Al