The world has now gone Vuvuzela crazy….with some calling for the plastic horn that is so hugely popular in South Africa to be banned at some events.
In case you’ve lived on Mars and didn’t hear about it, this will fill you in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrYb9qtO8OQ
They’re popping up everywhere — and I do mean everywhere:
It has been propelled into world consciousness by the World Cup in South Africa:
ESPN commentators hated the sound:
Some demanded it be banned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUcGMieTIo&feature=related
It annoyed a lot of people in at the World Cup. (ADVISORY an adult word appears):
But it wasn’t banned at the World Cup:
And that made some people VERY angry:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.