June 13, 2010

What’s all that noise?

dihard:

That buzzing, that drone, the sound of an ”elephant in distress” during the World Cup matches. It’s the vuvuzela, of course.

The vuvuzela is a plastic blowing horn, developed in the 1990s by soccer fan Neil van Schalkwyk. In South Africa, sports fans used to bring homemade tin blowing horns into the games until van Schalkwyk, with a grant from South African brewer SAB Miller, developed a plastic one. It is now a $6.5M industry.

Hunh? I had one of these in like 1985. Did he “develop” it by coming to America and buying one?

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  3. dalasverdugo reblogged this from dihard and added:
    like 1985. Did he “develop”
  4. thatgirlgwen reblogged this from dihard and added:
    I was so baffled...noise when I watched
  5. addam reblogged this from dihard and added:
    South Korea-Greece match, Alexis asked what “sounds like a bunch of buzzing bees.” I said it’s
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