strange fascination, fascinating me

[freckles_and_doubt]

Good grief.



That's ... disturbing. In a horribly excellent way. It comes from here, where there are some very bizarre and definitely non-excellent playgrounds.

The Billboard Poet of the Daily Voice is back:

RASTA'S PANGA ROL OVER ZOL.

Note the characteristic compression - "rasta" is a highly resonant stereotype conveying a world of assumptions, as does "panga", which has all the attachments of insane homicide. There's also nifty play with assonance (rasta, panga) and rhyme (rol, zol), and a sort of subliminal riff on "roll over". Actual meaning is, however, less obvious - what the hell is the significance of "rol" in this context? I can't find anything on Google, and am assuming it must be quite specific Cape slang. Even I, however, know what "zol" is.

Last Night I Dreamed: I was wrestling with an affectionate bobcat. This was strangely sexy, with an undercurrent of fear at the thought that I could get my head ripped off any second. In retrospect, it's probably a potent symbol for my general feelings about romantic relationships.

Comments

Transration

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

Rol: to fight, barney, get into a scrap. So I would guess that some Rastafarians got into a fight over a spliff and a panga was used.

Re: Transration

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Ah! that makes sense, thank you! - I thought it must be something along those lines, from context, but it's nice to have the specifics. Any ideas of the origin of the idiom? the Afrikaans pages I did pull up seemed to think it meant "role", but I can't see how this applies.

[khoi-boi.livejournal.com]

it also means "roll", as in "roll around on the floor kicking and punching". I would, were I a headliner writer translate it as "Rumble" - "Rasta's panga rumble over reefer" or somesuch.