After seeing this Mark Knight cartoon - 14/06/10 I had to come back to Mudcat to see what 'cats were writing on this thread.

I'm not interested in football or any sport & had never heard of vuvuzelas so checked the sport page of my news site & only found 11 references, like this one -

Everywhere I travel in the country my ears ring with the sound of the vuvuzela. The plastic trumpet was once heard only at football matches. Today men, women and children blow the vuvuzela anywhere and anytime. It's as if they're heralding a coming of age. Last night I got little sleep, vuvuzelas were blasting outside my window. South Africans want the world to know; their time has arrived.

eek, I've been reading the SPORTS page, gotta get back to the real world of folk music.

sandra