Done! I've added the bank account number to the post.

You did play a role in nudging me towards it :-)

I hear he makes good coffee

Mm, a few mixed metaphors in?

Actually, when I think about it he may just about have broken even on the amount of his Whiskey I have poured down my throat.
;-)

And I'm very interested in flattr. It could even be used for readers to give a little to other readers who write particularly useful and spiffing comments — I quite like that idea.

Thanks for reminding me to?

That's actually a good idea. I'd still like to be able to offer a direct reward for financial contributors, but there are lots of ways of doing that.

So the blogs, comments, and community aren't enough?

He does. And as I've enjoyed one, along with Falafel, I'm still in debit, I reckon... ;-)

PA provides such a valuable range of opinion, information, wit, links, ideas and general excellentness that I'd be happy to contribute annually. I imagine it wasn't the easiest thing to do to ask for help but you, Russell, have built and provided for this community so it's the?

PAYPAL are absolute pricks, especially if you get ripped off by a third party and?

Just to make your day, I should note that Shayne emailed me to say your comment was "really quite perceptive. stuff i'd never really considered/thought myself but probably actually quite on the money."

Thanks for everything, Russell. (Also, my Mum has?

Then of course there's that not insignificant thing you do called the Great Blend, albeit with some help from friends, it is still giving back.

Aw, nice.?

Done and re the annual sub/donation/whatever. I entirely agree.

Not everyone's flush, and that's bloody important to remember, but if you're able,?

I hope my little contrubition goes towards brining David Slack back into the fold!

Pork Barrel politics?
...goes towards brining David Slack
back into the fold!
or perhaps we could fold him back into the brine – in some kind of Super-Marination process?
(you can hardly see the strings! )

Soon bloggers here will be packed in like the sardines they secretly are.

I wonder if Richard Griffin has been schooling himself up in this area as well?

I very much appreciate the work you have done on this site Russell.

+1 to everything everyone else has said in this thread.

Consider making a contribution to @publicaddress, or my pole-dancing thong comes out of retirement. Do it for the kids.

Times are hard and I don't make idle threats, folks.

Be warned – I'll turn up at one of those Blendy things as a Single Malt.

I'm loving watching so many people being so pleased to be able to make a contribution.

Also – I'd love a Public Address coffee mug! Cool idea Ant!

There's got to be someone on here who's sufficiently artistic that they could come up with a novel, PAS-relevant mug design every year. Probably several someones. Hell, why not just go down the?

And a Tshirt?and a seat at the RWC final

And like many others, I'm increasingly frustrated with cartelised?

CB

Link corrected.

+1

Was impressed by the potential of flattr when a certain financial software whiz at my first?

I reckon just charge a modest price for all such events. It is an easy tangible exchange of value and a variety of ticketing infrastructure exists (including volunteers on the door). I know we've heard in the past that merchandising doesn't stack up?

Since when did avid coffee snobs drink out of a mug? PA-branded espresso cups, please!

PA-brand whisky tumblers! We're on a roll!

ETA
Bugger! Pre-empted by the site zeitgeist!

Ben just suggested that he doesn't wish to have anything etched onto his whisky glass, but he'd be totally into PA-brand coasters. I could get behind that.

Would lend a whole special meaning to seeing someone through the bottom of a glass.

enal of recordings?

That made me laugh more than is really dignified.

Hm whisky. I wonder what a PA whisky would taste like?
Ben says that it would be perfectly viable to buy, bottle & brand a barrel from a smaller distillery. Research trip?

PS: ref Ben McNicoll, he's too busy cooking me beef stroganoff to post himself.

I'd also love a mug, espresso cup and some tumblers...

If there was an annual PA telethon I reckon Russel, David, Graeme and Craig'd just?

(AKA How many drunk Aucklanders does it take to drive someone out of their own home?)

(That is including neighbours & other hosteleries?)

BUT ? Oamaru is the other side of the hill, where I have a huge number of whanau-
that?d be the goer- remember Heartland chips? Possibly, a Southern Blend??

Re: drunk Aucklanders? Dunno. How many rilly drunk West Coasters -OR Southerners!?

Re: drunk Aucklanders? Dunno. How many rilly drunk West Coasters -OR Southerners! ? does it take to?

I do not trust the aggressive barsterads.

(and totally agree apropos Paypal- tried it once, and then cancelled every detail they had on me.)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Don't test the limits of what I'll do for?

*cookie-cutter shark?

That could suit him quite well, actually

Not to substitute for what would be an uber-special Big O event, but a PA/Whisky Galore tasting in a few cities might be a goer (and support a great Chch business at the same time). Sell whisky glasses and suchlike too.

Minister Turia brought tears to my eyes by dedicating in the upcoming Budget an extra $4m over the next 4 years?

Ian, just be glad Russell isn't seeking Punitive Damages! ;-)

Your sentence for pun-ish- mental excess is three-ad Jack, minus tariff, plus Deuteronomy. No tussles please. Tzitzit.

A thread-jack-knife – well twisted indeed.
Are you torquing to me...?
Are you (politely) telling me to get knotted?
Or is this a quipu made?

Let the abacussing begin:
(in a?

TZINTZUNTZAN (a wellknown archaeological site) means 'Place of the Humming birds' – tho' which tz refers to the birds is a mute point...)

You mean joining the pun? I'm still but an imp with training whirls when it comes to the tzitzits you turn. I can but watch and learn.

After listening to a bunch of NPR pledge drives while in the US I came conclusion that the?

Tintin no round pyramids though...

and all those humming?

PAS is my favourite place on the internet. So, I reckon that deserves a meagre contribution from my bank account to yours.

Or you could do what some of our parents tell us is done in their churches which is to announce from your pulpit how much everyone has given.?

I just love those thermometers you see as you drive around raising money for a new school pool or a new roof?

Currently working on getting PayPal to give me my damn money. It's surprisingly complicated.

I investigated it back when we had Karajoz as a Great Blend sponsor. They were keen to help, but it was really hard to make the numbers work.

Unless you can really commit to it, merch?

I'm going to assume this means you'll be totally drunk.

And where I have gotten much practice stage whispering "Oh, what an adorable wickerwork basket. I'd take it, but haven't got anywhere?

Still wouldn't really make much money, but it would be cool.

excellent idea

There, I said it.

Yarrrrrr....

Is that a polite way of saying "the supersonic screech of blind terror when you realise you're too hung over to read the balls you scrawled on the back of a cocktail napkin much earlier that morning"?

Is that where we get to sniff the bottle but the distiller asserts ownership of its contents?

Actually, great idea. Just a few selected ones and/or a mash-up with?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2qogfaZHnw&feature=related

?swamped in a rich and reliable sauce,
topped with great cheese, natch!

so we?ve covered most of the major site predilections with?

Did the Feelers ever do vinyl?

I'd be more comfortable getting into my boots?

It means that you have to operate the book with your fingers.

Braille, then?

(O, by the way, really great to learn about the country's investment in sign- as it should've been way before now, but long may it continue-)

Over the years, I've certainly been on the receiving end of some beers that aren't so much drunk as borrowed for a while before being passed back for the next customer. I guess?

Say what now? A whisky is blended OR it is single malt. Perhaps you meant "PA-Branded"?

Quite. There are a handful of very good blends done by the?

Milford was the name they were selling it under (I have two of the wee flasks they sold in Oamaru) but, for all intents & purposes, it's basically mature Lammerlaw.

It is good to hear that someone has picked it up?

There are problems with the leases in some of the heritage buildings but it really would be a sadness if that rich hoard of irreplaceable single malt was flogged off overseas?

*My?

PS The Lammerlaw is fucking awesome! I could never understand how the people responsible for that could also produce the execrable Wilsons standard blend. And 45 South? Let's just not go?

of course, you are right ? but it is a blend of single malts which is ? um, single malts cozying up together to produce something?

Well, I'm glad there's something we can agree on ;-)

I remember buying a bottle of Lammerlaw for my dad, a confirmed Glenfiddich drinker. He looked askance at it, being an NZ label, but I was able to persuade him?

And I would be interested in a PA blended whisky as I have faith in the erudition of the members and expect a superior product?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7t8eoA_1jQ

It looks like I'll be able to give CactusLab $5000+, which is just bloody fantastic.

There has also been some new advertiser interest, ditto.

And while I said that it would all go into site development, I wish to propose an amendment to the effect that a small?

Aye aye, cap'n.

That's bloody awesome news on the fund raising front too. I've always been happy to support editorial integrity through subscriptions, especially if it reduces the dependence on fickle advertising dollars. I recommend you make a habit of it.

Nun too soon.

Don't make me call in that $1000 favour you owe me.