While others of my generation signed up to be money market dealers and brokers, I opted for less weaselly pursuits

What, law?

like working for a booze company, or a PR company or writing speeches for politicians, you really let your self in for that one David :)

When you put it all in in sentence like that ...

My wife always gives me that long suffering look when I play Traffic, my favourite band, loud!

And now my workmates are looking at me oddly too :).

When you put it all in in sentence like that ...

Not all at once though. You've got to spread your evil out, like vegemite.

I concluded that students at Law School took an oath to guard the secret of Tort.

Given the thread conclusion that I am one part man and eight parts weasel, I'll give it to you without embroidery: you'll have to be more sly than that to get it out of?

you'll have to be more sly than that to get it out of us.

We could torture you. Maybe with Torte Lore

I am not that easily distracted. No, in fact, I am: how is it that the Original Sacher-Torte has been the most famous cake in the world since 1832? Did it become world famous as soon as it was invented in 1832. or had it been around?

Before law, I thought a tort was a large tortilla.

Cake. Next exit.

Cake or debt.

Sacher-Torte bribed its way into popularity by containing more chocolate than the previous winner, Schwarzwaldkirschetorte.

Because of it's eminently attractive first name, surely?

Goodness – that would have been the Sunshine Dairy?

Yes! I had entirely forgotten the name. There was also a dairy further along Karori Road towards the cemetery end that was dying even before the end of the monopoly came along. The family that ran it got too far behind?

Named after a cake.

Hmmm Stephen do we know how Sacha is pronounced by his Mum?

(woohoo – my first witticism on one of David's postings).

like working for a booze company, or a PR company or writing speeches for politicians, you really let your self in for that one David :)

When you put it all in in sentence like that ...

I was trying to work out where to fit "repo man" in all?

Schwarzwaldkirschetorte

I think I am in love.

Schwarzwaldkirschetorte

I think I am in love.

Mmmm, far too tempting...

after torts and twenty twenty hindsight...

I can still see the Vic Uni Cafe Toy Love gig...

It was the one where we had the great idea of gaffering the leads from the desk to the stage on to the ceiling – without giving a moment's?

"passing non-Platonic solids"? Well, I really hope for your sake they werent dodecohedronic...

"passing non-Platonic solids"? Well, I really hope for your sake they werent dodecohedronic...

Maybe something like those remarkable cubic items that wombats produce. Someone who once had the dubious pleasure of having one sleep on the foot of his bed (in Tasmania, natch) told me how he vainly tried to?

One of the more useless yet pretty things I ever made at skool was a rhombicosidodecahedron.

Not a rhombicosidodecahedron stool?

Someone who once had the dubious pleasure of having one sleep on the foot of his bed (in Tasmania, natch) told me how he vainly tried to catch it in the act to see how it did it.

Holmes obviously the game is afoot stool?

did it also include that classic punch line:

"with fronds like this, who needs enemas?"

let's shoot that round the Large Doremifasolotidodecahedron Collider
and see who splits themselves...

That would take one talented wombat.

With, erm, a very strange digestive tract & anus-

Not at all – every common wombat was doing it long before Plato applied his Fine Mind to such things. Now they're helping save Tasmania from the recession, tho hopefully our six-toed cousins haven't yet heard?

Marsupial bottoms aside – just wondering why this thread
has unravelled / stalled ?
(and David Haywood's and Emma Hart's as well)
nothing added for two, almost 3, days ?

or is this normal ?
now that the age of the Dairy is waning
and?

(and David Haywood's and Emma Hart's as well)

And have you seen Alan Bollard in the last couple of days? Draw your own conclusions.

I've been rushed off my feet what with the cow-cursing and the group sex. Keeping Christchurch interesting is a full-time job.

And have you seen Alan Bollard in the last couple of days? Draw your own conclusions.

Funny you should say that...got a press release this arvo saying he would not, as adverted, be fronting a press conference on Wednesday about the RBNZ's latest Financial Stablity Report.

Something about him being?

Fits and starts, Ian, apparently normal hereabouts.

Most threads seem to quiet down over the weekend unless there's some burning issue at stake.

aaaah icy

phew!
thanks for clearing that up folks

I forget that other people have actual real lives
to negotiate through linear time...
I'm so shallow I'm?

I'm so shallow I'm still celebrating cracking
Wordsworth in the Listener this week,
a box of birds ya might say ....

For some reason lost in 3pm muzziness I thought this was an oblique way of saying you got some poetry published. Which would be worth a shot although you're?