Took me a couple of seconds, but I clicked.

It's not my Perfect Coat. That's a tailored Victorian-style purple frock coat. I didn't buy that because it doesn't exist.

Me too me too! Would trample hoards for such a coat! If we can imagine it, it surely must exist somewhere in this universe?

The British Are Coming

We are? I didn't get the memo. Damnit, people have got to stop leaving me off the mailing list.

It's not my Perfect Coat. That's a tailored Victorian-style purple frock coat. I didn't buy that because it doesn't exist. One day I will be rich, and?

Me too me too! Would trample hoards for such a coat! If we can imagine it, it surely must exist somewhere in this universe?

My ideal is the same, except in green (goes with the green hair). My mission for this year is to get good enough with a sewing?

Me too me too! Would trample hoards for such a coat! If we can imagine it, it surely must exist somewhere in this universe?

Within minutes of my putting this column up, a friend of mine had produced this. It's crushed velvet, which is a bit... whatever the goth equivalent?

Within minutes of my putting this column up, a friend of mine had produced this. It's crushed velvet, which is a bit... whatever the goth equivalent of twee is, but the colour is good and the cut is almost but not quite right.

Emo? *snorts* Okay not the word we're?

I have a long grey 1940s Great Coat, also wool and made in Germany. It's beautiful and warm and gets me a lot of comments, but the damn thing weighs a tonne, so it has to be pretty cold for me to wear it.

This indicates that you, like the?

I was in Ophthalmology the other day having an armload...

Intersting start.

...of blood tests

Aw. But then:

She didn't once comment on my novelty cartoon pupils.

Ah...

I have a good coat story too, but it happened to someone else.

I assume "fuck it it fits me" will also produce high-waisted jeans with room for actual hip/bottoms?

Indeed. We're big on waistage.

I have a good coat story too, but it happened to someone else.

Don't let that stop you.

This indicates that you, like the entire F1 racing industry,?

Don't let that stop you.

Actually, what was stopping me was that I was too lazy to write it all down. Then I remembered that I already had, in another place, a long time ago.

Pretty much this exact thought went through my head, but I didn't want to say it.

That's because you didn't want to highlight the fact that your red coat makes you a Man U supporter.

(I'm trying to change the trend from 'all threads revert to the copyright thread', to?

I get compliments every time I wear it, and have been stopped by strangers asking where I?

And then I have to tell them that I got it for 5 bucks at a charity shop, and they will never ever ever have a coat like mine. (And then I blow raspberries and skip away.)

That's the spirit!

Are you looking for more praise?

If I were, I'd?

This indicates that you, like the entire F1 racing industry, supports Hitler. Just to make you aware.

I had hoped folks wouldn't notice that.

We Godwinned a fashion thread? Now I've seen everything.

Nazis: bastards of the highest order but snappy dressers.

Nazis: bastards of the highest order but snappy dressers.

My sister always wanted a Red Army coat but they don't make soldiers that short in Russia (or anywhere else, probably). She did however for a time use a tabard of my grandfather's and that was pretty spesh.

Nazis: bastards of the highest order but snappy dressers.

"Green says Nazis 'Snappy Dressers'"

You know my favourite thing about the Nazis? All their hot blonde chicks.

After reading this I had to scroll back to the top to re-read the title.

Took me a couple of seconds, but I clicked.

Ashamed to say that I only just got it myself. Superb.

Ashamed to say that I only just got it myself.

Don't be too ashamed. I'm sure I'm not the only one still working on it.

Thought you might like a tattoo to go with that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2m4vWeEqPg

(I am assuming yer not a Butlins gal...)

;- )

yrs
Joseph and His Technicolour Yawn
from the Rank files and Madder Rows

You know my favourite thing about the Nazis? All their hot blonde chicks.

I imagine you'd quite like the work of Andrew Bawidamann. (Sort of NSFW due to WW2 pinups)

I have a few?

Like JoJo I got it second-hand (in fact I've only had one winter coat, bought new. From Glassons when I was 17 with the big pleat running over each shoulder – very popular style at?

You know my favourite thing about the Nazis? All their hot blonde chicks.

Ahem (Yes that is Ms Johansson).

One day I will be rich, and cause it to exist.

Yes. One day I shall be rich enough to have my own tailor. And I shall own the most finely?

I spent days worth of hours dragging my partner around shops looking for the perfect winter coat.

Recomended listening for this activity, Winter Coat by Paul Kelly

Recomended listening for this activity, Winter Coat by Paul Kelly.

...been going round my head as well. It's either that or 'Fired our guns and the British kept a-coming...'

Two of the times I've seen Kelly in Wellington he's opened with that song, accompanied by comments on the Welly weather.?

Purchased from an op shop in Gisborne during what was meant to be?

Photos, please?

Recomended listening for this activity, Winter Coat by Paul Kelly.

...been going round my head as well. It's either that or 'Fired our guns and the British kept a-coming...'

Two songs I love, but didn't have running through my head. Previously. I love Paul Kelly, but my partner can't stand?

I shall see if can get my daughter to take some tomorrow. You can all be disappointed – it's a very ordinary coat.

Thats going to depend on what goggles we wear, when we look at our Internets. I have safe to look at laser beams, welding and the usual?

Ahem (Yes that is Ms Johansson).

Ah yes... a serious 'what the...' moment in the careers of everyone involved.

I'd love a frock coat.

Ditto.

Can anyone see a market here?

I really want to get those x-ray jobs that are advertised in the backs of comic books. Do they really work?

Everything advertised on the back of comic books works (click to enlarge).

Smith and Caughey's (who apparently now have a brand called Not Your Daughter's Jeans)

I tried some of these on once. They were blah. I'm not convinced the control top was doing anything in particular, either.

Re DD pushup, you might try Marks and Spencer. Depending on the degree of?

My boring black wool coat, and lovely green raincoat I have worn precisely twice, because actually, it's too cold for a raincoat, salute you.

Ditto.

Can anyone see a market here?

Civil War groupies and steampunks? The problem with the more convoluted forms of retro fashion is that they were made for an age when it was assumed dandies had hours to dress, and servants to help. :)

My winter coat is, by several miles of daylight, the most complimented thing I have. If you added together all the aesthetic praise I've received for my cat, my games cabinet and my breasts, it still wouldn't come close

That might be slightly related to the fact that people may?

That might be slightly related to the fact that people may note the awesomeness of something, but repress the desire to pass compliment out loud, if they feel it might make them look like a "lecherous bastard" or "jealous bitch".

Or totally gay, as the kids like to say --?

But for those who don't mind it, can I urge them to consider being a blood donor (if they pass the very stringent and controversial requirements) as it is an easy way to be philanthropic.

There's a big blog right there. My blood it one of the common types. As?

There's a big blog right there. My blood it one of the common types. As much as I would like to see a pint or two siphoned out and saved, I don't know If the health authorities would want it. And I fear rejection.

Steve: I think I can confidently?

But I have been forbidden from donating any more blood since they found that I had been in the UK during some specific period that they seem to think renders my blood a haven for BSE prions.

It kinda pissed me off after having overcome my fear of deliberate puncturing?

But there are lots of people who are eligible to?

I was shopping Kathmandhu – the city, not the chain store – and I came across a bolt of bright purple wool. Entranced, I immediately purchased four metres and then set about finding a suitable tailor. Fortunately, my girlfriend's mum's?

But I'm O-, so my blood is tremendously useful.

If you added together all the aesthetic praise I've received for my cat, my games cabinet and my breasts, it still wouldn't come close

No of course I wasn't looking at your bre...oh look at your cat isn't she cu....You PLAY Puerto Rico!

I don't have any pictures of my coat.

Screenshot or it didn't happen :P

Elephant hide (I'm sure), four buttons front (top one missing) and the length is to?

It's not that it is unclean – it's about minimisation of risk. I have a friend who got Hep C from a transfusion 20 years ago, and who would have rather liked them to have been more careful back then.

Sure, but I still wonder why it's an unacceptable risk?

She's the one on Disposing of Dead Things duty for our family.

Very gracious of you.

Very gracious of you.

Thank you. She thrives on responsibility and recognition of her strengths. She also once brought me the dessicated gutless corpse of a guinea pig for inspection, which was somewhat startling.

I always find a spot on the ceiling and concentrate really hard on it.

Same here. Discovered my aversion to blood during a 4th form first aid film (yes film not video), apparently the pretty yellow stars were not part of the film.

I like it when there is enough?

I've just been reading the history of the zombie war WWZ, kind of puts an odd persepective on comments like this

Ah, squee! I'm surprised Max Brooks and his father weren't the first out of the gate with a [[http://www.flicks.co.nz/trailer/dead-snow-dd-sn/1215/|black (and bloody) comedy about the usual nubile suspects being chew?

Problem: I have veins that actively retreat from needles...it took a very experienced district nurse 4 goes to harpoon one-

(*I've been looking warily over my shoulder ever since, for eager obstetricians?

Needless to add, link to trailer is of marginal workplace safety — unless you have headphones and great peripheral vision

Squee!
Did you spot the Braindead tee shirt?

In the wikilink there is mention of a film version

Zombie nazis on snow! How do we get to see that here?

Because Ant Timpson is a sick and twisted bastard (Lord love the sweet little pixie), its doing the Film Festival circuit but it looks like you'll have to do a road trip to Christchurch. Sorry.

Mikaere, your story is beautiful.

And thanks too for the link back to the 2005 one from Slack and you, on significant dates in NZ history and the unveiling by the Queen Mother of Inia Te Wiata's pouihi at New Zealand House, London.

As a complimentary complement to that story?

Ah, squee! I'm surprised Max Brooks and his father weren't the first out of the gate with a black (and bloody) comedy about the usual nubile suspects being chew toys for Nazi zombies.

Zombie nazis on snow! How do we get to see that here?

You fly up to Auckland?

Bunch of tattoos and yet I still can't get over the needles for giving blood.

Need to wait six months after tattoos for blood donation. Tatts much riskier.

In the wikilink there is mention of a film version

Indeed — but I'll be damned if I can see a way its going to work as a conventional feature (and with a budget lower than the GDP for a medium-sized country) without carving out everything that's interesting about the?

but I'll be damned if I can see a way its going to work as a conventional feature

I've made it a policy never to go to the movie of a book I enjoyed, its just too depressing for words.
I nominate Craig as Zombie-flick-Reviewer-in-Chief

One of these days I must acquire the audiobook of WWZ – Alan Alda, Jürgen Prochnow, Mark Hamill, HENRY ROLLINS?

Dead Snow, like Jem and the Holograms, is truly, truly, truly outrageous. Even if it does suffer from Idiot Protagonist Syndrome a little too much (but hell, it's a comedy).

And where would the modern horror movie be without teenagers who get aroused by the most unfortunate things — like?

Because Ant Timpson is a sick and twisted bastard

However, having my finger on the sick and twisted pulse of PAS, it's the film I've asked to review for the festival.

"The fit is generous and loose / The coat is filled with down of goose
Should I feel guilty about that? / I wouldn?t wear the fur of a cat
The coat is black so in New York?

I nominate Emma as Zombie-flick-Reviewer-in-Chief

Hoy! I've paid a non-refundable deposit on my new business cards, and the uniform! :)

Hoy! I've paid a non-refundable deposit on my new business cards, and the uniform! :)

Keep 'em, they'll impress the boys

One of my family went through about a year of this nightmare, before getting an interfamilial transplant (hello, younger siblings! That was so great, so sweet, so cool!)

The bore on those kind of needles is ...horrific. Even when?

Completely off topic, but too good not to share. Should a... be a criminal act in New Zealand?

http://www.should-a.com/lo6ca2

The gardasil injection was brilliant too, btw. The nurse couldn't find the injection site afterwards to put the sticky plaster on it. But we had to do the whole hand-wash and face-masks thing, which?

Try – ta-dah! – kidney biopsies! And – later- dialsysis needles!

I'm seeing somebody on Monday. Talk about such matters can resume Tuesday. Ta.

Okay, coat photo. Is not so grate

But in gratitude, perhaps this one is clearer?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/slideshow/ALeqM5hQfmxOt-sEpGdVrmohlBYg28yJuQD99ACU6O1?index=0&ned=nz

But in gratitude, perhaps this one is clearer?

Is there something you're not telling us Emma?

Nice coat by the way

But in gratitude, perhaps this one is clearer?

But that one has evil button eyes staring into your soul... and the coat is ugly.

But that one has evil button eyes staring into your soul...

Only if your soul happens to be parked somewhere around your left shoulder.

* From Online OED " I. Necessity, requirement."

Is there something you're not telling us Emma?

Almost certainly. Like, for instance, the fate of people who like to compare me to Sarah Palin.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/31454/evaluate_personality_by_blood_type.html

the fate of people who like to compare me to Sarah Palin.

I compare you to Sarah Palin all the time: "That Emma, she's nothing like Sarah Palin"

And very importantly, when buttoned up, you have no idea what wonders are hidden from view :).

the fate of people who like to compare me to Sarah Palin.

Sorry for the offence. I have to admit I was impressed by the apparent similarities, but I realise now we were all deceived, and that other redcoated one was really Tina Fey imitating Sarah Palin. So comparing you?

Tina Fey

I quite like this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O8_vggyQHc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhome.php&feature=player_embedded

Now – if only we can be (dry sob) truly *inclusive* and we have "Fuck you! Dont hate me 'cause I dont screw! I'm a human too!"

Now – if only we can be (dry sob) truly *inclusive* and we have "Fuck you! Dont hate me 'cause I dont screw! I'm a human too!"

We could begin by adding a comma. Fuck, you.

Fuck you! Dont hate me 'cause I dont screw! I'm a human too

This strikes me as plain weird. Why would anyone object to someone because they don't want to have sex with anyone???

Part of the problem has to be because we mostly equate Love with Fuck. And hence?

Now – if only we can be (dry sob) truly *inclusive* and we have "Fuck you! Dont hate me 'cause I dont screw! I'm a human too!"

Heh... Reminds me of the truly uncomfortable silence when I mentioned, in passing, that I'd been celibate for five years and, no, my?

Most folks read it as saying after a while marriage?

WWZ...
Indeed — but I'll be damned if I can see a way its going to work as a conventional feature (and with a budget lower than the GDP for a medium-sized country) without carving out everything that's interesting about the book in the first place.

Agreed. WWZ could work?

The old saw about putting a penny in a jar for every time you have sex in the first year of a marriage* and taking one out every time you have sex after the first year is kind of interesting.

Most folks read it as saying after?

Sometimes, I like to have a cup of tea.

Which takes me back to a mock celebrity vox-pops, early 80s: various famous Brits were asked how they felt about sex. Boy George was quoted as saying he preferred a nice cup of hot tea, "but it doesn't half make your?