Posts by Joe Wylie
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. . . he majority of Inuit people believe the word to be racist, and are similarly supported by Algonkian speakers who see the natural similarity in pronounciation to "he eats raw".
Fancy that. I once worked with a Canadian who regularly wore a t-shirt with the slogan "Eat it Raw" emblazoned across the front. The meaning was kind of lost on me, but seemed to afford him endless pleasure. He was also given to farting with his armpit, and would regale anyone who'd give him the time with tales of his glory days spent 'hanging a moon' from speeding car windows back in the old country. Naturally I extended him a certain amount of slack, as one does to those who practice unfathomable foreign customs, but his boasting of pumping bullets into a hapless porcupine finally revealed him to be nothing more than a piss-begotten cracker. While he certainly wasn't an inuit, there's no way I'd bring myself to eat his effigy in hi-density marshmallow, raw or toasted.
That said, it'd be beside the point to mention here the perfectly pleasant and genuinely entertaining Canadians (and Canadian porcupines) that it's been my pleasure to know.
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Rich, it wasn't your spewing that made the Holmes article unreadable.
Nah. Just, like, more of the same.
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But then I realised she wasn't referring to the Sunday Star Times.
Nor none of these neither. Personally, I reckon the Samoan Swat Team is more deserving of the acronym than any of the mangy local contenders.
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They are very clearly a racist body - any words from them about Mr Veitch?
No?As it happens, yes.
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the Passion of the Veitch
Best line of the thread, JoeTa Mark, but you're much too kind. Once Holmes got all cod-theological it was a natural. For me the real gems in this thread have come from Sacha & Danielle, with two many great points made to pick favourites.
Compared to the "insufferable jackass" trapped in his impregnable bubble of arrested development, Veitch is fortunate. He now has the opportunity to man up/grow up, and make something of his life beyond the grotesque "Veitchy" he once played. However, if he were to, let's say, take Mr. Brown's old spot in a new series of It's Not OK TV spots there'd be Bill Ralston crying sell-out, and Holmes sermonising about how he must once again die for our sins.
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I am quite religious, though not in a churchy sense, and here is what I actually think this whole thing has been about. I think that last year, with Tony on the verge of becoming the major New Zealand television presence, God said: "No, no, Tony. Not yet. There is something that has to be paid for. You have to pay for it and it's up to you to find your way back." I think Tony Veitch will find his way back.
- Paul HolmesThus saith one of the anointed, signalling his intention to, once a sub-eternal period of penance has passed, offer a hand-up back into the tacky Valhalla.
Between this and Jack Ross's icky "poem" linked to earlier, the vast spectrum of towering smugness generated by the Passion of the Veitch is truly a-fucking-stounding.
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The story was called "Copyright Must Change".
Horrible. You long for someone to step on the zombie's face, just to put it out of it's misery, but the awful petty-pointscoring yibbling continues right through the end credits.
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E M Forster, in Aspects of the Novel, responded to the claim that a novel was a good story with "oh dear." By which he meant that a novel should be so much more than its story, which he regarded as something of an unfortunate necessity.
I remember a young horror movie fan telling me that she'd been to see Howards End . As it didn't seem like her kind of movie I asked how she'd found it.
"Oh it was alright I suppose". Then, after a moment: "When Anthony Hopkins said 'Come to dinner', I thought he was gonna eat them". -
I'm pretty sure that more English royals have been killed by cricket balls (one) than by gunfire (zero - I think).
It's a hoax, I tell you. It takes more than a cricket ball to off a shape-shifting reptile.
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JC takes it for the sins of Global Capitalism, but makes a special exception for Levi Strauss & Co?