Posts by Joe Wylie
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Very happy to see the awful Tizard gone. Helen's cynical promoting of this incompetent while letting the real talent of Tim Barnett languish has borne its reward.
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We're going to friends for an Indecision '08 Barbie -- hosted by the Party Party, naturally -- and I'm quite looking forward to the absurdist pleasures of those early stages of the TV coverage when there's nothing much to say, but nothing will stop the expert panel saying it anyway.
Indecision '08 Barbie - sounds rather like Philip K Dick's The Days of Perky Pat:
In this story, suvivors of a global thermonuclear war living in isolated enclaves in California spend their leisure time playing with the eponymous doll in an escapist role-playing game that recalls life before the apocalypse — a way of life that is being quickly forgotten. At the story's climax, a couple from one isolated outpost of humanity play a game against dwellers of another outpost (who play the game with a doll similar to Perky Pat dubbed "Connie Companion") in deadly earnest. The survivors' shared enthusiasm for the Perky Pat doll and her expensive accessories is a sort of mass delusion that prevents meaningful re-building of the shattered society.
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Sir Douglass in the Herald this week. "If I get elected, I'll do heaps of stuff."
He's probably discovered P.
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. . . his bedroom had deep, deep purple walls, a forest green carpet, and banana yellow ceiling. And flashing strings of LED lights nailed to the walls.
I'm wondering if this was a very long time ago and the teenage son was Richard Prebble. Because apart from the LED lights he used to dress like that.
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Oh, good, the micromanaging of Barack has finally begun.
I guess it beats frotting oneself senseless over Palin in '012, which seems to be the preferred form of grief management in the deeper recesses of kiwiblog etc.
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. . . spending alot of time recently with your head in the sand . . .
Jackie, from your trick or treat story over in the other thread it'd seem that, as far as the Things That Really Matter go, your head is in a pretty good place.
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Nader calling Obama an "Uncle Tom" yesterday was a pathetic act that suggests nothing so much as that Nader should just retire from public life before he further embarrasses himself. It was an extraordinary act of arrogance from a man who is 30 years past his use-by date.
Khrist, he really said that? While I haven't paid much attention to his doings in decades, He was someone I used to respect.
Mark injected some life in with the worlds mildest troll . . .
Oh come on, racist intent is pretty vile even when it's presented in such a garbled fashion.
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joe what?
i'm reacting to the number of headlines and articles centred around the fact that he's not white. beyond that i'm not interested in his ancestory. like i said above, not a 'black' man, but a 'good' man. as a real piece of work you mean, someone who is over the US election and focused on the NZ election?Did you see those offending headlines and articles here at PA? Nope, you popped in to strut your fine, focused & ever-so-politically-buffed mind. Forget my post, Mark. It was made before I realised that you're "special".
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what i like most about mark's posts is the way they kind of break into rap, or modern poetry of some variety . . .
(Sob) - I knew it, I lack The Gift - where others perceive poetry, I see only off-his-meds half-baked homespun philosophy.
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. . . no disrespect to to Obama; he has great teeth and and has said the right words.
After that bit of passive-aggressive damning with faint praise, it seems fair to wonder just what sort of disrespect you might be holding back from. With your obsessing about Obama's ancestry - hardly the central issue of his victory - you're coming across as a real piece of work.