Posts by Ian Dalziel
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I heard Chchch mayoral hopeful Paul Lonsdale on the radio yesterday - he sounds just like a mix of the departing Barry Corbett and the bane of Wellington, John 'Mystery' Morrison - we don't want any more of them, no way !
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
A long way to drag a kayak
a spell of hard yakka?
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Chorus Echo...
Not a copy claims Audi,
with backing of Graeme DownesWell, he would, wouldn't he....
Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine
Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorraine -
Audi oh! culture?
I finally had a look at that Audi / Land of Plenty ad appropriation...
I note the Audi ad also copies many of the key shots in the Pauly Fuemana clip - it would appear (implicit by their own admission) that the brief from the outset, was to emulate, reference and trigger resonant connections to 'Land of Plenty' - a cynical and parsimonious compliment at best...
Cultural plundering at worst!
it just reinforces my feeling that Audi truly is a four ring circus, one I won't be attending (not that I could afford one anyway)... -
Barnaby,
Just copy
and paste the YouTube or Vimeo url
Like this (but with no gap after the http:
- introduced to fool the machine!)
http: //www.youtube.com/embed/qNR8gQAoYCsresults in:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/qNR8gQAoYCshmmm, links but doesn’t drop in
- that must have come from an embedded clip somewhere maybe?
if you copy from You Tube direct – look for the watch or embed in the url:
here it is with a gap again
http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNR8gQAoYCs
voila:hope it sort of helps
this is why I’ve not pursued teaching hitherto, methinks -
Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Gareth,
...hoping the wind would stop
So not marauding marsupial damage then?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to Russell Brown,
I have been known to dance
to the sound of a coffee-grinder....that takes beans!
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Whirling dervishes rejoice...
No need to Sufi in silence,
at last Richmond has an oasis in a desert of bad coffee & food - The Persian Kitchen (ex-Addington) has just re-opened post-quake, at 325 Stanmore Rd (where Henry Africa's used to be - entrance off Avalon St)
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
...and he rested on the seventh day
Obviously the result of an excellent Union negotiator...
:- )and the start of a simple creed...
The Earth:
sit on it...
and rotate!
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Farmer Green,
The udder's way...?
...a 4 bail walkthrough constructed of timber and corrugated iron, with a separator and and a cream cart.
this 4 bail walkthrough isn't some
kind of Black Caps game then?
...he said all low and baleful, like...
then he jumped down,
and turned around...and gotta cotton pickin' bale
and the proper Other's Way,
turn it up!</pedant patrol>
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