Posts by Ian Dalziel
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The headless ship of state sails on...
You think we have problems with a recalcitrant Purser.
Spare a thought for the sailors aboard the Carrier George H W BushThe (US) Navy’s newest aircraft carrier has a messy problem. Since deploying in May, the Norfolk, Va.-based carrier George H.W. Bush has grappled with widespread toilet outages, at times rendering the entire ship without a single working head.
Read my lips, indeed!
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Robber Barrens...
As the Boomers age out of that bracket, crime rates reduce.
Though criminal acts seem to be increasing in the white collar banker / investment sector, John Key hails from those parts doesn't he?
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CD behaviour...
What is all this talk of tapes?
Surely these would all be
digital recording devices?
Hard drives, Flash drives,
solid state n such like...
These old codgers need
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Paul sent me the links for his High Street Manchester cnr clips (the one Lilith posted was from Pine's Stephen McCarthy, I think) these are from the High street side of that same block.
...and yes, The Bats were in fine form last Saturday in Chchch, tight, crisp and very danceable!
I strongly urge all Wellingtonians and Aucklanders to seize the opportunity to revel in, and with, them this coming weekend:
San Francisco Bath House, Fri 18th
Kings Arms Tavern, Sat 19th -
Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to merc,
a harsh tuskmaster...
man bag... elephant
Pachyderms have thick skin
their scrotal sacs were much prized
by Hannibal's legionnaires for
keeping salt and gold...*
...the symbolism is astounding!*OK, I made that up!
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to merc,
Puca Joyce arranged to have the mic planted ;-)
or better yet - knew it was gonna happen,
and instructed the DPS to let it happen...
- plausible deniability with all the ensuant
benefits of faux outrage and diversionary circus...Public is left to deal with the giant toxic
elephant turds, free shovels at WINZ...
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Russell Brown,
Oberon's envoy... the play's the thing...
Peter Goodfellow withdrew from Morning Report today after promising to come on and talk about Epsom
Could he be Robin Goodfellow's brother?
that shrewd and knavish sprite
Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he
That frights the maidens of the villagery;
Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern
And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;
And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;
Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?
Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?The Old English "puca" is a kind of half-tamed woodland sprite, leading folk astray with echoes and lights in nighttime woodlands, or coming into the farmstead and souring milk in the churn.
Puck's trademark laugh in the early ballads is "Ho ho ho."
enter Santa John <stage right>Which raises the question
- was 11/11/11 an inside job?
it has a whiff of deviltry... -
Going up North for a while...
My ‘Holiday Highways to Nowhere’ poster...
...is there a "Mr Nowhere's Hawaii Holidays' poster too?
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Warped n Loopy, Smooth n Glossy...
satin John
I like that!
He is a slippery sheet...or even if it had been
statin John
that would sum up his approach:
to reducing the nation's fat,
lean times ahead... -
The Boraginaceae - Myosotis...
Key yesterday said he could not remember if he suggested NZ First supporters were "dying out".
He says that a lot!
It worries me that we may a memory impaired - possibly early stage Alzheimers - person at the helm of our country, and he is looking tired (and grumpy and maybe some other dwarfs, too)...
maybe it's for the best that a surprise landslide sweeps him from power, rather than him being pushed in front of increased heavy traffic by Mr Joyce, a few miles down the track...