Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Go the canes and other warm fuzzies...
Do you ever worry that we might do to rugby what we did
to kiwifruit, by exporting the expertise?They were known as Chinese Gooseberries when I first tasted them, and they were stolen from China by a visiting Wanganui headmistress, who brought them back with no worries about introducing agricultural species to NZ (shades of the Christian monk silk worm smugglers)...
Then again, I guess rugby was transplanted here from England (and there's that yellow/green variety in Australia)...
So maybe the IRB is like PSA and it could kill it on the vine
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other foreign ownership issues...
I see May Wang and Jack Chen who were negotiating to buy the Crafar Dairy Farms for Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings has been charged with corruption, bribery and money-laundering in Hong Kong. She is also apparently bankrupt and owes $22million. So we may have a dodged a bullet there... -
Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
Well, oil be damned...
“Better take that one down to the metaphor shop”
I liked that one, too - and ya can imagine that as a full service station they are pumping with gas out on the metaphorcourt as well...
Throw in, the towel...
Christmas has nothing to do with rugby...
A lot of people have a ball at christmas, can be seen rolling in malls, kissing under the sprigs and eating scrummy food...
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Smelting moments, get a fix...
...what I got was a whole can of worms, including Muldoon.
Read Pete Lusk and Ron Currie's classic Comalco comic
"Power Junky" here - some facts have changed over
time, but the song remains the same... -
ships in the night...
Which in some circles counts as cheating,
but in Wellington would just be the traditional
way to say hello.It was never a town to harbour a grudge...
of course Queenstown is more of a Jet Boat scene! -
Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to BenWilson,
Boom box on the ear...
Really should learn what dubstep actually is
It’s the perfect music for boxing training.So more Rocky 'n' Role then?
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Russell Brown,
Apocalypto...
...that it's about more than physicality
...hopefully it doesn't involve some sort
of national psyche sacrifice - like,
if we win, National gets back in?
Oh the choices...
We need a sign... -
Tiwai Point for sale...
Rio Tinto is carving up its Aust and NZ assets into a unit called Pacific Aluminium, which it then intends to sell off. Hopefully that means we get to renegotiate the ludicrously low price the smelter pays for 15% of our total power generation output - one would hope the contract for supply would be with the original owner and not transferrable to all and sundry bargain hunters...
... could be an election issue along with the grim spectre of a government hell-bent on publicly owned asset sales.
(Just how is English & Key planning to pay back all this money we are still borrowing?) -
Pretty viscous, not a flower then...
Was it an oleaginous insult, just reading ahead or
a know-it-all spellcheck program...?
In the RNZ news at lunchtime the newsreader said that
"...the salvage crews were trying to pump oil as thick as maritime'! -
Field Theory: The Cup Continues, in reply to Ross Mason,
The Silver Surfeit...
Oh to be on your planet Ian.
Many moons, constant lunacy...
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