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Posted at 12:19PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Please hurry up with the Allison Janney slash. Some of us have unemployment looming up in four hours, and we need something to keep our hands occupied.

Posted at 12:23PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

I thought we were still bickering about whether the homosexual agenda would be bound in hot pink tulle, butch lesbotic lavender leather or an all-inclusive rainbow melange that would char-grill retinas at a hundred paces?

Posted at 12:24PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

"Rugby was a problem for us for years," Mark explained. "But once our insider in the NZRFU persuaded them to try to market the game to 'straight women', we were set. Why do you think they train in swimming pools? The 2.0 model was doing really well too, but it seems to have some kind of design fault in the shoulders. We're working on it.

You my friend, are nothing short of a legend.

Posted at 12:50PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

So my time to undermine the Master was limited. This job was so important it would push even writing Allison Janney slash-fic onto the back burner. (Coincidentally, 'Allison Janney' is item #124 on the Agenda, just after 'make John Barrowman Minister of Foreign Affairs'.)

Hands off my Barrowman. If he's going to be anyone's Minister he's going to be mine.

By which I mean the UK. Really.

Posted at 1:02PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

I thought we were still bickering about whether the homosexual agenda would be bound in hot pink tulle, butch lesbotic lavender leather or an all-inclusive rainbow melange that would char-grill retinas at a hundred paces?

Print on Demand. Mine is black leather and bound with o-rings.

If he's going to be anyone's Minister he's going to be mine.

Fortunately, I believe the effect of the man would be so wide-spread it doesn't really matter which country he's officially working for. I'm hoping they cast him as Captain America, that would be fabulous .

Posted at 1:05PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Fortunately, I believe the effect of the man would be so wide-spread it doesn't really matter which country he's officially working for.

Hm. Make him Secretary General of the UN? Nah, that wouldn't work. I'm liking your idea more.

I'm hoping they cast him as Captain America, that would be fabulous .

Gods yes. I might die of fangirl *squee* if they do that however. Which would be a mite embarrassing.

Posted at 1:37PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

This was supposed to be top secret!

In punishment for betraying our plot, you will never find another decent hairdresser or interior designer again!

Posted at 1:45PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Hands off my Barrowman. If he's going to be anyone's Minister he's going to be mine.

By which I mean the UK. Really.

In the Who-verse, I don't know if you'd want to get any further up the greasy pole. Prime Ministers don't have a long shelf life: They get gutted for Slitheen couture, deposed by one pissy Time Lord and replaced by another crazy one, gets shot after assassinating the POTUS on live television, or exterminated by Daleks. I'm certainly not taking bets that latest incumbent (in Torchwood: Children of Earth) is going to die in his bed of natural causes at a good old age. :)

Posted at 2:05PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

In punishment for betraying our plot, you will never find another decent hairdresser or interior designer again!

Won't somebody pleeeeease think of the choreographers?

Posted at 2:23PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

In the Who-verse, I don't know if you'd want to get any further up the greasy pole. Prime Ministers don't have a long shelf life: They get gutted for Slitheen couture, deposed by one pissy Time Lord and replaced by another crazy one, gets shot after assassinating the POTUS on live television, or exterminated by Daleks. I'm certainly not taking bets that latest incumbent (in Torchwood: Children of Earth) is going to die in his bed of natural causes at a good old age. :)

Thank you for reminding me I need to Sky+ that.

And yes, they don't seem to last very long, but then you have to remember the spoilery thing about Jack that I'm sure if I post I'll get yelled at for because its just my luck.

Posted at 2:36PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Thank you for reminding me I need to Sky+ that.

I have a secret stash of bandwidth set aside. And some days I won't be leaving the house or something. Four in four days, wtf?

Posted at 2:51PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

I have a secret stash of bandwidth set aside. And some days I won't be leaving the house or something. Four in four days, wtf?

Thought it was five in five. Saves me from cliffhangers anyway. The week between the last two parts of the last season of Who nearly KILLED ME.

Posted at 2:56PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

I mean, forty years since Stonewall, what could be left to do?

Nothing more, in fact I'd like to raise a request with teh gayz conspiracy that they stop the NZ movement right here, right now.

In Europe queer activism has charged straight across the political spectrum from the left so fast that is now proceeding out the other side. Seems every damned far right, immigrant bashing, xenphobic political party in Europe has a gay or gay-er or gay friendly leader.

Mind you it must screw with Ian Wishart on so many levels: "Invigilate reports on the scary barbarian immigrants of Europe and applauds the stance taken by Pym Fortuy...(oops no)...Jorg Haid...(oh really?)...Geert Wilde...(he supports what?!)." So I suppose it is slightly funny.

Posted at 3:05PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Seems every damned far right, immigrant bashing, xenphobic political party in Europe has a gay or gay-er or gay friendly leader.

This was what tipped me off that we were hitting the end of times:

Previously Tamaki has claimed to have exorcised the "homosexual spirit" from parishioners. But he now says he has adopted a greater openness and cites conversations he has had with airline cabin stewards as proof.

Posted at 3:10PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Extraneous 'r'?

Posted at 3:25PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Or exorcised might be a typo of exercised.

Posted at 3:31PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Or exorcised might be a typo of exercised.

Ah yes, Gayrobics.

If you're curious, you can watch a gay exercism here. Not for the faint-hearted, or the weak-stomached, or the easily-indignified.

Posted at 3:43PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Previously Tamaki has claimed to have exorcised the "homosexual spirit" from parishioners

Indeed. You really shouldn't be drinking pretentious cocktails in church.

Posted at 4:06PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Yesterday the homosexual spirit was Talisker, at the Matterhorn.

(I sometimes wonder if I'm a leetle bit butch-er than I think I am).

Posted at 4:12PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Emma, I think you are onto something here. But I don't think I'll be watching the doco anyway. Because I'm flying down to Chch on Saturday, and, you know, I would hate to be caught talking to airline stewards.

Posted at 4:15PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Because I'm flying down to Chch on Saturday, and, you know, I would hate to be caught talking to airline stewards.

Are you? Awesome. Come over and I'll show you my new purple iPod Touch.

Posted at 5:42PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Previously Tamaki has claimed to have exorcised the "homosexual spirit" from parishioners. But he now says he has adopted a greater openness and cites conversations he has had with airline cabin stewards as proof.

Yes, I overheard Brian and a charming lesbian cabin steward agreeing "a muff is enough" only the other day

Posted at 8:09PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

can i please cast my vote for

John Barrowman Minister of Foreign Affairs

but change it to John Barrowman Minister of Affairs

and hello is anyone else excited about torchwood week next week

Posted at 8:15PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

and hello is anyone else excited about torchwood week next week

F'n'ay. And of course Helen was right before - the 6th til the 10th is FIVE days, not four. Yay for Emma's intrinsic maths skills.

Not that we would be encouraging or condoning any kind of illegal activity. Demonstrably I do have Friends in England.

Posted at 8:37PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

clearly we share the same friends who record the shows on vcr and then post them to us.

Posted at 8:42PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

clearly we share the same friends who record the shows on vcr and then post them to us.

Indeed. So we can store their emergency personal-use backups for them in case of very large fire.

Posted at 10:02PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Yesterday the homosexual spirit was Talisker, at the Matterhorn.

(I sometimes wonder if I'm a leetle bit butch-er than I think I am).

You're right. At the least, you should limit yourself to Speysides, or your voice will get lower or something.

Posted at 10:07PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

Indeed. So we can store their emergency personal-use backups for them in case of very large fire.

Exactly. Look what happened in The Great Fire of London:

Everybody had thought St. Paul's Cathedral an absolute refuge, with its thick stone walls and natural firebreak in the form of a wide, empty surrounding plaza. It had been crammed full of rescued goods and its crypt filled with the tightly packed stocks of the printers and booksellers in adjoining Paternoster Row. However, in an enormous stroke of bad luck the building was covered in wooden scaffolding, undergoing piecemeal restoration by a then-relatively unknown Christopher Wren. The scaffolding caught fire on Tuesday night. Leaving school, young William Taswell stood on Westminster Stairs a mile away and watched as the flames crept round the cathedral and the burning scaffolding ignited the timbered roof beams. Within half an hour, the lead roof was melting, and the books and papers in the crypt caught with a roar. "The stones of Paul's flew like grenados, the melting lead running down the streets in a stream, and the very pavements glowing with fiery redness, so as no horse, nor man, was able to tread on them", reported Evelyn in his diary. The cathedral was quickly a ruin.

Imagine if there was a fire now and we lost everything. It'd be terrible.

Posted at 11:05PM on 30 Jun 09. Permalink.

The Ring of Fire... Smoke on the water?

Imagine if there was a fire now and we lost everything. It'd be terrible.

How's them shakes going up round Turangi?
Wouldn't wanna loosen them bungs in the Caldera
er Lake Taupo....

How many Cinder Cones are there in metropolitan Auckland again?

As I recall the second Captain Sunshine comic* - (finished but never published - Has anyone seen the artwork since?) had a plot line about some villain triggering the Auckland volcanoes...

Between Taupo and Banks Peninsula lil' ol' NZ has darkened the planet's skies a few times now, dormant is such a reassuring word in geological time... Not!

yrs
Arthur Brown
It's a crazy world...

*PS: the one Capt Sunshine Comic that was published featured excellent colour work by none other than your very own Joe Wylie - who also has a stand out piece (fire breathing Hamsters against the bush clad hills & southern alps!) in the COCA Board Art exhibition in Chch (till July 18) - go check it out.

Posted at 1:26AM on 1 Jul 09. Permalink.

Imagine if there was a fire now and we lost everything. It'd be terrible.

Is the internet flammable?