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Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1654
Hard News: .... and the Rock 'n' Roll
To the enormous amusement of everyone who knows him (and probably a few people who don't), Karl from CactusLab inadvertently got himself caught up the mystifying business of Vodafone's disappearing HTC Magic "Google phone". That's Karl, there, with the candy floss and the topless body-painted models.
Geoff Lealand
From: Univ of Waikato
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 832
Excellent Media 7 last night, Russell--even though there was possibly more marketing gibberish than my delicate stomach could handle from a couple of those magazine honchos. The next word to ban from public discourse: "monetarise"!
Dave Waugh
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 41
Was going to say that I'm surprised anyone would be silly enough to forget to run something like body painted models past the interested parties. Seems an obvious no brainer to me??
Wonder if that PR crowds now in the market for a new client?
Tristan
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 79
can we ban 'moving forward' first?
Maybe we could move to..
Me: Does anyone every say moving forward to you?
Neighbour: No way man, You'd get your ass kicked for saying that around my work...
also I never thought I'd hear my self say the orginal cure version was more upbeat than the cover. Good none the less
Grant McDougall
From: Dunedin
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 305
DUNEDIN PUBLIC ADDRESS MEET-UP THIS EVENING!!
All Public Address readers in Dunedin are invited to have a yarn and a few drinks this evening.
Meet at Ironic bar (opposite the railway station) at 5.30pm. See you there!
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9059
Moderator
Heh. Nat Torkington has just tweeted from a conference about the disturbing experience of hearing himself say "forward progress" ...
Ben Gracewood
From: Orkland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 122
Oh yes. It's the candyfloss that really does it.
I have to admit, on the night, Dylan Reeve (my blind date) and others made passing comments along the lines of "hoo look at that, Google trademark and nipples. I wonder how that got past PR".
Turns out maybe it never did.
LegBreak
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1094
“Root Cause”, used as a verb, is bamboo under the toenails for me.
(BTW, I’m assuming it’s 2 words, but you never know)
Ewan Morris
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 7
I don't know anything about "moving forward", but Irish writer Jospeh O'Connor has a brilliant piece on the awful phrase "going forward". He has a regular slot on the RTE Radio Drivetime programme in Ireland. My partner and I happened to hear this on the radio when we were driving around Ireland in April and thought it was hillarious. You can find it here: http://eguinan.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/when-we-started-going-forward-thats-when-we-started-going-backwards/ or here: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_drivetime.xml (go to 29 April 2009).
2 piece of trivia:
1. Joseph O'Connor is Sinead's brother
2. RTE Drivetime is the equivalent of Radio NZ National Checkpoint, and like Checkpoint is hosted by a woman called Mary Wilson. True!
Robert van Bakel
From: China
Since: Jul 2008
Posts: 11
Russell,
I have been a fan for several years. I know you are a media savvy sevant, and that your beat covers more than just politics, but could you please get back to it; politics that is.
Why is it that since the ineffectual 'Key' became PM you are not exposing the tosspot for what he is; a 'micromanager' devolved of relations to the humanity he supposedly represents?
I'm not a particularly argumentative person, and I would not like to argue against you, ('You', being somewhat brighter than, 'I'), BUT,when Helen was dame, you shat upon National specifically, and the opposition generally. I know your a socialist at heart, please resort to form; I miss your style.
Rob.
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9059
Moderator
Robert, it's Friday ...
Steve Barnes
From: The City of Ales
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 1955
it appears that the presence of the painted laydeez created brand dissonance for Google
Whereas Air New Zealand seems to think its a great idea. WTF?
I'm just counting down to the complaints.
Steve Barnes
From: The City of Ales
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 1955
Speaking of complaints,
The unnamed Korean businesswoman has dropped her complaint against the former National MP.
Brickley Paiste
Since: Mar 2009
Posts: 154
Robert, it's Friday ...
A fine day for Stephen Cook's investigation meeting in the Employment Relations Authority.
Pretty dull so far. The best part was when some dude from Truth stood up -- as the Authority member was mid-sentence -- to address the Authority on some of the evidence. I almost jumped under my chair. It was really funny. In the 1500s he would have been executed on the spot for contempt. Fortunately, the Authority has no contempt jurisdiction...
The actual facts of the case sound really sordid and quite sad.
mark taslov
From: 13th floor, Garden of the family Xia, Sun Palace.
Since: Mar 2008
Posts: 1121
Make get a beating for this, but it's not that the women were painted naked, but that they were badly painted naked. Also not so much that they were badly painted naked but that they didn't fit the corporate's aesthetic requirements.
mark taslov
From: 13th floor, Garden of the family Xia, Sun Palace.
Since: Mar 2008
Posts: 1121
If Yves Klein had trotted those google ladies out he'd have been booed off the performance art circuit, no doubt air new zealand picked some finer canvasses.
Craig Ranapia
From: North Shore, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 7160
Why is it that since the ineffectual 'Key' became PM you are not exposing the tosspot for what he is; a 'micromanager' devolved of relations to the humanity he supposedly represents?
Oh yes, Robert -- Public Address has been a ending roundelay of prose fellatio of John Key and his evil minions, hasn't it? At least when Russell bitches someone it makes some kind of sense.
Ian Dalziel
From: Christchurch
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 395
Go Ogle Google... now there's an Igloo in the square...
Was this the launch that had a competition that hid a phone somewhere in Chch last week - my nephew phoned me up wanting to know which building in Chch had a Roman design - I found out later that this clue was referring to the Cathedral in the Square!!
Roman?? HTC ? - Hardly The Cathedral!
Didn't the Goths off a Roman Emperor?
grrr - Time for my Anglican Management course I think
yrs
I Claudius
I see ICI...
Stewart
From: Te Ika A Maui - Waitakere Chapter
Since: Oct 2008
Posts: 340
I'll raise you an Eli Lilly
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9059
Moderator
A fine day for Stephen Cook's investigation meeting in the Employment Relations Authority.
Meanwhile, David Fisher responds right here on PA to one of the more notable claims made by Cook (but struck out as inadmissable).
Pretty dull so far. The best part was when some dude from Truth stood up -- as the Authority member was mid-sentence -- to address the Authority on some of the evidence.
Jock Anderson? He's been covering courts for so long he gets a special pass.
James Green
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 579
but could you please get back to it; politics that is
He has a note from his doctor.
In unrelated news. ohhhhHHHHHHHhhhh that neil young is good.
Is the download for today only, or is playback somehow time-limited (in which case, EW!)
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9059
Moderator
Is the download for today only, or is playback somehow time-limited (in which case, EW!)
I wouldn't do that to you! I'll take the file off later today.
I just don't want to blow too much bandwidth on 82MB file downloads ...
3410
From: Auckland
Since: Jan 2007
Posts: 1317
I just don't want to blow too much bandwidth on 82MB file downloads ...
Rapidshare?
conseismal
Since: Jul 2009
Posts: 54
just to let the commentariat know that
i as "Not Deleted Lightly"
and while we're talking r 'n' r
who else amongst us was greatly dismayed
when yonder rocker Mr C Knox of Awkers Parish
first began sporting those dreadful secretarial headsets
and prancing about in a cow-cocky costume
when he performed his rockaroll?
was this right my friends, was this right?
punkily consistent
p
Stewart
From: Te Ika A Maui - Waitakere Chapter
Since: Oct 2008
Posts: 340
Mate, you're as hard to get rid of as herpes...and about as welcome.
Brickley Paiste
Since: Mar 2009
Posts: 154
one of the more notable claims made by Cook (but struck out as inadmissable).
So that is what they were referring to rather obliquely. Thanks for that.
Jock Anderson? He's been covering courts for so long he gets a special pass.
I have no idea who it was. "Special" is probably the nicest way to put it. The Authority Member definitely looked at him as if he was special.
James Green
From: Dunedin
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 579
I wouldn't do that to you! I'll take the file off later today.
I was impressed with the speed of its arrival. And was just about to dust off my transcoding software!
Steve Barnes
From: The City of Ales
Since: Dec 2006
Posts: 1955
I'll raise you an Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly the Pink?
That is so yesterday. ;-)
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9059
Moderator
I was impressed with the speed of its arrival. And was just about to dust off my transcoding software!
Exporting video is a curious business. It can be hard to strike a balance between file size and quality. I did a couple of smaller files, but they made me unhappy ...
Hadyn Green
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1802
Moderator
I wouldn't do that to you! I'll take the file off later today.
Please to be leaving it up until after work, thanks. Also many thanks for the Watson Twins. I had a re-listen after the last time you mentioned them and they have grown on me
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9059
Moderator
Also ... Springsteen made the freakin' inspired decision to kick off his Glasto set with a solo version of the late Joe Strummer's 'Coma Girl' (a song inspired by Glastonbury).
It's probably the only time he'll ever play that song. And the BBC kicked off its coverage with the second song.
Jesus wept.
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