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Hard News: Please, be our guests
We've told you it's happening, some of you have already bought the books, but here it is – the omnibus round-up of Public Address Books launch detail. If you would like to help David Haywood celebrate the launch of The New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010 and Emma Hart celebrate her debut, Not Safe for Work, this is your blog post.
Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1311
OHAI. Could someone please write the Wellington RSVP email addresses in plain text?
I had a literal NSFW panic moment as the sight of a giant photo of Emma's bosoms appearing on my screen, so I'd like to RSVP without having to open up the PDF again.
Emma Hart
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2629
Moderator
Robyn: apologies for not being more user-friendly.
Emma Hart
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2629
Moderator
And I should add that the t-shirt is excellent, and will apparently ensure that your toddler wipes clean if dirtied.
David Haywood
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 540
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Robyn Gallagher
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1311
Thank you kindly. I'll be sure to look at your boobs when I'm in the privacy of my home.
Craig Ranapia
From: North Shore, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 7160
"According to the New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010, what is Alan Bollard's preferred beverage?"
Any delicious soul juice Cuthulu doesn't have room for?
David Haywood
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 540
Moderator
Oh, and RE: the $16 per head to remove the corks from bottles (amounting to a mere $3200 or so for the launch). Please don't forget that the staff are highly qualified for this job -- I hear they all have Ph.Ds in corkology (it's like astrophysics, only much, much more lucrative).
George Darroch
From: Te Ao Nui
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 1022
Will the actual Dr Bollard be there? Cause that would be, you know, awesome.
Ten points for each copy you sell to an actual employee of the Reserve Bank.
Emma Hart
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2629
Moderator
You and Lockwood Smith...
Except I'd bet my life Lockwood Smith isn't looking at my boobs at home.
Lyndon Hood
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 861
Given wine bottles these days it would be fairer to say that they're screwing you.
David Haywood
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 540
Moderator
In response to a question via email...
With respect to the tee-shirt, please note that it will be provided in a size of your choosing, i.e. not the size shown in the photo. Unless you are that size already, of course.
andrew llewellyn
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2061
"According to the New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010, what is Alan Bollard's preferred beverage?"
I know the answer to this, I used to work at a merchant bank - it's the blood of newborn babies, right?
giovanni tiso
From: Wellington
Since: Jun 2007
Posts: 4394
One won't need to produce the invitations on the night, right? I'm afraid if would take a vat of black ink to print them out.
Russell Brown
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 9068
Moderator
One won't need to produce the invitations on the night, right? I'm afraid if would take a vat of black ink to print them out.
No, we won't be needing that. But Parliamentary security like to have a list of names.
Emma Hart
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2629
Moderator
But Parliamentary security like to have a list of names.
Then you'll just have to deal with that whole "Oi, you, Jesus, no sandals!" thing.
Bart Janssen
From: Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 745
apologies for not being more user-friendly.
I think she was saying you were TOO user friendly :P
Joanna
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 546
Thanks to Joanna McLeod for getting the party started right in Wellington
I can always be relied upon to get the party started.
andin
From: basement flat
Since: Mar 2007
Posts: 300
(My apologies up front, theTVNZ7 site doesnt seem very user friendly.)
And here's last night's Media7
There's a lot to discuss around that.
Including what seem's to be an outbreak of butheadism.
As in " I normally don't like this kind of programme but...."
I exclude the interviewer from this.
And why wasn't that Chair electrified and the producer sitting in it.
Or at the very least taken her $20mill and gone away.
However this thread is about giving some (IMO) talented people a boost.
I wish you all well.
Geoff Lealand
From: Univ of Waikato
Since: Oct 2007
Posts: 833
There's a lot to discuss around that.
But first you will need to explain what you are trying to say as it ain't very clear.
Phil Lyth
From: Wellington
Since: Apr 2009
Posts: 171
Parliamentary security
They're actually very nice people as well as very good at their job.
And for our wedding in hte Grand Hall, it was useful to be able to tell some of the more, ahem, potentially boisterous of our guests that the Security stuff have Mr Speaker's authority to lock people in the basement cells for up to 24 hours if necessary before being required to involve the Police. Behaviour on the day was excellent.
Samuel Scott
From: South Wellington
Since: Feb 2008
Posts: 78
Hey Russ Le Roq,
thanks for linking to our download. It is our first go at full blown internet cross platform spam wars. Tweeting, hypeming, facebooking, createsending, blog venting etc. So thanks for joining in.
Its quite fun using things like createsend and watching who actually reads your newsletter and what links they click on. I feel like I'm spying on people, but in a nice way.
Have a good book launch... I remember going to a book launch at parliament when I was about 7, and David Lange told me that the disabled toilet was especially built for him as he was too fat for a regular toilet. Fo many years I held that as a piece of utterly true and privileged piece of information.
Morgan Nichol
From: Auckland CBD
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 159
They're actually very nice people as well as very good at their job.
I'm sure. But do they still take away all cameras and phones?
Hey Russ Le Roq
That's a different guy. More throwing of phones, less writing of blogs.
David Haywood
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 540
Moderator
Tee-shirt now gone, sorry. But congratulations to Mr Zippy, who is now the owner of some fab new apparel!
Emma Hart
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2629
Moderator
the Security stuff have Mr Speaker's authority to lock people in the basement cells for up to 24 hours if necessary
Given the relationship we've had with the Speaker's Office so far, best keep this quiet. I don't think you'll be able to hear me from down there. Or at least, not before they throw Megan and Jo in with me.
Kris V
From: Chch
Since: Nov 2008
Posts: 12
so umm... how goes it for Chch? are you looking for a venue?
don't forget us locals - Emma's not the only one that can get snarky lol
(just keep me full of caffiene and I'll be fine btw)
Joanna
From: Wellington
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 546
I don't think you'll be able to hear me from down there. Or at least, not before they throw Megan and Jo in with me.
I can't think of another two women I'd be so happy to share a cell with!
Emma Hart
From: Christchurch
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 2629
Moderator
so umm... how goes it for Chch? are you looking for a venue?
We're in negotiations for a venue. There will be a Chch launch even if we end up having to have it in David's yard with the bees.
Megan Wegan
From: Welly
Since: Jul 2008
Posts: 402
I don't think you'll be able to hear me from down there. Or at least, not before they throw Megan and Jo in with me.
I can't think of another two women I'd be so happy to share a cell with!
must...resist....smut....
On the Parliament security, I used to visit a friend, quite often, who worked on, shall we say, an upper floor of the Beehive. The security guards used to just wave me up there all the time. I guess I don't look like someone who might be carrying anything dangerous. Or who might accidentally go wandering into offices, because she's fecking nosey...
Phil Lyth
From: Wellington
Since: Apr 2009
Posts: 171
do they still take away all cameras and phones?
Not for attending a function, unless something has changed: you may be thinking of the conducted tours.
I don't think you'll be able to hear me from down there.
Are you really as credulous as some of the more trusting souls who were our wedding guests?
Craig Ranapia
From: North Shore, Auckland
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 7160
They're actually very nice people as well as very good at their job.
Indeed -- and, I'm reliably informed, they're basically invisible and downright pleasant compared to their equivalents in Westminster, Capitol Hill or even Canberra. A friend who spent five years in Washington is convinced she's going to start glowing in the dark, thanks to all the metal detectors she went through on a daily basis. :)
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