Hard News: Somebody flicked the Christmas Switch
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Word of the year?
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(You can, of course, simply try your luck at the door on Thursday night as you trip down Cuba Mall.)
Yup, do come along anyway after 7pm - no doubt there'll be people leaving at various times in the night, so you might very well just get lucky. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
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Goodness me, everyone in Auckland is decamping for Waiheke as far as I can tell.
We've got ourselves a place on the island organised for Xmas/New Year and the social calendar is positively tizzy with BBQ's, picnics, vinyard visits, long lunches, beach time and semi-strenuous hiking about will sorts of friends who are over there as well.
OTOH, its going to be Christmas for the burglars of Auckland thats fo' sure!
Now I am going to head down the line to fetch my dear Mumma and take her shopping for the xmas groceries tomorrow.
I hope I get to hear Snoopy's xmas on the car radio. It's my favourite xmas song and makes me feel all seasonal.
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Ohhh here is a thought that just occured to me... is Waiheke the New Zealand answer to the Hamptons? After all, I'm going to be there.
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Is it just me, or does this guy look eerily like Muldoon at times? Warning: do not click if you intend to get any more work done today.
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YouTube clip of the day surely has to be...
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What would we do without Nicky?
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we'd have real news.
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Tom Beard wrote:
Is it just me, or does this guy look eerily like Muldoon at times? Warning: do not click if you intend to get any more work done today.
What's more he's actively malevolent like Muldoon. e.g., just when I thought I had the little b*stard beat, he pulled out a massive iron bar and hit 'me' over the head.
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Word of the year: Debenture (= unsecured debt backed only by the integrity of the borrower, not by collateral).
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re: debentures:
Told you so! - March 2005
Waiheke was described this morning on George as the Ibiza of Auckland. Bleuuuuuurgggggggh!
(although I assume almost everything they say on George is meant to be ironic).
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Well done Rich, you're officially a smartypants. Mind you, given current high interest rates, 9% has always seemed like a bloody stingy rate of return to me, given that you could get as much as 8.5% just by sticking your money in a savings account last time I checked. Can't understand why people would bother going there, naivete notwithstanding...?
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Ps my mum lives on Waiheke, so we'll probably be there too! And having complained for years myself about all the 'townies' clogging up the roads with their flash cars, we'll be taking ours, as Mum's decrepit little Honda City is in no fit state to carry a baby seat. Parenthood makes pragmatists of us all...
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Waiheke was described this morning on George as the Ibiza of Auckland
Well you might as well enjoy it. The locals here in the Bridge refer to Mangere Bridge as the Mission Bay of South Auckland
I prefer Le Pont Paresseux when I am feeling suitably Continental.
My word of the year: McGehanesque to describe an embarrassing local eyesore that could be the Key to riches. -
Mangere Bridge was the place where Jonah Lomu got beaten up on his way home from school.
Who were those kids? And why aren't *they* in the All Blacks?
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Well you might as well enjoy it. The locals here in the Bridge refer to Mangere Bridge as the Mission Bay of South Auckland
I prefer Le Pont Paresseux when I am feeling suitably Continental.
I think you'd be hard pressed to beat refering to Timaru as the 'Riviera of the South'. That spawned my family calling Orari the 'gateway to Geraldine'.
And this is my pick for trendy-liberal-guilt Christmas present of the year.
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And this is my pick for trendy-liberal-guilt Christmas present of the year.
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Er, Russell.
If you give party pills as Christmas gifts you'll be looking at 8 years in jail.
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Relax, I believe first there is a 6 month amnesty for traders to dispose of any stock. Not that I would recommend giving anyone that crap.
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Sue,
what no party pills?
so it's back to the e then? -
Nope.
Amnesty in relation to use and possession for personal use of BZP
(1) Despite section 4 of this Act and section 7 of the principal Act, it is not an offence for a person, in relation to any of the controlled drugs added by section 4 of this Act to Part 1 of Schedule 3 of the principal Act, to do either or both of the following before 18 June 2008:
(a) to possess for his or her own use an amount of that controlled drug that is less than the amount, level, or quantity at and over which that controlled drug is presumed to be for supply, as specified in Schedule 5 of the principal Act (as amended by section 5 of this Act):
(b) to use that controlled drug.Italics mine.
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Fingers crossed, then, that Juha will be the only Aucklander heading north to Leigh for the holidays. I look forward to a barren Omaha, its former residents enjoying the clogged streets and intimate ambience of Waiheke, your Auckland away from Auckland.
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Outside the butcher's shop, a metre-high mechanised Santa sings something unintelligible and swivels his hips in a constant, lonely roadside dance, like an old man on party pills*.
lol
I had a Regional Manager who had a very similar height and build to those dancing Santas - and he danced just like them. Now everytime I see one as I walk down the street it reminds me of him dancing at the staff Christmas party and I have to laugh. RM wasn't on party pills though he had definitely partaken in a few ales.
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