Hard News: The Public Address Word of the Year 2011
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Sacha, in reply to
even if it has been refreshed by dedicated local usage?
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
But I cant be bothered voting for one that’s been around so long…
Know what you mean. I really thought that munted had gone the way of the long unlamented choice (tschüss, choice), but it's plodded back from the brink with a sort of clubfooted inevitability.
"I thought it was the yellow jackets that lent a sameness to those EQC types, but maybe there is a certain family muntedness . . ."
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linger *extended* meaning humorously...current useage of 'munted' = haddit/buggered/useless...
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Gone viral.
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Islander, in reply to
Gone viral.
Whut?*
Where?*sic
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99%
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Islander, in reply to
Not much help I'm afraid - except there is a 99% + vote count?
Fine - for this once I am proud & happy to be in the 1%!
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Refer ease - the fall of an umpire...
and our memories are increasingly full of
references without referents….there always was an air of the City and the City wafting about Chchch, all the cab ranks used to be named after long-gone establishments, The Grand, Crystal Palace, etc...
and apparently there is an old street view app for android phones... -
New word learnt by Aucklanders in 2011:
graupel
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Islander, in reply to
graupel
Fortunately it hasnt spread-
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Jean Hughes, in reply to
agree with Craig - Occupy -
not explaining the term, but explaining my choice as - 2011 the year it all starts - hopefully
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Definitely occupy. Along with its non-English equivalents it's gained a whole new global meaning.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
Haddit, buggered, useless
When I was working in the US I left a note on a broken incubator saying
"stuffed, don't use"
I got several puzzled enquiries as to why I thought the incubator was full when is was clearly empty.
Apparently Americans don't use the word stuffed to mean broken.
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'Euro-catastrophe' or 'Eurotastrophe'
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"Jellvis" - the portrayl, in most of the media (what ever that now is) of the persona of First Citizen John Key and his happy smiling govt as being more popular than Elvis at his peak - the realtiy being that First Citizen and his govt hold the slimest majority that I can recall.
"The Jelvi" - The people that raced around wearing the Key Person T shirts and the throng of other First Citizen supporters who hold the great one in a godly and most sacred esteem..
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"Jelviot" - Mindless media persons - prime example would be the women reporter stationed outside John Keys house on election night gushing about the cost/size of First Citizen's compound and how much bigger and more expensive it was than the coumpounds of his neighbours.
Party Vote Jelvis.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Ooze zoo...
First Citizen and his govt hold the slimest majority
First Citizen and his govt hold the slimiest majority...
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Has anyone nominated 'meltdown' yet?
Financial markets, and Fukushima.
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It's been an incredibly eventful year. Far too many things happened for any of them to take precedence. It's been full of surprises, most of them unpleasant, but many with seeds of hope. I think Levi Hawken takes the prize for summing up the Kiwi bemusement at downturns, a wry shrug, a quick look at the pitifully broken thing he had, and then back to bombing the hills like nothing changed, living as he has since my first memory of him as a little boy doing just that on the hills in Herne Bay, like there is no tomorrow. I like to kid myself he got the idea from me - I bombed those same slopes thousands of times. But more likely he simply got something similar out of it - adrenaline rushing down the spine, and that connection with the equipment that makes it feel like a part of you, an unselfconscious feeling of exaltation.
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"Munted" has been in use by the gathering of the Clans Bogan like 4eva. I remember it from as far back as childhood which is (a)eons ago, which is like longer than the longest time you can think of.
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[*] Spring
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How about #
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Do I get extra points for using them in a sentence?
(On a )
Mandate
(with a)
Teapot
Nek Minnit...
Liquefaction
Munted
(my)
Groin
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nzlemming, in reply to
#applause
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Eurogeddon
Also, funny how the more munted something is, the stronger the mandate.
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