Hard News: When the fast track seems a good track
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Cycle Action Auckland's post, including the statement they have prepared for tomorrow's Auckland Transport board meeting, where they were refused permission to present.
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Mike O'Connell, in reply to
In Torquay, doctorates can be shared by couples - three for two!
In regard to German/Austrian doctorates, if the man is a PhD, and his wife isn't, he of course can be referred to Herr Doktor but his wife can also call herself Frau Doktor! Not sure if this applies too, to the 'real' doctors, those medical ones.
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BenWilson, in reply to
I ran the gauntlet with a contraband cucumber last night (inadvertently). I could have been aiding and abetting a fugitive insect.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
If the cucumber entered and left the zone in plastic wrap, I think you're probably okay. I left the zone yesterday with some cucumber wrapped in a little pancake, along with some duck meat. I figured that if by some strange chance there were fruit fly eggs in the strips of cucumber, they would be killed by my gastric acids.
But seriously, yeah, looking to obey this one. Our vege shop in Pt Chev is going to do well for the next two weeks.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Strained fruit...
they would be killed by my gastric acids.
Some seeds and eggs need such tempering processes before hatching...
Pt Chev is post-longdrop now isn't it?
Gentrified and flush...
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No this was an organic cucumber from my own garden, freshly picked. It both entered and left Grey Lynn completely naked, lying in the boot of my car. When I realized the extent of my eco-terrorism, I destroyed it with my teeth, to save the fruits of Herne Bay.
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BenWilson, in reply to
The only way to be sure is to nuke Grey Lynn from space.
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
looking to obey this one
As you should.
The quarantine isn't too great a hardship and the potential harm is stupidly high.
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nzlemming, in reply to
The only way to be sure is to nuke Grey Lynn from space.
Been saying this for a long time. Sovereign remedy.
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Are we talking about this fruitfly
If we are then it makes it all the more scary, could be a superfly from a secret eco-weapon laboratory in Grey Lynn.
EEEk oh Terorism!
It won't be long before JK has to put troops on the ground in the inner suburbs to "protect us from this clear and present threat". -
BenWilson, in reply to
Sovereign remedy.
I expect they'll just settle for chemical warfare though. It's only ever really been useful against civilians.
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When I am asked what an Associate Professor is, I usually say 'I hang around with professors'. University titles can be rather arcane. I once asked a Pro Vice Chancellor of Something whether there were any Anti Vice Chancellors.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Pro Vice Chancellor of Something whether there were any Anti Vice Chancellors.
Are there pro- and anti- virtue chancellors to match?
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Didn't anyone notice that the "fly" had aerials sticking out the front of it? It could be one of these new fangled Drones. One aerial to transmit and one to listen. They have been saying that they will be flying these things through kitchen windows in the near future. The future is here. And it is in Grey Lynn.
Is there a connection with the Pohutakawa tree(s) that have been saved? Was this Drone a warning to the Transport Authority? If so then the "fly" should get a medal.
DON"T KILL IT! Save it for Jolisa!
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
They have been saying that they will be flying these things through kitchen windows in the near future.
Good news for glaziers.
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linger, in reply to
When I am asked what an Associate Professor is, I usually say ‘I hang around with professors’.
That’s my official title too. It often gets shortened to “Ass. Prof.”, which I guess is just someone who brings up the rear in a profession.
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Ross Mason, in reply to
does that really say “Miniature shooting gallery’?
Yup. Shooting was an amazingly popular sport and pastime for the multitudes. 400 would turn up to Trentham from about 1906 to shoot long ranges. Free Ammo, rifles and rail fare to all entrants. Lord Roberts sorted the shorts wearing Baden-Powell Boys and told them they needed to hone up their shooting skills and invented the “smallbore rifle” that swamped Britain and NZ country towns. Wellington developed the “Royal Tiger” range which was in Taranaki St beofre it got shifted to Russell Terrace in the 60s. Still a lot of “miniature Rifle” Clubs Associations around. The smallbore fraternity is now renamed “Target Shooting NZ” as not many understand what the hell a Miniature Rifle was!
Signed RM. Target Shooter for 45 years…so far.
PS: NZ Defence has been working on the history of the Trentham Rifle Ranges and will be giving a presentation next Wednesday night at the National Rifle Assoc of NZ office, Trentham.
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LIISA, in reply to
I did a lot of growing up on the Trentham pistol range. Catching tadpoles and frogs, digging copper out of the clay banks, the smell of cordite, chasing rabbits. And the occasional shot. It was great.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Wellington developed the “Royal Tiger” range which was in Taranaki St beofre it got shifted to Russell Terrace in the 60s.
Is there a connection to the Royal Tiger pub, which was one of the roughest in town for many years, before it was pulled down in the 90's?
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Sacha, in reply to
Thanks, Ross. I had no idea.
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Ross Mason, in reply to
Is there a connection to the Royal Tiger pub?
Yes I believe so. It was either beside or under the pub.
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nzlemming, in reply to
Thanks.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Are we talking about this fruitfly
If we are then it makes it all the more scaryRight on. Git dahn.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Dang and here I am reading Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue
“Do What You’ve Got to Do and Stay Fly.”
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