Posts by Anne M
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SB's can't even make a hot chocolate that my unsophisticated kids think is good. They always were doomed
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I shall trot in to Bruce McKenzie Bookseller and get a copy for my 12 year old - who reads both Gordianus the Finder AND the Warrior Cats
I hope you're getting a cut of the action Jolisa
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I had a purple silk frock (not a mere dress) that gave me a cleavage that would pop a heterosexual male's eyeballs right out of his head while concealing the flabby bits. It swished, it swooshed, it was gorgeous and so was I when I wore it. It was the only designer piece I have ever (and will ever) owned and it was worth every penny I paid for it.
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All the best! I'm another fan of the public system too
I'm a fan of morphine on a you-controlled drip. Demand it.
And can someone post any updates for those of us who aren't Twits or Tweeters or whatever it is?
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"Dave" the bloke who drives the 8:25am 12A bus to Massey Uni.
He'll stop for those he sees frantically running to the bus stop, he waits for people to be seated and doesn't accelerate like he's Lewis Hamilton. And he used to save a big roll of tickets for my son, who loved them.
I bet he's not paid well, and the studentia are prone to "pranks" he must have seen a zillion times, but he is always cheerful and always nice.
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In 1993 or 1994 when I was finishing my PhD I discovered the .alt newsgroups. I have NO idea how, the only interwebby access we were meant to have was for molecular biologists checking their DNA sequences on BLAST. And I wasn't one of them. But no matter, I was in love.
In 1994 I got a job in a recently privatised ex-Victorian state government lab. Naturally there was no internet or anything close to it. But there were computers hooked up to telephone lines. Lines with no toll-bars. And somehow (an early "Internet for Dummies"?) I found that if you telnet-ed to the CERN, voila, the internet was there. Text only, but hey who cares? I got my "WYSIWYG NZ News" and I could buy books from America, very cheaply.
The company went bust at the end of '95. Toll bills to Switzerland probably didn't help the bottom line
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Well, that's it. Won't be renewing the Listener sub
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Please, please Russell, pre-cook the chook.
Part of my job is collecting Campylobacter from retail chickens and they're usually pulsating full of it. Some 60% of human infections (and NZ is Campylobacter Capital of the World) are related to chicken consumption. And our statistician-y chap is collecting the sales data for bbq fuel sales because they're looks like a correlation between bbq weather and mass outbreaks of the Campylobacter dire rear.
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Robyn, I think you're delirious. You might want to seek medical advice, the hallucinations are getting serious. Your food-poisoning may be turning into septicaemia.
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Although no doubt these groups were afraid to bite the hand that feeds them.
You mean the donation-giving public? That's who 'feeds' SCF anyway (and not that well I may add).
But to confuse smacking with child abuse really was beyond the pale.
Really? From today's Melbourne Age "THE manslaughter of a five-year-old boy who was beaten and strapped as a form of discipline was among the worst killings of its kind, a Supreme Court judge has been told." The man who killed that child was administering discipline, which he probably called smacking.