Posts by Paul Campbell
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Yes Judy Small's "The IPD" has been a family favourite with the kids singing along with the chorus in the car long before they ever understood what it meant.
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I would agree - bring electronics and use transformers, anything with a heater or a light probably isn't worth it
If you are planning on using transformers bring a few US power strips and extension cords if you think you'll need them
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to recordari,
No, but...
That's more of the superman/Clark Kent, no one notices they are the same guy when he puts on the glasses thing .... when I suspect it's probably more of a latex mask or pod person sort of thing
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Maybe I should have said "why do John Key and David Farrar have the same accent, and no one else" .... I was sort of hoping someone would point to someone else who has that particular way of talking, and say something like "everyone from SSE Ponsonby speaks that way"
(it's just a question that's been bugging me for a year or so)
Then again, has anyone ever seen them together in the same room?
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The funny thing is that the Key/Farrar thing is almost but not quite a lisp - but the same one - it's strange. I have to guess that Key, after coming back from years in NY, had some sort of language training to rid himself of the same accent I have, so he could go into politics, maybe it comes from that somehow
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speaking of accents can anyone explain to me why John Key and David Farrar have the same accent - is it some regional Auckland thing that those of us to the south don't know about?
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I think you have to tell them the truth - my son learned about Santa quite early on and was happy to play along but didn't realise about the tooth fairy until he was 8 or so and found the carefully saved teeth one day - he was VERY angry, he'd been betrayed
(in a moment of honesty I told him about Santa when he was 4, he saw Santa at the mall a few days later, came home and told me I was full of it - yes! he believed his own eyes over some adult trying to tell him how the world worked, I'd brought him up right)
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same with us - the kids have half siblings with 4 mothers and me (my partner, umm, volunteered me to some lesbian friends who then split up and reformed .... we have lots of aunties) - it made explaining that stuff pretty easy, plus we sent them to this little Oakland alternative school where being a white straight couple made us as unusual as everyone else
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umm - I suspect that's just been flung off a merry-go-round
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could be the results of American TV too