Posts by Sam F
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Who was it that posted here a while back about symbols untied from any significance, flapping in the semiotic breeze?
I think advertisers have moved wisely towards sustainability in generating slogans which can be re-used for retro value decades down the line without any inconvenient traces of meaning. A concept Starkish in its elegant simplicity.
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What does anyone do with a history degree now anyway?
I've found the research, analytical and communication skills pretty useful in a few jobs so far. High-end transferable skills for the win.
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Reminiscent of J Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO unit from the Cold War.
There are no shortage of tinfoil hat wearers on the Internet who will tell you that it was never disbanded.
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St Peter's College, Auckland, 1996-2002: wagging. Never heard any other term for it.
And I don't think I ever dared skip a day - perhaps stole a couple of hours away a couple of days a year around exam time, but that would have been about it. Yeah I was chicken, big whoop, wanna fight about it?
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I think 'urgency' might make for a good late entrant.
I was just thinking the same thing a couple of nights ago. 'Urgency' surely should be in there somewhere. I'd plump for 'volatility' as well.
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Kiwirail - that's two flightless birds. Carbon footprints aside, it's against nature that anyone in their employ should fly at all.
The next time I'm required to take a Welly flight early in the week I intend to push for a weekend rail ticket instead.
I think I'd even pay the difference if required, if it nets a greener more relaxed trip and no more ruptured eardrums.
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Running into *moving* trees on the other hand, is-
LIVE ENT CAPTURE REWARd NOTICE! $1 MILLION DOLLARS FOR
etc.
Ehehe. And just to take things to another plane of geekiness, this is the first thing I thought of with moving trees.
The yeti was much worse though.
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It's bloody hard I tells ya.
Case in point.
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Yachts DON'T inflate...
Unless they're of a very different model than the one pictured.
Yet this is clearly what the impressionable are being taught by the latest Pump Water "Pump Up Your Pay" TV spots (click here for Interwebby version).
Hell, they blame television's influence for everything else from ADHD to teen sex, why not corporate fiscal irresponsibility? With a suitably persuasive email campaign I'm sure I could at least get Garth George on board for this one.
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Are you really that partisan that you see equivalence here?
I do see equivalency between passage under urgency and passage under urgency. I am that partisan.
Wow, priceless.