Posts by Leopold
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"I just wish the suits had some kind of lights in them to show where the strike was, it's a bloody tough sport for spectators"
Why not a plastic bladder full of red-coloured dye on the front of the padded jacket - a hit and it spurts out - just to remind spectators that fencing may be wimpy-looking now, but once was very serious stuff...
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Mr Semmens really thinks that any Olympic ceremony in any city is going be carefully pointing out the warts and all of their society??
My favourite quote from Peter Montgomery so far- "You can't see the visibility"
But the TV1 crew at the Olympics are all appalling. Too many with too little to say, but insist on saying it anyway...
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I can't explain Isaac Newton, though - both a scientist and alchemist
From Newton's (and his time's) point of view, alchemy had not been disproved. And have read somewhere that alchemical and other theories of spiritual `sympathies' acting between objects may have given him the idea of gravitation - the prevailing mechanistic view of things directly acting upon each other by physical contact could not explain gravity
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Shadbolt was around various movements, but he wasn't a member of PYM from memory.
he very definitely was - Or has his memoir 'Bullshit and jellybeans' vanished down the public memory-hole?
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Before we lefties get too cocky...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s10297.htmThough the findings are disputed...
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Anyone interested in a campaign to bring back `Master ' and 'Mistress'?
- Outside the Igor and Herr Dr Frankenstein, and the whips and leather gear niches of society, that is -
None?: Oh well, pity...
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O Tempora, o mores!
And I am so used to "I am Leo Bloom, but you may call me Sir*."
It may be hopelessly old-fashioned but I prefer a Mr approach from a complete stranger** rather than the slimy first-name approach of a salesman who dosent know you from a bar of soap but is hoping to flog off some shonky insurance.
Only genuine friends or colleagues get first name treatment.
Ditto with politicians who obviously hate each others' guts but insist on using first names to and about each other...
*Interesting that supposedly more laid-back Americans use the Sir as an article of address far more than we do.
**Cold call telemarketers on the other hand still get the reponse "Mr Bloom? he dead", which may get me knocked off their list (I hope) -
Graham - How long are you in Seoul...I know where you can get some Pumpkin Candy, and you don't even have to go to Ulleong-do
Seoul Food?
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Thanks Sophie
As one married to a mental health professional (NOT in Wellington), I know that it is a draining and thankless job.
One of the few compensations she gets is the opportunity to occasionally meet more interesting, stimulating and funny people than those on this side of madness.
I think Finn would have been one of those. -
Keep an eye on the mysteriously vanished Toni Thompson. The killings have just begun. All next year we watch an ever-dwindling cast, as Toni exacts her revenge, culminating on the Xmas Eve 2008 slaying of Dr Chris. Toni then whips off her disguise, announces that Ferndale is now safe from Dr Screw-Anything-on-Two-Legs Warne, and Shortland Street finishes. For Good.