Posts by Jackie Clark
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Best cultural event I was involved with: The Orcon Great Blend 2010.
It was pleasant but it wasn’t my big cultural event of the year. (If it’s any consolation, I think it may have been the highlight of quite a few peoples’ years. If oohing and aahing and gasping with awe is your indicator of these things). My cultural high was undoubtedly all the very beautiful, enriching PAS people I experienced loveliness with offline. I spent a great deal of time with PASers this year (and some Tweeters, too) and knew, without doubt, that my life was the better for it. I had lunches, and morning teas, and afternoon teas, and parties, and dinners. I read books written by our illustrious alumni, and looked adoringly on the prodigy of several. PAS has been for me this year the perfect exemplar of the world wide web as community. I would urge those of you who have the chance, to expand your minds, and your social life. Take the plunge and if you get the opportunity to meet some PASers in the "real" world (hate that expression - we are all very real, even if you can't see us), even if it’s just to come to a Great Blend, and say hello to people, take it. You will be richly rewarded.
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Represent, Danielle!
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I was so sorry to learn of your neighbour's death, Sally. She obviously meant a great deal to you. Big hugs and kisses to you.
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Well, educate them, Paul. Please. Someone has to. (With, of course, great respect to Sally Jones who is a very splendid person of Australian origins.)
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Paul Williams,
I will say it again - how old are we, people? If you want to let it rip, profaity wise, feel free to do so. You are in Australia, after all, which is, is it not, the home of much sweary goings-on.
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Tom Beard,
egregious twatcockery? that, my love, is fabulous
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I would suggest uber twatcock or massive twatcock. And Geoff? How very dare you.
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I had no idea we had so many wowsers on board. Colour me shocked.
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
I am so sorry, Robyn. I didn't mean to offend you. As Russell points out...........yes, my pop culture reference failed. Sorry. Again.
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I think at this stage most of us are using twatcock self-consciously, with a silent “see what I did there?” after it.
Who's most of us, white man? Speakee for yourself. Anything profane that passes my lips - and there's a reasonable stream of it outside work hours - never involves selfconsciousness. I still can't believe that at 46 years old, people are still telling me I swear too much. Use "fig" they say. How old are we? 10?