Posts by andrew llewellyn
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there was nada, zip, zilch.
Wha...?? Have you not seen Life on Mars? Noizyboy where are you? What's the name of that Scrapbooking programme you recommend?
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but I do have to wonder what's the going rate to give those sweet cheeks a lascivious pat... :)
There you go - and should ANton get a cut if you decide to onsell that butt pat?
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Why do they always send the poor?
Because there's plenty more where they came from. And it does them good.
Actually, the UK did send Prince Andy to the Falklands.
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<quote>the people that decide to wage them are never the ones that pay the big costs./quote>
I've idly wondered now & then whatever happened to the good old tradition of leaders actually leading their troops into battle?
Might make for a boom in diplomacy.
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about how unfair and nasty their opponents can be.
The dreaded "ad hominem" defense.
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and lo! the lord did say, 80% of the public don't understand this much, but you chi shall! because you are a lifeforce different to 'the force' which was a poor attempt to characterise the holy ghost.
Tell us about one's swedish neighbour!
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"I saw Sam Hunt yesterday...
The waves pushed pebbles up Oriental Bay"I have seen two great Sam Hunt impersonations in my day, one by Brian Sergeant, and the other by Peter Hambleton (coincidentally, I was at college with both). The lines above are the beginning of Hambleton's schtick, from a capping revue. For the life of me I can't remember where I saw Sergeant do his. Maybe another capping revue
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I just bridle at the thought in NZ that being a poet is a career, but for some I know it is - due to grants, residencies, competitions and so on. I need to get over it.
Ah... you may be reading more in what I said than I lazily intended. McCormack & Sam Hunt, through the 80s, would tour nationwide reading poems, singing songs, telling jokes, drinking & smoking lots. They were hilarious.
Maybe not so much a career as a calling :)
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I didn't think you could retire from being a poet
By all means make your own mind up on McCormack's subsequent career.