Posts by Steve Barnes
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Talking of Twitter, what's up with it now?
won't recognise my account, wont send me password reminder, wont recognise my phone number, won;t let me read without signing in. So, 'kin' useless. -
Jeez, talk about dragging up old shite.
It's in the Bag was a radio version of "Double Your Money" a British TV show fronted by the late Hughie Green, Paula Yates' father, Bob Geldof's partner (but that is another story for another long day) which had the line "Take the money or open the box". When adapted for radio in NZ it was not thought worth the money to employ a carpenter to make boxes. Selwyn had a seamstress run up some bags for the sake of the radio audience and in doing so changed the concept of the program to such an extent as to evade that annoying copyright thing.
The parallels go deeper than you may think. Hughie Green went on to present a show called "Opportunity Knocks" (funnily enough, produced by Jess Yates, husband of Paula's mother, you do the math) OK, as it was never known was the precurse (sic) of Some cuntry's got talentless loons, or whatever.
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Muse: Freakanomics (TVNZ Edition), in reply to Sacha,
No. Did it involve a greased pole?
No, that honour fell to Vlad the Impaler. Now there's a TV show, "Impale a Celebrity" we could include MPs.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to JacksonP,
bloom·er n.1. A costume formerly worn by women and girls that was composed of loose trousers gathered about the ankles and worn under a short skirt.
Or in this case...
bloomer noun (MISTAKE )
/ˈbluː.mər /
/-mɚ/ [C]Definition
UK old-fashioned slang, a silly or embarrassing mistake which does not have serious results.
(From the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)You must be an Oxford chap. ;-)
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Joe Wylie,
That’s good, isn’t it? Kodak comes up with a new film that works brilliantly in bad light – and Muggeridge declares it’s divine light.
Apparently some parts of the Bible are plagiarised.
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Southerly: Village People, in reply to JacksonP,
See, I’m down with the 10yos.
Yo, you seem like a fun guy.
Now that was creepy, all that with the musick of Elton John.
Saying no more. -
Vote early, vote often, vote how you are told.
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Muse: The Good Word, Bad Numbers and The…, in reply to chris,
why would anybody talk about taking their trousers off on campus, even to deny doing it in a joking fashion?!oddly that sounds very familiar...
– I find the whole ‘monthly cum’ reporting a bit strange.
Sounds like an average waking dream.
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Any hoo. ont he subject of numbers I here Pres. Putin is readying his winning celebrations for the upcoming elections. We have been assured that the latest voting machinery will be in use. (see below) -
Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Sacha,
I found the contrast dropped off over 800, I cursed myself for taking 20 rolls of the stuff to Nepal back in the early 80s. they didn’t do the Himalayas justice, mind you I don’t think any film or camera could. I used TriX more for bands and action shots, mostly Rugby strangely enough (not a big fan now it’s rammed down our throats).
The remark about the cat, by the way, was actually true. A friend and I tried taking pictures of “ghosts”, shooting randomly in the dark, and pushed the old TriX to the equivalent of around 6400, just let it soak up the developer for god knows how long.
When we checked out what we had, there was a cat and no way could it have been there, I didn’t have a cat. -
Muse: Freakanomics (TVNZ Edition), in reply to Phil fryer,
is far more positive & compalling watching,than the negative comments,of USA type of shows !
I was thinking about that when I saw an ad for a show about child chefs, I could imagine Gordon Ramsay reducing them to blubbering wrecks.
Damn, I may have given TVNZ an idea.
