Posts by andrew llewellyn
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You again!
"would have started a lot of young police recruits to question what they were doing, how they were doing it, and how they were perceived by Joe Public"
From my unscientific sample of one young police officer of my acquaintance, this is true. Unfortunately he was drummed out of the force because (he said) of his questioning of what they were doing in 1981.
Of course, the fact he & a bunch of other cops were caught gambling & carousing in a place cvalled Club 59 (later to become the Mayfair Gentleman's Club, probably didn't help.)
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Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, but I might state a preference for Mother Night, which is the serious version of the events recounted in Slaughterhouse 5 (minus the porn star & the aliens).
And if you kiwis haven't yet read William Brandt's The Book of the Film of the Story of my Life, or Nigel Cox's Tarzan Presley - then run out & get them now.
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"Ah redeemed by Dog."
Merc, I really want to ask "What if Dog was one of us"
But I want us to remain friends.
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"Hey, that was the name of my first dog too! :)"
Utterly fantastic coincidence! I suppose your sister had a horse called Byron at some stage too?
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"Our friends' cat solved this problem by simply ripping the cat door off"
Heh, our dog ate the cat door. Luckily she grew out of that behaviour (or possibly it was not to her taste) because subsequent cat doors have survived.
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My first dog was called Shelley :)
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"And Andrew, if you continue to quote Alanis, our cyber friendship is over, mmmkay."
Yeah sorry Merc, I'm no Morissette fan, and I HAVE read some poetry - mostly because I had to though. and would be hard pressed to quote anything these days (Augustan poetry did strike me, as a fellow student put it once, as little more than rupert bear rhymes.)
I'm more inclined towards Shelley & Tennyson than Byron. Although I can't deny that some of Shakespeare's sonnets are somewhat more than admirably structured...
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"Look, this is not the Emo bashing thread is it."
to misquote Ms Morissette - Isn't it Byronic?
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Say, anyone read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit?
A good one for most ages - and a pretty neat film for a change too -
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"Have none of you swine (I jest) read poetry!"
Well... I used to get Rupert Bear annuals every year.