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  • Hard News: Random,

    It amazes me that people watch shows with psychics and believe the premise that the psychic is working cold.

    Yeah, like, if they can somehow divine where a person was killed - as they've claimed to do in both the episodes I've seen - then how come they don't ever make thwemselves useful by finding the body of someone who is still missing, huh?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: Quite the Two-Step,

    Conrad Black gets six and a half years in prison. Good.

    Nice to see that some jurisdictions take massive fraud seriously.

    I mean, 12 months home detention with allowances for working? Isn't that pretty much normality for, say, any law-abiding person with a young family?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: Mighty Indeed,

    I'd have picked the 1480 Kr[oo]zers being something to do with Radio Hauraki

    They were the sponsors.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: Mighty Indeed,

    If in the early 1980s you have been a member of the 1480 Kroozers, what would you have been?

    A skateboarder.

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  • Hard News: Farce About,

    the main violin bit that gets repeated over and over in "Bittersweet Symphony" doesn't come from that sample

    True. It really comes from the piano line in the second verse.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: Farce About,

    (Yeah, I've never heard it either)

    here's a short, lo-res sample.

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  • Hard News: Farce About,

    Stones sample

    Andrew Oldham Orchestra sample. Ironically, given the Verve's loss of Bittersweet Symphony rights to Jagger/Richards, AOO's version of "The Last Time" bears virtually no relation to the Jagger/Richards song it purports to be.

    </rock nerdity>

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: Farce About,

    Also most politicians, in my experience, are tone deaf.

    Yeah, that would actually explain it, I suppose (even though the two pieces are, in essence, exactly the same).

    If you believe the Dom-Post (or Key) he didn't actually listen to the DVD before urging the rest of the country to.

    I'm presuming he has by now, though. That article also says that they got permission for use of the original at the conference, which I was wondering about.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: Farce About,

    Re: Clocksgate

    Key is quoted in the Herald as saying:

    That was the music that was presented to us and the advice was that we owned the rights to that, and that it was acceptable. That may still legally be the case because it's a grey area but that doesn't meet the standards I believe in. (my italics)

    Presuming he's heard both versions, that's rather a strange statement, no?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: Farce About,

    This Key-Coldplay brouhaha sure is a gift to pun-lovers everywhere.

    I'll suggest:

    "Complete Clock-up sees DVDs recalled"

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

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