Posts by Jackie Clark
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Very good discussion - although, on a personal note, I'm a little disappointed that the man walking his dog in the park tonight who I thought was Finlay McDonald plainly....isn't.
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The first one was at the roundabout at Royal Oak, about 1971 I think
I was about to rebut that, Rob, but then I googled KFC, and whaddya know, you're right. I always thought that the first one was in Takapuna - right by Ross' dairy on Taharoto Rd. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I used to love KFC - never the skin, just the chicken. And never the potato and gravy, or anything else except for the salads.
(I have not, however, forgiven KFC for ditchng their bean salad)
Neither have I, and I remain extremely miffed that they took away the potato salad. I am a potato salad connisseur and I have spent hours trying to recreate that KFC one. I think it was the white vinegar that gave it it's zing.
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I tend to think, Mark, that the Kennedy family has suffered more loss than most families ever have to - they've had their fair share of scandal, but they haven't exactly got away with it, now, have they?
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Ted Kennedy's speech was pretty good too:
God love him. That speech brought me to tears. Call me mawkish, but there's just something a bit spesh about the Kennedys.
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Naughty naughty people. I have a lot of nieces and nephews, as I'm sure I said before, and the ones that I'm particularly close to are very big people now. One of my nieces, who is 28 next month, used to come to University with me when she was just a wee person, and sit in on lectures with me. She was so good, and when she got her multiple degrees, I was very certain that it was the very learned environment I exposed her to as a toddler that was responsible. Her brother, who was never in my charge, of course went on to do many nefarious things....
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See, that's what I love about human beings. Every experience is shared, yet resonates with each of us in a completely different way. As do phenomena. The Internet is, I believe, an ongoing phenomena, and it has affected us all in very different, and yet similar, ways. You have the nerds, bespectacled outcasts studying Comp Sci who understood the language of the WWW as being something they could get their heads around. You get people like Danielle who meet the love of their lives in the online equivalent of a very quiet, earnest fanclub held in a very cool jazz club somewhere gritty and grimy. You get people like me only interested in the human condition, not the language of the Web, nor it's technological intricacies. I haven't covered a fraction of the interests of the people who gather in this little webbed corner of the world. People I would never have met, otherwise. All interested in the phenomena for different reasons, but getting somewhat similar things out of it. Is this the new United Nations of the human race? Or is it more like those student parties we used to have in those large flats with many rooms, and a proliferation of people we had never really encountered before? Or is it just an amalgamation of all those things? And does it really matter?
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I met my husband in 1997, in what may be *the* nerdiest place on the internet:
I think that just may be one of the sweetest things I've ever heard. See, that's what I love about the Internet as social tool. It brings people together who may not have otherwise met. Just awesome.
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agreed
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If I might paraphrase Nora, Jaysus it's Jolisa. And thank the goddesses for you. Our elderly are so very precious, and their amazing stories have to live on with us, don't they? One of the loveliest conversations I had with my father was about 6 months before he died. We finally talked about how he felt when his then three year old daughter died, in the 1940's. He cried, and talked of how it had destroyed his already ailing marriage. I had never thought of him as a bereaved parent, and of course, he was. There are many legends about my father's exploits in my family, most of them told again and again and again. But that was a conversation he only had with me. A sweet and tender moment telling his favoured youngest daughter about his once favoured older daughter. I will always treasure that afternoon.
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Ooh, I had never heard any of the LED's stuff. I love that song, Russell. And I agree with Tom - the lead singer sounds very like Neil Tennant. That's a good thing, in my book. 80's whore that I am, Pet Shop Boys are one of my favourite bands. And thankyou Thom for that Fleet Foxes vid. What an enchanting sound.