Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to Phil Wallington,
a box of loose bedsprings
I was thinking of a sack of hammers...
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Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Not sure if that’s smart but I expect it will occur
One wonders how they'd hope to form a coalition then - gambling on an outright victory would seem to me to be a mug's game in the current political climate...
I'd have thought Kennedy Graham would have been a good choice - and him and Mister Key could chat about Helensville politics in the down time...
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Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
first off the rank...
concatenate them, and have Professor Mister Doctor Easther
Nice - a chain of office - as it were...
to 'Finnish' it off we could add 'dottir' or 'son', even ...
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Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to DexterX,
but only at that time where Labour present as a credible opposition.
Something they have set back considerably with their 'just-the-two-us' approach to the Intelligence Review Committee (as Sacha mentioned above) - sidelining the Greens looks suspicious as well as niggardly.
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Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Doc workers...
So in Auckland my dentist was Dr Kool.
...as a child in Chchch we had a Mr. Minty for our family dentist - he was in no way a jawbreaker, he was in fact quite sweet...
with a dentist's chair that looked straight at the traffic going through the Bridge of Remembrance and to-and-fro along Cashel Street... I can still smell that bunsen burner, the mercury, so much fun to be had with one's cloves on... -
Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to David Haywood,
In my experience a Prof is several degrees scarier
than a mere Dr. Interestingly... -
Speaker: Public art is no place for committees, in reply to Russell Brown,
– transforming the thoroughfare into something different.
The Other's Way?
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a weak of it...
It’s a week since the Prime Minister’s statement, the annual opening act of Parliamentary politics, when the leader traditionally sets out the governing party’s plan for the year.
As I understood it Key didn't even bother to read it out in Parliament - just handed it to the Opposition and then got straight into the extra time he now had for his killer new comedy material - written as Russell points out - on our dollar!
Comedy or the killer quip have their place in debate - but Key and cohort seem to think it is all they have to do now - where is the reasoned debate, the exchange of ideas, the dance to resolution - no, it's all put downs and cheap shots - so declassé...
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a full head of self e-STEAM...
That is a great initiative - mechanics and civics are both much under encouraged in this country.
The shades of Hypatia and Ada Lovelace beam down encouragingly I'm sure - vive la difference engine! -
The Auckland Eyesore -
all hail StyeCity...How perfect for the Suppurating City
if you 'sup' with the devil
you get back 'pus'!