Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
You know, I believe the Vietnam War was a bit controversial back in the day.
On the occasion of LBJ's visit to parliament I was punched from behind, just once, in the ribs, by a silent gentleman of middle-aged cow-cocky appearance. The sight of a spotty adolescent carrying a sign that read simply PEACE was presumably too much for his patriotic sensibilities.
That didn't prevent me from borrowing Leadbelly and Harry Partch albums from the Wellington US Information Service. It was free, you could take them home like library books, and they seemed so pleased that someone was even interested.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I’d rather have a king that plays the tenor sax and clarinet, records albums of the same with his jazz band . . .
Somehow I doubt that he’d be likely to cover this particular Peggy Lee number:
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Monosyllabic words are more easily nuanced. For example, you can be simply a prick, or be upgraded to arch-prick, which suggests some kind of phallic bishop's mitre. But arch-twatcock? Not really.
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While twatcock no doubt enriches the language, those whose opinions I value assure me that I'm still a cunt.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to ScottY,
There’s a fair degree of anti-Americanism on the left, so I can understand why Clark didn’t want to yell it from the rooftops
No US nukes was the Labour left's trade-off back in the day for swallowing the Douglas dead rat.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I’m throwing my lot in with them just for this
While it was decades ago, I'd never quite recovered from the banality-induced nausea inflicted by my single never-to-be-repeated exposure to Spanish Train.
Thanks Wikileaks, I feel so much better now. -
Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part II, in reply to dyan campbell,
But I remember the term “flavour buds” being used to describe Jello mix too.
The “flavour bud” (I think that’s the spelling) in NZ was a proprietary feature of Lushus Jellies, though it doesn’t feature in recordari’s interesting versions. It was a single little hemisphere in each packet of otherwise plain jelly crystals, that presumably dissolved along with them.
There was a radio jingle that was probably still on the go in the early 60s:
The bud seals in the flavour and the flavour’s mighty good
Your jelly’s filled with flavour so let this be understood
That only Lushus has that flavour budNew Zealanders never took brand names quite as seriously as Australians, for whom they’re deeply embedded in the national psyche:
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to paulalambert,
Thanks Paula, great links.
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Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part II, in reply to recordari,
So?
Respect, your blood's worth bottling.
Got any with those weird flavour buds? Only Lushus had them. -
Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part II, in reply to Amy Gale,
Watercolors of jellies.
Not NZ, but classic jelly porn (SFW).