Posts by Phil Lyth
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Is Paul Litterick a pseudonym for Rupert Murdoch then?
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KJV
I hate TLAs ! ! !
Had to google that one
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The Sensible Sentencing Group Trust is a Registered Charity, number 1188021
Well blow me down with a feather. Available on teh interwebs all along, you just had to know which dark dusty corner to look in.
Thanks Paul
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SST is not to be found today on the list of donee organisations on the IRD site
SST's home page today says it has "IRD approved donee and charitable trust status."
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Just had another look at the image and the number plate . . .
My that is a well-preserved ute for one 18 years old or so.
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who will return to train-spotting -
What LoRT thread please? Am I missing an in-joke? (Tried the search function which says there are 47 relevant posts but I can't get past the first page, 1 - 20)
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telling me I was adopted
this thread has covered a huge range of stuff and I haven't kept up with it all. So sorry if this has been covered.
But do bear in mind there are also the involuntarily childless couples out there. Done the fertility treatment thing. Unsuccessfully. Dipped the toes in the (miniscule in NZ) adoption pool with no result. Etc.
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screaming for a Power Point treatment
Like this perhaps?
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Business report James Weir writes with a straight face in the Dominion Post of 26 December:
Bollard buys up spoof annual
Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard has ways of keeping a lid on details of his mythical double life as a "beer-swilling bogan tough dude".
He just buys all the copies of the spoof book New Zealand Reserve Bank Annual 2010.
Downtown Wellington's Unity Books sold all 55 copies of the satirical book before Christmas, leaving an information vacuum for central bank watchers until mid-January.
The book, by South Island author David Haywood, portrays Dr Bollard drinking a dozen DB Brown before heading off in his ute to "sort out the Briscoes lady once and for all".
"I don't generally read books containing violence, pornography and tough dudes, but in this case I have made an exception," Dr Bollard said. "Overall I feel it enhances my reputation."
Asked if he was considering legal action against the author, Dr Bollard said: "I have my own way of getting back at someone I don't like."
Dr Bollard is not expected to raise interest rates for authors or anyone else until the middle of next year. Aside from that, he can bar satirists from becoming bank executives.
Sources said Dr Bollard may have bought out all the remaining copies of the book at Unity in an effort to keep it out of the public gaze.
Dr Bollard said he had only bought "enough to meet all my Christmas present needs".
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tasteful tie
One of those ones that Ministers passed on to their staffers perhaps? - the florid ones that were a gift from K Singh MP.
Oh, and David, I hear that next time you visit Parliament, Security will show you straight to your cell. The next-but-one to Emma's.