Posts by Phil Lyth

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  • Hard News: It is your right and duty to vote,

    Lucy Telfar Barnard, can I invite you to email me? On the PAS site there is a little envelope on the left, below my name and above 'Reply'

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: It is your right and duty to vote,

    BoT matters

    Elections, good. That might get peeps motivated and make the elections interesting for once. Rather than the usual effort to get nominees to fill all the seats.

    Also a subtle way for boards to work would be to place action way down the list of priorities. Perhaps so low all available resources are expended on higher priorities. It has been done before.

    proximity to the Karori sanctuary

    Do come visit, it is awesome. I am on duty as a (volunteer) guide sometime this weekend. </promotion>

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: It is your right and duty to vote,

    Any suggestions for action gratefully received.

    Social media seem to be quite useful for reaching people. (How much that translates into action, I don't know. That's another question)


    10 days ago, news of the consent applications broke re dairying in the Mackenzie country.

    Today the Facebook group We Don't Want Cow Cubicles in New Zealand has over 19,000 members.

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: It is your right and duty to vote,

    Ranapia, a self-flagellating penitent? I never thought it might happen.

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: It is your right and duty to vote,

    Oh, I don't know: could paleogism be the new word of the year?

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: Getting out of the archives,

    I have never talked to anyone who has a first edition.

    What a special night.

    But imagine the nightmares for a young boy. Then again, I first read The Lord of the Rings 1173 pages in five days at 10 years of age. Precocious? Moi?

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: Getting out of the archives,

    I'm happy to be proved wrong.

    Sorry Islander. That motivated me.

    The Last Battle. My (on-the-shelves-2009) edition published by Puffin, 1977 printing, ISBN 0140302050, pages 119 - 122.

    The god of the Calormenes is Tash. The line drawing on page 121 gave me nightmares circa 1970.

    Phil
    who happily focuses on Gordon whatisnames's exhortation: "Don't give me your opinion, give me your experience": The nightmare experience was real.

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: Getting out of the archives,

    the High Priest of Taslok (or something) actually discovered his god was real

    Can't motivate myself to go into the study, but I think that was in The Last Battle

    Phil
    who re-reads his childhood library every other year

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: Getting out of the archives,

    like Fox would know how to open them

    Not my lawyer's problem. But did you deliberately miss the opening I left you . . . .

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

  • Hard News: Getting out of the archives,

    Memo to self: Phil knows too much.

    If my lawyer does not have contact from me every 24 hours, sealed envelopes will be despatched to Fox News and other credible news outlets.

    Wellington • Since Apr 2009 • 458 posts Report

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