Posts by Emma Hart
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In fact, let's just drop the Friday Cat Nuke.
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We used to have a cat named Chimo who would have fights with his own back paws, around the posts of the chair-back. He often lost, and would fall right off the chair after kicking himself in the face with his back paws.
Dyan, like this?
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I think Christ's is nominally Anglican, and St Andrew's is Presbyterian/Scots. St Bede's is for the Mickey Doolans, as they say.
Ah, thank you. Now I know Christ's ranks higher than StAC.
Christchurch likes to see itself as upstanding, but it always seems to have had a deviant underbelly. Bill Direen reckons it can thank the working-class Irish for that.
Oh, right, blame it on the gingas again.
I'm thinking that David H should maybe patent his plot lines and general characterisations just in case someone ever does them better.
Not that that would happen, cough, but it would be a shame not to make a dime out of the situation.
I think they should be buried with him, like grave goods.
Especially that c**t Bollard.
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My daughter would like to thank Leo for the cat clip, which she loved. She's now gone off to find our cat...
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School or University? by the sounds of it, they probably both cater to the same crowd (I know nothing of NZ schools).
Someone, possibly Robert or Megan, might be able to explain to me why Chch has both St Andrew's (College) and Christ's, because for humour purposes they do both seem to fill the same role, and I've never been able to work out what the difference is. I went to a school that, had it been in Chch, would have been Aranui, except without being good at rugby.
She drawled, fen-DAAAAHL-ton. And you?
Cracks me up every time, the Chch fake-upper-class accent. I'm more of the 'SnAlbans' breed.
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For this audience...I spent many a happy year fagging at "His Royal Highness' High for Incredibly Rich and Boorish Boys".
I see no problem with lying. You just run the risk of someone in your audience also having gone to St Andrew's.
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tho' hell should bar the way
He means The Strip.
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It's a wankfest on stilts.
You can consider that phrase stolen.
And obviously I missed some stuff this morning in a haze of caffeine deprivation.
When I moved from Christchurch to Wellington after University, and sailed in on the ferry, on my own, needing to find a job and a flat, I remember thinking of Elizabeth who had a tent on the beach, and of my grandmother who sailed into the harbour as a war-bride from Bristol, and thinking that I had it much easier than either of them did.
That's a fabulous image, Rachel.
Next term my daughter's class is walking the Bridle Path, and I'm hoping my health is up to joining them. After months aboard ship, my great-great-grandfather fell off his horse on that path and became the subject of Chch's first autopsy. But he wasn't steerage on the Charlotte Jane so it doesn't count.
Wait, you aren't allowed to ask where people went to school (in cases where they are from somewhere big enough to have more than one) to help narrow the probable pool of people you know in common?
That's how it works when I run into someone from Timaru, because noone under about fifty makes value judgements depending on whether you went to Roncalli or Girls' High.
In Chch, the question sort of gets thrown down the way someone with flair and class might throw down a gauntlet. Reaction will be based on the answer.
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Oh, and I just thought that Stalemate does contain the word stale. It also contains the word mate
And lamest. Just thought I'd mention it.
And yeah. There have been some bloody fabulous test draws. That wasn't one of them.
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I think we need to start a thematic 'violently killing your partner' playlist for him.
What a great idea. It'd have half of Robert Cray's catalogue on it. In fact, now that I think about it, his 'Smoking Gun' and Maroon Five's 'Wake Up Call' are pretty much the same song.
Robert Crag is redeemed by having written the line 'tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank'. No offence.