Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Rob S,
Jason and the AggroNaughts
Where’s Mr Ede, enquiring minds want to know.
He's on a quest,
or maybe as Tom Waits puts it:
... and someone will head south
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Jack Harrison,
Labour is stacking up...
At her height Helen Clark got 41% of the vote.
David Cunliffe looks taller to me, so...
that could push them into government!I enjoyed Campbell Live's "Pie Graph' Dinner Party format round robin this evening, very civilised and affable.
Couldn't easily find the online continuation, though. -
Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to nzlemming,
“Shylock” is not a Jewish name
Does that mean it's been misusurered?
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Shyster – homophonia?
It’s caused enough trouble already this election.
Chris, you are thinking of that Venetian Merchant chappie
the Bard devised…A shyster is a slang word for someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law, politics or business.
The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says it is based on the German Scheißer (literally “shitter” but also used to refer to deceivers), but the Oxford English Dictionary describes it as “of obscure origin”, possibly deriving from a historical sense of “shy” meaning disreputable. Various false etymologies have suggested an anti-Semitic origin, but there is no proof for that.
It’s a bloody minefield English,
with its mongrel sources…<whoops sorted already - as you were - talk amongst yourselves>
:- )
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to CJM,
Shouty John, the Graceless Berk.
Hmmmm... Could be a kids book in this...
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Speaker: On the upland road, in reply to FletcherB,
I doubt that's available?
Oh, have you learnt nothing?
Everything is available!:- )
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to Steve Barnes,
When justice is served...
Do you have a recipe that serves 4 million?
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I hadn't realised that Judith Collins' husband's company, Oravida, is also donkey deep in exporting rare swamp kauri logs...read here
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Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to CJM,
...christ he’s boring
I thought it a bit rich when
Bishop called Hager 'pious'... -
Hard News: Show some decency, in reply to BenWilson,
But I’d be a whole lot more happy about it than National getting in again.
And that's the 'nub' of it!
I'm happy with 'Factory settings' until someone finds the manual and gets it properly tuned again.
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Speaker: On the upland road, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Leave it to the professionals...
...just a stupid attempt at humour.
You wanna be more Prime Ministerial, mate,
<nudge> he gets all the (hollow) laughs!;- )