Posts by Islander
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Sacha,
I dont read the kind of material you offered in support of that - all I know is - it sounded right for here & I had never read it before (but as a writer, I would never claim outright ownership for a neologism - because someone is coining them, all the time-)
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Nora Leggs,
he remains of Little Ted
(Squawk out loud!) That’s tedd-ible! How could they display him like that?!
Mr Leggs says “bring me the head of Little Ted!”
Hell! I was a director of “PlaySchool” in Dunedin for a year& ahalf – and I swear Little Ted was intact when I left! Must’ve happened after 1979-
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I really love twatcock - it is an equal-opportunity insult and deserves to be WORD OF THE DECADE- yes!
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
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O ye goddessess & little fishes!
Anything I can get/send/do? (Got family in ChChCh-) -
Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to DexterX,
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or Collins to instruct Binnie, a leading international jurist, to do the report and then basically to say he is incompetent is not a good look – but is also more than just that."
However, reading the released document, that seems to be the possible case. And referring to previous cases where innocence has been strongly suggested (Ellis) or proven (Thomas) also seems extremely relevant actually-
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to DexterX,
<q> don’t believe Collins – I feel she is creating a platform for her ambition.
For what?
A lot of my family – in Oamaru & Dunedin – dont think Bain is innocent.For many reasons, only some of which have been publically revealed in the 2 trials, and then incompletely.
However, I totally support the exoneration of Peter Ellis – who never killed anyone-
these matters are contingent-
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to BenWilson,
Another one: If you don’t eat your crusts, your hair won’t curl
For strange reason, no-one EVER said that to me at any time. My curls have always rampaged wildly and tendrilled out to capture whatever is near...
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Hard News: The Public Address 2012 Word…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
ood idea. One which used to completely confuse me as a child was Wigwam for a goose’s bridle
The saying that completely confused me as a kid was "Close your mouth or a bus'll fly in..."
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Up Front: Whimsy Is an Extra 5 Cents a Word, in reply to Don Christie,
ome “fair and balance” to add to your Nokia / Microsoft gig :-)
“Christmas gift for someone you hate: Windows 8”
Heh!
I once gave an earlier Windows programmed- computer to a tedious distant cousin who basically a family scrounger. Havent heard from them since.
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Hard News: Looking at Leveson, in reply to Chris Waugh,
’m not a great fan of the monarchy and I generally avoid news coverage of them, but I haven’t seen any headline (about all I read of the royals unless it’s about something actually important) suggesting they might have been so. And they’re just as deserving of a fair go as anybody else.
Chris, I'm patron of the ANZ Republican Movement and have absolutely no time for foreign (or other) monarchs - but I totally agree with you. This was a stupid stunt carried out by stupid radio jocks which had disasterous consequences. The only blame attaches to those stupid fuckwits - and may they eventually acknowledge their stupid fuckwittery-