Posts by Leopold
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Rob Stowell,
I can only hope that the present google streetviews are archived before they are replaced by more up to date ones
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Thomas Pynchon's Vineland ring a bell, anyone?
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Hard News: People Take Drugs, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ol' "Me too!!" again...
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to BlairMacca,
Still waiting for Mr Goff to say `Me too!'
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Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!, in reply to BenWilson,
One of the few things I agree with St Augustine on...
In the "City of God," St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, "How dare you molest the seas?" To which the pirate replied, "How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a great navy, molest the world and are called an emperor." St. Augustine thought the pirate's answer was "elegant and excellent."
And apparently one of the advantages of piracy along the East African coast is that fish stocks are recovering - the great commercial fishing fleets have been scared off - poetic justice for many of the Somali fishers who took to piracy following the devatation of their fishing grounds
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Alarm clock? Kids? Try a cat which is very insistent on being fed at 6 AM - will wake both you and the dog...
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Get a dog. Take it for walk before you start work, and after you decide to finish work. In between bounce ideas off it. Gives you compulsory exercise and makes an ideal way to punctuate day's work; also provides work companion who's not going to be too challengiing conversation-wise
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Funny. All I can remember of the Giant Rugby Ball Icon is it being parked in front of the Eiffel Tower with Parisians laughing at the NZers huddled inside the thing...
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Greville Whittle,
Yep - thought cuttlefish were great - its the way they wave back at you when you wave at them. Interspecies communication of a very basic sort
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He's real?
I always assumed that he was a lefty running reductio ad absurdum commentary on Mr Farrar's posts