Posts by Yamis
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From todays news:
"Tonight's fight has out-sold the 2002 Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson fight as New Zealand's biggest pay-per-view event.Sky TV spokesman Tony O'Brien would not reveal the number who have paid $39.95 to see the fight at home, or the number of new subscribers who have bought decoders.
But he said the number of subscribers paying to watch the fight had, by Thursday, exceeded the 18,000 pay-per-view customers who bought the Lewis and Tyson fight seven years ago.
"It's been an excellent response both from residential customers and commercial customers," said Mr O'Brien.
"In fact, there have been more pre-buys than the entire pay-per-view for the biggest fight we ever had going back some time."
The Lewis-Tyson fight netted the pay-TV operator about $720,000, but profits would have been much higher as the figures did not include earnings from screenings in bars and clubs."
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The promoter was on radio yesterday saying they said "NZ Fight of the Century" but the media dropped the "NZ" part off it right from the get go.
I'm keen to see who wins. I'm not going to pay to see it on TV at home but may go off to the pub with some mates to check it out.
Whether it's a flop or not it's sport so that's whats good about it. It's unpredicatble just like a 40-0 thrashing in an NRL grand final or a Superbowl that's decided at half time or a 4-0 World Series win in baseball.
Cameron is a good boxer and Tua was and maybe still is.
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I don't really see how it's anyone else's business if I want to buy a six pack or a bottle of wine at 10.05pm. Or at any other time of day for that matter.
Aside from your wife that is.
You need more forward planning. I always make sure I have enough booze at home to last at least 2 days.
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Cheers. That came out a day or two after I heard what I heard from Mr. Ed.
have been trying to find info but the brain is on go slow. It sure is the last week of term. I've got nothing left, teenagers have drained me of every last ounce.
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I thought they had just backed down completely on the northern border?
They may well have (god I hope so), this information junkie has been on half rations in the last few days due to a bloody crap chest cough.
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As an aside, what if historians found out that Auckland in County Durham (where Auckland gets its name) was in fact mispelt and should be Awklund.
Would people get uptight if others demanded the name change and the geographical board went ahead with it?
devils advocate and all... :)
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I'm hearing John Key was in agreement with the ARC powers that be that the Hide boundaries for the SC (the external limits that is) are no good and the existing ones are more sensible. Especially given the upper limits have been sucked in nice and tight so developers can rip the Kaipara and surrounds to bits given the lack of resourcing up north to process resource consents from aforementioned developers (who were the ones writing in submissions left right and centre on where the boundaries should be funnily enough).
Not to mention the regional parks would be utterly ridiculous if they were put in the hands of councils whose ratepayers barely used them. Word on the street there is that they will stay as part of the SC, but seriously who the f knows with a bunch of idiological twats on the rampage.
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While that was beautifully written Sasha, I think we're forgetting that our nation's name is a mispelling of Zeeland.
Did you dial up the Knew Zeeland Original G(angsta) Bored before you renamed Sacha, "Sasha" there Tark?
Fuck this is confusing. It's like following the Auckland Warriors, New Zealand Warriors, Vodafone Warriors and eventually once again Auckland Warriors.
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p.s. I like the 50-comments-a-page deal.
Yes. But if it hits our page impressions too badly, Capitalism might bite back ;-)
You can always compromise Russell and do what the ECB is doing next year in county cricket.
50 over cricket is being abolished and they are going with 40 over innings instead. Expect that to spread around the world like wildfire in the next 2-3 years.