Posts by Emma Hart
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I felt like a proper senior citizen when Rock The Nation explained what the "ReadyTo Roll" television programme was. And then Petra Bagust called it "RTR Countdown", which was its late '80s incarnation, and that made me feel less a senior citizen and more middle-aged.
I can remember being four or five and thinking 'Mull of Kintyre' was the theme tune to Ready to Roll. Every night, it'd get to the end, and that's what they'd play.
I like to think this makes me not so much 'old' as 'possessed of an excellent memory'.
Karyn Hay was ace. I had her hairdo for a while.
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Brilliant. This reminds me of the hilarious family story of the time my great-uncle was told his TB had come back, and went down the river and shot himself. His female relatives had the jolliest time making it look like a hunting accident before the other men came back.
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Emma - I don't know her 1st name but Mrs Hundleby was at Riccarton Primary.
That's her. She taught my kids in 2000 and 2001. She's choice.
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As a kiddy I had the wonderful Mrs Hundleby
Shep, not June Hundleby?
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Anyone interested in a campaign to bring back `Master ' and 'Mistress'?
We did get 'master' printed on the label of a medicine bottle for my small son once. Given my partner and son have the same first initial and surname, I guess it could have saved confusion.
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My sister spurned the hyphen for her kids, she gave them both "Llewellyn" as a middle name.
We did this too. Only with 'Hart', not Llewellyn, because that would have been odd.
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Cold call telemarketers on the other hand still get the reponse "Mr Bloom? he dead", which may get me knocked off their list (I hope)
Excellent, I shall do that the next time someone phones and calls me "Mrs Partner'ssurname". Certainly being asked to be put on Slingshot's do not call list four times hasn't worked.
One thing about kids calling their teachers by 'title surname'. Kids can't distinguish between the different female titles. All the teachers just get this slushy thing somewhere between 'miss' and missus'.
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I'm not sure they're the same thing at all. They all do photo-ops, but Clinton has had surrogates actively peddling the whisky-drinkin' meme as recently as this week.
It's part of a new faux personality that included her parading as some sort of gun-rights champion, which was absurd given her legislative record, and most recently the utterly idiotic gas-tax posturing.
I'd divide between the whiskey-drinking and bowling ('this is the person I am, these are the things I do regularly, just like you'), and the guns and tax thing ('this is what I believe in, what I stand for, how I govern'). To throw away her record, which surely was her main advantage, just so she can claim to be just as dumb as everyone else? Didn't exactly strike me as smrt.
I have to say I don't much give a shrivelled rat's testicle which one of them gets the nomination. But it sure has shoved McCain out of the spotlight.
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Do we just shrug our shoulders and say people like Matt Santos and Arnold Vinnick really are too good to ever be true? Perhaps they are, but if we're never going to demand any better than we shouldn't be too outraged when that's exactly what we get.
Well, the point was that it was a trope of long-enough standing to be an issue then, not something that's just emerged this year. And I'd like to think we don't, but we're starting to see it here, aren't we? Leaders on both sides pretending to be 'ordinary'? Personally I'm with John Stewart, I want leaders who are BETTER than me, not just like me, but it seems an awful lot of people WANT to see candidates on the back of trucks.
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Clinton's logo included the words "Hillary for President", and Barack's using "Obama '08".
I can’t understand why she’s called Hillary either, and I agree there’s an element of sexism in that too.
I used to think it was to avoid confusion with a certain ex-president but Bush gets called Bush.
I think it's a reflection of the Clinton campaign deciding she needed to come across as softer, and the Obama campaign deciding he needed to come across as more professional and authoritative.
And wasn't that where 'Dubya' came from: to distinguish Bush jnr from Bush snr? Given they were both called George?