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"It's our New Zeeeeeland. We're so proud to be here. We bring the best - the very best to yooooou!"
I can't remember all of the lyrics to the rest of the song, but it had bits like "from this lovely land of ours" and "from mountains high, to lakes so deep and blue" (No mention of urban areas - interesting). I tried looking for it in YouTube a few months ago, but with no luck.
From memory, this played when TV started each morning - kind of the opposite of the Goodnight Kiwi. I don't think it was an except from This Is New Zealand, mainly because it looked newer than something filmed in 1970.
That was the opening theme for TV1 c. 1985. Scanimation was still the in-thing back then, just before the emergence of CGI.
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If I recall correctly, the second voice in the the first clip was Frankie Stevens, and the third was Howard Morrison?
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PS. I'm on the 20GB/month plan, which gives 4Mbps down/2Mbps up.
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Reece: For comparison, here's my TelstraClear cable speed via nzdsl.co.nz:
Downstream: 3873 kbps (484 kBps)
Upstream: 1303 kbps (163 kBps) -
If this was America, which the Rod Deanes in our midst would look to as a model for anarcho-capitalism, Telecom would have rightly gone the way of AT&T as per the Sherman Act.
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There are times when density can be a good thing. New York, in spite of its intial high-rise footprint, is actually rated America's greenest city because of high rates of public transit use, and the fact that a very large proportion of New Yorkers don't have to walk far to work (or play, for that matter).
From my own experiences, if one ever settles in a cookie-cutter suburb, jsut be sure to have Dr Nitschke's phone number handy.
A city like Wgtn can do with a few more high-value people - enough for a decent economy of scale, but not so many people that it becomes a big sardine tin like London.
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You can do just about anything on Second Life these days - including virtual riots.
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For example, when the strange woman in Dunedin laid a complaint because Pete Hodgson touched her arm during an election meeting, the police didn't prosecute.
That I believe was Madeleine Flanagan - a student rep of the CHP and a spokesperson for the VSM lobby.
I find it ironic that a loose-cannon CYFS Watch poster, coming in defence of Section 59, comes dangerously close to breaching Section 306 of the same Act.
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Upper Willis St, it's still there too thank crikey.
The Moulin Bakery, near the bypass? Real good stuff. Courtenay Place (just round the corner where I work) needs more bakeries like it.
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Wellington feels like a proper city: the sort they have in other countries. In comparison, Christchurch and Dunedin are merely towns, and Auckland is just an oversized suburb.
I mostly agree. But if there's only one very important thing Wellington's missing, it's an airport runway.