Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Southerly: Dear Dr Bollard,

    There are many medical practitioners who would advocate for drilling a few holes in your skull anyway, Ian

    Oh you're just venting!
    But it doesn't auger well,
    I'll give it a go myself,
    with some trepanation
    small bore that I am...

    yrs Cyril B. Cortex

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Up Front: I Have Been and Always Shall…,

    wanted a Majel Barrett-related character, dammit.

    "Are you tryng to seduce me, Mrs Roddenberry?"

    surely they could have sampled her voice and created a facsimile for the computer voice one last time... sob

    who is the new Number One?

    yrs Captain Slog

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: That Buzzing Sound,

    we might need a special word for it.
    - Suburbism?

    These things go in cycles Suburbanist behaviour will lead to the inevitable rise of those pesky Areans , the backlash of the Anti Destination League* and so it goes...
    (* not my concept - first coined by that brilliant cartoonist and animator Chuck Jones - so I read recently in The Atlantic mag)

    Maybe we should all live purely on the web
    and just be loyal to an Urldom and all its protocols : )

    yrs HAL
    (shift one to the right = IBM!)

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: That Buzzing Sound,

    would provide a barrier that would keep South Auckland criminals out of the area.

    Those South Auckland criminals are renowned for their inability to negotiate a two dimensional traffic matrix.

    Do they have specially marked off ramps for other suburbs
    to help criminals find their way?

    In Chch we have large blue signs and a search route which help one find P...

    staff members who made the campaign video did so on their own time, which is mighty charitable of them.

    is the issue use of public money?
    surely it also comes under campaign funding - and was it a declared donation by these charitable souls - are donations quantified by cash or kind, as donations of time and equipment use have a value to the end user (in money NOT spent) or am I being naive?

    365 houses at risk

    Well there's your Fundraising Calendar : )

    phew - three more impossible things and I can have breakfast

    yrs the White Queen

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Southerly: Dear Dr Bollard,

    Dear Dr David

    As a child I was offered a shandy while visiting relatives on the West Coast. I was looking forward to this exotic concoction of, I assumed, Sherry and Brandy and was dismayed, desolate and dispirited to be given a sickly sweet diluted malt based hop flavoured brew, which I sipped and set aside. I became withdrawn, sullen and resentful for many years afterwards but now realise I got off lightly, a weight has been lifted from my bitter soul and the light of a life renewed is flooding in.
    Thank you. Thank you.

    yrs sinecurely
    Gas C. Rankin Station

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Up Front: I Have Been and Always Shall…,

    One can't help feeling that splashing an actual bucket of actual water would have been cheaper, if not perhaps quite as realistic.

    was it W.C Fields who might've said:
    "Never work with children, animals or water"

    well I'm sure he said:
    "You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."

    Water wranglers are so expensive...

    Apparently the American Government owns it al lthese days anyway...
    woe betide anyone who wants to use it for mere entertainment!

    Also it can be notoriously prima donna-ish and over act
    (remember all tthose scenes in Thunderbirds where the water
    was just too big!)

    best we hook a Shekel & Hydro-Power Station up to a massive Server Farm and render that sucker in Hi-Res and Slo-Mo.

    yer actual bigger splash is a Hockneyed cliche... : )

    yrs H. Duo

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Up Front: I Have Been and Always Shall…,

    What the flick?

    They didn't rip Kirk's shirt! All movie!

    sorry I ain't seen the new movie as yet - next Tuesday : )
    I was referring to misty eyed memories of TOS
    (which I hope means The Original Series)
    and not Talos Of Spock or somesuch

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: That Buzzing Sound,

    re Tumescent Dander

    Russell your prudence is commendable
    (and hopefully not too dear) another way of
    curbing fast rising dander is the new
    Snibbo Dander Ruff to prevent
    snapping and biting... : )

    re the One City Ring Road

    I hear the traffic is Mordor up there
    while some Sauron flyovers and others
    burrow through halls of stone...

    One Ring Road to rule them all,
    One Ring Road to find them,
    One Ring Road to bring them all
    and in the darkness bind them...

    This madness must be halted,
    We must Rail against it!

    Part of the nature of the Ring Road
    is that it slowly but inevitably corrupts
    its users, regardless of any intentions
    to the contrary.

    The Ring Road must be cast into
    the heart of Mount Doom
    (Formerly known as Mt Albert)

    Will a Chevalier arise from the people?
    To take point against Nyarlathotep
    this crawling traffick in chaos...

    this will be the War to View, an epic!

    yrs Fred Dagon
    (the Deep one)

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Island Life: Effective Immediately,

    I was slumming it

    ah well. that's swell,
    orwell that ends well...
    insofar as tenets go
    - it's "a slum dank case"
    (George that is,
    Tenet not Orwell)

    speaking of boom boom and bust
    wasn't Cleopatra bitten by an ASB?

    yrs Con Vole-Looted

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Up Front: I Have Been and Always Shall…,

    That didn't mean I wasn't aware of its flaws. All Trekkies are,

    For me it was the stitching, sometimes the chest insignia looked like the badges on my boy scout shirt, bad tension and puckering, and the action gussets on Cap'n Kirk's shirts were always set to rip at the drop of a gauntlet... Get Ngila on the job.
    I mean this was the future surely fabric science had moved ahead?
    Still I tuned in for the weekly perils of going against the grain - but I'm biased.

    They never did find that missing Bosun Higgs did they?

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

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