Hard News: Reasons to be cheerful
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this shot of my cat - closely followed by me dropping the camera and running.
Looks like prep for a boxing match or caught whilst burying. Either way, very good photo :)
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It's an obituary, so perhaps not a reason to be cheerful as such. But I found the following from Denish Welch on Andrew Mason quite lovely.
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Big cheer for Henry, the one hundred and eleven year old Tuatara. He's a Dad
Ay, congrats.
But did you know that the Tuatars has no penis?Males do not have a penis; they reproduce by the male lifting the tail of the female and placing his vent over hers. The sperm is then transferred into the female, much like the mating process in birds.,
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andPrior to the adoption of the Latin word in English the penis was referred to as a "yard". The Oxford English Dictionary cites an example of the word yard used in this sense from 1379,[1] and notes that in his Physical Dictionary of 1684, Steven Blankaart defined the word penis as "the Yard, made up of two nervous Bodies, the Channel, Nut, Skin, and Fore-skin, etc
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So. erm. ah.
I forgot what I was saying. -
@ Jack Elder - aaaaah, you're THAT Jack Elder. You and your sister were always really nice to me in the absence of my own older siblings, so cheers for that!
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@ Jack Elder - aaaaah, you're THAT Jack Elder.
The former Minister of Internal Affairs, and last great user of Parliament's billiard room?
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The former Minister of Internal Affairs, and last great user of Parliament's billiard room?
No, the other one. No relation.
Seriously, when I was a student in the mid '90s, he had an unlisted number but I didn't. I used to get all his crank phone calls. And in one very odd twist of bad recordkeeping, one of my student loan bills was sent to his office in Parliament. I have no idea how it happened, but i do know he didn't pay it.
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And in one very odd twist of bad recordkeeping, one of my student loan bills was sent to his office in Parliament. I have no idea how it happened, but i do know he didn't pay it.
Well he clearly was a terrible Minister of Internal Affairs. Refusing to pay your student loan bill! What's the world coming to?
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And Joanna - no worries. It's always odd re-meeting people from your own childhood, isn't it? For one thing, we're taller.
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When I interviewed John Cale years ago, he confessed to getting cheques for JJ Cale's royalties from (as I recall) Switzerland.
You should apply for Parliamentary superannuation. What's the worst that could happen?
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I used to have a mate that would toss empty beer cans over the roof of the car from the drivers seat as he meandered to or from anywhere he happened to be.
I anybody and I mean anybody, who dared to attempt to chastise him for this behaviour he would berate them for denying small furry animals the right to a modern home.The downside of providing hi-tech help to small animals. Click to enlarge.
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You should apply for Parliamentary superannuation. What's the worst that could happen?
Well the other Jack Elder used to be besotted with Sue Bradford.
Pre-pre-parli
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I've always been bitter, given that my middle name is Matthew, that I never got a cent out of those pretenders, Bonn Motor Works, who have been trading on my initials for years.
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You should apply for Parliamentary superannuation. What's the worst that could happen?
Attempted fraud charges?
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I've always been bitter, given that my middle name is Matthew, that I never got a cent out of those pretenders, Bonn Motor Works, who have been trading on my initials for years.
I'm pretty sure that's Bayern MW dude...
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Wasn't it Bavarian ?
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Really Sacha, why don't we just bloody check first.
Bayerische Motoren Werke
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So y'were right....
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And bloody good motors they are too.
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Oh, yeah and those bastards too. Bloody good at making my name sound like it's overpriced.
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Sorry for being pedantic, but don't you mean 'pedant'? :)
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Refer previous thread - somewhere over a year back</pendantic>
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talk about a hanging thread!
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Frozen HAIR???
In my first winter here, one of the women in my department blithely explained that it was fine to wash your hair in the morning in winter - you just wore a hat, and that kept your head warm; the ends of your hair would freeze but that was no biggie. Yeah, no. I wash my hair at night.
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Yet another reason to be cheerful. Bill Kristol has written his last column
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The NYT doesn't stand on ceremony, does it: "This is William Kristol’s last column." Surely, the sweetest six words in the English language. But it doesn't say "for this publication". Are they going to make sure he doesn't work for anybody else after this?
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