Island Life: What it don't get, I can't use.
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I know I'm late to this, but ... Johnny English???
Seriously. For all the great comedy that Rowan Atkinson has done (admittedly , not much in movies), he chose that?
I guess we're lucky he didn't choose "Hot Shots Deux".
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Here's a possible Friday afternoon bit of fun: you are a media manager for Key (or Helen Clark). They've been asked to pick their favourite book, but they're too busy in Parliament and delegate the job to you. Yikes! What would you pick to convey the right image of your boss? Something local, not too edgy, not too niche? What would it be?
so many possible joke answers, so I'll go straight
Clark: "Fou de fa fa" by Flight of the Conchords
Because it's believable and earns brownie points.Key: "Fast Car" by Tracey Chapman
You don't expect it but then you think about and think "yeah it could fit". -
Yikes! What would you pick to convey the right image of your boss? Something local, not too edgy, not too niche? What would it be?
Key: Absolute Power
Clarke: The Hollow Men -
"Does rather beg the question though - with all his dosh why doesn't Key already have a private jet? Lack of ambition?"
Key might be rich but this is burn your money rich.
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Well how about a little philosophy from one of the more interesting (sadly now late) Americans, John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith is an interesting late Canadian.
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They've been asked to pick their favourite book
Clark: "Fou de fa fa" by Flight of the Conchords
Key: "Fast Car" by Tracey Chapman
And then I get fired for picking songs, not books
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Listening to John Key does anyone else get the feeling that he's constantly getting caught out by his need to crack funny. I'm sure (his attempts) at deadpan wit served him well in big trouser corporate land but not he's a politician it feels like his undoing. You can just imagine his inner dialog seconds after he said "a personal jet'...
"That was pretty funny...oh shit, no one knows I'm joking again...oh shit there is truth in humour...oh shit, abort joke, abort joke!!"
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You can just imagine his inner dialog seconds after he said "a personal jet'...
With apologies to Homer SImpson:
Inner Monologue: Don't say "Personal Jet". Don't say personal jet. If you say "personal jet" I'm outta here!
JK: "Personal Jet"
Inner Monologue: That's it! I'm outta here! (footsteps recede & door slams)
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The two privious Jewish PMs of NZ were the forever forgotten Francis Bell (Mum was Jewish but converted to Christianity)
He's not that forgotten as actually his name is remembered when ever this company (which he helped found) is mentioned. He would probably rank as one of our most intelligent PM's - it's just that he preferred his books and legal cases to being PM (and also being a judge - a position which he also turned down several times). He was also a well respected Mayor of Wellington where he helped drive forward the introduction of a sewage system (against the wishes of folk like Charles Plimmer who believed dumping cartloads of "nightsoil" into the harbour on a daily basis would be much cheaper...), and established the formal reporting of legal cases in NZ (which continues to this day through the NZ Law Reports which have been published annually since 1881)
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Oh crap - I meant this company
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'Course, if you gave Winston a billion dollars he'd just deny you ever did...
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When explaining to a mocambican friend that the PM of New Zealand in comparison to theirs does not have a motorcade with 7 mercedeses and does not require the red carpet to be rolled out every time she flies somewhere, and no does not have a private jet but flies commercial airlines...
the answer was stunned silence followed by: I didn't know New Zealand was such a poor country.
Having a private jet for a prime minister is not joining the first world.
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I know pedantry was the focus of another Island Life, but ...
He was also a well respected Mayor of Wellington where he helped drive forward the introduction of a sewage system
... I think you mean sewerage system. Man, when I found out that the difference wasn't just American English vs. British English, you better believe I was surprised.
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Maybe this should go as a spelling tip over in the Readers' Tips system... sewage is the shiat, and sewerage is the system that ca*rr*ies
such stuff away. A sewer is part of a sewerage system and should not be confused with a sewer (one who sews...) -
Sewerage has nothing to do with anything. If you're good enough to sew your'e old enough to sew in my books. Or my socks.
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Heh!
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Double heh! Best wordplay star award-
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Exactly which charities does John Key financially support? I have often wondered...for a man so wealthy...does anyone know, or has it been declared anywhere?
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Key: "Fast Car" by Tracey Chapman
You don't expect it but then you think about and think "yeah it could fit".I had just read this when I saw that
Where does a junkie’s time go? Mostly in 15-minute increments, like a bug-eyed Tarzan, swinging from hit to hit. For months on end in 1988, I sat inside a house in north Minneapolis, doing coke and listening to Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” and finding my own pathetic resonance in the lyrics. “Any place is better,” she sang. “Starting from zero, got nothing to lose.”
Apt?
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JK music taste update (courtesy of the fearless Herald investigative unit):
Brooke Fraser. He bought a CD.
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I can't find a clip on youtube, but Jaquie Brown totally stitched Key up during the NZ Music Awards last year (or NZ Music Month or something). She asked what NZ CD was his favourite, and he said the new one by Brooke Fraser.
Clarke then asked what songs in particular he liked on it. And he said "Uhh. Umm. All of them, they're all great. Ahh, I don't really know the song titles, you know just that they're good" - or words very much to that effect.
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Actually giving away money is not as easy as it looks
Of course you can give it to"development agencies offering education and opportunity and campaigns against HIV and AIDS in developing countries"
Which sounds good but if that is really short hand for the UN
Which sounds a bit bumlikky considering This
A number of other potential candidates were mentioned by commentators but did not run, including Bill Clinton (former President of the United States), Helen Clark (Prime Minister of New Zealand if not re-elected in 2005),
And the
Women Candidates for United Nations Secretary-General September 13, 2006And This
National would be willing to support any bid by Prime Minister Helen Clark to become United Nations Secretary-General, leader Don Brash said yesterday.
"It is clearly in New Zealand's wider interests to have New Zealanders in those kinds of international positions so we would certainly want to be as constructive as we could be," he said.
He was commenting after Weekend Herald columnist Fran O'Sullivan suggested speculation was building in foreign affairs circles about Helen Clark as a possible contender and that she may have sought the support of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Woops. I think I still have the Foil Hat on from another thread.
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You can just imagine his inner dialog seconds after he said "a personal jet'...
I always found Don Brash's inner monologue quite endearing every time he was asked a leading question by some devious journo:
"Wait on, I'm smart! I 'm sure I know this one! And when I get it right, everyone will see how smart I am!" .
"Lousy politician" isn't such a bad insult...On the other hand, he was rightly castigated for wanting to be PM of our nation but not being interested enough to read Michael King's History. Judging by Key's recent response regarding his own reading matter, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turns out that there is a piss-taking PAS reader on his staff...
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