Southerly: Special Guest Michael Laws on the Richard Worth Saga
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Wot, no fonganui?
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Let's face it, as far as the hairy-legged lesbians in the Labour Party are concerned, it's a crime to be male. You're no longer safe in your own home.
That was certainly the line by certain oily flail for a number of years over the "unfair" treatment of Dover Samuels. Now it seems those same femis were too lenient.
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I assume that's a piss-take?
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New Zealand has arguably become the most dangerous and crime-ridden country on earth
Kudos.
It's like living in a Robert Heinlein novel.
I know where you live, matey...
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I know where you live, matey...
Put that in especially for you, Emma.
[Bonus geek points: can you identify which novel the "T'were well it done quickly" quote is from.]
I assume that's a piss-take?
Sort of a piss-take. Sort of a homage to the awesome logical structure of Michael Laws's columns. Sort of a job application for a column of my own at SST. Bit of all three, really.
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Gareth likes this
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It takes a certain level of staggering genius to manage to sound exactly like Lawhs, yet also tweak the prose so the dial turns to 'even more batshit'.
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Indeed, it took me a while to realise it was a piss-take and not actually Michael Laws.
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Twas lost on me, having never read "the real Michael Laws" (if, indeed there is such a thing).
But I think I get the gist (and the mockery).
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staggering genius
I love the way the end so precisely contradicts the beginning. It almost makes me want to read Lhaws' column this week. Almost. But not.
[Bonus geek points: can you identify which novel the "T'were well it done quickly" quote is from.]
I'm almost relieved I can't do this. My guess would be 'Stranger in a Strange Land' - the Heinlein I would consider most likely to annoy Michael Laws.
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Reminds me of Lindsay Perigo's take on the Battle of Seattle (nearly 10 years ago now!)
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It's Macbeth, isn't it? But slightly paraphrased?
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My thought too, Danielle. So you would have to be especially geeky to get where the misquote comes from.
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It takes a certain level of staggering genius to manage to sound exactly like Lawhs, yet also tweak the prose so the dial turns to 'even more batshit'.
This. It's the real Laws turned up just one more notch, just when we thought he was completely beyond parody.
Well done sir.
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So you would have to be especially geeky to get where the misquote comes from.
Okay, see, I think recognising the original quote from the 'get on with it' sollioquy from Macbeth is LESS geeky. (I.7, 'If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well/ It were done quickly'.)
But I would say that.
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I feel that Lhaws is probably writing a column on those lines and will struggle to avoid intertextuality with your version..
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I feel that Lhaws is probably writing a column on those lines and will struggle to avoid intertextuality with your version..
Seeing this juxtaposed with Emma's post, you'd have to amend this to "bitextuality" surely.
Now juxtaposed, that'd be a good word Key word too ... -
Delighted and humbled that this has provided some Friday amusement for people.
A WARNING: what happens is this. Emma Hart says: "Oh, you can't understand Western Civilization if you haven't read Heinlein" (or words to that effect*). And then she herself forgets what's in Heinlein's books.
The quote was, of course, the 'Mother Thing' paraphrasing Shakespeare in 'Have Spacesuit Will Travel'. As you'll recall, the galactic court had just sent the wormfaces' planet (which orbits Proxima Centauri) into another dimension.
I'm betting that this fact will make all of you think a little more deeply about the workings of Western Civilization.
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* Or, in fact, nothing like this at all...
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A WARNING: what happens is this. Emma Hart says: "Oh, you can't understand Western Civilization if you haven't read Heinlein" (or words to that effect*).
I am experiencing the kind of indignation that manifests itself in hysterical laughter. I think what I said was something along the lines of 'not all of Heinlein's books are the kind of screaming racist misogyynistic bilge that makes you want to dig up and abuse his corpse'. But no doubt Haywood has a different 'recollection' of these 'events'.
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Now juxtaposed, that'd be a good word Key word too ...
Sorry, was shtuttering my Key words.
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It's like living in a Robert Heinlein novel
A small whlaw but surely such discourse is beneath the reading age of mhighty Mike ?
Can somone offer a pronunciation guide for Lhaws I've just been sprayed with tea for my attempt.
Bzy wkn hrd bzzzz.
BTW. Brown Owl reference....LMFAO
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It's all right, Emma, you and David are both correct.
'S all relative. (Or is that incest - a.k.a. 'rolling your own')
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I had the misfortune to hear a few minutes of Laws on breakfast yesterday morning, and this is scarily accurate.
Some choice quotes (from memory, obviously):
"This beat-up is the New Zealand media at its worst."
"Richard Worth is a man who has done nothing wrong ."
It's OK, because "everyone in parliament" does stuff like this, followed by the assertion that something Lianne Dalziel did x years ago was much worse, because "she lied to the House." There may have been sexist aside at this point that Dalziel was still around, "scoffing large amounts of buffet," and hadn't resigned like the noble and untarnished Worth.
So, um, yeah.
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81stcolumn wrote:
BTW. Brown Owl reference....LMFAO
Just a little joke for those familiar with the hierarchy of the Girl Guide movement (my sister was a Brownie). Glad someone got it.
Emma Hart wrote:
I am experiencing the kind of indignation that manifests itself in hysterical laughter.
Hey, note the asterisk in my original comment, dude.
Caleb D'Anvers wrote
I had the misfortune to hear a few minutes of Laws on breakfast yesterday morning, and this is scarily accurate...
[Sigh...]
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