Posts by Ross Mason
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The $300 Ring eh?....reminds me of something I heard/read recently....
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.I'll go with the ruling bit and the darkness thats for sure.
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I bet he likes playing with his little bolt-gun.
Stunning.
Anyhoo, the exodus of Destiny's children is probably more news worthy.
The tithe has gone out.
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The new Hair Goo
Mick Hail Ann Gel O
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Happy...Gay
Happy...Gay
Happy......Yep....Gay
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What will Pat Robertson say?
It was that bastard Allende that caused this!!! His ghost that is....
Thank Pat's god that the CIA was around to fix it!!! "Copper is hard to find these days and at least the US of A has a reliable souce down thar!"
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So, is anyone still doubting the value of National Radio for civil defence information?
I happened to be awake at about 6-15am and turned on the TV to watch some of the last of the Winter Olympics and some football. During the breaks in the next half hour I did the usual male channel surf from 1 to the end. I did this two or three times until finally hitting Sky News Channel and lo, apparently NZ was in a state of emergency and a Tsunami was on the way.
This was about 3 minutes to 7. Cruised back to bed to listen and to find our mate Sean chatting......what? I thought it was sunday???? Is it monday already?????
Then the news and the beginning of a reasonable programme dedicated to finding out and giving Joe Public info.
After a while I went back to the box and could still see nothing on ANY of the NZ TV channels. And then... whats this? Yes, a banner on TV1 informing me that there was breaking news.
What staggers me is that there was 12 hours notice from the earthquake. It is sunday morning, the nation is sleeping in, those watching the various rugby and Football games - and the Olympics - and the others got no inkling - in the time I was watching.
Surely, if such an emergency is happening, what is so hard to ask cable and the Freee to Airs to advertise the situation across all channels??? The kids watching Nicolodeon would have told their Mum and Dad I bet ya.
I s'pose it might have screwed their ratings if they were all instructed to go and watch TV1 or - Dog forbid - LISTEN to RNZ!!!
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Having had a quick look at the legislation “Radio New Zealand Act 1995” and the Bill before the house ” Radio New Zealand Amendment Bill 30-1 (2009), Government Bill” it seems the recent govt announcements are a bit of posturing for some upcoming discussion of the RNZ amendment.
The amendment section 8A (2) and (3) make interesting reading. “Shall” has been replaced by “must”. It spells out “Commercial Free” in 8 (1).
Does “must” mean unavoidable? So if they unavoidably fail to meet the charter, reading 8A (3) suggests that if RNZ cannot fulfil the charter then it does not have to act in a “financially responsible manner”.
Was the amendment sorted by the previous Government and are the shinannigans a parry at the Commercial Free clause??
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Muldoon had the answer years ago. He suggested getting rid of a few of the violinists from the NZSO to save some money.
Obviously RNZ could sell some records.
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The MP for Epsom was wearing a worried frown
"Worried frown" ....Is that a new type of hair piece??
Hide's forehead gleams with enthusiasm as he explains to me
......I thought it reflected rather than gleamed....
Roger and I used to pass around a tube of Ados S4,
......For those interested, I found F2 is the better shit. And model aeroplane ceeement is a reeeaaallly good bedroom supplement.
Oh, and did Wodney use his parliamentary credit card to pay for the petrol?
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hsilop esrever?
It just doesn't stack up.