Posts by LegBreak
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I'm just worried about my kids' families.
Shit Jackie, hope they're OK.
Strange in these days of the global village, when it goes down it seems so much more alarming than in the days of letters posted.
Thoughts with you.
I often think that when the Big One comes odds are somebody will be in a the earthquake house at Te Papa and they're going to think blimey, this thing is AWESOME.
Surely in some monkey - typewriter scenario that house would be dead still?
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The other thing to watch for is the next high tide.
I remember a big shake off Tonga just after Xmas in the late 70s. Camping grounds got evacuated etc but nothing eventuated.
But the next high tide did a huge amount of damage (those coastal property values...)
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What Don said about being more at risk within Wellington harbour.
This from Te Ara's excellent entry on NZ's tsunami history (about the 1855 Wairarapa earthquake:)About 20 minutes after the earthquake, tsunami waves surged into Wellington Harbour through its narrow entrance, then for many hours bounced repeatedly back and forth, reflected off the harbour sides. Water also flooded into Lyall Bay from Cook Strait and Evans Bay from Wellington Harbour, putting the low isthmus between them (the site of Wellington Airport) under nearly a metre of water.
Not expert at all, but wouldn’t that be totally different from a tsunami coming towards Wellington?
In the 1855 quake the ground in Wellington itself moved significantly, raising the Basin and parts of the Miramar peninsular.
So the waves would have started from inside the harbour itself, and then washed around for a long time.
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For a great football book, and it has more than its fair share of them, try The Damned United by former Guardian journalist David Peace.
About Clough's 44 days "in charge" of Leeds. Seriously good reading.
Half of it written in the 2nd person too.
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He looks less than stellar here
I’ll be happy if I look like that at his age.
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Is there some competition we don’t know about between South Island universities to see who can be the biggest dicks?
Lincoln students, not to be outdone by their bigger city rivals, sure staked their claim over the weekend.
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He has made a profession of being dickish on our ariwaves, it's really hard to see how this would hurt him in any way
But you’d expect Laws the mayor, replying to an e-mail to act differently to Laws the talkback host.
Well OK you wouldn’t, but you know what I mean.
But hell; he sure psyched himself up for that Campbell interview.
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Can't you see the scene at the recruitment agency with the gathered pool of redundant PR hacks?
"We're looking for volunteers for a suicide mission. Those in, take one step forward."
Y'know, we could spin the suggested Downfall: Laws Edition right out to film length with that one...
Or some kind of The Apprentice v Fear Factor mash-up reality show?
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I wonder if he sits around in Council meetings saying “jerk jerk jerk”
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Lost :
One plot.
If found, please send to:
M Laws
c/- Wanganui City Council
Note; the spelling is important, otherwise he’ll put it straight into the bin.What I want is his e-mail address. Might drop him a line.
He’s pretty free with the word fascism, isn’t he?