Posts by John Farrell
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We rank way ahead of the USA in education.
http://www.geographic.org/country_ranks/educational_score_performance_country_ranks_2009_oecd.html -
According to Wikipedia, the term was used seriously by the "New Left" in the early 1970s, and was then readopted by them in a satirical sense later. Its current use relates to its adoption by the political right in the USA in the 1990s.
I owned book back in the 90s, published by Ten Speed Press, of politically correct definitions, which was definitely ironic in its intent.
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Small world......Hilary Calvert's husband is a second cousin of my wife......
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Marcus - there's an excellent version of Copperline on the 2007 Crossroads guitar festival dvd, with Jerry Douglas playing dobro.
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Ahhh...cycling. Back in the day, 30 years ago, bicycles were like this:
[IMG]http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o246/johnf_04/Oldphotos/pbikes.jpg[/IMG]I used to ride to work, keeping up with Dunedin's one way system traffic. What I really wanted, though, but couldn't afford, was a Yamaha RD350!.
Now I'm old and grey, I ride this:
[IMG]http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o246/johnf_04/bike/IMG_1673s.jpg[/IMG] -
That statue at Dunedin airport is just begging to have a heap of steaming horseshit dumped under its tail.....
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Interesting.....the right to express a view is determined by the number of people likely to agree with it, according to Clive. Mediocrity....here we come.
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Speaking of the harold....I'm currently in Auckland, and I've been surprised by the content of the local paper. It appears the ODT doesn't do such a bad job.....
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My recollection of my 20s suggests that we were more concerned with what was going on "now" than what was in the past. The now of the time contained apartheit, the Vietnam war, French nuclear tests.......there was lots to be going on with, and few offensive parties. Having said that, there were always those who were keen to freak out the straights.
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Those of us who were born not long after the war, got more exposure to it than young people today. Our parents were in the services. The war was the subject of films, books, and in our teens, tv documentaries. To those in their 20s now, it is ancient history. They have more recent horrors to consider.