Posts by Joe Wylie

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  • Discussion: Closer to Home?,

    Ask a . . . 'white' migrant with an 'American' accent (real or perceived), just how friendly the place is, and I'm not convinced you'd get many positive responses.

    If they project a trailer-trash hillbillyish manner they'll go over a treat with local fundies, to whom Americans are one notch below angels.

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  • Up Front: Disunited,

    I put my name on the petition, but wheres the debates? could someone kindly link to it.

    Me too, but a little more info would be helpful. And I wonder, in the light of steven's comments, how ACC policy on these things has been influenced by the Peter Ellis debacle, where supposed victims received evaluation, and often substantial compensation, well before the first trial was concluded.

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  • Up Front: Actors Don't Hunt in Packs,


    The Ramones - Commando.

    According to the lyrics, four rules:

    First rule is: The laws of Germany
    Second rule is: Be nice to your mommy
    Third rule is: Don't talk to commies
    Fourth rule is: Eat kosher salamis

    No mention of underwear.

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  • Up Front: Actors Don't Hunt in Packs,

    Hang on a minute, that's one dodgy clown. They surely expect to be dakked nearly every time they perform.

    Life hands out lessons, more often than not through the agency of children, and one modifies one's m.o. accordingly. It was in this context that the tale was relayed to me.

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  • Hard News: Friday Gold: An email…,

    I offer you Pauline Hanson; evidence it's at least antipodean.

    I'd been seeing a similar comparison with the now thankfully fading Alan Jones. The same combination of sphincter-brained mean-mindedness and towering self-importance.

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  • Up Front: Actors Don't Hunt in Packs,

    GI Joe rappelling into battle . . .

    Fancy that.
    Reminds me of a story from someone working as a kids' party clown in Australia, who was "dakked" (had his clown pants yanked down} by a sneaky anklebiter as he attempted to juggle. All the more embarrassing as he happened to be "freebagging" at the time.

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  • Hard News: Rodney on the Road,

    There is a season, worms, worms, worms
    And a time to every purpose under heaven
    The kind that crawl, the kind that fly . . .

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  • Hard News: Rodney on the Road,

    "King of ratepayers" doesn't have the same ring as "king of pop". It just evokes an image of some bald git.

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  • Hard News: Undie Wankers,

    Driving under the influence was a tradition too . . .

    Definitely, though it's not been something to boast openly about for around a generation. You can bet that a fair proportion of the undie kids' grad-dads were wont to make with the laddish tales of seeing two beige holdens with identical licence plates, and not being able to decide which one to pass first.

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  • Hard News: Rodney on the Road,

    A ticket to the Wearable Art show with cake afterwards at Chez Eelco?

    Very sweet of you, though it'd require time travel since Wearable Art got snapped up by Wellington. In which case I might opt to go all the way back to Eelco's lonely predecessor, the Piccolo Paradiso, just to check if those fake rum & cokes (with a shot of rum-flavoured milkshake syrup} were really that bad.

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