Posts by Joe Wylie
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Surely the all-time benchmark for public service pious dorkiness would be those mid-80s stay-off-the-crack cinema spots, featuring such unlikely Hollywood types as poor old Dudley "alcohol abuse" Moore. In crackless NZ they only served to pique a vague puzzlement and curiosity.
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true, but as time passes there seems to be an increasing national amnesia on much of what happened in SEA. It was not alright.
Though no nation seems to bear a grudge quite like the US - in the early 90s under Clinton they were the last to "normalise" relations with Vietnam. The real test will be whether Obama walks the walk in dealing with Iran.
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does burning the roast qualify?).
e.g, she burnt my Vogels and I just totally lost it Your Honour?
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At the last kids' birthday event I attended the resident guinea pigs were treated to a quarter of a sally lunn. They enthusiastically licked the icing off and clamoured for more. For whatever it's worth, the icing was pink.
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Hey, he's left handed! And he did the curvy thing with his hand not to smudge!
Owmygawd, yet another sinistral! Seriously spooky.
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Depending on the icing flavour/decor, you get either a raspberry bun or a Sally Lunn.
I once saw a Sally Lung - at least that was what it was labelled as - in a cake shop window in Petone. About 16cm in diameter, to the best of my recollection, with pink icing, detailed with the regulation dessicated coconut. Big mother non-ringed donut.
Probably related to pink buns, aka "punk buns", the staple food of the punks in Anne Kennedy's Jewel's Darl - "F and C's too nutritious for them".
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Boy those aussie ads are crap - even their piss takes aren't any good.
Think so? With this one, it all seems to depend on your aim.
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I no longer tune into Jim Mora's The Panel, for these folk regularly pop up there, like some sort of rash.
Didn't Ralston pretty much write the book for that sort of format with The Ralston Group? It regularly featured the dreary rent-a-curmudgeon Trevor De Cleene, probably the most reactionary Labour MP of the Lange era. Now Ralston seems to be reduced to channeling the old bugger.
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Arboreal wombats is Tim Flannery's description.
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Call me a freak if you must, but I find koalas almost as creepy as clowns.
Arboreal wombats. Mating call like a two-stroke engine. My former mother-in-law was peed on by a koala she was cradling for one of those tacky souvenir shots. Something I never had the courage to do.