Posts by Bob Munro
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As someone who perpetually struggles with names and faces, I was amazed.
I heard Gordan McLachlan on the radio once say the correct name for this problem which I think is 'prosopagnosia' ( which I've just got from Wikipedia as I've forgotten it of course).
But the point was the person who had told him the correct name was Margaret Mahy.
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In the last 20 years social change has accelerated so much that could we assume that even in 10 years time the promo efforts of today will look equally as quaint?
Well, take a look at the latest effort from the tourism office:
Perhaps we are approaching the singularity. Quaintness achieved within 10 Minutes?
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I know it's already been posted in OurTube ... but dreary?!
A wonderful example of how the eyes can fool the ears.
I'm one of the three climbers on the top of La Perouse as the helicopter pans around the west face of Mt Cook (as we called it then) and the upper Hooker valley, in one of the shots near the start of this piece. The cameraman was Mike Single from the Natural History unit in Dunedin. I remember being chuffed at being dropped off in that spot because it meant I'd got to the top of another 10,000ft peak without having to do any effort.
I think this would have been in 1985 and all the footage looks like it's from about then and possibly from only a couple of sources. - maybe the Natural History unit and perhaps the tourist branch of the National film unit.
It's interesting to see how dated it appears after only 20 years. I should think that if you looked at a similar effort from say the mid sixties it would be like this - glorifying nature and rural life, with a minimum of people. In the last 20 years social change has accelerated so much that could we assume that even in 10 years time the promo efforts of today will look equally as quaint?
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Silver Fern
New Zealand (1893 - 1985)Silver Fern
New Zealand
All Blacks (1986-2003)Silver Fern
All Blacks (2003-2007)Silver Fern
Adidas All Blacks (2008?) -
Addidas: OK all you boys line up nicely for your shwag, bigger sizes to left, mind the camera crew, Byron, you'll be doing a little vox pop, take your shirt off on cue please. Come on coaches you get TV interview tops too you know, plus you must wear them in the stands during matches, no smiles please!
How long before the 'Addidas' on the right breast is nestled alongside the 'All Blacks' on the left? Even the alliteration works.
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Perhaps the missing letters explain the extra h in conchord, by way of compensation?
Some people claim Bob Dylan added a "g" to the name of the gunslinger John Wesley Hardin to make up for all the 'gs'' he'd dropped in the titles of other songs.
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Back briefly to the original thread. Sean Fitzpatrick has an article on the impact of Samoan players within the All Blacks in The Times.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby/article2461113.ece
Sadly for us no explanation of Simon g’s I, 2 and 3.
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(I feel like I'm being initiated into a cult.)
Great Robyn. You’re well on your way. Now a few points about the breakdown, (forgive me if this is old hat ) The tackle situation is the most obvious example of this. If the ball is on the ground it is a ruck , if it is off the ground it is a maul. Now in the ruck the tackled person must release the ball and the tackler or those arriving at the ruck through ‘the gate’ obviously as you will be aware- can only play the ball if they are on their feet. The tackler must also allow the tackled person to release the ball even if at the same time the tackled person is actually trying to slow up the release until more teammates arrive. No doubt you are already excited by the potential of the new Stellenbosch rules that may come in 2008 in which hands may not be allowed in the ruck and we will be able to revert to actual ‘rucking’ again. Welcome to the club!
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Just one nit-picking quibble--I don't think you really mean "homogeneous." That means "made up of identical components." I think maybe you mean "indigenous"?"
I dunno that you can even pick this nit really. 'Indigenous' usually refers to people who are the original inhabitants eg. Maori in NZ and for instance Zulu in South Africa. I think the Dropkicks have gone for a less loaded word.
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Robyn, There are British scribes and rugby discussion forums that constantly chide New Zealand for poaching Pacific Island players and therefore 'cheat' to be successful. It's not really about rugby - it's the old colonial concept I think where we are meant to be a white enclave of Englishness plus a few Maori and they aren’t really aware of the changing demographic of the country. If the discussion gets going you might find it interesting, and with a bit of luck there wont be too much talk about the actual game.