Posts by Damian Christie
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(I figure for it to be a classic lyric, then you don't need to say who the performer is :) )
I'd love to agree with you, but I can't. I don't know a number of the bloody lyrics quoted above as though everyone is supposed to know them :) Also, I'm a bit of a shocker at actually working out what the lyrics are in the first place, not to mention seeing them in isolation...
- molten toothpaste was a good example, I had to google that before going "oh of course."
Could just be me.
But if you haven't said who the band/singer is (and preferably the name of the song too), ya ain't gonna win, even if I do know where it comes from.... because it'd be nice if other people who are even less informed than me could say "wow, what interesting lyrics, I must listen to that song I've never heard of by Blam Blam Blam...".
So if you fit that category, and want to win, feel free to repost your entries. And the other thing is, the best idea, if it's awesome, could actually end up as a t-shirt, so it would help if I didn't have to put on my Sherlock Holmes hat to work them out!
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Sorry, I mean visual, like the t-shirts that are on offer - Dick Frizzell doing Dimmer lyrics, for instance.
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Wow. Who were the Ponsonby DCs? I thought I was the only one...
Note - to increase you chances in the competition, cite your lyrics, and suggest which NZ artist (living, or dead is fine too) you think should have a crack at interpreting them...
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Ha, snap to most of the comedies above. Have just finished Community, almost done with Season 2 of Parks 'n' Recreation, loved Better Off Ted (and can't see why it got cancelled) and also quite enjoyed Party Down, which was similarly cancelled after two seasons I think. Anyone else got anything similar to recommend?
I tend to watch them in two hour blocks every night for about a week, guzzling them until they're all gone. If I ever ran for Mayor I'd have to admit having a problem with quirky sitcoms.
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"Hey 176-761, this guy must have a tape deck!"
The way my iPhone has been running these past weeks, I've half expected it to say "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE"...
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@BenWilson
I'm loathe to destroy working devices too.
Yeah my stereo amp is about 20 years old. It started getting a bit touchy, one channel was cutting out. I was tempted to dump it in favour of something shiny and new, but I got out the screwdriver set, pulled it apart and tightened a few things, and now its good as new.
Old microwaves seem to last a lot longer than new ones too. I've had much more luck with hand-me-down big clunkers with faux wood exteriors than those cheap ones from Briscoes.
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Damian, my solution to the same dilemma was to move the CRT to the bedroom
Dude, either your CRT isn't as much of a Death Star as mine, or your bedroom is massive. This baby sits on a customized stand thingy and takes up an entire corner of our lounge.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31AYK9ZJT4L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
(And I already bought a nifty little LCD for the bedroom, which I can plug the laptop into to watch all my downloaded TV programmes in bed, plus it has built in freeview etc. As a result we spend more time watching TV in bed than in the lounge now.)
@DeepRed - the trouble is I'd probably get $100 for it on trademe if I was lucky, LCD screens are so cheap these days. And selling something that largely fulfills its purpose for $100, so that I can spend up to $4000 replacing it, again, it just don't make sense...
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Thanks Hilary! It's quite scary, having to bust things out on the telly with not much practice in front of a panel of Maori MPs, but that's the whole point eh - gotta give it a go :)
@Ben - I have this issue with my TV. Nice Sony 32" widescreen 100hz thingy, but it's a CRT and weighs a tonne. Well, literally about 100kg. It's not HD. It's not 3D, LCD, LED, Dolby, Freeview ready or whatever. But it still works. Only five years old, and will probably keep going another 10, even though it's the only thing in the house I really want to die so I can justify buying a 50" 3D LED or whatever's going at the time. But I can't get rid of it while it still works as well as it did when I bought it - it seems the ultimate in consumerism to do so. I can guarantee I'll replace the toaster - which I'd be happy to just last forever - another five times before that thing goes.
At least computers slow down under the weight of newer software, become incompatible with various peripherals and OS - meaning we have excuse to buy new ones every 2-3 years. The TV keeps just being the TV. It even has teletext...
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hang back and don't stress yourself out, until the upgrade for the upgrade has fixed the problems with the upgrade.
So a friend of mine told me. He said he always waits a year before installing each upgrade, as Apple like to beta test their products on the unsuspecting public.
Oh oh oh, I can't believe I forgot to also mention, my iPhone permanently froze 53 weeks after I bought it. Granted I'd dropped it a few times, and electronic devices aren't really good with being dropped, but still, 53 weeks seems like a crazy coincidence. I had to get a new one.
I'm not pretending my PC is perfect of course. It's a dirty mongrel made up of bits I've used from previous PCs, RAM I've stuck in myself, and it occasionally misbehaves. But when it does I know I'm allowed to open it up and poke around (either literally or in a virtual sense).
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but then people would have called them a whole other kind of bastard for making the 3G obsolete.
Wouldn't you rather have a phone age gracefully rather than have it try and squeeze into the new operating system and end up like something from those "when cosmetic surgery goes wrong" shows?