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Nah S'okay were just keepin one kinda in reserve....
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Trivial aside:
My darling wife, who is for the most part a generous, loving soul, has a problem with telephone customer services. She thinks that whoever is on the other and of the line is some lackey capitalist conspiring to ruin her life. The situation is not helped by the fact that my wife can sniff out bullsh*t from mile away and hates vague don’t know/care answers with a passion. We have a rule now, where if the account is in joint names she has to brief me before calling customer services.
It was with some fear that I heard the phrase “I phoned *rc*n customer services today” (we’ve just shifted) – “they’re really good” wha? thud……(sound of jaw hitting floor).
Apparently the answer phone wasn’t working, even after she had followed the instructions and set it up….it seems that our previously unused home unit was picking up the latch first. This was determined after some ringing backwards and forwards. But here’s the clincher - the services rep looked up the phone model on the internet in order to tell my wife how to turn the other answer machine off. This was all managed with out trouble or offence. Service, that’s good, disarming my wife, that’s special.
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There are few things more likely to guarantee disaster than me and a Physics exam or a job interview.....I have yet to combine the two
My ahem...O level physics exam was characterised by a series of notable events:
i) Beefy Botham beating the heck out of the Aussies yeah !
ii) Me being collected from the pub on my birthday to do a physics practical - cue images of drunk me trying to do some type of calorimetry lab; water, thermometers, drunk 81st, oh dear. Looked like a swimming lesson instead.
iii) Later that year, my being carpeted for flippancy in the written paper: In response to a question about the relationship between image size and the position of convex lenses I came out with the apparently objectionable "Gets bigger, gets smaller, gets happy....."I got a B.....
In that Shakespeare, Lord of the Flies etc have been written about a zillion times and they know it inside out, appropriate quotes and all so it's way easier to mark? I imagine that if you haven't seen a movie/read a book and only marking an essay on it for the first time (or even the first 100 times) it would take a heck of a lot longer.
As the current semester closes I await with dread for the 200 or so lab reports I will end up marking, as the days go by I quietly lose the will to live. If I were a vain man, I suspect I would love to see my notes so gloriously reproduced repeatedly. As it was, last years highlight was a report written by someone who clearly had not attended the labs but had heard others talk about them. There followed a magnificent recombinant tale of two otherwise unrelated practical sessions. The candidate very nearly passed if only for the sheer imagination applied to the graphs provided in the report.
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Wings of Desire.....Yeah just another Berlin Movie
Espedair St anyone ?
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Or, as we call it here at U.Auckland, "that other university". After all, it is just across the road. Clearly English is not a subject in which they offer degrees, or if it is I would strongly advise against enrolling!
Nor would I advise doing stats at the U of A......
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the audience or lack of it has nothing to do with the right to control what happens to your creative work. just the extent or not of its value, which islander doesn't consider a key factor in the control of her characters or me in my recorded works.
Only in circumstances where that to which you claim copyright is unique and truly original. That is to say it bears no reference, similariity or suffers no other point of origin than the creators mind. Which in musical terms would require an extraordinary standard of proof.
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Just because I want to sample them is not a good enough argument but I've seen little else.
For the benefit of stupid 81st can you clarify this ?
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2/ If you were secretly an Arab terrorist, what would be the first policy you’d enact on taking office?
The same as a tibetan one - who's asking ?
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12/ Whose vote are you most interested in buying? Why isn't it mine?,
Hu Jintao – cos we all chinese now……
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'merican prisdenchull ?