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Emma- has his eyesight been properly tested?
Serious question: I used to run into trees/doors/large objects like adults, until it was discovered at age 6, I was a high myope (which definition I used to be quite proud of.) A generation later, my niece was doing the same thing - her parents were onto it smartly, and at age 2, she started wearing glasses. Another high myope, & effectively blind in one eye...
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O you're so right Te Groke!
I mean, rythym, scansion, assonnace et al - ptui! -
'rofflenui' Sacha & Sam -and it's already in a short story due to be published this coming year-
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Damnty. Compulsive tic to put in a "u" after a "q" - sorry. Seriously though, "Te Qaeda" - where?
I realise our small arc of the world means diddlysquat elsewhere so rofflenui may stay within our electronic environment - but the word/concept is a real goodie and I suspect, will have a lowkey currency for many years. Thanks again Sacha!
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Two comments:
"Amy" Brooke used to be known as Agnes-Mary Brooke: I have a kind of mild hatred for her because of an extremely ill-informed review she once committed of one of my books, and an on-going - I think she thought of it as a vendetta - I thought of it as a sandfly- attack of myself. She is a Roman Catholic bigot who is a very poor children's writer. Her impertinently self-written (mostly)
self-published 'magazine' "The Best" died after very few issues.I have a lovely letter from C. Karl.Stead describing her as "nuts." I have very few other letters from Karl, so I cherish this one.
Rofflenui: yep. I know about geekspeak, and appreciate Jacqui's crossover language point - but rofflenui *works* as a word. Point of fact: how many times has anyone seen "Te Quaeda" is print/infora/anywhere *this* year?
Whereas you *will* see rofflenui with due sttribution in my writing thus coming year.
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O, and not being letter-by-letter-literal! A word we can *say*!
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'rofflenui' - us, up to speed, saying what we mean in our-speak. Thanks Sacha!
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Sofie, i share your concerns. I dont think, from my family's perspective in the South, that the Maori Party will be useful or effective for us (and o yes! I know all about the various headings they're going into bat for.) I dont know or trust them.
And as for a ravenous little millionaire rushing off to display his shiney new PMship at an APEC meeting - anyone else hear the words 'new world order'?
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Nickk- Roger Douglas is a failed pig farmer. The other wee baubles mean nothing against his established track record of destruction of a welfare system that - for at least a couple of generations - worked rather better than anything he attempted to institute. Since this is 'say something nice' I can assure him, you, & other ACT supporters, that I have a perfectly lovely poroporoaiki all ready for him (because I actually really like pigs-)
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Oh Sara Bee - I lurve Wallace & Grommit!
And if the person who stole my video of "The Wrong Trousers" brings it back, I'll stop putting pins into their image-