Posts by giovanni tiso
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Do you really think Stoppard's a fraud Giovanni?
Another way of putting it is that he's Pinter and (especially) Beckett's Cliff's Notes. Maybe even Ionesco's. Nothing wrong with that, of course, imitation being the sincerest form of plagiar... er, flattery. But it was others who did the hard work. In my, as always, 'H' opinion.
(Never could quite work out what the H stood for.)
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I also admire Samuel Beckett, Dennis Potter and Tom Stoppard -- two playwrights
Did you write "two playwrights" to account for the fact that Tom Stoppard is a fraud?
(Although he did have one sincere moment in his life. At the opening of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a woman asked him what the play was about and he replied, "It's about to make me very rich".)
(Then again, it's an anecdote he tells himself, so it's probably apocriphal.)
Happy New Year, everybody. This was going to be the holiday when I finally visited Auckland, but our youngest was sick so we had to come back early and bypass the fair city. It's like there's a force field that keeps me away from the place.
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Giovanni is far too modest
and handsome!
(and thank you)
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Oh, no, it's a classy joint. The name apparently derives from the fact that the original owners were an Englishman and a Filipino. Either that, or I'm very credulous.
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Are you sure you're Italian?
Clearly I am not. Nor is the person who called a restaurant in Auckland _Pompino_, I know this for a fact. Now, though, I want you to reassure me that Prego isn't next to Pompino. That would be bad.
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So you're saying it's safe to ditch the "beta" from the masthead?
I swear I thought about it the other day when they mentioned that Chrome was coming out of beta. That thought might or might have not been followed by this one: "Christ, I've got to go out more."
I first started commenting on PAS in fits and starts a couple of years ago I think, but it's only in 2008 that I decided to really get on all of your nerves. Job well done so far! So allow me to join you in appreciating the house that Russell built and wishing good cheer to all during the upcoming festive crunch.
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RB, could you translate "Prego" for the benefit of... non Aucklanders, I presume? I'm intrigued.
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Can you be smug and whinge at the same time? It sounds quite complicated.
We were just taken to school on how to do it.
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I know, I'm a pain in the ass. But my tolerance for the "hey, look at those foreign shmucks trying to accommodate us and our stupid language getting a phrasal verb wrong in the pluterperfect" joke has reached its capacity.
Do carry on though. Sideswipe. Whopeeeeeeeeee.
(I'll be excited when they make us.)
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Grrrr... I hate Sideswipe.
Okay, carry on.