Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Slow train coming...
(or was it slow come training?
sorry Bob and Tommy n Bobby!)...don't be slow,
Oh, no, no, no,
Oh, no, no, no...
...And I don't know if
I'm ever coming...
homeNow having trouble getting the phrase "Last Train to Vagville" out of my head.
Try uncoupling the baggage car at the end of that train of thought...
(there are two lights on behind...) -
...Just an or away from enmity...
But back in the day when "too rights" meant we had a real Left...
One gargantuan figure bestrode the stage - Big Norm
and Listen to an excerpt here
(thanks to Don Wilson) -
Insurance problems almost solved?
At last the Government can do something useful in this deadlocked situation.
Apparently AMI has breached ..."...both the Reserve Bank's draft solvency standards for insurance companies and the solvency standard in the Crown Support Deed which provides $500m of back-up capital.
Failing to meet that standard is a "trigger event" that would allow the Crown to take ownership of the company."Lily-livered and responsibility-shy as usual the National Government is resisting that option - choosing to support the company's recapitalisation. They should start by knocking the CEO's pay and bonuses back a bit until such time as the company makes better choices and can stand on its own two feet.
Of course if the usual gang of idiots in Government were to take possession of AMI they wouldn't see it as a chance to help citizens in Canterbury by providing insurance for them - they'd just sell it to the first multinational corporation that fluttered its eyelids at them...
As I type the entry gates to Chchch are having their signs changed from the recent "Demolition work will set you free" to "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"...
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once over lightly...
Neutrinos found to have cheated in European road race...
...after the publicity-shy Team Neutrino initially appeared to have travelled faster than the speed of light, conned CERN researchers have now discovered an elaborate hoax of ring-in particles, enhancement drug-taking and the use of localised miniature blackholes to fold space and time, giving the appearance of faster-than-light travel...
Light OPERA indeed...Meanwhile in breaking news, Emperor Key the III, has narrowly escaped assassination after his return to Bavaria, crazed lone gunman, Felipe Goffman, was tackled by Zeppelin maintenance crewmembers as he attempted to shoot the Emperor as he disembarked at the Ingolstadt International Airship docks ...
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revelry and rivalry...
At the games, most of the anger is directed at Cooper. And here lies the crux of the problem, in my opinion. Cooper is persona non grata with his smart-arse baiting of Richie McCaw. This behaviour is the rugby equivalent of farting in a cathedral. Cooper needs to clear the air.
(from the Sydney Morning Herald )
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raising standards...
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that's Iwo Jima you, you..
goddamnedleftypinko you...What a great nation!
from the desolate early scenes
(post-rapture?)
then being carried along in
the orgiastic stock pic frenzy
of patriotism - I too now want
Perry White to be Editor in Chief
of the Daily Planet!see the the first trailer here:
see the best of the movie here:
Ohh Amerika,
Gobless... -
Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Jackie Clark,
a hollow horny shaft fringed with vanes of barbs...
...it’s all down to you, Emma.
Coal to Newcastle?
Eider thought this referred to that old
bed saw about the difference between
erotica and pornography:
"Erotica is using a feather while
pornography uses the whole duck!"
to paraphrase Isabel Allende -
Minstrels' lament...
Here's a story that speaks volumes about the RWC
and its ruthless overlords:
Unpaid anthem singers at five showpiece matches will not get promised free entry.
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fabulous footage from The International Space Station
Aurora underfoot over the Indian ocean
the world's wiring revealed...
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to recordari,
Knit-picing sew & sews...
Yarn bombing in the burbs. We’re a crafty bunch.
Knotty, but nice - great wool looping granny's queers?
But at the risk of casting purls before twine
and other Aran nonsense from these fair isles
yew are opening a whole new canopy
with these stylish tree tops...