Posts by Ian Dalziel
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I gotta say that "Cloud" structure reminds me of nothing so much as a liver fluke - maybe a subtle reference to the parasitic sponsorship...
I was appalled that St John ambulances have to cover up their "non-RWC-contributing sponsors on their ambulances at the games - fosters real community spirit that does!
Strange there isn't a German rugby team with a big German Sponsor - like Adidas - I hadn't realised that Adidas was started by a couple of Nazi Party members (Adolf "Adi" Dassler & Rudolf) they later fell out with Rudolf starting Puma... -
Look for Paula Bennett's version of these work schemes soon...
Hell maybe we'll be able to make those Adidas shirts here
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I am also willing to add football to the non-sport list.
True, it is after all just Irish Dancing with a ball...
We can also blame Rupert Murdoch for oversaturating the country with the Super-(howevermany) franchise.... Maybe there's a case for a class action for loss of quality of life - now that he's against the ropes...
I wonder if Telecom's abstinence campaign was driven by the fact that it's an erection year?
It was hard to see where they were going to go with it and now we'll never know I guess... -
another alarming vision failure...
I've just read that Tom Cruise is going to play Lee Child's Jack Reacher...
I'm thinking John Travolta maybe.... others suggest Brad Thorne,
an unknown with presence would be best... -
Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You forgot Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)
The all plastic all blacks...Yeah, I know, I also left out the classic 6-pack abs as well...
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absit omen…
I can see the brainstorming session now…
“Let’s come up with a promotion based around
words that start with abs!”
“Oh, right, like short for the All Blacks, brilliant!”
“But we can’t use words that imply sudden departure
like absquatulation, or absence, abscond or abscess, even”
“oooh, I know, abstemious sounds good…”
“Hell no, we don’t want the sponsors products undrunk!”
“So I guess abstract is too insubstantial, then…”
“…and esoteric, abridge too far in fact.”
“How about something absurd, like abstinence,
just like those stoic and Spartan Greeks.”
“Hmmm, I think Lysistrata was about women?”
“I guess this is a kind of pally Polynesian war…
“And whose gonna know…”
“…those Greeks were big on sportsmen and mens’ sports
Sean Fitzpatrick and Patrick fits Sean and all that…”
“Super, classical, I love it and it’s delightfully abstruse as well!”“Now where can we get a dodgy pink dodgem car…”
“…shaped like a fist with a docking ring on one finger?”“God, we’re good!”
“5 minutes, that’s a record – how much shall we charge?”
<Kaching>[afterthought: - maybe it's a case of Chinese Whispers
and the way NZ will win is if the abs train ...] -
Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Sacha,
In fact, I think they're very often the most valuable workers. What
disturbs me is seeing them working at the very bottom of the job heap.
- We undervalue wisdom.Here's a best-of-both-worlds solution:
King Solomon's minors! -
Hard News: When the Weather is the News, in reply to Russell Brown,
The Screwtrope Letters or
just another thread jack...Your next challenge: a pun on “Stelvin enclosure”*
ahh that would be the much put upon Stelvin Closure...
*I think you'll find the Stelvin Enclosure is probably an
Amcor sponsored stand at some posh race course...
(Amcor recently bought the Stelvin Cap rights
from Rio Tinto Alcan - and screw the poor
Portuguese cork growers... meanwhile the
Zork waits to 'pop' out from the wings) -
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Up Front: Something For Your Snow Day, in reply to recordari,
‘Your private eye’s pyjamas baby, leave me out!’