Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to nzlemming,
Lithium?
due to the drugs he takes, or the drugs he should have taken…
Chance would be a fine thing, and what with the Selenium deficiency in Canterbury my natural lunacy is kept in check - well I might neck the odd Rheineck (or what's on special) - but in light of the news of Amy Winehouse's death this morning I might cut way back...
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Lilith __,
I know what you did last Sumer...*
Her obvious connection with sexuality and fertility is no doubt what makes her demonic in Hebrew mythology.
Well, that and the killing of neonates (newborn children) used to annoy them as well...
A mantle piece...
I guess the being made from earth thang could explain the Lith part of the name - as in lithosphere...Something to reflect on...
What's more Lilith and/or Lamia can possess women by entering them, through mirrors! A nifty trick...Cleanliness is next to godliness...
I'd stick with the Lotus connection it has more Elan and what's more it's self cleaning:- )
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Up Front: How About Now?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
turn tablist...
“Jesus argued with the priests in the temple so I’m like Jesus” Not a popular boy was I.
How'd ya go with those moneylenders, then?
get it off yer chest...If Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, made directly by God
I thought that was just gentile ribbing...
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Speaker: This is your National Library, in reply to Sacha,
Ian, that’s a political decision and it would seem rather unwise for any public servants to be discussing it here.
Gee, I guess that's why I put that proviso in -
"I understand if it is imprudent to do so in the current climate, though…"
Doesn't mean any number of more anonymous commentarians can't raise relevant points on the issue... hell maybe some politicians may even learn something... -
Gordon
Is this also our National Library after the proposed merger of Archives NZ and the National Library into Internal Affairs?
Or is that spectre still looming?
And if so can you comment on the implications/drawbacks/benefits of that?
I understand if it is imprudent to do so in the current climate, though... -
Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Combed The Press website...
You could try accessing it through Press Display page C10 & C11 of the Mainlander section of today's Press - this site is supposed to allow you access to two articles per chosen paper for free by signing in - but I couldn't get it to do it myself...
Otherwise email the Press web editor and ask if they could post David's crucial and excellent article in the Opinion section of their site next week after Weekend Press sales are over - in the interests of helping greater Chch - and beyond. -
Up Front: P.A. Story, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Newtonian optics...
eye of newt
I think it was Peter Cook who said:
"I have a pet newt called Tiny
I call him Tiny because he's my newt"
<cymbal crash!>Or was Cook's the legal rant objecting to
someone being described as "pissed as a newt"
as he knew many sober newts and it was an unfair inference on the character of the species...The eyes have it
- which witch is wych?
Spookily, further to a conversation with Dr Haywood this morning about the genus of Witch Hazel (Hamamelidaceae virginiana), my thoughts that it was associated with witches because of its use in folk medicine are unfounded...
the genus is in wych - for trees with pliant branches - from a Gemanic root wic(e) meaning bend.
Ergo wicker baskets I guess...
(Scandanavian viker = willow, vika = to bend)
Does this mean Wiccans go on benders?
And what does it imply for vicars... -
Nattering Nabobs of Negativity, negated...
Our friends across the Tasman also worry about the distribution of money across society...
Here's a great take on it from Geoff Lemon, here's a taster...And the casual punters who might not drop 50 bucks in the pokies anymore might drop it on a round of good Scotch for their mates instead. They might drop it on some oysters. They might get themselves a lap dance, or a couple of Hoyts Gold Class tickets, or a hilarious novelty windscreen sticker. (“2 Low 4 Fat Hoes”, said a ripper I saw recently on a lowered station wagon in Geelong. That guy gets wicked gash.) They might end up with a few extra grand and buy themselves a jetski. Maybe the jetski dealership supports the local junior sports club instead. Money doesn’t vanish.
here he is in full flight at the Nimbin Poetry World Cup 2009 (dodgy phone capture)...
...how many dudes d'ya know flow like that?
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Rupert the Bull...
this image is just so wonderful - not the devil, honest .....
... but do we know if the Murdoch family changed their name from Moloch early on?
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to 3410,
Can you explain the so-called
Knee-Face Woman effect?It's because she's, ahem, stacked...
thereby giving the illusion that her
nose is out of joint!