Posts by giovanni tiso
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And several American sports franchises.
Yeah, starting from the Ducks (goons).
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And, unlike many politicians, she is a genuinely kind and generous person, who is also very good company.
No wonder the tory boys hate her.
The issue is not whether the Tories like or not - they're prerfectly entitled to like their own candidate. The problem seems to be that liberals didn't like her enough.
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Two words. Steve Braunias.
I pledge to be last in line to buy any of his collected columns.
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Giovanni: "Feilding" is actually spelt correctly -- the town was named after a Colonel William Feilding,
I know, I know... so is Hadyn. (Spelt correctly, not after Colonel Feilding I mean).
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There's got to be a reasonable chance that Hadyn's middle name is James, so it might be him you were after...
Do you think he's deliberately misspelling his name to flee a shady past? That's entirely plausible. He, and the whole population of Feilding.
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I've just had a debt collection agent chasing me for the debts of someone else with whom I share a name...
James Green, I've found you at last! You'll be hearing from my lawyers.
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I’d have thought the main purpose of a heterosexual civil union was to avoid the clichéd, tacky multi-million dollar industry as preached by those ghastly magazines.
It's also an institution with a fairly specific, and at the very least non-inclusive, history. My partner (ach) and I gor civilly united on a weekday morning with a couple of friends in tow to serve as witnesses, I'd have to check the date and the year... but we also have friends who went the whole hog and still chose the civil union over marriage.
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I should also put my money where my mouth is and pledge to be the first in line to buy any and all future collections of his PAS essays.
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then before you know it keith is writing another bloody article about it.
Keith... now here's somebody whom I actually wish lost his job as a result of the election so that he could resume his bloggage. But then now that I've said that he'd probably insist on sleeping in my den, wouldn't he?
(Kidding, Keith, may your contract be renewed indefinitely. But darn I used to enjoy your writing.)
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(and largely because by then we were in the US and 'partner' just confused everyone)
I spent a week in the US banging on about "my partner" (I'm rather fond of her, it seems) and I only discovered on the last day that it made everybody assume that I was gay. And that New Zealand has very inclusive adoption laws (no harm done on either count, obviously).
Fidensata (sp?) apparently wasn't appropriate prior to engagement.
Fidanzata is not quite as strict as fiancee, I think they ought to have let you get away with it (a foreigner to boot... c'mon!), but also serviceable are morosa, ragazza, donna. Compagna implies a live-in arrangement and no expectation of getting married, so it suite as to a tee.