Posts by Rob Hosking
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Real obscure personal anecdote coming up: I used to use 'the Last Time' as an egg timer in my first flat. because when it finished the egg would be just how I liked it: hard-boiled on the outside, still runny in the middle.
I really hold the anti-Verve lawsuit against the Stones conglomerate. Shit, they could have let that one go.
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I like fillybusters.
It's what happens when you flog a dead horse.
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"without further adieu" I think began as a joke on some British comedy show, where all the characters, who were French, bid each other 'adieu' and the announce came in with "without further adieu..."
Personal hate in this field though: saying someone "flaunted the law". A few years ago someone on NatRad news used to say this all the time. Unless they mean someone waved a law book around showily - which could happen - what they're trying to say is 'flout'
A personal favourite was a flatmate, many years ago, who was challenged about her indecisiveness over some matter or other and who proclaimed imperiously "its a woman's provocative to change her mind".
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Well, I reckon if you're going to have campaign song which is full of universal sentiments - a la Robyn's contribution - you could not go past this little piece:
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Not that strange, 3410....the area of musical plagiarism, when it comes to the actual law, looks quite, err, random, to borrow a word from another thread.
Also most politicians, in my experience, are tone deaf. Don't ask me why.
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At the first (and possibly only?) party conference with Jim McLay as leader they played “I can see clearly now the rain has gone”
National Party conference 1985.
And I seem to recall some people querying whether a song about kicking a drug addiction was really quite appropriate.
See? You can't win in this game.
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There have been much worse campaign theme songs.
My nomination for the worst: a version of 'Walking on Sunshine' with re-written lyrics and re-named 'Voting for Bolger' and sung by the Yandall Sisters.
Then it emerged the Yandall Sisters were all Labour voters anyway, which added insult to, well, musical atrocity.
This whole area is so fraught with pitfalls and difficulties I wonder why the parties even bother. The cost invvolved (even when the final product isn't, one way or another, dreadfully embarrassing) when measured against any benefit in terms of votes, just can't be worth it.
They'd be better to use some classical tune which is out of copyright and have done with it.
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Yeah, sub-prime gets my vote as well.
It's a versatile term, a useful metaphor,, and it also stands as a symbol of unending human folly.
I mean, who would have thought lending money to people who were bad credit risks would be so, umm, risky?
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Up at 4am with the toddler and as I tried to get to sleep afterwards my thoughts turned to the Shortie St Serial Killier....
I think it's Hunter's parents. Both of them (don't know, don't care what their names are)
And they wanted to kill Tess, but felt they couldn't because Hunter was in love with her. This is why they were so mad.
It all fits.
Oh, and Hunter - lucky bastard. Lucky lucky bastard. For any bloke (OK, any hetero bloke) who remembers what it was like being 17, he's living the dream.
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Andy....
Ahh....good to see someone else involuntarily screams at the TV whenever they hear the word 'icon' or 'iconic'.
It definitely head my list of terms against the wall when the linguisitic revolution comes.