Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Debasement tapes... the band plays on
I do, however, have a very serious problem with the private sector operating or owning any capital military assets.
KBR, Halliburton and Raytheon being good examples - Raytheon now also does a lot of the logistical running of both McMurdo and Scott Base (thru Raytheon Polar Services, dunno why but that bothers me, too...
Herbert West your time is up...(Note to self: Your annual quota of the word "animating" is almost used up.)
People who used "animating" also used: quickening, rousing, stirring, energising, inspiriting, vivifying and firing - these words are all in stock and ready for immediate shipment.
Blows against the Empire...Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
You mean this isn't the old CIA program that provided undercover hand-relief to Saddam Hussein and the Shah of Iran?
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Jobs for the boys...
Fair enough. I was thinking of an interview I did with Tim Shadbolt once where he talked about what a joy going to university had been -- no pressure, few costs, you could walk onto a building site and get a job when you wanted one, etc.
I think Tim worked on projects like the Manapouri tunnel as well (if my memory of Bullshit and Jellybeans is to be trusted), ain't so many of those around any more - though Auckland may have some tunnelling and track laying jobs coming up, or do the machines do those now?
talking 'bout my D-D-Degeneration...
I think it all turned pear-shaped when the general populace was persuaded they could get stuff without any money in hand, my parents would never credit it, now we are a culture of on-ticking timebombs... -
Boxer Rebellion redux, the dogs of war...
...even suggesting that defence spending needs to be reigned in over there would have you banished from public office for life....
It makes going to war far too easy as a result, and turns military service from a vocation into a kind of Department of Social Welfare with guns.
In a bid to end the constant border skirmishes in its ongoing war against the Reign of Terrier, the Department of Social Warfare has reined in its spending and will now unleash the previously undeployed, unemployed arrow whittlers, whose quarrelsome ways will ensure a hard rain, falling like bolts from the blue...
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String theory... plus one dimension
...the tenor sax was used what, three times in the whole set? I would have much sooner lost 12 String Javier.
They had an air guitarist?
It's good to know one can graduate from playing the tennis axe, in front of the wardrobe mirror, to the world stage... -
Bridge building and other spanners...
The economy's going down a hole and the Republicans are fretting about condoms.
If it's all about gaming the system, of course they are gonna be fretting about rubbers - best of three (or five) anyone?
Broad generalisations...Put it this way, without feminism the only women who get into politics and public life are the ones who manage to contort themselves into the tiny window of acceptable public femaleness under patriarchy.
Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir, Indira Ghandi, Angela Merkel, Aung San Suu Kyi - where do they fit in that theory?
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There were lines?
They eat Christians don't they?
or as the old punchline goes:
...and he was glad he ate her...I just can't remember the preamble.
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"A Village in Texas is missing its idiot."
Happy now?In Texas they'd call that a posse trophy....
...for the pettiest of reasons
Enter a band The Truth could champion
- The Petty Things!
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Is that Ringo?
yep, he also appeared with Nilsson in the lamentable Son of Dracula (1974) that Apple Records produced, abetted by Keith Moon, John Bonham, Peter Frampton, Nicky Hopkins and Beatles-pal Klaus Voorman, amongst others...
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It takes a brilliant actor even to look half competent under those kind of conditions.
...it must be a really rapid turnaround on Spartacus then, I saw about 10 minutes of it last night it was like they were just woodenly reading their lines... couldn't watch any more.
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Tub thumping...
I feel let down by Ms Tucker. I have defended her stomping drumming style to many a paradiddling drum snob and this is how she repays me?!
I assume you is sprinkling salt over that statement... ;- )
Lou and John were never the friendliest of people either, the VU may have been counter-culture it doesn't mean they embraced humanitarian or leftist ideals...
I've never known there to be a correlation between minimal drumming styles (or any of one's favourite musical stylings) and political thought processes...