Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Hard News: Yet More Hobbit,

    Coming soon to movie complex near you:
    Spadacuss: Blood and Scandals

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Up Front: Staying Civil,

    Consorting with the devilled details...

    Zivil-Gewerkschaft

    getting schafted doesn't have a great ring to it...

    ... contracting a partner has some dis-ease associated...
    if you are cupped there could be a mug...
    getting unionised might imply unwed are scabs...
    Monogamine is easier to swallow than melamine...
    getting coupled sounds like attraction engines...
    layperson? is a bit flat...

    ...how about "meet my Amalgamate"?

    getting hitched is a bit like yoked
    or yolked if you are no longer haploid...
    but diploid ...I'll get my zygote then...

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  • Hard News: Yet More Hobbit,

    I thought Sarah Jane Smith was just a recurring companion (and K-9 a robodog) not a relative
    of either Cap'n Jack or the Doctor, are you are
    thinking of Jack's daughter, Alice, last seen in
    Children of Earth.

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  • Hard News: Yet More Hobbit,

    Vulcanism is not necessarily illogical...

    There is no implication that it's a volcano, which would after all be a fucking stupid place to build a massive mine complex, not least because there would be no jewels to be mined, and the chances of the entire thing flooding with hot magma would be off-putting.

    One of the major sources of diamonds is from Volcanic Pipes which bring them up in magma
    and then solidify, admittedly Kimberlite and
    Lamproite pipes don't create a massive mountain, but ya have to factor in that Hobbits are short so maybe it is all relative...

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  • Hard News: Yet More Hobbit,

    Tolkien Heads...and other Little Creatures

    Good point. Tourism NZ traded very heavily
    on the Middle Earth pitch.

    oh well, if it all ends in tears and ruins
    there's always Midden Earth to pick over...

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  • Hard News: Morning in Auckland,

    - ask the question "Do either of your parents have a criminal conviction"

    well that's one way to achieve a con-census...

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  • Hard News: Morning in Auckland,

    They could watch Magnum P.I. on 3,
    if they wanted.

    No they couldn't....

    currently a good alternative to the evening news
    is Callan on UK TV (if you have access to it)

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  • Hard News: Morning in Auckland,

    Make Adjustments Go Get It Energised...

    ...the window closed

    overall, that was quite subtle...
    ;- )

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  • Voting Local 2010,

    something to rally da kidz vote in Chch... enjoy

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  • Hard News: Morning in Auckland,

    ah the fabulously louche canon of Chuck Baudelaire
    The Flowers of Evil spring up freshly still...

    I like the end of that poem especially

    ...
    And yet, among the beasts and creatures all—
    Panther, snake, scorpion, jackal, ape, hound, hawk—
    Monsters that crawl, and shriek, and grunt, and squawk,
    In our vice-filled menagerie's caterwaul,

    One worse is there, fit to heap scorn upon—
    More ugly, rank! Though noiseless, calm and still,
    yet would he turn the earth to scraps and swill,
    swallow it whole in one great, gaping yawn:

    Ennui! That monster frail!—With eye wherein
    A chance tear gleams, he dreams of gibbets, while
    Smoking his hookah, with a dainty smile. . .
    —You know him, reader,—hypocrite,—my twin!

    One can see why he was the best man for French versions of de Quincey and Poe, et al...

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