Posts by Ian Dalziel
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after the Ellersleaze Fower Show purchase debacle, people in Christchurch are wondering how much
Bob Parker (er, ratepayers) paid Wellington for
the earthquake... -
Basel Faulty?
a view on the recent Basel III - meeting of the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
the international toxic debt casino continues... -
those wooses in Wasilla...
meanwhile on the other side of the Pacific
a small quake of 4.9 hits AnchorageThere were no reports of injury or damage, but people reported that the earthquake "shook awful hard," said Cindi Preller, a geologist with the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center...
"Some flatware pieces fell off the stands," Withers said. "A few customers were nervous about the noise of glassware rattling."I don't get out of bed for 4.9s anymore...
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more Christchurch candidates...
Karl Varley
Independent Citizens
...He has gained international acclaim breaking a Guinness World Record by kicking through 30 Baseball bats in under 60 seconds.and
Aaron Keown
City Vision
...Since being elected to the Community Board I suffered much tragedy when my mother was killed by boyracers 2 years ago. My promise to you is to make the streets of Christchurch much safer by taking a zero tolerance to crime.
........................Gee these two should get some snazzy skin tight costumes and start a crime fighting group...
Keown seems to think he's running for Sheriff, and omits to mention his Elvis Impersonating business, that has pasted their posters all over public and private property in the past - or that he was an ACT candidate in the last General Election.
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...starring Poser Parker...
Now, not only does he get to stay mayor of Christchurch...
...not so fast there, please!
let's at least wait till the voting finishes...
having your tonsorials out......but it seems to me that hairdressers have been hit disproportionately hard.
that'll keep the barberians beyond the pale...
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the rogering continues...
Rumour Central to Rumour Control over
Bob has been outed on "unintentional misleading"
...the poor blighter hasn't been getting much sleep,
this saving the city singlehandedly is, well, trying...as Councillor Chrissie Williams says:
"It bewilders me. There are other examples where Bob comes out with these very simple statements and he repeats them so much they become urban myth. They become fact, and that worries me.
"It is almost like he is saying it to take the responsibility away from council."
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I shall issue you with a big platonic hug....
...as opposed to the grip of unfriendly plate tectonics
This so makes me want to go to Crete.
why even the sand there is hard!
To quote Neddy Seagoon (or was it Eccles, or an interchange betwixt) on arriving on Crete:
"this sand is hard
- it must be concrete!" -
bob-a-job... blanket coverage!
Hopefully the first in a series of instalments of the spin-off blog we have all been waiting for:
Public Undress...
air your soiled linen
pianist en vie...
Meanwhile I hear the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas is closing... another sign of the impending final days.... -
argh nightmare... Garth Marenghi
Fiction emulating life?
but ...he's an ACTor... -
the Day of the Hyena...
(What is it with right-wingers and an unhealthy obsession with Forsyth?
Why do you never hear about MacLean inspired idiocy?)Not enough sex and gratuitous violence probably...
and maybe too hard work:
[re MacLean's writing] Instead, he lets little hinder the flow of events in his books, making his heroes fight against seemingly unbeatable odds and often pushing them to the limits of their physical and mental endurance. MacLean's heroes are usually calm, cynical men entirely devoted to their work and often carrying some kind of secret knowledge.
though interestingly:
A characteristic twist is that one of the hero's closest companions turns out to be a traitor.
may be a little to close to the bone...jack-of-all trades...?
What next, are we to learn that John Boscawen never was interested in lightly smacking children's bottoms; that its all been bravado, in-order to look sensible?
he may be a time traveller - Webbs have early works by a John Hugh Boscawen up for auction...
laugh like a drain...
From Laws' Column:Hell, Georgina Beyer even managed to make political capital out of being a former drug addict and prostitute. In fact, New Zealand celebrity is littered with those who have transformed their notoriety into rehabilitative promise...
But these are weird times. The media do not retract their claws until long after the blood has coagulated. In the midst of my minor mess a couple of months back...weird times indeed - as I recall, someone being a former drug addict and prostitute was the flame his "moth" couldn't resist that got him in to that minor mess...
</sigh>