Posts by Ian Dalziel
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the evolution of single-cell organisms...
Crime is easy,
it's the not-getting-caught bit
that demands thought.this is a classic - T-Shirt please!
or at least a mail sack sampler... :- ) -
Which you could also do so's noseone haz to look at your nazal hairz if it had a front facing camera for the video callz.
no that's vanity fear...
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the rosy red cheek...
There you go, blame the Poms.
the apple has been gene sequenced
and apparently comes from Kazakhstan
where some mutation meddled with medlars, or something similar, 65 million years ago...
Massive meteorite impact effects or Gamma Radiation maybe - heard this on Morning Report today and this article credits a New Zealand company with the research, nice. -
Thankfully not the case in my old department where the mortician of 20 years standing was Peter Cook
..well he did leave a great body of work
and Dudley, more...
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...and someone will head south,
till this whole thing cools off......sorry that should be Illam ...
Brownlee's motto - Iran for Ilam...
...and its mine, mine, mine!in Canterbury before deforestation
and dairying took over
it used to be I lamb...
...therefore I amand I can see why Blinglish would be grateful
his electorate became Clutha-Sthland, otherwise
he and it would have been known as
Wallace and Grommet -
the Manawatumescent engorgement...?
Last time I passed through Te Puke
I felt my gorge rise.did you pull over or heave to?
:- )Reminds me (obliquely) of that Kiwi Classic
New Zild and how to speak it by Arch Acker*
and the adventures of the first female Rugby player, as noted by radio announcers:
"Annie's got the ball, Annie's running up the wing, Annie's gorgeous by the post!"*the very book John Key was raised on , I'm sure!
It's a '60s classic, companion to Let Stalk Strine -
We're not in Oklahoma now, toto...
I expect Bad Orb is famous for Bad Jokes.
with my bad Maori pronunciation I thought I was in a Rogers and Hammerstein musical when driving through Owhata...
Owhata Medical centre
Owhata Pharmacy
Owhata Bakery
O what a beautiful morning... -
Australia needs a class act, like...
Where have you gone, Nicholas Cave?
A nation - with a hung parliament - turns
its lonely eyes to you. -
nominative determinism...
aptonyms
The evening TV news is often a good source of these, sometimes to the extent of doubting their veracity...
from underbelly to tripe?
...and now we have the phenomenon of adaptonyms : Australian actor Matthew Newton has moved from playing Mr Asia to becoming Mr Erasure!
from The SMH:Some of those working on the The X Factor expressed concern from the outset at the prospect of Newton as host. Those concerns were voiced again as his behaviour spiralled out of control. But the production chose not to listen, to instead try to "manage" its difficult star.
As Seven frantically oversees the re-editing of its series to eliminate any reference to Newton, it must know the public memory cannot be as conveniently erased. -
Fire blighted Core Processors...
Until then, say after me "Apple is Evil, Apple is Evil" cos the Bibble, a poem by John Milton, says so.
Would you Adam 'n' Eve it?.God told Adam that he was free to eat from every tree in the garden, except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God said that he would die if he ate the fruit. We don't know what kind of fruit this tree had. Milton introduced the idea that it was an apple.
Later, Eve was deceived by Satan speaking through a serpent and ate the fruit. She then took the fruit to Adam and he ate it knowing he was doing the wrong thing. Because they disobeyed what God had explicitly told them and chose to believe Satan, they began to experience spiritual death, and soon physical death. God expelled them from the garden. Adam and Eve sinned by placing their desires above what God had told them and through this act sin entered the world. No longer would it be easy to harvest fruit. Thorns and weeds would make planting and harvesting hard labor.That Milton he's a caution...
it is never stated in the Bible (or Koran) that the Fruit of the tree of knowledge is the apple...
in fact the jury is still out...In the Talmud, Rabbi Meir says that the fruit was a grape. Another Talmudic tradition suggests that Eve made wine from the fruit, which she then drank. Rabbi Nechemia says that the fruit was a fig, while Rabbi Yehuda proposes that the fruit was wheat.
In Western Christian art, the fruit of the tree is commonly depicted as the apple, which originated in central Asia. This depiction may have originated as a Latin pun: by eating the malum (apple), Eve contracted mālum (evil).
Proponents of the theory that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in what is known now as the Middle East suggest that the fruit was actually a pomegranate, partly because it was native in the region. This ties in with the Greek myth of Persephone, where her consumption of six pomegranate seeds leads to her having to spend time in Hades.
and also some ...Jewish scholars believe that it was the pomegranate that was the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.so if any computer is to be associated with original sin it might be the Sinclair!
(possibly a Scientological crossover - Sin / Clear?)and if the pomegranate connection is right
we might have ended up with the persePhone rather than the iPhone!