Posts by Ian Dalziel
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ROCKS ARE NOT THE SAME AS MONEY.
But those magic beans we got from overseas
for those dairy farms are still good, right? -
Entire city placed into mixed quantum state...
But ... but ...
A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving, known as a Superposition
- can Auckland be far away from this Superstate?...
(henceforth known as Schrodinger's ACT
- or playing Hide & Seek!) -
The new Overlord is announced...
Stuff reveals that one Doug McKay is to be the CEO of the as yet unsolidified Super City...McKay has 20 years experience at senior level – he has headed Lion Nathan, Carter Holt Harvey, Goodman Fielder, Sealord and most recently Independent Liquor
Look for lots of overseas partners then...?
and anyone who can flood the country with RTDs (Ready to Drink beverages) has got to have community values at heart...
Party Central here we come...Wayne Walden, also from the transition agency, said they needed someone at proven experience at CEO level who can handle complex change.
There'll be change?
Spare change anyone? -
P could assume a religious role in society,
Bish Tamaki could franchise out a chain
of leathery sub-urbane DesTinny houses...
...and Methadust Tabernackersyards!
and of course there'll still be PE at school... -
The Fleece (for Denis Glover)
could've been called Owed to Christchurch
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Thats not going to have all that big of an effect on our 'brand' ...
New Zealand 100% Puree
we chewed it up and spat it out...
(Puerile?)
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New Zealand - it's the pits!
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New Zealand - the dream is over
(now the nightmare begins...) -
his official portrait (small size for humble families) that hung above my Nanna's pin-cushion
I doubt we'll ever have another leader whose photo graces most homesThe John Key Pin Cushion might be a goer...
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Personally, I assumed the headline was about buying lumps of delicious pastry-wrapped beef.
yeah, that's right, what's your beef Wellington?
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This song's for Ian.
I don't know what to do
I need a rendezvous
Is that fruity enough?Computer love
I call this number
for a databaseI don't know ?
is it an Apple ©?so Wolfgang or Ralf or whoever
wants to meet someone...
(remembering these are Germans not Brit)I'm still not seeing the fruit...
or are you saying he's a bit of a router?my point was it seemed unnecessary to
lumber the Hotel with this baggage,
in light of the discussion about stereotyping
over on Cracker's thread...but hey who am I to talk about
people playing with language?
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at the fruitily-named Rendezvous Hotel
Why fruitily?
Because it suggests people meeting in pears?
or because there's gonna be nutty professors there?Last time I looked people meeting freely didn't imply any suggestive sexuality ...
Sure French is one of the romantic languages, but why put an inference on the venue of this conference?rendezvous noun ( pl. same) a meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people.
• a place used for such a meeting.
• a place, typically a bar or restaurant, that is used as a popular meeting place.
• a meeting up of troops, ships, or aircraft at an agreed time and place.
thesaurus: rendezvous noun:
Eleanor was late for their rendezvous meeting, appointment, assignation; informal date; literary tryst.
verb: the bar where they had agreed to rendezvous meet, come together, gather, assemble.fruity - adjective (fruitier, fruitiest) fruitily - adverb
1 (esp. of food or drink) of, resembling, or containing fruit : a light and fruity Beaujolais.
2 (of a voice or sound) mellow, deep, and rich : Jeff had a wonderfully fruity voice.
• Brit., informal sexually suggestive in content or style.
3 informal offensive relating to or associated with homosexuals.
4 informal eccentric or crazy : a kind of fruity professor.just sayin....