Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • OnPoint: Dear Gerry,

    ROCKS ARE NOT THE SAME AS MONEY.

    But those magic beans we got from overseas
    for those dairy farms are still good, right?

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Transferring wealth to Wellington,

    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!)

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Transferring wealth to Wellington,

    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?

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • OnPoint: P is for Potential,

    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...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Transferring wealth to Wellington,

    The Fleece (for Denis Glover)

    could've been called Owed to Christchurch

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: The back of a bloody envelope,

    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?)
    or
    New Zealand - it's the pits!
    or
    New Zealand - the dream is over
    (now the nightmare begins...)

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: The back of a bloody envelope,

    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 homes

    The John Key Pin Cushion might be a goer...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Transferring wealth to Wellington,

    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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  • Hard News: Transferring wealth to Wellington,

    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 database

    I 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?
    ;- )

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Transferring wealth to Wellington,

    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....

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