Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Hard News: The Exploding Banana Scandal,

    Boom Town rats...
    Well we did have Neil Roberts in Wanganui
    and the Wellington Trades Hall bomber
    and Those Damn French Rainbow Warrior bombers
    but that was the '80s...
    things are different now

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Auckland Council as leaky…,

    The thin veneer of civilisation...

    This might suit the government, which can declare that the delayed spending -- of the order of $200 to $300 million -- is being done at the discretion of the newly-elected council.

    INCIS II anyone?

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    indigene pool satire...?

    that did seem like a kind of nasty parody of indigeneity.

    or an ingenuous indignity?
    or a muddling dig amid ingenuity?

    This parody is dead!
    dare I say a polygone...
    (if you get my angle...)

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Exploding Banana Scandal,

    Enemies of the stadia...

    If there is a threat to the RWC, where does it come from? Inside NZ? Outside?

    I'd be worried about those re-energised Soccer
    (sorry, Football) fans... now they've had a taste of the
    big time there'll be no stopping them!
    I can see them marching round Mt Eden
    all singing in unison - pitch perfect - ala Jericho!
    ...and of course there is always the clear and present danger of the Southern Skinheads...
    ;-)

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    The Sylvan Surfer & our stunted land...

    (they use the landscape, they use the skills & abilities, but they mean buggerall to us and how we view the world.)

    I get that, we are a stunt-nation, stand-ins, bio-body-doubles for the lost (or more expensive) European forests and vistas. Weta animates an a proxy-mation and now with the ultimate manifestation Avatar we no longer even need the real forests...
    - Mr Brownlee you can send in the diggers,
    we'll reanimate the corpse...
    Welcome to Jacksonville (the Capital formerly known as Wellington) please put on your 3D glasses for the duration of your trip... ;- )

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Exploding Banana Scandal,

    We demand answers...
    Is Russell Brown a sleeper
    for the Fruit Aryans
    (be wary of the stoned and the pipped...)
    or is he the new Fruit Saladin?
    (beware of Lion-Hearted Dicks!)

    One also imagines the StundayTsar Times
    would be the first to complain were someone
    to show up their internal security - say by
    getting within metres of the managing editor's office wearing "mock exploding cricket boxes" - I can see the headlines in the NZ Harbinger now "Cock-up at Star" or "Publisher experiences groin pains" or make yer own...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Exploding Banana Scandal,

    Good old FearFacts (or is it FairFox?)...
    Obviously for too long we have lived with our illusory freedoms and democracy, ignoring the yoke of fear that joins and shackles our American & European brothers (and sisters).
    Luckily we have a valiant and brave Yellow Press willing to couple us to the prevalent paradigm.
    Here's hoping with all their Egg-stremist machinations they end up with the yolk on them...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    That would be The Lovely Bones, wouldn't it?

    That's in Bad Taste, surely, he said Feebly... :- )

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  • Cracker: Wallywood,

    1. Few (relative) outside the country know the films that were made in New Zealand ...

    But surely they've all seen the classic Battletruck!

    That would be a Freudian twist, to put a valley on a mountain. Ambitious too.

    With supersymmetry (if its not a silly con) it would be more of a Moebius twist - voila the Anti-Valley...
    another way of having a valley on a mountain ~ that slow moving, Russell Crowe chiller - Glaciator

    Ambitious for New Zealand"

    aah yes the Rethink Big meme
    I think they meant "Ambit IOUs for NZ"
    ...stuff we'll be paying for, for years to come
    with often no visible return...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Good Newsing,

    Just Conduit!
    that's a big tick for the new cable idea...
    and i can well imagine Weta et al making good use of it, or maybe for linking to this beast - 322 terabits per second is a lot of data isn't it?.

    Grey Lynn Wood...
    Flying Nun collection is a great start
    and remember before Wellywood there was Hakanoawood!
    Chris Knox has filmed many epics at home, most rooms were used at one time or another The brain that wouldn't die is probably the biggest ensemble & genre piece, all filmed under the house. From memory the cast includes Robert Key (Expendables, Not really anything, Cake Kitchen) as the Doktor, Barbara Ward & Jay Clarkson as the pikelets (the singing heads in the background)
    Bob Sutton (protopunk) & Johnny Pierce - R.I.P. (Headless Chooks) as the two headed monster, Siobahn (I think) as the transplantee bride of Frankenstein, oh and I am the hunchback - doo doodo doo (with Dick Driver's hair it seems!) though after quarter of a century my memory plays tricks... and I can't get the clip to play at proper speed - it jumps and stalls on both Safari & Firefox - bloody wireless internet...

    Don't take the Brown Bread...
    just in... the CIA is an ass(id) in the Pain

    A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

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