Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Hard News: Dead Elephant Frenzy,

    Are these the final days...?

    :: Warning :: Threadjack ::
    :: Cultural Upheaval Ahead ::

    Disney buys Marvel!!
    - there goes the Howard the Duck revival then...
    Bags the first Vibranium cased iPhone!

    Who's at the bottom of your swimming pool?
    UK Police have been handed new information and are reviewing the case, and cause, of Brian Jones death! No Stone unturned this time...

    yrs passively
    The Watcher
    Armageddon outta here...

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  • Hard News: Dead Elephant Frenzy,

    Apple - OS and gaming the system too ...?
    if we can believe the Huffington Post the Securities & Exchange Commission has kicked
    off an investigation into the trading in Apple's securities both here (US) and abroad.

    Jobs for the boys then?
    or just Intel Inside(r) trading?

    you got a light, Mac?
    No, but I've got a dark secret...

    yrs chipperly
    Snowy Leppard
    fast like a cheetah...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Dead Elephant Frenzy,

    Morphic Resonance, or...?

    I was about to post that myself. You know, elephants, rooms, cash in . Damn it, you Trunked me.

    ...or, post-magic pre-science - in the holographic bubble universe, grate branes think alike...

    I want to spend my light with a grille like you...

    sorry about truncating your flow :-)

    yrs sheepishly
    Reg Presley
    Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
    Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

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  • Hard News: Dead Elephant Frenzy,

    Charlton Heston Appreciation Society...

    It's the newly formed National Shooters Association.

    Two stories in today's Press about guns:
    Plan-for-gun-shop-sited-near-school-worries-residents
    and
    Business-broker-faces-three-firearm-charges

    in the first one:

    Gun City owner David Tipple said any concerns about the location of the store were simply "hysteria".
    ...and later...
    "Our customers are the cream of society.
    "They need to have a fixed abode, stable family connections, and no gang connections or mental health issues we have got the nicest customers in New Zealand..."

    the second story is about a chch Business broker shooting his pet cats ...

    - wonder where he bought his guns?

    yrs ballistically
    A K Forty-seven
    Arms for Children anyone?

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  • Hard News: Dead Elephant Frenzy,

    The Family Fist (in a velvet glove)...
    - Thumper says there's trouble in the forest...
    the other bunnies look worried...
    I see they have a full page ad in the Press today - headed "Your Govt has not listened.
    But we will" and then goes on to mention a "massive 88% No vote" - doesn't say 88% of what though - context and damned statistics...

    The elephant has left the room...
    Could we perhaps say Kashin has merely "Cashed Out" of life's casino - the chips are down after making many large deposits : ----- )

    Head her off at the pass...

    You can pass wind, pass an exam, pass another person on the street. But we all die.

    - Imagine passing an elephant!

    But while we are being meat-physical - death can be seen as the act of crossing the interstitial energy divide:

    Pass: a change from one state or condition to another

    This parrot is dead! a polly-gone,
    it's come to a pretty pass...
    Hannibal took elephants over the high alpine passes in the Punic war... no reports of Snow Leopard attacks though :- )

    yrs nasally
    George Tuska
    my brother's keeper...

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  • Up Front: Does My Mortgage Look Like a…,

    Have I the right...

    I reckon that any attractive female who goes to a singles bar with the intention of having a good time with friends is going to be subjected to a high number of unwanted sexual advances of varying unsophistication (irrespective of whatever she wears) possibly causing her to become harassed.

    emancipation vs mens anticipation
    empathetic reaction vs pathetic mens actions

    ask yourself this question...
    sing along now...

    and back off if the answer's NO


    yrs hexagonally
    Harris Tweed
    The very fabric of society...

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  • Hard News: Friday Ideas,

    Give 'em an inch and they'll take a pill

    Viagra © puts lead in your penicil

    with a full spectrum priaprism...

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  • Hard News: Friday Ideas,

    Why have I being ignoring wired.com?

    The magazine is good too.

    True, but the point size is usually way too small, and often in colour combinations that even Oz Magazine didn't try in the '60s.

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  • Up Front: Does My Mortgage Look Like a…,

    Would that be the Hotel Babylon..?.

    More like, I believe that boorish behaviour by male and female patrons in a bar is mostly in the pursuit of happiness and in the wish to provide some happiness to another. If into this context someone enters (and like 3410 portrays it is almost always a woman) who holds boorish sexual advances to be harrassing she will be harrassed, by people who have no intention to harrass her. So yes her unhappiness is more than offset by people who have happily congregated in the bar for the purpose of boorish sexual pursuit.

    I think you may be mistaking premises
    licensed to sell liquor and entertain
    with premises in which to be licentious...
    ...different bylaws and signage apply.

    and let's define harass
    (for that is how it is is spelt.
    Embarrass has 2 Rs
    - a Freudian slip perhaps):

    subject to aggressive pressure or intimidation
    and
    make repeated small-scale attacks on

    and harassed:

    feeling or looking strained by having too many demands made on one

    Etymologically:

    Early 17th cent.: from French harasser, from harer ‘set a dog on,’ from Germanic hare,
    a cry urging a dog to attack.

    Thesaurus:

    persecute, intimidate, hound, harry, plague, torment, bully, bedevil; pester, bother, worry, disturb, trouble, provoke, stress; informal hassle, bug, ride, give someone a hard time, get on someone's case.

    Gosh - exemplary behaviour in the pursuit of happiness then.

    I feel an inflated sense of entitlement
    and a problem with commodification may be at the heart of the problem.

    I thought the Boor War was over...

    yrs convivially
    Lord Numb
    of the opi(nion)ated masses...

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  • Up Front: Does My Mortgage Look Like a…,

    Trout phishing in...

    Take me to your lieder ..
    ..as someone once remarked to Schubert

    Well, there's no need to make a song
    and dance about it... ;- )

    yrs lyrically
    Bert Shoe
    decomposer

    ps : if anyone is looking for any particular old classical music on vinyl, let me know, as quite a bit eddies past me with no good homes to go to...

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