Posts by Leopold

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  • Up Front: Boobs!,

    As an owner of a fine pair, how do manboobs fit into this seismic experiment? Or does God have a pair himself, and is consequently less excited? Should we form a Gents' Auxiliary for the Big Day Out?
    C'mon Iranian clergy, we need to know!

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • Hard News: RT: Eyjafjallajokull,

    If God really was angry about HCR in the US, why would He have shown His anger by messing up air transport in Britain, France and Scandinavia?

    So among the attributes of God, in addition to being eternal, infinite, indefinable and omniscient, we can include having a bad aim and/or peculiar sense of humour?

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • Hard News: Transferring wealth to Wellington,

    Off topic, but just wondering - why the good folk of Chch are quite happy to accept that their city is snobby and packed to the gunwhales with serial murderers and wannabe Third Reichers, while Dunedinites only claim to fame is a non-university inhabited by student alcoholic couchburners, and North Palmerstonians and Hamiltrons accept that they are indistinguishable from the cabbages of Sto Lat?
    And we won't go into the provinces...
    No complaints from any of them. Why are Wellington/Auckland so precious about their image?

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • Field Theory: A post about art (sort of),

    Jesse Ryder?

    this statue would be in Courtenay Place, surely?

    In a horizontal position?

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • Hard News: Start with your conclusion,

    Re George Soros

    'Of course there are extra-terrestrials among us - they are called Hungarians" - Enrico Fermi

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • Field Theory: The Sad News Springboks,

    Fer chrissake, the target audience for the film is North American, 99% will have never heard of rugby and less of the RWC - They wouldn't care less what actually hoppen. Its a myth.
    (NZ version of the film presumably wou;ld have someone playing Suzie the Waitress as Peinaar's Evil Mistress...)
    I liked the movie.

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • Speaker: The Architecture of Elsewhere,

    "Just look at what they're doing to the National Library building. Slapping acres of glass on the front, and Supreme Court style metal facades on the side in order to destroy the form of the original building. "

    Fret not. The rebuilding budget has been severely cut back, so the outward form will remain the same for the forseeable future...

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • Speaker: The Architecture of Elsewhere,

    "And speaking of NZ architecture (or lack thereof) I've become really disturbed at how many new houses are built in the style of 1930s state houses."

    I'll stick with that design rather than those faux-mediterranee efforts, thanks - far better adapted to NZ climate (hint: we are pluvial) - and the much derided 1930's state houses had quality workmanship and materials

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Google to Embargo China,

    Messrs Semmens and London seem to be kindred spirits:

    http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/StrengthStrong/invasion.html

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

  • Hard News: Celebrity Gibberish,

    The person I feel sorry for is the unemployed struggling student whom AUSA would have had to pay for being a DJ and whose potential job has now been taken away by Mikey doing it for free

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report

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