Island Life: Dairy dairy me.
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While others of my generation signed up to be money market dealers and brokers, I opted for less weaselly pursuits
What, law?
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Never practiced. But touche all the same.
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My finest hour was at Toy Love gig, aged about 7, microphone crackles "hello Martha and Hana". We glowed.
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like working for a booze company, or a PR company or writing speeches for politicians, you really let your self in for that one David :)
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Re. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.I was contemplating why you would include this in your piece David and whilst doing that, I came up with it probably being the very reason I chose (via acid daze) not to go to Uni or to ever wear a suit or female derivative thereof. Thanks for that.Muchly enjoyed the journey back. :)
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like working for a booze company, or a PR company or writing speeches for politicians, you really let your self in for that one David :)
When you put it all in in sentence like that ...
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sigh - Toy Love at the Cook - never seen so much raw energy on such a small stage ....
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Doing their first best dance.
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OK, I'm a Diplomatic Immunity junkie. Which other thread was I going to post that on?
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me too Sacha....
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Thanks for the Traffic clip.
My wife always gives me that long suffering look when I play Traffic, my favourite band, loud!
And now my workmates are looking at me oddly too :).
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When you put it all in in sentence like that ...
Not all at once though. You've got to spread your evil out, like vegemite.
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It took years for me to discover the meaning of Tort. I would ask lawyers and they would reply with something to the effect of "it's a civil wrong," as if that meant anything. Then they would change the subject. I concluded that students at Law School took an oath to guard the secret of Tort.
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Yeah, one of my great law school disappointments was discovering that torts had nothing to do with delicious rich cake.
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I concluded that students at Law School took an oath to guard the secret of Tort.
Given the thread conclusion that I am one part man and eight parts weasel, I'll give it to you without embroidery: you'll have to be more sly than that to get it out of us.
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you'll have to be more sly than that to get it out of us.
We could torture you. Maybe with Torte Lore
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Cake. Next exit.
I am not that easily distracted. No, in fact, I am: how is it that the Original Sacher-Torte has been the most famous cake in the world since 1832? Did it become world famous as soon as it was invented in 1832. or had it been around for years and gained global fame in that year, for reasons undisclosed?
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Sacher-Torte bribed its way into popularity by containing more chocolate than the previous winner, Schwarzwaldkirschetorte.
Before law, I thought a tort was a large tortilla.
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Cake. Next exit.
Cake or debt.
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Goodness - that would have been the Sunshine Dairy? (or the "Bumshine Dairy" as it was called by local mischievous youth). I grew up around those parts and remember it well. The 4-Square ("Peter's 4-Square") was once a local institution that delivered to the door. It was the only grocery store for miles.
Life become much tougher for these places once they lost their monopoly on the retail sale of milk. I recall that just before the legislation changed (early 1990s?), supermarkets managed to get around the law by selling something they bizarrely called "milk-flavoured milk". This was made up of evaporated milk which was reconstituted and then blended with normal milk - thus making it a "flavoured" milk which they could legally sell - as opposed to "fresh" milk which they could not.
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Sacher-Torte bribed its way into popularity by containing more chocolate than the previous winner, Schwarzwaldkirschetorte.
Because of it's eminently attractive first name, surely?
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Goodness - that would have been the Sunshine Dairy?
Yes! I had entirely forgotten the name. There was also a dairy further along Karori Road towards the cemetery end that was dying even before the end of the monopoly came along. The family that ran it got too far behind with their suppliers and the shelves just gradually emptied as they ran out of credit. All the same, on they went for what seemed like months. It was sad to watch.
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Sacha: alas, the "ch" in Sacher-Torte is pronounced as in "loch", not as in "moustache".
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Poor Sacha
Named after a cake.
Hmmm Stephen do we know how Sacha is pronounced by his Mum?
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Not like certain scottish monster, I assure you. Worth a try..
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