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Mark McCloud (the historian of LSD blotter art) remembered that when he lived in Paris as a student at the American College, another student discovered that the yellow payphones could be modified to give unlimited credit by removing a metal plate and setting some digits to '999'. Apparently there's an in-joke to this effect in Fernando Solanas' 1986 film 'Tangos, el exilio de Gardel'.
I've really enjoyed this thread. Things like this are too easily forgotten, and I really hope that you wise people come up with some other obscurities of New Zealand life.
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In anticipation of next year's flood tide of nationalism and semi-festive World War One 'commemorations', I re-read Paul Fussell's heartbreaking 'The Great War and Modern Memory'.
John Barry's 1964 biography of psychotic 19th century Norfolk Island prison governor John Giles Price was also fascinating. Clive James was referring to Price when he compared the prison to pre-Holocaust Dachau and observed that its purpose was,
not so much to kill people as to see how much they could suffer and still want to stay alive.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
Sorry, first time caller.
That is Annabel Young, ministerial advisor and erstwhile National MP.
Parliamentary trivia buffs will remember her yawn as the reason Speaker Hunt banned cameras from the House. -
That is Annabel Young, ministerial advisor and erstwhile National MP.
Parliamentary trivia buffs will remember her yawn as the reason Speaker Hunt banned cameras from the House.