Posts by Joe Wylie
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Because the differences between losing one’s slot on Radio Live and facing a criminal conviction should be evident to a legal beagle.
No longer the ‘legal beagle’, supporting his contributions with specific references to his legal knowledge. For me, Edgeler as freebagging public intellectual is, I’m truly sorry to say, pretty much indistinguishable from the standard self-important suburban crackpot.
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Up Front: To the Letter, in reply to nzlemming,
It was pretty much Wellington’s Chinatown up until the 60’s
Haining Street was where the unfortunate Joe Kum Yung met his end at the hand of the white supremacist Lionel Terry.
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Up Front: To the Letter, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
… the manifesto my father penned, explaining why he and his fellow soldiers were refusing to return to the war in the North Africa, when troops from the Second Echelon were home on leave in NZ.
He actually wrote it? Fascinating stuff. My father was part of the Second Echelon. It was only years after his death that I found a lot of material relating to the ‘mutiny’, as some called it at the time, tightly crammed into a tobacco tin among his effects. While he appears to have been a willing signatory, everything relating to that episode seemed firmly quarantined from other wartime memorabilia in its own little time capsule.
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Hard News: How a thing happens, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Proper censorship
...is not normally quite that drastic. It would more likely take the form of government or party officials (often leaving it unclear precisely who) ordering that their broadcast be cut,
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Hard News: How do you sleep?, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm glad I gave it time, as it looks pretty weird at first.
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As long as you have something more productive to do than joining your fellow dotards on late-night talkback. In the meantime, may I suggest this. Works for me.
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The persecution of Arie-Smith-Voorkamp, and the subsequent blatantly clumsy attempts to intimidate the media, took place on Marshall's watch. In light of that, Kracklite's misgivings seem well justified.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Alec Morgan,
“Eat more, root more, drink more piss!”
"R-E-D - red's the best!"
You know Alec, I'd really come to believe that we could happily forget all that, but thanks for remembering.
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Speaker: Gender quotas (and helping…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I can imagine John Tamihere is seriously thinking about gender reassignment already...
(I mean, how hard could it be, right?)Going on JT's past form it'd be a piece of piss. All you need to do is move one body part from the back to the front.