Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Cool & Confident Butcherbird
I used to enjoy John Dengate, who'd answer Sydney listeners' questions about backyard wildlife on ABC radio. When a caller asked why the butcherbird that had taken to showing up at his backyard bird feeding station didn't make a meal of the other birds - because butcherbirds occasionally do that - he was told to "just keep feeding him."
A standard feature of Dengate's radio sessions would be the caller who'd been blessed with a "marsupial" visitor, only to have their hopes dashed with "It's a rat."
"But they sit up on their hind legs!"
"It's a rat."
"They climb trees . . ."
"It's a rat."
"They have the cutest little faces . . ."
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Julie Cross,
Aussie birds are pretty but they tend to have very harsh and sometimes disturbing calls (like whips and whistles and shrieks) - not much of that gorgeous birdsong that fills the bush back home - something I still miss.
Oz birdsong - "Like a chipmunk throwing up" as a Canadian of my acquaintance once put it. It's hard to beat any of the butcherbirds for gorgeous morning birdsong, though from my experience they only stay resident for a week or two before moving on.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Transit of Venus
Needed a close Captain Cook to ID the driver.
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to Bruce Ward,
That cartoon did appear in the Nelson Mail where the editorial page normally has a cartoon titled Moreu's View.
Thanks for that Bruce, nice to know he's around.
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I suspect it is Mike Moreu
Has to be, but without the conclusive signature I wondered if he had a new ID. Any idea where his editorial stuff appears now? I believe that the Nelson Mail used to be his home base. He was certainly appreciated while he was around. A pity that the Press has reverted to its old assumption that treating its readership like adults when it comes to editorial cartoons is a kind of fluffy option.
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
and to this
Well spotted sir. That's what provoked me to attempt to ID the apparent original author, who's predated Emerson's effort by almost a week. The self-effacing signature doesn't help.
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Please can anyone ID this cartoonist? Their stuff regularly appears uncredited on Bryce Edwards' Liberation blog. Bears a passing similarity to Mike Moreu who abruptly vanished a while back.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Perhaps you could weigh in on the other great Press story of Gerry Brownlee's 'straightened times' ...
Ah what the hell. Seriously, I reckon the main reason Brownlee comes out with this stuff is because it pisses off people he doesn't like.
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
By the Kool-Aid table, right?
According to the ploddingly goofy Tahu Potiki, Tamaki's a victim of the chardonnay set's contempt for Kool-Aid, with extra demerits for being indigenous.
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Hard News: Press Play > Budget, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Re. the Miniplenty mug - will you be doing a visual size comparison with the "regular cup", or would that be giving the game away?
