Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2011 -- The Vote!, in reply to Yamis,
I can't say I've heard ANYBODY in my Auckland walk of life use it this year. And I'm a Westie (+ Westie high school teacher)
Kiss of death then. Like, once I'M IN UR SOMETHING, WHATEVERING YOUR WHATEVER got picked up by academia it was well & truly, um, munted for regular usage.
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Hard News: A modest appeal, in reply to Lilith __,
Stripeys and family in Avonside a couple of months back.
Amazing how the bush takes these places back, though.
Amazingly fast sometimes. In the late 60s the houses from the former timber mill at Kotuku were only distinguishable as mounds of blackberry with the occasional chimney. although they'd only been abandoned less than 15 years.
At Notown though, a couple of valleys down from Nelson Creek, the old schoolhouse was being used as a hay barn in the 70s. There were still chalk drawings on the blackboard, with a date from 1941, presumably the last day of school there. It was as if the kids had been allowed to draw what they pleased. There were pictures of streamlined Buck Rogers-style cars and planes, and a large depiction of a boxer fighting a tiger. Wished I'd had a camera.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to nzlemming,
Sure it wasn’t Spiny Norman?
Chook'd know.
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Hard News: A modest appeal, in reply to Islander,
The ring weighs one troy ounce, and This too shall pass is engraved, in runes,
on the inside.Thanks Islander. My engineer ancestor William Wylie spent his working life in mining ventures, including Preservation Inlet, Ross, Central Otago, and Australia. According to his 1924 obituary, at one stage he "went to manage a dredging venture at Okarito, in the south of Westland, but owing to the dredge pontoons being lost while being towed down the coast, the venture fell through."
When I first read that I thought 'Good job too.' The same thought recurred to me when reading your story.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
"Some say this is everything from the ravings of someone on the brink of death to poetry to secrets of the mob world. You be the judge."
I’ll go for poetry. Schultz is rather more forthcoming than a gentleman who appeared before the NSW Royal Commission into police corruption back in the 90s. While he admitted to having underworld connections he declined to name names as he feared reprisals. After prolonged questioning as to exactly who he was afraid of he allowed as to how he had a particular fear of someone known to him only as Wally the Wombat.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
What! That’s not a tanning clinic?
It’s the leaving the head on that gets me, because the dentition is superficially similar. Like, ‘Dear God, is that what I think it is?’
’Yeah, that’s Schultz, he was all over the news last week, shot dead in the line of duty. We got him cheap from the police.”Would I make the same mistake in a tanning clinic, even with my eyeglasses on? Fortunately I’ll never know.
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Islander,
Dear heaven - if only he had had the graphics!
He probably did, until DeepRed pinched his PowerPoint presentation. Very convincing, and rather less disturbing than the unfortunate pig burning in hell just a few posts down from the beloved doggie over at the City Scenes thread.
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Capture: City Scenes, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Great shot, love the mini version in the LCD.
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2011 -- The Vote!, in reply to Lilith __,
S’alright. Twatcock is so 2010 ;-)
'fraid so :-(
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2011 -- The Vote!, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
This year, when Bob Parker used in the sort of circumstances where a more formal term might have been expected, it gained a new level of meaning, expressing that things are too bad to be polite about.
Like for example this piece of fawning Dear Leaderism. Whether or not it's at the behest of his minders, these days we tend to get just Bob, minus the fluffy side-dressing of Her Ditziness.