Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
who'll wear dismantle?
we are post-postmodern!
Might as well pick it up, now that academic arts faculties have been all but deconstructed. A dirty job but someone's gotta do it.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Sacha,
we have “too many MPs”
another measure of the right’s success in pushing over many years the notion that government is a problem
Especially droll when coupled with "catch up with Australia", the land of multiple multi-level parliaments.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Simon Grigg,
We took the 1956 Plymouth back to NZ in 1960 (transit paid for by Her Majesty) and sold it in 1964, with Mum and Dad almost doubling the money they paid for it in ’58.
Delightful pic. Possibly the only one of that model to make it to NZ. Despite being highly sought after, classic wagons were as rare as rocking horse droppings here thanks to import restrictions. Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth started the tailfin trend that year. They went higher and sharkier than Cadillac, even persisting into the early 60s when it suddenly became uncool.
An eBay postcard here - Going Places with the YOUNG IN HEART.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Rachel Prosser,
It’s got to be Munted. Nothing else has taken over vocabulary and become mainstream in quite the same way.
Reckon you're right. Just as Munted appeared to be munted, the quakes brought it back.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Hebe,
Not a word; but next year I reckon the book to write is “Decorating with Duct Tape”.
Gaffer it.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Cadillac Eldorado 1969 Taipa car fair 2008
A great rarity in NZ. Probably the very model driven by Pablo Picasso:
Well the girls would turn the color of an avocado
As he would drive down their street in his Eldorado
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The NZ version of "don't you worry about that", methinks?
As long as we're in the wacky world of Joh Bjelke-speak, was the Epsom tea party an example of "feeding the chooks", Premier Joh's favourite phrase for dealing with the media?
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Speaker: Eat, Drink, Rebuild, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
Church Corner also has Patisserie Yahagi, the award-winning Japanese cake shop.
+++1111 - those manuka madeleines.
Also The Red Bean Bakery in those parts does neat little green tea cookies. -
Mr Allan Wylie's '36 coupe above Sumner.
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First car, 1928 Ford A. Also featured my first flame job, which was to discourage my Dad from borrowing it, but that didn't deter him.
Drove around the North Island in it with my mechanical genius brother when I was 16. Not fast, but even on the steepest hills it pulled like 40 bastards.Also the family folding Kodak had a light leak.
