Posts by Lea Barker
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behind the tin of Oak beetroot
Gary, if you have tins of Oak beetroot languishing in your cupboard, please send them to me here in the US. What a hug from home they would be!
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My Christmas tree was a ponderosa pine in Grand Canyon National Park, and the presents under it were deer droppings! Wished I'd noticed that BEFORE I sat down.
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Aaaah! And those wonderful Roger-mobiles heading away from Patea taking all the town's jobs at the freezing works and dairy factory with them. The railway jobs had long gone, of course, thanks to Roger's mate Ricky P.
This was the 80s, remember, when NZ was busily trying to emulate the US's obsession with investment portfolios instead of social welfare, not realizing the US was only obsessed with investments because a loophole in the federal tax legislation allowed employers to offer retirement savings plans to workers as a "perk".
A loophole wangled by one of the US's biggest employers, who later reneged on paying the workers back the compulsory contributions they took out of their pay packet for thirty years.
Sorry. Off topic. Great video!
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Although it's meant for US audiences being bamboozled by retailers in the run-up to the February 17, 2009, deadline for analog broadcasts to end, the PDF booklet A Consumer's Guide to the Wonderful World of HDTV at Antenna Web might be of some general interest to y'all.
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TKI gets my vote for one of the Web's greatest hits.