Posts by Joe Wylie

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  • Hard News: We'll find out where all the…,

    Can you imagine a "dry" NZ?

    I did spend a few years in Grey Lynn when it was "dry", but I doubt it'd be like that. More like the present gang 'problem', exponentially multiplied.

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  • Hard News: We'll find out where all the…,

    When things happen in Christchurch they happen in Christchurch but if they happen in Auckland its considered localised. "Oh thats a shore thing" or "yeah that sort of thing happens in South Auckland".

    Yes.
    Presumably that ancient Metro piece advocating that Auckland secede from the great Southern unwashed (I believe it was Owen McShane plugging a Singapore-style fantasy) assumed that the border would be a little north of Mangere Bridge.

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  • Hard News: Compromise,

    Anybody read A Distant Episode, Paul Bowles's nasty little tale about a professor of linguistics who literally loses his tongue?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Distant_Episode

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  • Hard News: The Civility Code,

    I prefer the large squeaks of pleasure...pigs go on for three minutes you know. I don't know about guniea pigs though

    Here you go:
    http://www.cavycam.com/audio.htm

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  • Hard News: The Civility Code,

    albatrosses, also single pairers, they have such compassionate eyes. unlike the mollymawk in my opinion, who totally look like albatross turned acid freaks.

    Sir Charles Brooke, the second "White Rajah" of Sarawak, lost an eye in a foxhunting accident during a visit to England in 1912. One day when walking in London, his son said, “Father, don’t you think it’s time you got yourself a glass eye?” The rajah went into a taxidermist’s shop and bought the first eye he saw — one made for a stuffed albatross.
    While Brooke was supposed to have been perfectly happy with the arrangement, others found his appearance somewhat unnerving.
    Must have been a mollymawk eye.

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  • Southerly: Could the Mysterious…,

    By my everlasting tail, you're right, it COULD be the muskrat - darn tiny gravatars - but it's meant to be the Groke:

    Then - they saw the Groke. Everybody saw her. She sat motionless on the sandy path at the bottom of the steps and stared at them with round, expressionless eyes. She was not particularly big and didn't look dangerous either, but you felt that she was terribly evil and would wait for ever. And that was awful.

    Being something of a science klutz, I'm very appreciative of such marvellous communicators as Colin Tudge and Tim Flannery, who make the most vital and fascinating information accessable. Flannery's regular radio spot with John Doyle on Sydney's 2BL in the 90s was a must-listen for me. While I'm familiar with the account of aboriginal firestick farming from The Future Eaters, the 'Maori soils' stuff was news to me. What you're doing here is terrific, thanks again.

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  • Southerly: Could the Mysterious…,

    Fascinating stuff, many thanks. Meanwhile, an interesting piece on a very similar Australian initiative:

    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050307R.shtml

    Very encouraging to see current Australian of the Year Tim Flannery (__The Future Eaters, The Weather Makers__) giving his support.

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  • Hard News: Compromise,

    I'm guilty of this, and I've been on the receiving end, too, so I know what I'm talking about.

    Everyone has their Pantomime Dame moments. Bishop Brian is one of the few who's like that 24/7.

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  • Island Life: Sorted for E's and Votes,

    I once read somewhere that PCP stands for Pussy Cat Pituitary. Is that why dogs chase cats?

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  • Island Life: Sorted for E's and Votes,

    the normal long to be different

    That'd acount for at least 95% of tattoos & piercings.

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