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In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn't be a great idea. He also stipulates that "not very many" American soldiers' lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.
SOURCE: This clip was originally aired on C-SPAN3 [History] on the evening of Thursday, August 9th
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Real, genuine, old-school tape? Or that newfangled virtual tape stuff?
yup, I 'tape' it to my HDD recorder
Will it float?
__Omigod!__ That is the LAMEST part of Letterman, always sends me in to FFW ...
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Whilst certainly not his intention, film director Stanley Kubrick unwittingly did his part to perpetuate racist stereotypes about asian women. One of his characters in Full Metal Jacket brought the stereotype to a whole new younger generation:
Thanks, mate. Hearing that yelled from a car never stops being funny. And I love it when those 'cool' radio stations go 'old school' with that song by 2 Live Crew.
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Highlight: Flight of the Conchords on Letterman on Tuesday.
'Fraid not. Can you stick something sharp up the bottom of the Prime publicity dept? It's not the first time they've been found wanting ...
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Despite my advancing years I have retained my lush, long, golden-brown locks; with nary a nose-hair out of place. Unlike the rest of you sad old gits, it seems.
</Narcissism>
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Mp3s, CDs, whatever, the 7" single still rules the pop format
heh heh heh ...
... try telling that to today's kids, Grand-dad.
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'Hey [insert town name here]! I hear [insert town name here] likes to party!'?
Yeah, but can they party as hard as Shelbyville?
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Okay, here's the Rainton Haistie story (one of many possible) ....
I had occassion to find myself working for him in the mid 80s. It was the same time that a certain animal sex video was doing the rounds of NZ, that apparently half of PA readers had seen at that time also. But back then I thought I was the only one with access to this video and saw an opportunity to make some money off the 'Grand-Daddy of NZ's Sex Industry'.
I had already decided by then that Rainton was an ammoral bastard totally undeserving of the fawning press given to him, notably by the fledgling Auckland Sun, which sought to cast Rainton as our on version of Hugh Hefner. As far as I know Hef didn't keep loaded 'shooters' (my first experience of such) in his office nor did he smuggle Thai prostitutes into NZ (a Rainton innovation) to work for sex slave wages.
Anyway, despite knowing about the weaponry and that Rainton was not a man to be crossed, I decided I could still get one over on him. So I took the animal sex video to the Akl Uni AV dept, boooked an edit suite and chopped the 60 minute tape into 3 x 20 minute videos. The coup de grace was that I added 'titles' to the video indicating that they were Police exhibits, seized from [The Accused] at Auckland airport on [date]. They really did look quite professional, aside from the fact that the tape had been copied so many times my one was now almost black and white.
So I told Rainton I had a mate at Customs who could get me these seized copies for a $100 each if he was interested. Rainton said he was and forked over the cash immediately. I had already given Rainton my notice, so I delivered the tapes the night before I left, thinking I would be long gone before he discovered what shit copies they really were.
Of course Rainton watched them straight away and was back in 15 minutes to tell me they were pretty shit copies. I thought my goose was cooked and wondered what was going to happen next. Rainton just shrugged: "Tell your mate at Customs to keep the money .... and to keep an eye out for any kiddie porn. If he can get me any of that I've got a market for it. We can make some big money - the [name of ethnic group] are crazy for it."
I left as planned, and never went back.
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as a sidebar:
I once signed up for an Amex at a trade show. By the time the cards arrived (yes, it was some special deal for two) I decided I didn't want them. Rather than 'activate' the cards by signing them, I cut the cards and sent them back.
Despite this I still got a bill but the only charge on it was the membership fee. Odd since the 'special deal' was no membership fee for 12 months! And the bills kept coming, as did the threatening letters demanding payment, despite my calls to Indian call centres to explain I'd never used the card.
Took over two years before it stopped!!
NB- that new card they're offering a 'free' transtasman air ticket with has a membership fee of $350 per annum. That's the same price you'll pay for a cheap seat anyway. You'd probably wanna cancel after the first year.