Public Address | Cafe | Busytown: A series of tubes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address samuel walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49734#post49734 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49734#post49734 yeah,

those Dan twins sure are clever.

]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 13:49:32 +1200 Brent Jackson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49590#post49590 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49590#post49590 Hey, that Dan & Dan video is great – so well done – the guy must be a professional !

Now I know the origin of that expression "Right said Fred, both of us together" (always stated tunefully). It was a family saying, usually said when it was time to leave…

]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 09:04:34 +1200 Amy Gale https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49468#post49468 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49468#post49468

That's my point. Vintage had a specific meaning and it has now "been repurposed by the snob classes" to refer to anything bought secondhand.

Although, to be fair, when someone is rude about your beautifully hideous eBayed paisley dress it is kind of nice to be able to drolly say…

]]> Tue, 06 May 2008 03:35:42 +1200 Sarah Wedde https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49278#post49278 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49278#post49278

'Vintage' is something which evokes, through spirited or beautiful design, the era in which it was made.

That's my point. Vintage had a specific meaning and it has now "been repurposed by the snob classes" to refer to anything bought secondhand.

]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 10:57:35 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49060#post49060 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49060#post49060 Thu, 01 May 2008 15:39:12 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49056#post49056 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49056#post49056 Thu, 01 May 2008 14:29:00 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49055#post49055 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49055#post49055 Thu, 01 May 2008 14:28:06 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49040#post49040 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49040#post49040 Thu, 01 May 2008 12:35:14 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49025#post49025 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49025#post49025

It makes me think what's going on there?

An effect only enhanced by the exclamation mark behind them. And is that an ice-block Ans Westra is holding?

Yay, new blog!

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 11:25:56 +1200 Sarah Wedde https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49022#post49022 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49022#post49022

It makes me think what's going on there?

It makes me thank that too, and I was there. The tragedy of old age. I've filled in the blank with a naked tango involving Chris Knox and Beardy-Weirdy man.

BTW, Sarah, are you blogging these days?

I started a [[http://subverted.wordpress.com/ |…

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 11:14:49 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49017#post49017 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49017#post49017 Thu, 01 May 2008 10:57:16 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49016#post49016 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49016#post49016

Just had a trawl through my iPhoto collection and this I believe is the sister in question? (Pardon the crappy photo.)

It's a great photo! It makes me think what's going on there?

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 10:56:12 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49015#post49015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49015#post49015 Bingo! That's my sis. And I know Beardy Weirdy Man, too.

So cool that you captured the behind-the-scenes action. What did the littlies make of it all?

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 10:54:47 +1200 Sarah Wedde https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49011#post49011 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=49011#post49011 this I believe is the sister in question? (Pardon the crappy photo.) ]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 10:45:31 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48999#post48999 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48999#post48999 Nice pics, Sarah! (And your hair grew – who knew?)

And oh my god, that cheese chips entree. I think that's what Elvis was eating immediately prior to his terminal event on the commode.

Christine Kenneally wrote this excellent piece on Outback Steakhouse a while ago, but it still speaks…

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 09:23:05 +1200 Sarah Wedde https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48998#post48998 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48998#post48998 photos at the New Artland event with Ans Westra. ]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 09:08:31 +1200 Jake Pollock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48997#post48997 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48997#post48997 isn't really Australian, so it makes sense that the guy on their commercial isn't either. ]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 08:55:45 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48996#post48996 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48996#post48996

I reckon. And what with FoTC burning up the TV (psst, Amy, how do you think I watched the whole first series? Let's just say in bite-sized chunks), and Jemaine doing the Outback Steakhouse ads, the covert Kiwi takeover of American consciousness is almost complete...

And he plays an Aussie!…

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 08:43:44 +1200 Amy Gale https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48994#post48994 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48994#post48994

And what with FoTC burning up the TV (psst, Amy, how do you think I watched the whole first series? Let's just say in bite-sized chunks)

Ah, but see, we explicitly wanted to be counted in any network measurements of People Who Watched It.

Not that our puny contribution mattered…

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 08:39:46 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48989#post48989 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48989#post48989 Jackie, I had to go googling to find you an answer. It looks like Newhart (the second series) was based in Vermont, perhaps in a small town called New Haven? But I couldn't swear to it.

If you watch the new Indiana Jones movie, though, you'll see some very nice…

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 08:01:18 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48988#post48988 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48988#post48988 Thu, 01 May 2008 07:47:15 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48987#post48987 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48987#post48987 Any YouTube footage of that performance, Danielle? Sounds solid gold!

I certainly hope Heineken makes him hugely rich, anyway.

I reckon. And what with FoTC burning up the TV (psst, Amy, how do you think I watched the whole first series? Let's just say in bite-sized chunks), and Jemaine doing…

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 07:37:06 +1200 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48986#post48986 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48986#post48986 Awww guys, you're making me blush. I was worried that was the most uninspired "where have I been" post ever. Still, when words (or other people's immune systems) fail me, I can link – and embed! – with the best of 'em.

Lyndon:

I didn't realise how good [Tom Lehrer]…

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 07:25:52 +1200 Amy Gale https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48983#post48983 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48983#post48983

We do in fact have a TV at home, but we only use it for DVDs.

Our line is "we do in fact have all the premium channels, but we only got them for FotC".

What? You're saying that FotC is over and there won't be another series for more…

]]> Thu, 01 May 2008 02:42:37 +1200 Venetia King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48974#post48974 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48974#post48974 O how sad I am to be on dial-up, when I could be watching Mole's adventures again, and exciting new NZ arts programming! One day...
That Lavinia Greenlaw book looked just my sort of thing too, I'll have to have a hunt for it. Thanks for the tip :)

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:34:50 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48973#post48973 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48973#post48973 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:40:03 +1200 Jeremy Andrew https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48970#post48970 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48970#post48970

Now I want one of the major diaper manufacturers to pounce on his song

Diapers?? Sorry Jolisa, you're being assimilated. Best you hop on that plane and spend some quality time with New Zild nappies before the process becomes complete...

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:44:50 +1200 Ethan Tucker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48969#post48969 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48969#post48969 Thanks for posting the splendid mole from days of yore – however did you find it (he asked, rhetorically)?

I often wonder what interesting things TVNZ's former penchant for bargain basement job-lots of Eastern European programming have done to those of us who grew up watching more TV than was…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:44:16 +1200 Belt https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48968#post48968 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48968#post48968

"sent the two year old to the hospital, where I spent a couple of not completely horrible days watching him rehydrate on a drip, master the buttons on the electric bed, and discover the hitherto unknown delights of 24/7 cable TV"

I hear ya.

Except they gave mine morphine. And…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:19:46 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48967#post48967 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48967#post48967 Very nice to see you back, Jolisa. A child in hospital seems like a pretty good excuse to me (in fact, just a child, full stop).

As always, I really enjoyed your book reviews. Someone should give you an award for them...

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:40:27 +1200 George Darroch https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48966#post48966 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48966#post48966

I would love to watch it, but I can't: a little notice comes up saying "This video is for New Zealand viewers only." I flipping well am a New Zealand viewer, dammit.

That, and the Youtube message "this video is not available in your country". I don't want a segregated…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:39:57 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48961#post48961 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48961#post48961 Yay, a Jolisa post! With The Goodies! And The Wombles! Now, if only YouTube had some Woolly Valley clips... anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Now I want one of the major diaper manufacturers to pounce on his song The Joy of Sex, with its insanely catchy chorus of "Baby baby baby baby…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:24:27 +1200 Lyndon Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48957#post48957 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48957#post48957 I actually remember, and have recalled more than once in the interim, that Tom Lehrer "-ly" song from spome point in my youth. Although I had never connected it with Lehrer I didn't have to listen to realise you were right..

While I had a decent memory of the tune…

]]> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:00:54 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48956#post48956 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-a-series-of-tubes/?p=48956#post48956 Discussion from blog post.

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