Hard News: Congratulations, Mr Key
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nuanced opinion and all kinds of valuable cultural capital.
valuable? capital?cultural?I can do that. ca ching..$$$ ca ching (wonder what currency we're talking here?)
Michael, that dog looks like mine but not quite the same, longer nose, and mines a girl and then I don't really know what size that one is so, i'll say, could look like mine. :) -
Islander, will know for sure toward end of January but I think so.
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Hmm- prickery. Roflnui/lolnui. Hey lexicographers, swarm in! Fresh meat
Danielle's handiwork, credit where credit is due.
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Dinah Dunavan
"I'm flumoxed on Ian Wishart. He went to Onslow College at the same time as me. We were at an incredibly liberal secondary school."When writing a history of Onslow College for its 50th birthday in 2006, I asked several former students for memories of the school. Ian Wishart kindly and promptly provided a couple of paragraphs in which he looked back favourably on his time at the school, 'It certainly helped me (which I'm sure some now regret) become a self-starter'.
If you would like a copy of the history I still have a few copies. It is full of school memories from a cross section of NZ's interesting and influential, including several MPs, such as Trevor Mallard who recalled unjust physical punishment meted out by the art teacher.
Also featured is former secondary school activist, the new Green MP Catherine Delahunty.
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You ever given up smoking?
If that's for me, yes, I woke up once, and was told I hadn't had a cigarette for 5 weeks, actually hadn't done much at all, (I'll blame the doctors) so thought it rather stupid to resume. Now it's been 5 years. I so happy! :)
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Craig:Do you think that Nats would rush forward and offer a helping hand if it was Labour who had to face the economic onslaught?
If they weren't thoroughly pickled in bitter crazy juice, you betcha.
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60 Minutes.... Australians are moving here! Shit are the TV channels working for National?
I don't know -- I'm still trying to figure out why the Campbell Live piece on Simon Bridges had these random extreme close up pans across his right eyebrow. Someone go on the razzle with a company credit card?
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If that's for me, yes, I woke up once, and was told I hadn't had a cigarette for 5 weeks, actually hadn't done much at all, (I'll blame the doctors) so thought it rather stupid to resume. Now it's been 5 years. I so happy! :)
Sure, it's easy when you're in a coma ;)
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I think so too so..... don't ask. I am sure Craig would agree, (he should have his mojo on by now, surely?)
At this rate, I'm going to be more Fat Bastard than Austin Powers. I can't see eating half a kilo of high-fibre muesli a day having a happy ending.
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Sure, it's easy when you're in a coma ;)
Yep easiest withdrawal so far :) Silver lining an' all
At this rate, I'm going to be more Fat Bastard
you could try chemo, does wonders for the figure :)
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If you would like a copy of the history I still have a few copies.
Yes please! Feel free to flick me an email.
Signed, 1993 7th-former.
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Incidentally, how many commentator have already invoked Night of the Living Dead when talking about Douglas? Seems like that's a meme that will stick
OK, fodder for the cartoonists:
Key=Kane
ACT=facehugger
Douglas=chestburster
English=AshWhere's Ripley?
To be honest, I remember Trace Hodgson doing a Douglas-as-chestburster cartoon during the Lange government.
Machiavelli once wrote, "Your greatest strength is your greatest weakness". It could be that Key's greatest weakness will be his strength. By that I mean that his very lack of apparent belief in anything will mean that he will be more interested in power than ideology - and that therefore extreme ideology that would alienate (pun intended) the electorate and limit his government to one term is precisely what he'll do his best to avoid. Holding ACT at arm's length and attempting at least to open a dialogue with the Maori Party would seem to indicate this... not to mention that that may just tease Te Borg (self-mockery of simplified characterisation intended also) away from Labour, making National a centrist and 'natural party of government' in the long term. It may be also that National itself has misjudged him and that the smiling assassin will start cutting their dead wood...
My, I've just got my pony and it's delicious.
Isn't wishful thinking fun?
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My, I've just got my pony and it's delicious.
Isn't wishful thinking fun?The particular wishful thought I've been ruminating is that, asinine as his speech the other night was, Key just seemed so happy. A Tory Prime Minister who at heart just wants to be loved may do considerable less damage than one who wants to do the right thing by his ideology to get the country through a rough patch.
Then again, I wasn't in the country back then but the accounts I read suggest that Lange also wanted to be loved.
Fuck me, I just ran over my pony.
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Fuck me, I just ran over my pony.
God, I love that expression. I was just talking to my lovely friend in Wgtn - very liberal, Jewish National voter - and I think my pony may have just bought it too.
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Mr Key and his ponies is another meme that's off at a trot.
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Que?? Key on a pony?
I must have missed a whole chunk of smart arsery. Translation?
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Pony? Bloody hell, I drank the one that came in the mail - you mean that was it?
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Sofie: Reading between the lines you sound like a great survivor. Cheers.
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National won the election by offering NZers everything Labour did, plus a pony. Or something like that.
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It may be also that National itself has misjudged him and that the smiling assassin will start cutting their dead wood...
Could be why there appears to be factions . Snakes and ladders?
My, I've just got my pony and it's delicious.
yep that sets the tone nicely.
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Could be why there appears to be factions . Snakes and ladders?
Looks like we could be in for an interesting few years...
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If you buggers could just learn to save your ponies, we wouldn't be in this mess.
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I think the principle is this: if you're wishing for something very desirable and particularly unlikely, why not wish for a pony as well whilst you're at it?
Case in point, a few threads ago Kyle wished that someone would start an inquiry based for once entirely on non-partisan desire to protect our democracy. It wouldn't have done him any harm to have wished that everyone get a pony too.
Running over a pony presumably means that once wishful thinking has landed you in a mental happy place where you can almost sense your longed-for pony, some element of reality intervenes, and the result is several dozen boxes of Pedigree dogroll...
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Sofie: Reading between the lines you sound like a great survivor. Cheers.
It aint been all roses Ian but that is just life so not complaining. I have the best man to thank for making the road less rocky. Life is still the best thing I got , and yeah, I am a bit of a tough bitch too :)
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If you buggers could just learn to save your ponies, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Dude, have you any idea of the stable fees?
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