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JacksonP

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:37:08 +1300

Topical, albeit a sad song. They sure did melancholy well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44wyrtwg6mQ&feature=related

JacksonP

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:19:06 +1300

A "missing" 1990 documentary about The Blue Nile

Thank you. I need a distraction.

Robyn Gallagher

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:20:34 +1300

I thought he was wearing fake comedy teeth, but they're real.

Richard Grevers

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:45:13 +1300

ok, I'm in heaven. A "missing" 1990 documentary about The Blue Nile on their US tour has just resurfaced. American imagery just suits their music to a tee.
watch here (29 minutes)

Sacha

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:58:46 +1300

now that's smart campaigning.

Steve Barnes

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:54:29 +1300

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDLPf66tmdI&feature=player_embedded

hamishm

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:50:13 +1300

Thank you Steve and Russell

Steve Barnes

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:53:07 +1300

Munters AB | Isafjordsg 1, Kista Entré | P.O. Box 1188 | S-164 26 Kista| Sweden
So now you know. ;-)

Or As wiki says

munter (plural munters)
(UK, slang, pejorative) An ugly woman
I’m never going to date her, she’s a right munter.
(New Zealand,…

Hebe

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:48:50 +1300

I'm picking the word came from Australia; don't recall it pre-1985 in NZ. then I was OE and it was definitely in current usage when I came back for a visit in the summer of 1987.

Emma Hart

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:11:46 +1300

We certainly had it in Timaru in the 80s, and one of the KAOS flats in the early 90s was known as "Munting-Spak Hall".

Hebe

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:02:19 +1300

Yes they went as silly as a two-bob watch.

Sue

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:51:50 +1300

Hey I was supposed to be the one who bought Russell Brown a bloody Maru calendar! What is the world coming to. Have trip planned and it is only just hitting me now how amazing it is going to be to go back 4 years later to Japan and make…

Biobbs

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:12:29 +1300

Seems it's even older :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Y0fRHMN2U

Andre

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:37:28 +1300

I especially revere the term bogan and the pressure Kylie Mole exerted on the red neck township.

Hebe

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:34:13 +1300

mullet
say no moreYep munted mullets. Kinda like that late night music channel on Sky.

kmont

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:18:15 +1300

Man that edit function is great. It really suits the pendant in me.

Sacha

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:14:15 +1300

mullet

say no more

kmont

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:11:08 +1300

kmont

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:06:29 +1300

Snort.

Hebe

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:56:02 +1300

Christchurch in the 1980s? I remember my little brother using it when he had a mullet.

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:23:53 +1300

Where did munter come from Russell? I heard it was South African but can never find anything to back that up

No, people assume that but I'm certain it's not true. It predates any South African influence on the vernacular. Which is just as well, because "munt" is a nasty…

Sacha

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:48:37 +1300

I'm all establishment and shit now

so Te Standard tells me

hamishm

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:45:22 +1300

Where did munter come from Russell? I heard it was South African but can never find anything to back that up

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:38:25 +1300

The "nek minnit" thing is older than that. My partner was using it about 6 years ago, and when I asked him where it came from, he said his ex used to say it all the time. So it's at least 10 years old.

Fascinating!

A bit like munter/munted, then.…

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:23:28 +1300

bumptious little oaf

outstanding

Lolz. I was fairly lively in those days, eh?

I'm all establishment and shit now. Got a mortgage and everything.

Richard Grevers

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:17:48 +1300

All your meme are belong to us

hamishm

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:09:48 +1300

OMG I remember hearing Banks saying that on the radio, the big old valve radio where the family gathered for "Family Songbook" of an evening while father churned the butter.

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:07:34 +1300

Daze of wine and roses…

Saw them at The Kardomah Cafe, King's Cross in 1987. Only 24(!) years ago. Geez, now I'm depressed...

Wait, where's my cane?

Sacha

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:58:32 +1300

old Duffer

up the

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:43:54 +1300

No room at the Finn...
Hey now, hey now...
I'm not one to split hairs
more of an old Duffer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-s7ol38Ifs&feature=related

Sacha

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:40:46 +1300

bumptious little oaf

outstanding

Rich Lock

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:29:54 +1300

So I randomly clicked on some old waybacked hard news, and ended up in April 1996

http://web.archive.org/web/19970104180105/http://speeches.com/hardn23.html

John Banks, the bumptious little oaf, had bragged that he would release under Parliamentary privilege the names of all doctors performing abortions in New Zealand, so in Banks’ own words: “You can walk…

Marcus Turner

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:19:48 +1300

Some more old stuff. Fridayish: http://www.sergent.com.au/music/nzmusic.html

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:56:06 +1300

David Slack has Waybacked the old pages. Awesomeness ...

http://web.archive.org/web/19961222213105/http://speeches.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/19970104175221/http://speeches.com/hardnws.html

nothingelseon

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:26:09 +1300

Sacha

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:07:38 +1300

Hey now, hey now..

Sacha

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:06:47 +1300

The "nek minnit" thing is older than that. ... Would love to know where it originally came from.

That would be a good story, yes.

Ross Mason

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:24:57 +1300

Y Front Jockeys??? No way!

James W

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:51:00 +1300

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:24:53 +1300

Daze of wine and roses…
Indeed! And to think I thought
“I wonder if anyone will get the joke?"
Not the Screaming Memes then…
:- )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G6zA-LKOLI&feature=related

George Darroch

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:41:27 +1300

And a rather breathless, but still touching 20/20 segment which focuses on his person and explains a little of the motivation behind such a personality.

JacksonP

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:40:21 +1300

This Tui wasn't bad.

Lana Del Ray has been smoking my bacon for a little while now.

I've also been haunted by hearing Tiny Ruins at Roundhead last week. She (Hollie Fullbrook) had a motor cycle accident in Zanzibar and has had to cancel her upcoming concert tour in NZ…

Jeremy Andrew

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:37:37 +1300

The meme police, they live inside of your head.
#geezi'mold

Rich Lock

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:37:12 +1300

Favourite Nek Minnit re-rub:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDrV_jzfJ5Y

George Darroch

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:34:49 +1300

Hawken is... beyond description.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27m1842awf8

Russell Brown

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:30:07 +1300

“Meme Syndicate” – ho,ho, yet another nice music pun for a post header Russell. One day I will trawl the PA archives and make a list of all the music puns you’ve used. It’d make a hell of a playlist, I suspect.

Indeed! And to think I thought "I wonder…

Sacha

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:23:43 +1300

One of the young Whangarei locals in Campbell Live's RWC caravan session last night even slipped in a cheeky #nekminnit

Grant McDougall

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:17:28 +1300

"Meme Syndicate" – ho,ho, yet another nice music pun for a post header Russell. One day I will trawl the PA archives and make a list of all the music puns you've used. It'd make a hell of a playlist, I suspect.

Public Address

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:17:28 +1300

Discussion from blog post.