is it Mu or Rlyeh?

O Rlyeh?

Ya Rlyeh.

My impression was of an open botanical gardens type place and of a famous philosopher speaking to the crowd (wearing drapey toga-ish clothes which were not at all out of place).

aaah! – Atlantis is rising again...
or is it Mu or Rlyeh?

...bubbling up through the consciousness…

I don’t have a guest list for my grandfather’s christening, but perhaps a couple of his older mates were there?

Sigh – perhaps a couple of his grandfather's older mates – but I guess that was obvious. Outrageous Fortune was about to start and I had to eff…

She shows every sign of reaching 90 in 2 months, to be followed a few weeks later by the 90th anniversary of the death of her father.…

Hilary – given the Greeks didnt wear togas...cloaks kilts tunics loincloths nothing – all go but togas were a veryRoman upper class thing-

It was a dream. One of those really vivid ones you remember after you wake up and then you try and make sense of it. I was…

Hilary – given the Greeks didnt wear togas...cloaks kilts tunics loincloths nothing – all go but togas were a veryRoman upper class thing-

She did say Ancient Greece "or similar", which I think technically makes it Ancient Grome.

dream sounds a good omen though!

Greece or similar and toga-ed Russell was actually addressing the PAS crowd, in a literal public address.

Was he wearing sandals? This seems all too familiar.
Or maybe it was more akin to this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvmLDkAgAM

Hard to beat a tunic and tights. In any case, Kenneth Branagh should definitely play…

(Maybe that's how it is in a parallel universe?)

Given the direction of this thread to date, it was probably just a toga party.

And all this in a thread dedicated to my sainted mother ...

Russell, thank you for the universal mother story. And sorry again for the earlier unintentional wind up at a stressful time.

By the way, had a very strange PAS-related dream the other night set in a large garden…

Just as well you didn't involve any members I actually know.

Snigger. Sorry, I'm just having a regressive juvi moment.

Okay, ew, I just made myself be a little bit sick in my mouth. Back to not thinking about political fan fic.

Just as well you didn't involve any members I actually know.

"But, I'm the Minister for the Environment Gerry. I...I...shouldn't let this happen..." stammered Nick.

---

Okay, ew, I just made myself be a little bit sick in my mouth. Back to not thinking…

Thank you Lucy. Cameron and Clegg make such a pair.

As long as no-one tries to extend the metaphor to our current ruling coalition, it's all good.

Has anyone ever told me how much you remind me of my fag?

I don't know, have they?

Although now that I mention it, the thought of Parliament fan-fic is perversely appealing.

Although it is for the wrong Parliament, The Guardian is ahead of you there.

Although now that I mention it, the thought of Parliament fan-fic is perversely appealing.

Eeww!

She can't be all that saintly; she must have had sex at least twice!

Eeewwwwwwww!!

And all this in a thread dedicated to my sainted mother ...

Emma:

I feel compelled to point out that "a gentleman of Emma's acquaintance" is one of the few things on this page that isn't a euphemism.

I think the original thread was euphemised a while back.

There was a conversation between Mum, and a gentleman of Emma's acquaintance, that made _me_ blush.

I feel compelled to point out that "a gentleman of Emma's acquaintance" is one of the few things on this page that isn't a euphemism. My friendship with the gentleman in question even survived…

Oh, I'm here. I'm just... watching. Don't let me stop you.

I'm trying to exercise some self control. Now there's an audience. Performance anxiety. It's a real killer.

And all this in a thread dedicated to my sainted mother ...

I blame Outrageous Fortune. After last week it seems there…

And all this in a thread dedicated to my sainted mother ...

Tush... give me an hour, and she'll know all the lyrics to 'The Good Ship Venus', be dancing on a table with someone else's knickers on her head and have you in industrial-strength family therapy for the rest…

And all this in a thread dedicated to my sainted mother ...

She can't be all that saintly; she must have had sex at least twice!

I'm sure your mother would…

What, hasn't it happened yet? I've already tabled a report.

I'll never think about "tabling" reports in Parliament in quite the same way. Cross thread pollution, I'll be over that way --> .

Although now that I mention it, the thought of Parliament fan-fic is perversely appealing.

Witness my (ahem) restaint, people. It doesn't happen very often.

But do you wish it did?

Umm, little bit afraid now. Thank goodness Emma and Megan aren't here too.

Oh, I'm here. I'm just... watching. Don't let me stop you.

my head is currently overflowing with comments I want to make about something Emma said 2 pages ago.

Karl-pooling?

This typo is making me think of gloriously backwards Steampunk hats and doubled-up chains and "yo yo yo, I say, good sir!" type talking.

You may have just invented a genre. Steampunk Rap.

I'd certainly go for a pair of turntables styled along the lines of those steampunk keyboards that…

ETA: And there you are, Megan arrives exactly on cue. I'm hiding...

Hey! Except, oh....yeah, OK.

I would heap on the filth. Except, my head is currently overflowing with comments I want to make about something Emma said 2 pages ago.

Witness my (ahem) restaint, people. It doesn't happen very…

Have you ever noticed that 'umm' and 'mum' are really the same word? We just start using 'umm' when it becomes too embarrassing to yell 'mum!'

ETA: And there you are, Megan arrives exactly on cue. I'm…

I love PAS.

ETA: Here I am on the bloody top again. Just sayin'.

That's because we're lazy.

Here I am on the bloody top again.

That's what she said.

A mayoral candidate wants to spend $$$ on free citywide Wifi in Wellington. Which seems a waste of resources when we already have 3G. And what will stop people using it instead of home internet to download petabytes of movies?

There's free public wifi in Dunedin's octagon. I presume it's…

Tuning in, I guess I can only say I'm anticipating a climax.

What, hasn't it happened yet? I've already tabled a report.

ETA: Here I am on the bloody top again. Just sayin'.

I have reliable intelligence that my lap isn't clean enough to eat your dinner off. So to speak...

I bet it is a lot cleaner than many things that I have eaten.

Now that we are adults, I expect a sizeable amount of eating to be done at this fictional table.

I have reliable intelligence that my lap isn't clean enough to eat your dinner off. So to speak...

Pish-posh. The nice thing about PAS is that 99% of the time the most annoying people are the necessary irritant around which forms a lustrous pearl of new perspectives, usefully provocative argument and downright entertaining filth. :)

Why, thank you. So my concern now is the only way is down.…

we never ate at the table when I was a kid.Hmm?

Now that we are adults, I expect a sizeable amount of eating to be done at this fictional table.

Welcome Jacqui. It has taken me a while to 'clique' on PAS, and I still wonder at times whether I hit the right notes. In fact at times I'm down right discordant

Pish-posh. The nice thing about PAS is that 99% of the time the most annoying people are the…

We really have to work on this lascivious storytelling..

Bawdy limerick time?

A young couple in fair Birkenhead
were not having much luck in bed
on advice from physicians
they tried new positions
and now use the table instead

We really have to work on this lascivious storytelling..

I do love me some crowdsourced smut!

Also, I love that a post about your mum has taken this direction.

I hear she loves it too...

Of course not

We really have to work on this lascivious storytelling..

So you broke the last one?

Of course not – if we'd broken it we'd have had to get rid of the pieces and we're currently carless. It just so happens that the only pieces of furniture I own are a dresser and an office chair. (Any of you in…

Next time try the on the table stuff while they're still eating breakfast and see if that helps get their wrath on.

Once we actually own a table again, I will take this under consideration.

about sexual practices that would be sure to incur someone's wrath. It turned out that most of the on-the-table stuff wasn't going to do it.

Next time try the on the table stuff while they're still eating breakfast and see if that helps get their wrath on.

Somebody's not trying hard enough.

Actually, I interrogated my ex-Baptist husband quite thoroughly about sexual practices that would be sure to incur someone's wrath. It turned out that most of the on-the-table stuff wasn't going to do it. At least for the fundamentalist Christians he knew.

I think the thing that disappointed me most about marriage was the realisation that my sex life would almost certainly not now elicit disapproval from anyone.

Somebody's not trying hard enough.

in discussions on the CFS thread

My ignorance is showing: what is CFS? Copyright perhaps?

The problem is, that I'm almost always doing something that someone disapproves of. There's a lot of uptight people out there, you know?

And sometimes knowing people disapprove is fun. I think the thing that disappointed me most about marriage was the realisation that my sex life would almost certainly…

She was a little older than in the film when she taught us, but to my teenage eyes she was very elderly.

First, hullo Jacqui! I know exactly what you mean — the headmistress of the primary school I attended died recently (and before I get slapped around my the…

It's always with some trepidation that one cliques on "Post Reply" for the first time. Eh what?

I had no idea what I was cliquing into.

My first post. I feel very brave.

But what a beauty! Thanks, Jacqui.

Magic!

When I watched the Movement video, I nearly fell off my chair! All those exercises – I knew them! And then the beater of the drum was shown. It was Madam, the women who used to take us for PhysEd at St Mary's…

Anyway, back to grandparents.

Being half Dutch, people talking about Oma rapetee reminds me of how much fun it used to be to see about "Oma up a tree, Oma up a tree..."

Oh, and continuing to show what a naughty child I was:

at the time I was 15,…

There's nothing more startling than someone yelling your name disapprovingly in public. Especially when you're doing something that could be disapproved of.

The problem is, that I'm almost always doing something that someone disapproves of. There's a lot of uptight people out there, you know?

Where did all the Simons come from, I ask you?

My parents tell me it was the honeymoon at the THC Waitangi, via National Women's

But yes, growing up I was the only one I knew, and now I'm surrounded by god knows how many like named contemporaries. Where were…

the treatment handed out to a new poster who mistook the terms Public Address and Hard News for a public forum and got thoroughly slapped down

Was Peter referring to himself here? Because if so he has a rather odd take on "new"...

Since: May 2007
Posts: 425

Class, in New Zealand?

Labour is committed to reducing class sizes. National isn't so concerned.

I have that problem with Lucy – it is reasonably uncommon among my own generation (with the peculiar exception of my year at college) but extremely popular among the under-tens.

I get this with generational differences, what I can't grok is the weird geographical differences I've run across. So when…

ROTFLing burns more calories though

if only

ROTFLing burns more calories though. Just sayin'.

Indeed, as a good ROTFL, LYAO.

I've only met one other person my age with my name (and we don't share a spelling) but these days it seems like every other girl under around five is an Isabel(le) or Isabella.

I have that…

People want to talk about a whole range of things here. Every single comment in every single thread you make is insisting that other people talk about running. You're a rude bastard on…

This place has become a somewhat self regarding clique, vis the treatment handed out to a new poster who mistook the terms Public Address and Hard News for a public forum and got thoroughly slapped down for not knowing the unwritten conventions and that this was a private forum.

Peter,…

Shoehorn? One thread after another? (two in the last month by my reckoning, both relevant in response to posted material or other poster's comments).

The truth is you do not want to hear my message. You posted a video containing evidence that my point that we do less exercise…

I don't feel quite the same, for some strange reason.

Oh, well. There is consolation in the ABs win tonight ;-)

Your Mum's traits of kindness and a lack of malice are well and truly evident in you. An ability to listen coupled with a sense of decency and compassion make you better…

Claire Bennett...like as in the cheerleader in Heroes?!?!

Lemme check with my 15 year old......

.....no

The implications, as always, are far ranging.

'Friends' with benefits?

[My coat, good sir, I perambulate forthwith].

Claire Bennett...like as in the cheerleader in Heroes?!?!

No, she's Bennet with one T.

I've heard they use that term in Hollywood also.

The implications, as always, are far ranging.

I will note in passing that in some parts of the Italian northeast you say "I'm in the process of purchasing a baby" to mean "I'm pregnant"

Hey, hang on... where are you originally from?

(Yuk yuk, etc.)

Claire Bennett ==> Soul On Ice.

Claire was / is a wonderful voice.

Thanks, and yes, indeed.

Much as I regard anonyms, or whatever they are called, with much disdain being used outside texting, that was LOL, Gio.

And there's where I may undo all my good work. Parody titles…

I'm so glad you posted that Rhythm and Movement clip, if only so I can boast that it was directed by my Granddad Michael Forlong. He went on to make some reasonable good feature films in the UK and the rather enjoyable Rangi's Catch (featuring…

(I will note in passing that in some parts of the Italian northeast you say "I'm in the process of purchasing a baby" to mean "I'm pregnant")

Jack having been chosen by his older brother.

So, you went to the baby shop then? or did you mean he chose the name?
;-)

Say what you will about Peter's rants, but I for one am going to be grateful for his contribution when I sit down to write my one act plays on cardiofitness, which I plan to entitle…

My name is Jack and I live in the back of the Greta Garbo home
with friends I will remember wherever I may roam....

Oh Cecelia, your breaking my heart.

And, people, if some posters are not on the PAS wavelength, why not just politely ignore them after the first skirmish?

Lead singer was Claire B

Claire Bennett ==> Soul On Ice.

Claire was / is a wonderful voice.

more reason to love you, Jack Recodari – and more reason for you to be at the PAS Blend very soon so that we can tell you how much we love your name

Hoping to be, but at the moment I'm scheduled to be in Christchurch. Might try delaying the…

It's getting a bit much.

In that, somewhere, Arthur Lydiard is thinking, "Geez, that guy bangs on about running a bit much."

Generational, maybe? I love the name, always have. Though I have only ever known one Jack, that I taught, and only peoples' grandads, or dads otherwise.

My name is Jack. Just sayin'.

__MC Jack Hammer in da' house.
Can I get a yo yo yo,
Everybody say,
'perambulator
originator'.
Compotator…

Can I make myself unpopular by proferring the opinion that "we" might be over-reacting to Peter Ashby's comments?

David, it's just that Peter has managed to shoehorn this same lecturing monologue into one thread after another for about a year. It's getting a bit much.

I think "we" are just a bit over being bitched at about how much "we" suck in every conceivably relevant thread.

I think, maybe, you are using the "Royal" We.
I, for one, feel no guilt about my lack of fitness.

Can I make myself unpopular?

You can try David but you will fail miserably.
;-)

"we" might be over-reacting to Peter Ashby's comments

I think "we" are just a bit over being bitched at about how much "we" suck in every conceivably relevant thread.

Jack was a common contraction of John

Speaking of that, my grandfather's actual name is Christopher John. (Nicknames also seemed to…

Though I have only ever known one Jack,

There are, or were many, as this Wiki Page shows.
However, there were more in the days when Jack was a common contraction of John, which seems a bit silly as they both have the same number of letters.

This really becoming silly. Stop.

This is turning into a Monty Python sketch.
Bring on the fish slapping dance.

My grandfather is called Jack too! What's up with that?

I also object to being accused of a threadjack when it was not I who noted first that in the clip lots of people were running.

Good grief.

This really becoming silly. Stop.

For the record not long before we left NZ I paid for a knee op at a private hospital. My knees are otherwise fine thanks and all the research shows that use or lose it is true.

I see around here plenty of obese people around using walking sticks,…

yo yo yo, I say, good sir!

This has made me giggle on and off for several hours.

Gonna be kicking back tonight eating potato chips, drinking booze and watching other people run round in the rain in chch and OZ. Go the ABs…

This typo is making me think of gloriously backwards Steampunk hats and doubled-up chains and "yo yo yo, I say, good sir!" type talking.

You may have just invented a genre. Steampunk Rap.

MC Steam Hammer, anyone?

this could well be an idea with traction...

we should probably do this off thread.

Please don't do that, because this fascinating twist makes me too say I

like it when threads jump about randomly

Which reminds me, does your very own computer security expert have work lined up? I may know some people.

And also reminds me: Fulbrighters meeting in groups are often called upon to do Cultural Performances. Consider yourself warned. But fear not, for this last weekend I heard a report from…

I think when I come home to NZ I might have to vote ACT or Nats in the hope that I don't have to pay lots of taxes to fund the type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stomach stapling operations etc.

What a brilliant idea. With my next PAYE payment,…

I'm guessing you mean a century later? Maybe Soul On Ice? (white kids) Or Ardijah? (brown kids) Or D-Faction?(mixed)

Lead singer was Claire B. I would know if it had been Ardijah.

Wow, at the end of that I was going to say 'how old am I?' 142 as it…

Yes, yes, people. Instead of facing up to the realities of modern life lets do a postmodern shooting of the messenger.

I think you were looking for the Runner's World forums.

I will have my very own computer security expert travelling with me

Which reminds me, does your very own computer security expert have work lined up? I may know some people.

And also reminds me: Fulbrighters meeting in groups are often called upon to do Cultural Performances. Consider yourself warned.…

a local crew in the Playground in 1887-88

You know how when very very white grownups have to do raps at corporate retreats and stuff like that, and they put their hats on backwards because y'know, that's what rapper do? This typo is making me think of gloriously backwards Steampunk…

Then I was lucky enough (wanker alert) to see Beats International live in Tokyo in 1991, playing at the Bunkamura in Shibuya. That was bloody fantastic.

We might have crossed paths at the time; I was living in Shibuya (technically Naka-Meguro, but I caught the train from Shibuya station) in…

a local crew in the Playground in 1887-88

I'm guessing you mean a century later? Maybe Soul On Ice? (white kids) Or Ardijah? (brown kids) Or D-Faction?(mixed)

Then I was lucky enough (wanker alert) to see Beats International live in Tokyo in 1991, playing at the Bunkamura in Shibuya. That…

It could be the social critic's "we", which roughly translates as "everybody except me".

I do love a good passive-aggressive construction.

What's this we, kemosabe?

It could be the social critic's "we", which roughly translates as "everybody except me".

I remember it being performed by a local crew in the Playground in 1887-88

You've got a good memory.

What's this we, kemosabe?

We know not what we do.

Oh, am I alone in finding it meh? I totally adore the Beats International track.

Nope, not just you. That…

We really, really do not realise how absolutely and utterly sedentary we have become.

Other than on PAS, that is. Here we have a guy who likes to remind us of that fact with a certain regularity.

I hear you as someone not shy about breaking out into a run. I did get some funny looks the other week when the bus was late getting into the hospital which made me late for my platelet donation. So on getting off I ran, not flat out but…

just released a version of "Just be good to me" with Professor Green which I rather like

Oh, am I alone in finding it meh? I totally adore the Beats International track (it made my 'top 40 songs of the 90s' compilation I did for a friend a few years…

On the subject of extortionate internet – if you were misled about what the charges, would be then that's illegal under the Fair Trading Act. If they showed you the fine print, then they've got wiggle room. But there are no easy remedies. Probably easier just…

leaping aboard with a ritualistic disregard of gangways.

Memories of long ago and far away. A week-long family holiday in hte vicinity of Little Oneroa would start with the ferry to Waiheke. Baroona, Kestrel, and the others. One memorable night there was a harvest moon that was simply huge.

I was an Aucklander, there were commuters sprinting for buses, trams and trains and most athletic of all the ferry catchers, often with hats, coats and gladstone bags, racing down the wharves and leaping aboard with a ritualistic disregard of gangways.

Same. We could teach these young'uns a thing or…

Not proper bankrupt, "owned by Dave Henderson" bankrupt.

Shame, they made a pretty good margarita (although that might have been the company I was with) and the bed was mighty comfy.

but someone told me that's just gone bankcrupt...

Not proper bankrupt, "owned by Dave Henderson" bankrupt.

To the good Mums of the world – all joy

Yeah verily!

My mum, at 85, has just turned over her first grand selling off stuff on TradeMe...
not as draughty as the markets these days!
– she started bric-a-bracing back at Mollett Street Market and Atlantis Market in the…

On the way to the Coast, we spent a night in Wellington, at City Life (nice room, remind me to ask not to be near the breakfast kitchen on Level 5 next time) – and were confronted by the ongoing scandal that is New Zealand hotel internet service.

The best…

I've always been a sucker for the rocksteadyied out dub mix on the flip of the 12"

Yeh, big fan of that too.

Are there *any* hotels in NZ with free wifi?

I had it as part of a deal last year at the Metropolis in Ak.

But mostly, in my experience, no and they seem to be bemused when asked. Which always comes as a shock after the hotels of Asia where…

This is inspiring and makes me teary-eyed …

Hell, you should try viewing it as a long offshore (and I hate the phrase but what the hell..) Kiwi. Misty eyed doesn't come close.

And I loved the story about your mum, Russell. Time and distance really makes me treasure my…

Like Jaquie Brown! This'd better not stop a new series of the Jaquie Brown Diaries though, or there'll be trouble!

Indeed, Hopefully it'll be the basis of the next Jaquie Brown series.

So, here's one for all the Mums, be good to them

Like Jaquie Brown! This'd better not stop a new series of the Jaquie Brown Diaries though, or there'll be trouble!

petchakutcha I think you misspelled "Pikachu".

I think it is Pecha Kucha. I am doing my first ever PK on Tuesday night and it is a little daunting--constructing a 6 minute story around 20 slides. Mine is titled 'Mary Who? Einstein in Hollywood'; about Albert Einstein's 1931 visit to Hollywood…

petchakutcha

I think you misspelled "Pikachu".

But yes, hotel internet tends to be terribly managed for a pretty simple reason: most hotels will think it's economic to get a couple of ADSL connections off their existing phone lines to deliver to patrons. Because of the low bandwith limits and relatively…

My ha-kui is 83, and looking forward to being 84 next year. She has survived so much (nearly died of scepticaemia when she was 31, my father died at the end of that year (leaving her…