Hard News: New Zealand Weekend Television
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Interesting disucssion on Afghanistan. Good to know that when the US State Department sends a New Zealand journalist there what that journalist is left with is a "feel" for the desires of the US State Department. Truly profound. Thanks for holding his feet so firmly over the fire on that one.
I can't tell whether you're being ironic, snarking or what
My vote goes for genuinely complimentary.
I took a piece of toast out of the toaster the other day and was amazed to see the image of a man with long hair and a beard burned into the bread, I think it may have been John Lennon.
Must've had a shave before preparing this one.
And seeing as it's PAS, here's the geek version.
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Top Town: With the recent death of Paddy this episode has a very nostalgic ring to it. My recollection of Paddy was on Hauraki in the late 60's. Me and a couple of school mates would bus to Auckland during the holidays for a day in the Big Smoke and it always included a visit to the Hauraki recording studio. The show being recorded was always a week late so we had a week of eager anticipation for our request to be played. The man kept turning up on radio over the years with his unmistakable voice.
Sigh......Snoopy Versus the Red baron.... The Return of the Red Baron. I remember "Snoopy" sat at number 1 (on the Hauraki charts!) for Dog knows how long simply because the NZBC had banned it!!
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My vote goes for genuinely complimentary.
Oh. Which would leave me looking a little rude ...
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@ Robyn Gallagher
I suspect this telethon will have a bit of appeal for people who are the Mr Vintage retro t-shirt wearing sorts: watching telethon, longing for Georgie Pie and Billy T James' giggling.
Here I was, wearing my "Know your enemy" t-shirt (with the picture of the pig in NYPD uniform weilding a baton), secretly feeling that no moments in life will ever equal the pure joy of sitting in Georgie Pie in Manners Mall, about to share my treasured memories of Telethons past (my wine coloured velvet jacket when I presented... the time I crushed Rob Muldoon's instep...) and I find I'm nothing but a bloody stereotype!!
Well, harumph, I say!!
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I once saw a potato that, viewed from a certain angle, didn't look like Jim Bolger
I once saw a picture of Jesus that looked like a slice of toast.
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I have just started watching the Top Town episode, and it is made of win.
A few years ago I discovered that in the USA they had Battle of the Network Stars, in which TV personalities did similarly exciting athletic feats. Here is (poor quality, sorry) Billy Crystal vs. Larry Wilcox from CHiPs on an obstacle course, and the following year racing against a youthful David Letterman:
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Possibly the only sane response to that sort of "news content" I've seen for months.
Not the first time Hilary has drawn the short straw.
(sorry, don't know how to do the embed thing - someone feel free to do so)
I saw it at the time and thought it was quite endearing - and a reasonable response to the story.
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I once saw a picture of Jesus that looked like a slice of toast.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin
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Land of the Long Black Froth or Proud Scum?
This week I made a long black and the blotch on the crema was in the shape of New Zealand. I should have taken a photo.
Damn straight ya shoulda snapped dem excited bubbles n photons...
...that coulda saved the nation millions as the replacement 100% PURE tourist publicity campaign - NZ the country where the crema
also rises!
Hopefully this doesn't make you the
Cremaster ...on yer bike...Nice to see Mr Higgins on deck, casting his mind way back beyond the breakers, I only have flickering (if not strobing) recollections of that Enemy-Tellykinetic night (and sorry I missed ya on yer recent trip down to these boggy-parts, too).
yrs in yer cafe, er face
Kaffir au Lait
stirred and still shakin',,,ps: re :
" Wayne Coyne seems to revel in illuminating the public on his low opinion of famous people acting like dicks.
here he is making an entrance at the recent Splendour in the Grass festival at Byron Bay, Oz...
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Lara,
Re: Afghanistan, my 300 level political science class at uni could not come up with a reason to go other than to please America. As was noted, it will be a hard sell. When the most recent surge began, a journalist noted that the new forces were driving past the wreckage of the Russians. I'm not convinced that the result will be any different this time around.
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Your level 300 class was not wrong: from Alexander the Psychopath unto the Brits; from the Russians unto the current uneasy coalition-
Afghanis dont *like* being invaded.They fight hard (read yer Kipling) & they destroy often. They assimilate occaisionally (remanant genes from Alexander the Macedonian's little horde crop up still) or digest (all those bones and festery stuff...there is an awful lot of them.) Relics of gentler religions? Shattered. And amazing archaeological treasures? A lot of looters are doing their nasty best to extinguish those.The place is a most extraordinary human-crossing area, but like most such, is not where sane people can stay long.
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Singapore, then?
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Or Mumbai...
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Urgh, thanks for mentioning the Leeza Gibbons/Chris Quentin Telethon - I had horrible flashbacks just then. That was definitely the jumping the shark moment for me.
As for Mt Eden Dubstep, thanks for the pointer! What I've heard so far is pretty classic dnb, but if the gent concerned wants to call it dubstep, I'm not going to quibble. Fine electronica sounds from the homeland.
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I can't tell whether you're being ironic, snarking or what.
I thought the discussion was good. But also a bit ironic and snarking. A melange.
Are you saying he and the paper should have refused to go at the State Department's invitation?
Yes
That would, of course, have meant no reportage at all
Such as we have on most areas of public policy. The status quo doesn't seem to have people out shouting in the streets.
The script noted some local stories and said "But these excellent stories are the exception. Are we seeing enough coverage of Afghanistan in the media?" It sounded like a question to me.
My point was that the stories probably weren't excellent. But maybe they were. I'll go back and read them.
I don't think Gower ducked the provenance question at all
Because you lobbed a softball question from heaven to dispense with the issue at the outset.
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That would, of course, have meant no reportage at all
Such as we have on most areas of public policy. The status quo doesn't seem to have people out shouting in the streets.
It's just too nice a day to spend arguing against the proposition that nothing is better than something.
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from Alexander the Psychopath
It always bemuses me how self aggrandising murderous psychopaths usually were tagged with 'the Great'
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It's just too nice a day to spend arguing against the proposition that nothing is better than something.
Agreed. And at least we can be completely confident that the nice weather will receive the near saturation coverage it so obviously merits.
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3410,
RIP Willy DeVille.
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RIP Willy DeVille.
Indeed. I have 12" of Spanish Stroll that I bough back in 77 / 78, which fits the three minute tune over the whole 30cm, with incredible bottom end, the likes of which I've yet to hear any CD reproduce.
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They fight hard (read yer Kipling) & they destroy often.
Roll to your rifle, etcetera. It's the ultimate land war in Asia.
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re Telethon. They've already raised $450, 000 - pretty good, I reckon.
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re Telethon. They've already raised $450, 000 - pretty good, I reckon.
After the opening few minutes, I've decided the obvious culmination of the whole thing would be for John Campbell to pash Richie McCaw. I'd donate for that.
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Personally I think TV3 can go stick their "Big Night In", now that they've pulled series two of "Dexter" (one of the few things I can be bothered watching on their channel) after two episodes.
I know you already know this Octopusgrrl, but for any Dexter fan that hasn't heard, here is the TV3 tweet:
In response to feedback from fans of Dexter, all new episodes of Dexter will commence Monday Oct 12, @ 8.30pm on C4
7:15 PM Aug 6th from webSad to say Lucy,
After the opening few minutes, I've decided the obvious culmination of the whole thing would be for John Campbell to pash Richie McCaw. I'd donate for that.
The early promos said they were not doing the pledge requests this time - people didn't always pay up.
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