Hard News by Russell Brown

Is Mary Wilson behind the scenes at Morning Report now?

Is Mary Wilson behind the scenes at Morning Report now?

She is indeed.

"Paddy didn't invent 'Twitterati', but he certainly did more than anyone else to get it into the discourse, even if he was trolling everyone," said Brown. "It would be great if we could take the next step and actually agree on who the Twitterati are. I'm bloody sure it isn't me ... is it?"

Last I checked, Gower hasn't made a Twitter post for several weeks; maybe he's had enough of it. Although Fairfax's Tracy Watkins could be a worthy successor.

Dick Quax has obviously never been to Melbourne. With free trams throughout the CBD and a lot of inner city apartments, student hostels and tourists, everybody is quaxing.

“I’m very pleased for Jolisa,” said Brown. “That hundy at the Hemp Store will buy her a pretty sweet bong.”

*wipes tears of laughter from corners of eyes* - wonderful post that has made my Monday morning.

Merry Xmas Jolisa!

PR release of the year this. Enjoy your bong Jolisa.

Or a really cool 'vase'.

Quaxing lyrical...
Sounds like a duck,
ergo shops like a duck
(No, not on the Web!)

Quax, it still sounds like
snake-oil salesmen,
fractures and splits...
Running on empty.

In the pannier, on the ass,
carless consuming by
shanks, chain or bus power
is trolley a gas, gas, gas!

Or a really cool ‘vase’

Or 3 really cool pipes and 2 incense.

Here's to the #quaxers.

Although I just call it 'going to the supermarket'.

Aotearoa, ataahua as always.

#redpeak, the choice of urban liberals everywhere. Or just people who enjoy boldness and beauty.

In terms of globality, quaxing did get an "article" in the Daily Mail, if being fodder for a corporate content mill counts for anything.

Maybe a special "prize" for the next person to utter "twatcock" on Morning Report (and live)

The NZ version of the Rory.

I'm thinking it could be some kind of ceremonial fluted vase.

The 'Gram gives quaxing a nice leisurely workout.

I guess I quax since I live near a supermarket and regularly pick up stuff on the way home on foot, but I reckon we need a word for taking the trolley all the way home. You could name it after my neighbours, who currently have two in their yard.

Theft?

I reckon we need a word for taking the trolley all the way home. You could name it after my neighbours, who currently have two in their yard.

Someone did a story on trolley "theft" in Sydney around 15 years ago. The stuff about how supermarkets recover "borrowed" trolleys was interesting, especially the story of the old lady who did a weekly run of over three kilometres from Bondi Junction. The supermarket was aware of her "arrangement". As they did a regular sweep with a special trolley van, knowing exactly where she'd left it didn't bother them too much.

Gardens New World in Dunedin used to run a special fleet of 'retired' trolleys for this purpose in the 1990s. I recall something about leaving your name and address at he counter and being allowed to take one of these rattly old trolleys home with your groceries.

Damn, I would have been in with a prize, if I'd remembered to vote from my PC. The voting form didn't work for me on mobile. Next year is another year!

With the trolleys, what is it about dumping them into creeks? When we moved to GI 30-umph years ago, they were quite the local decor.

Getting trolleyed, surely.

There has been a rise in the number of places with electronically locked wheels, and I don't blame them. All except the chronically transport-deprived will rejoice.

Gardens New World in Dunedin used to run a special fleet of ‘retired’ trolleys for this purpose in the 1990s

Still do, I think. Called take-home trolleys.

Here is a story from 1988 of a supermarket in Dunedin using a helicopter to find trolleys "borrowed" by students. Video won't play for me but might work for others.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/back-in-the-day-dunedin-supermarket-uses-helicopter-war-against-trolley-thieves