Hard News: Rodney on the Road
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"(... Nelson, if he'd lost the world would have been a better place)
Not Wellington?
Or Alexander I?"
Well, Nelson's winning of dominance of European seapower both prevented invasion of Great Britain, and predated Wellington's activities in the Napoleonics by about four years. So yes, thinking in those terms, Nelson is to blame for preventing the spread of the metric system to the English speaking world for 160 years.Even had Wellington and Tzar Alexander failed to halt Napoleonic France significantly, the evidence is between the Battle of Trafelgar and the invasion of Russia, during significant years of European dominance for France, Napoleon did not attempt to remount an invasion of Great Britain.
So I judge for the original joke. Well done Paul Campbell.
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He has earned the moniker of “Minister for Ratepayers” for his determination to crack down on red tape and needless bureaucracy, and because of his focus on the rights of ratepayers and residents, rather than councils.
There's something so wrong about this?
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It's like when Micheal Jackson started calling himself "the king of pop".
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"King of ratepayers" doesn't have the same ring as "king of pop". It just evokes an image of some bald git.
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Re Nelson, the time machine would need to take you back a few years for Chez Eelco as well. I think it's a travesty, but then again, Auckland can't talk. It still gyps me when I walk around the movie theatre monstrosity where DKD used to be.
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where DKD used to be
Sigh. The seuss-ish steps. That latticed private outlook over rainy Queen St. Yummy cakes. Fine people.
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Note to self, do not make days-gone-by cracks about Nelson on internet.
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Note to self, do not make days-gone-by cracks about Nelson on internet.
It's a bit like Blenheim: everyone buggers off to more interesting places ASAP, so the rest of the country is populated with ex-Nelsonians. And, unlike Blenheim, it's popular enough for holidays that plenty of people have fond holiday memories of it, too.
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So is it that nobody understood what I meant, or just that nobody who said anything understood what I meant?
I'm going to go and eat worms. In my affordable Golden Bay bach. To which my trip will include driving SH60 along a completely unpopulated coast to Motueka. Without meeting any tourists on the wrong side of the road.
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I'm going to go and eat worms
As in this old vegetarian rhyme, Amy?
Nobody loves me, everybody hates me
I'm going to go eat worms
Long thin slimy ones, big fat fuzzy ones
Ughey gooey ughey gooey wormsLong thin slimy ones slip down easily
Big fat fuzy ones don't
Big fat fuzzy ones stick to your teeth
And the juice goes slurp down your throat -
So is it that nobody understood what I meant, or just that nobody who said anything understood what I meant?
Yep :)
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There is a season, worms, worms, worms
And a time to every purpose under heaven
The kind that crawl, the kind that fly . . . -
the movie theatre monstrosity
It is hideous. And dangerous for kids. And for people who are nervous about heights, sort of scary. But at the same time, it's so totally nuts that it's almost appealing: a grand folly. Every time I go in there I marvel at how user-unfriendly it is (those tiny corridors to the loos and the lifts! The insanely high escalators! That crazily long spiral staircase which gives you vertigo almost immediately!). Who were the architects?
I miss DKD too...
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Re Nelson.
It's a bit like Blenheim: everyone buggers off to more interesting places ASAP, so the rest of the country is populated with ex-Nelsonians.
I know someone who left home to live in Nelson and started up a Pizza restaurant there, mind you, he did come from Palmaston North.
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Last year my wife went to Korea with our 2 year old for 3 months to catch up with her family while I stayed in NZ working. A colleague has had his missus working in OZ for a year and they have been meeting up in the holidays. Another mate was in NZ for a year (last year) training to be a teecha while his wife stayed overseas working so they were earning enough money to get by in the meantime.
We are all available for Rodney to meet us for advice on how to keep a relationship together when you are apart, and whats more on about a quarter of what he earns.
Call us Rodney, on 555-HYPOCRITEBUSTERS
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