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				<title>stephen walker</title>
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						i couldn't stop laughing when i read this pythonesque sKetch this morning. not least becuase a certain roll-yer-own MP i can think of was head prefect of my year at a certain well-known school. seemed like a nice guy. only spoke to him a couple of times in the five…
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				<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:00:45 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Juha Saarinen</title>
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						:::cough::: Close, but no inhalation. :::cough:::
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:17:28 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Tom Beard</title>
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						<blockquote><p>I'd smoke more MPs, but I find most of them are too wet to light.</p></blockquote><p>Did anyone notice in the Dom story the comment from the director of the Smokefree Coalition? And that the director is former MP Mark Peck? By now, he's either dried out enough to light, or…</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:17:23 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>andrew llewellyn</title>
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						I'd smoke more MPs, but I find most of them are too wet to light.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:03:49 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Richard Bol</title>
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						Suggested background ambience: The Platters' 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:41:44 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Tom Beard</title>
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						<blockquote><p>What, no Monica jokes? Or umm, whatsherface?</p></blockquote><p>Finally, we have our very own scandal featuring a cigar and a twat.</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:57:51 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>David Slack</title>
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						Indeed. Thanks, Gary.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:55:12 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Gary  Hutchings</title>
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						<p>Given that Matt Robson is to be hauled before the Privileges Committee in regard to comments made in an email newsletter posted publically on  the voting of Peter Dunne on certain legislation in regard to the liquor and Tobacco industry<br /><a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00274.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Speaker Wilson on Robson's newsletter</a></p><p>David, You might want to…</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:46:18 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Stephen Judd</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Some may prefer to have grouting done in their bathroom</p></blockquote><p>.</p><p>Is that some new slang? Ewwwww.</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:19:37 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Joanna</title>
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						What, no Monica jokes? Or umm, whatsherface?
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:16:57 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>David Slack</title>
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						You're overlooking a manufacturing threshold.  In this case, thighs is everything.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:41:45 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						The limit of your metaphor is this: cigars are one domain where bigger really <em>is</em> better, because a skilled roller can accommodate a more complex blend in a larger vessel. But if this were the case for MPs, National would obviously have a different deputy leader this week.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:34:52 +1300</pubDate>
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:34:51 +1300</pubDate>
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