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Paul Campbell

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:16:31 +1300

this is just sad .... does it mean I can't play BtB on my harmonica?

David Slack

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:38:43 +1300

I'd love to hear it on a ukelele. Is that something you could arrange, Jolisa?

Jolisa

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:22:06 +1300

You guys are giving me the EBGBs!

Jolisa

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:22:05 +1300

You guys are giving me the EBGBs!

Deborah

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:05:05 +1300

F...ng sharp, Heather. :-)

Jolisa

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:44:20 +1300

*coff* I was playing those chords in my head, and only hit a single black key in the whole bally lot of 'em. :P

Blimey, you're right. On a piano. Bust out the guitars everybody! Or we could just transpose it up a semitone and really mess with people's heads??

Heather Gaye

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:26:42 +1300

Y'know, like beyond just ebony and ivory;

*coff* I was playing those chords in my head, and only hit a single black key in the whole bally lot of 'em. :P

Rob Stowell

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:20:11 +1300

Appreciated, tho. Jolissa. The way music works behind the bonnet is fascinating, and you've really pinged that one! (With a few extemporisations in a related key, heh)

Jolisa

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:18:22 +1300

chanting a catch-phrase from a British stop-motion kiddies show

Agreed! We've got big Bob fans in the house and they have found it no trouble at all to extend their allegiance to a guy who sounds just like Bob, albeit without the talking diggers.

You know what else, though. Bob…

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:38:09 +1300

Actually, I find it absa-fricking-loutely hilarious hearing grown-ups — whether Hell's Grannies in Tauranga or Obama-maniacs and Clinton-tickler in California (yes, she's on the bandwagon too) — chanting a catch-phrase from a British stop-motion kiddies show.

The Muse of PopCult is generous with her blessings.

Rob Hosking

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:38:58 +1300

I just keep thinking of Hunter S Thompson's definition of a charismatic political leader: someone who can get out there, whip their followers into an orgiastic frenzy, and then go into the backrooms and do a deal which sells them all down the river for a buck apiece.

Graeme Edgeler

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:29:08 +1300

Sí se puede

Perhaps the difference is that one took it from Bob the Builder (complete with Can we fix it?) and the other from César Chávez.

Don Christie

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:42:56 +1300

A similar comparison was made on PA between Obama and Brash WRT to "one nation" Orewa rhetoric.

This is where context is so important as in the end the comparisons with Brash and Peters are glib and misleading.

Orewa was about implying that an indigenous minority was getting an unfair…

andrew llewellyn

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:12 +1300

Why are the words 'Yes we can' working so well for Obama, when they presaged near obliteration for Winston?

Track Record.

Although, to speculate about the people of Tauranga a little, maybe they heard the slogan & thought "Right, I'll vote for Bob the Builder then."

Public Address

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:12 +1300

Discussion from blog post.