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				<title>InternationalObserver</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Can't remember if that was a Robyn Williams joke (he did Silvester Stallone as Hamlet once &ndash; To be ... or whut?"), or...</p></blockquote><p>You may well have heard Robin Williams tell it, but that doesn't mean it was his joke ... he's notorious for stealing jokes. (Just google 'robin williams…</p>
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Very good, David. Particularly the last one. (And then there was Kate Sheppard and her feminazi PC social engineering ... "jury still out" &ndash; Garth George).</p></blockquote><p>Oh, yes women's suffrage was a particular stroke of genius on the party of Labour, passing the legislation twenty three years before it was…</p>
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				<title>andrew llewellyn</title>
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						<blockquote><p>I absolutely LOVED Romeo &amp; Juliet but FFS what's up with the ending? Both of them dead?!!!! WTF??!!</p></blockquote><p>Bang goes the sequel...</p><p>BTW, anyone see Hamlet 2? "He's back, and he's MAD!"</p><p>Can't remember if that was a Robyn Williams joke (he did Silvester Stallone as Hamlet once &ndash; To be…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:43:07 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Robyn Gallagher</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Shakespeare had a blog, which, in the absence of a working internetz, was nailed to a tree in Stratford.</p></blockquote><p>I immediately thought of Stratford in the 'Naki, and I was like, "Well, they do have that whole Shakespeare thing going on with the street names there..."</p><p>Oh.</p>
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				<title>daleaway</title>
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						Prithee RU nuts Debz of Adelaide,  Ophelia shd float off dwnstrm.  OMG Hamlet is HOT!!!! He is so the PILF!!!
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				<title>Deborah</title>
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						<p><SPOILER><br />And what's with killing off the love interest in Hamlet?  Didn't he know that sales would be much better if he'd let Ophelia and Hamlet get married and live happily ever after?</SPOILER></p><p>And as for that 'identical twins' lark in "A Comedy of Errors" &ndash; how hackneyed is that!</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:49:52 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>InternationalObserver</title>
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						<blockquote><p>If only he'd had a comments section.</p></blockquote></SPOILER><br />I <em>absolutely</em> LOVED <strong>Romeo &amp; Juliet</strong> but FFS what's up with the ending? <em>Both</em> of them dead?!!!! WTF??!!
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:41:37 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>andrew llewellyn</title>
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						If only he'd had a comments section.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:22:35 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Rich of Observationz</title>
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						Shakespeare had a blog, which, in the absence of a working internetz, was nailed to a tree in Stratford.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:07:51 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>simon g</title>
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						You're saying there was a world before blogs? Can you prove that with a link?
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:20:36 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Idiot Savant</title>
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						Simon: I've only been blogging for 5 years, not 15.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:16:37 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>simon g</title>
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						<p>Oh sir, sir, can I add one? </p><p>Does this come from: a) No Right Turn b) Kiwiblog c) NZ Herald?</p><p>"After years of being taken for granted, fibbed to and generally mucked about, the New Zealand electorate put its collective foot down this year. Ignoring **an expensive, scare-mongering, largely business-funded…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:57:38 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Alastair Jamieson</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Very good, David. Particularly the last one.</p></blockquote><p>Indeed. There could be the entire alphabet's worth of answers for it...</p><p>h.  Interest-free student loans</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:30:49 +1300</pubDate>
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						Very good, David. Particularly the last one. (And then there was Kate Sheppard and her feminazi PC social engineering ... "jury still out" &ndash; Garth George).
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				<title>Lyndon Hood</title>
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						<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Medvedev's wikipedia entry</a> has an audio example. I've enjoyed the nat rad man who was using an authentic-sounding level of thickness that meant he had to leave a little pause for his tongue to unwind every time he said it.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:32:23 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Russia has just elected a new President. How do you pronounce the name of the man who will lead the country for the next five years?</p></blockquote><p>You mean Dmitri Medvedev?  I've not heard one radio or TV hack pronounce the man's name the same way, and if there's any Russian…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:12:32 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Paul Campbell</title>
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						<p>At Auckland International Airport, who do they worry about most?<br />(e) who stole all the clocks?</p><p><br />last few times I passed thru the domestic terminal it would seem that they are now too cheap for clocks &ndash; which is tough if you just got of an international flight and haven't…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:09:34 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>David Slack</title>
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						<p>As a spin doctor I am often asked: "how do you distinguish homage from plagiarism?" </p><p>The difference, I say, is akin to the gauge used to measure depravity. It's kinky if you use a feather duster, it's perverted if you use the whole chicken.</p><p>Letterman was too busy running Hillary…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:40:35 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hadyn Green</title>
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						Heh, Graeme, I did.
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				<title>Alan Macdougall</title>
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						It is clear that the answer to the first question is d) as <a href="http://www.aucklandairport.co.nz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this site</a> would make clear.
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				<title>Graeme Edgeler</title>
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						<blockquote><p>c. Stories pinched by Kiwiblog</p></blockquote><p>I haven't seen <em>Letterman</em> in ages, but did anyone else, upon seeing the title of the column, get "Know, know, know, know, know, know, know, know, know, know, know, know! Know your current events!" stuck in their head immediately? He still do it?</p>
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				<title>Che Tibby</title>
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						he has a highly vocal interest in the value of north american currencies...
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<blockquote><p>At Auckland International Airport, who do they worry about most?</p></blockquote><p>Hum... you shouldn't trust those sneaky bastard Canadians.  Today Margaret Atwood paperbacks, <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0802/S00073.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tomorrow k.d. lang spreading lesbian germs</a>, and then those horrible vampire pensioners sucking the economic lifeblood out of little old New Zealand.</p><p>How did they get to you,…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:03:12 +1300</pubDate>
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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