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Island Life: No soup for you

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  • andrew llewellyn,

    And there will be a new golden age of Literature, Great Depressions always toss out a few good reads - I myself have just dropped off the draft of my new epic - The Crepes of Roth, about an immigrant Jewish family settled in Auckland, who when forced to close the family creperie, pack up the little yellow mini & head for the greeener pastures of Invercargill.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie,

    **5. A new depression is sure to bring us a new dawn in music.**
    Abject despair hardens, in time, into indignation and protest; at that moment, someone picks up a guitar and starts to sing. It begins with Woody Guthrie, it flowers into Bob Dylan. The bloated sanctimony ultimately yields Bono, but the game is still worth the candle.

    They never had such a feast in their life, and the little ones chewed on the Bono?

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    I'm going to work on some Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother chic.

    "Oh, look! I've been working all day in the pea fields so I can feed my childs. But look at the attractive frock I'm wearing!"

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    Fantastic Robyn,

    Reminds me of this (Mining mother chic)

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Litterick,

    • No more bullet points

    • Or PowerPoint

    • Or management seminars

    • Or Windows

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1000 posts Report Reply

  • JohnAmiria,

    Every lane of the harbour bridge will be a cycle lane.

    Further proof (as if needed) as to just how selfish the Cycling Lobby are. Six cycle lanes across the Harbour Bridge? You sir, have a fight on your hands! We DEMAND our right to cross the bridge in safety, without fear of being run over by hoons in lycra on bicycles! And we want the outside lanes so we can enjoy the view, which you boy racers don't appreciate as you whizz by on your tricked out Raliegh Twenty's.

    ~ John Amiria
    Pedestrian Action Group

    hither and yon • Since Aug 2008 • 215 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    I think we should put on a shuttle bus first to see how many of you would actually use it.

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • Kyle Matthews,

    I think we should put on a shuttle bus first to see how many of you would actually use it.

    Lol. David brought the funny today.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report Reply

  • Blake Monkley,

    Soup for everybody!

    Camden-based food processor Campbell Soup Company was the only stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index to post a gain during Monday's historic sell-off.
    The Wall Street Journal says investors bought into Campbell thinking that people will increasingly turn to comfort food in these nerve-racking times.

    Auckland • Since Jul 2008 • 215 posts Report Reply

  • Raymond A Francis,

    I vote Andrew's
    "The Crepes of Roth"
    As the best post ever!!
    Still laughing

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    Those damn Americans pronounce it 'rath', though, making the joke awesome only for Anglo-pronouncers. I would totally have read The Crepes of Roth, too!

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Dowden,

    Those damn Americans pronounce it 'rath', though, making the joke awesome only for Anglo-pronouncers.

    And that makes it so much better

    Canberra • Since Dec 2007 • 38 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    I think we should put on a shuttle bus first to see how many of you would actually use it.

    But we already laid on a horse-drawn shuttle decades ago and it wasn't popular - so what more proof do you need?

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    See that's what happens when an author uses an obtuse title like that - I mean, if Henry Fonda had actually had a line someplace where he said "Ma, hold up, I just gotta get me some of those grapes of wrath out of the back of the truck (where they're er.. stored)" I'd have totally known that.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    And on that - I notice the Listener thinks Peter Fonda was in 12 Angry Men. Could Matt Nippert have a word with the editor?

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    "... where they're stored next to the quantum of Solace..."

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    Small comfort?

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Michael Savidge,

    I have American friends who refer to haemorrhoid scarring as grapes...

    Wrath indeed.

    Somewhere near Wellington… • Since Nov 2006 • 324 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    See that's what happens when an author uses an obtuse title like that

    I only have two (stupid) reasons for knowing this:

    1. I once saw an old trailer for the film version, in which Americans rushed from bookshop to bookshop asking for The Grapes of RATH. 'Have you got a copy of The Grapes of RATH?' 'No, I'm sorry ma'am, we're all sold out of The Grapes of RATH!'

    2. I once said 'The Grapes of ROTH' in front of my husband the American, and he looked at me with confusion. Then a gradual, delighted dawn broke over his face, as he realised that this was yet another way I could be mocked mercilessly.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    This could work if Phillip Roth had, or ever wrote about haemorhoids (not even going to attempt to spell it right).

    Maybe that was Portnoy's complaint?

    BTW, anyone remember the Sledgehammer episode where he was converted into a sort of Robocop? Called, you guessed it "Hammeroid".

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Angus Robertson,

    **5. A new depression is sure to bring us a new dawn in music.** Abject despair hardens, in time, into indignation and protest; at that moment, someone picks up a guitar and starts to sing. It begins with Woody Guthrie, it flowers into Bob Dylan. The bloated sanctimony ultimately yields Bono, but the game is still worth the candle.

    11. Our greater depression will flourish into a period of manic inventiveness. Abject despair hardens, in time, into self-rightous pride; at that moment, several someones pick up an urge to spread their own prideful thoughts to new pastures. A gushing of competition erupts and new miracles of technology arise. It begins with jet planes, thinking machines, rocket ships; it flowers into mass travel, computors, moon-landers. Then bloated sanctimony ultimately yields Segways, gameboys, space tourism; but the game is still worth the candle.

    Auckland • Since May 2007 • 984 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    Angus, that was poetic in its beauty. On which side of the ledger should we put the internet? Or should we put a little on both?

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • Angus Robertson,

    BTW, anyone remember the Sledgehammer episode where he was converted into a sort of Robocop? Called, you guessed it "Hammeroid".

    Grapes of Rasche.

    Auckland • Since May 2007 • 984 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    :) I smell remake.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    Now that's attention to detail.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

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