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Island Life: Publishers in crisis!

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  • Juha Saarinen,

    Now I don't believe in hell in the after life, religious sense, but more as in here and now. It would seem Mr Slack has just bought an entry ticket to such a place with his blog posting, and no, I don't think his torment will take place in the Auckland Stadium with ginified Devonportonians weeping at the sight.

    Since Nov 2006 • 529 posts Report Reply

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    That was brilliant. Genuinely lol. I'm going to make Mr Slack a lol cake with fresh lol cream (not that fake lol creme stuff).

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

  • Span .,

    Hee hee, nice start to the morning, thanks Mr Slack!

    Auckland, NZ • Since Nov 2006 • 112 posts Report Reply

  • Che Tibby,

    don juan, key nil, *gold*

    the back of an envelope • Since Nov 2006 • 2042 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    I feel left out. I wrote a book once, you know. Well, I wrote some of it ...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    An unpardonable oversight. I'll knock one up for you.

    I'm thinking "The Great New Zealand Ass-Whipping," but I'm open to alternatives.

    Thanks, you others, for the compliments, and the cake. Juha, if you'd like a slice when it arrives, feel free to saunter across the road to join me in purgatory.

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • DPF,

    Very very good.

    Wellington, New Zealand • Since Nov 2006 • 78 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    I'm thinking "The Great New Zealand Ass-Whipping," but I'm open to alternatives.

    Don't forget David Slack's Bullshit, Backlash and a Bunch of Other Stuff I Didn't Know About at the Time of the First Edition and Graham Reid's Postcards from Parliament: Probably Safer Than Emails ...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    David, you're obviously between books & speeches at the moment - but how'd you mock up the covers like that?

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • Che Tibby,

    well, you're forgetting Great New Zealand Acumen: I don't need a password

    the back of an envelope • Since Nov 2006 • 2042 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    Don't forget David Slack's Bullshit, Backlash and a Bunch of Other Stuff I Didn't Know About at the Time of the First Edition and Graham Reid's Postcards from Parliament: Probably Safer Than Emails ...

    Better yet, wrap it all into a movie starring Clint Eastwood: "A Shitload of Emails and a Fistful of Donors"

    Llew, the problem/reason is in fact that I am *not* between books & speeches at the moment. Photoshop.

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • Don Christie,

    Hah, and I thought it was just a ruse to get in early and steal Russell's thunder this morning. I bet Russell Brown was awake all night dreaming up the magic words that would shake NZ. I can only imagine the crinkly lips when he saw the what this usurper had done.

    Will this "Stadium Stoush" know no end?

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    Will this "Stadium Stoush" know no end?

    No stoush. It's complementarity: David is clever and I am merely earnest.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • andrew llewellyn,

    ""A Shitload of Emails and a Fistful of Donors""

    How about then: Lock Stock & Ten Thousand Smoking Emails?

    BTW - this number can't be correct surely? I doubt I've written 10,000 emails in my entire life, and I am prolific, I find it hard to believe the Donald could have done it.

    Russell, rumour has it that it is important to be earnest.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    If I'm clever, how do I end up living within swimming distance of a 24 hour construction site?

    Don, we are in fact so euphonious that within six words of the opening, both of this morning's posts say precisely the same thing.

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    How about then: Lock Stock & Ten Thousand Smoking Emails?

    BTW - this number can't be correct surely? I doubt I've written 10,000 emails in my entire life, and I am prolific, I find it hard to believe the Donald could have done it.

    Perhaps he's counting the inward-bound viagra ones.

    On that note, a friend has emailed a further suggestion: 'The End of the Affair" by Diane Foreman.

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • Don Christie,

    Ok, I admit it, I looked up "euphonious" and come up with "smooth-sounding". Dam online dictionaries.

    Well, you are Aucklanders, so maybe that's what you meant...

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    I admit it, I looked up "euphonious" and come up with "smooth-sounding".

    I meant to imply "not discordant", but this may be one of those Freudian slips in which you say one thing when you mean your mother.

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • Don Christie,

    Back on topic - "Secret Emails of Adrian Mole - Aged 63 and 3/4" by, A Mole

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    Hah! And leaked by A Hole?

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • wendyf,

    Nearly 10pm - I'm with (?) IHUG so I only just got here to read this. Fabulous. I'm chortling. No, make that guffawing.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 88 posts Report Reply

  • Tony Kennedy,

    David is clever and I am merely earnest

    or in the case of the Importance of being Don ....to lose one email may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 10,000 looks like carelessness.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 225 posts Report Reply

  • john shears,

    Mathew Hooton has taken you seriously David.
    Didn't like your Green suggestion for a book title.
    Seen on TV last night wearing a RED tie.

    North Shore City • Since Nov 2006 • 21 posts Report Reply

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