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				<title>Danielle</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Anyway, that Best of Abba was an NZ/Aust only compilation.</p></blockquote><p>And a copy of that very record is still sitting in my mother's LP cupboard, scratched to buggery.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 10:09:53 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>philipmatthews</title>
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						Not ashamed to say that the first record I ever bought was The Best of Abba, c1976, Riccarton Mall, Chch. Not ashamed because Wikipedia tells me that at 24X Platinum it's tied with Dire Straits's Brothers in Arms as the best-selling album ever in New Zealand. And I know which…
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				<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:25:05 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Kumara Republic</title>
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						Wasn't all that big on ABBA to start with, being a bit before my time. I did like Benny & Bjorn's efforts on the Chess soundtrack though.
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				<title>Rob Hosking</title>
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						<p>I was never into ABBA &ndash; younger brother and sister loved them and I felt ABBA'ed out...BUT... the one I fancied was Frida.  </p><p>She just looked more interesting.</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p>Oh. So I've spent the afternoon blathering about the Implications For The Left Of The Mt Albert Primary, and you guys have been over here, just jammin'.</p><p>Bastards.</p>
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				<title>81stcolumn</title>
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						<p>$10 ?</p><p>ABBA or some ice creams....no contest &ndash; no ever had to hype ice cream.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:16:25 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Jolisa</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Which one's Bill, do you reckon?</p></blockquote><p>Definitely Agnetha; the pretty one, gets all the camera time, there by virtue of how good he looks in that shiny, shiny suit.</p><p>But who's the long-suffering jealous brunette?</p>
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				<title>Alastair Jamieson</title>
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						<p>@David &ndash; the one next to Paula</p><p>@Danielle &ndash;  It's an oldie but a goody!</p>
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				<title>Danielle</title>
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						Oh Alastair, that clip was fabulous.
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				<title>Paul Litterick</title>
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						<blockquote>Seriously, the first time that I can recall hearing any Abba songs is when I was at university in the mid 90s. Everyone was going "Oh, I really love this song" in the tones of someone confessing a guilty secret, and I had absolutely no idea what they were talking…</blockquote>
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				<title>David Slack</title>
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						Which one's Bill, do you reckon?
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				<title>Alastair Jamieson</title>
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						<p>But remember David, even at the peak of *their* success, the cracks were beginning to show...</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcS4vBisJLo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcS4vBisJLo</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:49:32 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>JackElder</title>
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						I completely missed out a surprising swathe of pop music growing up, including Abba.  Seriously, the first time that I can recall hearing any Abba songs is when I was at university in the mid 90s.  Everyone was going "Oh, I really love this song" in the tones of someone…
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				<title>Danielle</title>
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						<p>I'm now inspired to break out my Definitive Abba collection. Fuck they were awesome.</p><p>(This Abba-related thread must be like kryptonite to Giovanni. Heh.)</p>
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				<title>David Slack</title>
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						<blockquote><p>now give me 10 bucks...</p></blockquote><p>Here's fifteen. And an hour of tax relief.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:32:15 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Don Christie</title>
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						<p>Ah, the debates we used to have. Abba or the Beatles. I was more in the latter camp but could still bang out Money Money Money on the joana.</p><p>My mate soon defected to Sid Vicious and friends, shows what sort of loyalty he had.</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REElUors1pQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REElUors1pQ</a></p><p>There, now give me…</p>
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				<title>Danielle</title>
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						<p>Abba turned down one billion dollars to reform, didn't they?</p><p>(I know they're almost irrelevant to the point of the piece, but yowza, that's a lot of dosh to pass up.)</p>
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				<title>David Cormack</title>
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						<blockquote><p>your contribution was predictable from precisely the second syllable.<br />well done!</p></blockquote><p>To be fair to Mr Johnson, I wasn't sure at what paragraph it became predictable to him so that was a surprise.</p>
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				<title>stephen walker</title>
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						<p>@Ian MacKay:<br />you might want to be a bit more circumspect about using that royal "we", imho...</p>
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				<title>stephen walker</title>
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						<p>@Thomas Johnson:<br />your contribution was predictable from precisely the second syllable.<br />well done!</p>
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				<title>Ian MacKay</title>
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						Predictable of course but I am sure that it underlines how easy it would be for enthusiasm to over-ride caution. After all. We elected a National Government without due regard for caution????
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				<title>Thomas Johnson</title>
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						Predictable from about the 4th para.
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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