Public Address | Cafe | Island Life: Too True To Be Good https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68830#post68830 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68830#post68830

gee, thanks for getting thattune playing remorselessly in ma head

Ditto, only I'm not being sarcastic. I am a big Gene Pitney fan. :)

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 14:12:02 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68829#post68829 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68829#post68829

Kyle – tell me you're kidding.
What we're seeing in the US sure ain't sanity ...

We may be bad, but we're not that bad yet.

Meh. I'd happily slot an Obama type figure in place of anyone leading Labour, NZ First, National, Act, Maori Party right now. I'll be…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 14:09:14 +1200 Paul Williams https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68814#post68814 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68814#post68814

Vinick gave Santos the briefcase I think (not sure TV ever showed that...and after the 3rd or 4th episode in a row on a DVD box set my memory fades).

I remember that episode, it was a goody.

I was once, marginally, in much the same situation described in the…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 13:12:20 +1200 David Slack https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68810#post68810 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68810#post68810

He did indeed – but he also looked.

If you looked, would what you did depend on what you found?

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 12:53:37 +1200 David Slack https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68809#post68809 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68809#post68809

gee, thanks for getting thattune playing remorselessly in ma head

When I got to the part about John Rowles, I considered making some sort of G-G-G-G-Gerard reference. There. Now you have an earworm that's even worse. Sorry about that Chief.

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 12:51:36 +1200 Idiot Savant https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68806#post68806 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68806#post68806

Vinick gave Santos the briefcase I think (not sure TV ever showed that...and after the 3rd or 4th episode in a row on a DVD box set my memory fades).

He did indeed – but he also looked.

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 12:48:54 +1200 Kerry Weston https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68756#post68756 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68756#post68756 but the point of a gun was the only law Liberty understood
when it came to shooting straight and fast
a-he was mighty goood....

gee, thanks for getting thattune playing remorselessly in ma head.

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 11:20:00 +1200 Rachel Prosser https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68753#post68753 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68753#post68753 Now let's say the scenario is different. Let's say you come upon a whole briefcase, containing the same folder, plus many identifying features that tell you it belongs to, let's say, Kevin Taylor, (Key's Press Secretary). Do you still say "score!" and gleefully release it yourself, or do you return… ]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 11:12:18 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68750#post68750 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68750#post68750

There's an amusing irony that so far Labour have released about as much National Party policy as National have, after months of 'show us your policy'.

Numerical inexactitude there, Kyle.

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 11:07:20 +1200 Jo S https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68742#post68742 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68742#post68742 Kyle – tell me you're kidding.
What we're seeing in the US sure ain't sanity ...

We may be bad, but we're not that bad yet.

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 10:58:43 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68734#post68734 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68734#post68734 There's an amusing irony that so far Labour have released about as much National Party policy as National have, after months of 'show us your policy'.

Politics this year is, in so many ways, fucked up backwards land. There's something wrong when we look to the USA elections for relative…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 10:47:25 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68725#post68725 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68725#post68725 Wed, 10 Sept 2008 10:40:19 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68714#post68714 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68714#post68714

You return it, in person, with kind words that say "See how honourable I am" and a dark smile that says "I know all, and now you know that I know, and you do not know what I will do with what I know, sweat on that." Double score.

The…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 10:11:33 +1200 David Slack https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68712#post68712 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68712#post68712

So what number did Glenn call you from?

Mike Williams'

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 10:03:53 +1200 Raymond A Francis https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68710#post68710 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68710#post68710 So who is being billed for all the photocopying Trev is doing

I believe this is an extremly cunning plan by National to drive Labour's election costs over the limit as they (Labour) release National's policy
Well Labour have been asking for policy
On the other hand it could be…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 10:03:38 +1200 Juha Saarinen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68705#post68705 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68705#post68705 Wed, 10 Sept 2008 09:53:50 +1200 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68701#post68701 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68701#post68701

Do you still say "score!" and gleefully release it yourself, or do you return it to its perturbed owner?

You return it, in person, with kind words that say "See how honourable I am" and a dark smile that says "I know all, and now you know that I know,…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 09:46:42 +1200 richard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68698#post68698 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68698#post68698

In the second instance, if there was some way traceless way to amend the documents – say, as Jolisa coined a word for it somewhere int he archives here, insert the word "fuck" into the middle of it (or some embarrassing clause) and hand it back... well I'd consider that.…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 09:42:28 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68697#post68697 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68697#post68697

I'm interested in debating whether there is a sliding ethical scale here. Let's say you find a mislaid folder, with no identifying features. You just say "score!" and gleefully release it yourself. I'm assuming a lot of us would say that was fair game.(But perhaps I'm assuming too much?)

I…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 09:38:01 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68694#post68694 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68694#post68694 Wed, 10 Sept 2008 09:21:39 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68693#post68693 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68693#post68693 I think you'd probably want to make some political capital out of the opposition's blunder.

And to be fair, while I think the theatre with the stop leak bottle makes Hodgson look petty, and everything Mallard ever does, makes him look petty, if I were Key, I'd be slightly sheepish…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 09:19:20 +1200 David Slack https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68691#post68691 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68691#post68691 I'm interested in debating whether there is a sliding ethical scale here. Let's say you find a mislaid folder, with no identifying features. You just say "score!" and gleefully release it yourself. I'm assuming a lot of us would say that was fair game.(But perhaps I'm assuming too much?)

Now…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 09:10:26 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68687#post68687 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68687#post68687

I have a funny feeling someone really did leave a folder lying around Copperfields, and isn't going to own up because they'd really, really like to keep their internal organs on the inside.

Agreed. Cockup nearly always trumps conspiracy in games of credibility.

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 09:01:52 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68685#post68685 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68685#post68685

12 Nat staffers are Cylons. Some of them are programmed to think they're Nats. They have a plan.

Balls — the Cylons don't have a plan. They have lots of plans. Or no plan at all. Or something... God, I love that show.

Anyway, full credit to Trevor for stirring…

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 08:58:42 +1200 Idiot Savant https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68684#post68684 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68684#post68684 Wed, 10 Sept 2008 08:49:58 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68683#post68683 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68683#post68683 Glad that's sorted.

I figured out yesterday how Trev's getting Nat policy.

12 Nat staffers are Cylons. Some of them are programmed to think they're Nats. They have a plan.

]]> Wed, 10 Sept 2008 08:21:02 +1200 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68682#post68682 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68682#post68682 Wed, 10 Sept 2008 08:13:05 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68681#post68681 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-too-true-to-be-good/?p=68681#post68681 Discussion from blog post.

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