Let's open up some more mines eh?

And let's not just stop there. Let's open a nuclear missile silo in Palms North. And a test site in the Ureweras too.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

by Henry Hazlitt 1946…

6. Do not give children sticks of dynamite, even if they come with a warning .

De-liberate!

The effing theme has kept runing through my effing brain for the last 24 hours!!!! F&%k!

dum didi dum didi dum idid dum Bonannzaaa

Cue Lawn Green (Paw)
A deliberate pun, or do you mean Lorne?
Reminds me that our lawn has remained
green this summer, rather than dying off
as it usually does in February/March.

I think it's a comically bon(an)za play on words:

cute, green lawn turn sere
yellow affects his paw…

Cue Lawn Green (Paw)

A deliberate pun, or do you mean Lorne? Reminds me that our lawn has remained green this summer, rather than dying off as it usually does in February/March.

Avenues mag has become a nice sunday afternooner (glossy pulp with a good news story or two) now Gadsby sleazy and icky editorial time is over.

I have moments of wondering if the whole thing is a hoax.

No, I think Gerry dead panned it. But we aren't having a bar of it.

gold...Gold...GOld...GOLd...GOLD!!!!

Cue Lawn Green (Paw), Hoss, Little Joe. Adam and Bonanza theme. Map of New Zealand bursts into flames from Schedule 4 areas…

Sometimes, they call these things "costs", "risks", "downsides", "negative externalities" or "bad things".

Sometimes they call them "disbenefits", in which case you are free to crush their skull between two volumes of the OED.

Make jokes about prison sex after 10pm and you get pinged by the BSA.

Describe people as freaks, mad and schizos on Breakfast TV and you're fine.

Their problem was that they satirised the politicians rather than the policies, which is ultimately just mean and pointless.

Not only that, it also means you've got to get new material when the butt of your jokes is voted out... or wither away to irrelevance like they did.

McFail and the not so great Gadsby

Their problem was that they satirised the politicians rather than the policies, which is ultimately just mean and pointless.

Let me correct that: I was in school uniform because I had to be, it wasn't a fetish.

I think we blew our quota with John Clarke.

Not to mention McPhail & Gadsby.

So – civil servant hide is it?

There's nothing civil about Hide, and he needs some reminding that he is, in fact, a servant of the electorate. You'd get quite a few sandwiches out of him, though.

Remind me to always bring my…

You can only recycle vegetarians in those ones

You should make sandwiches out of the good bit of those vegetarians first. You know, like those "vegetarian" sandwiches you see in cafes. You'll find them next to the "chicken" or "beef" sandwiches.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyZjU5gHVQ

So why don't we call it that? Calling our government the Crown just means that people can pretend the crap stems from a royal person in a castle, not the dumbass government they voted in.

Because of the Queen ever decided to exert some actual power, like dismissing a government…

Paper hat, anyone?

why don't we call it that?

Because it reminds us that we cannot have a Crown, and therefore government, without goldmines. And it is irresponsible to expect our global neighbours to mine their parks while we wander around ours wearing our Crown.

The Crown just means the New Zealand Government

So why don't we call it that? Calling our government the Crown just means that people can pretend the crap stems from a royal person in a castle, not the dumbass government they voted in.

I keep expecting Brownlee to be embarrassed

He promises to be embarrassed after his lunch meeting ... no need to wait.

I have moments of wondering if the whole thing is a hoax.

Not one to follow directions, Jack snorted the magic beans. That's when his troubles started.

ROCKS ARE NOT THE SAME AS MONEY.

But those magic beans we got from overseas
for those dairy farms are still good, right?

Find the green civil-servant recycling cube on your desk

My one is black and smells like a banana skin was left in there for some time (it was), will this make a difference?

Would Australia mine in places like that? Nooooooooooo....

Sometimes, they call these things "costs", "risks", "downsides", "negative externalities" or "bad things"

These things always seem to trip Governments on a Mission from God up.
Funny thing Gerry has been throwing around figures of what $200 billion of potential benefit to NZ.
Didn't the US govt spend a whole…