Public Address | Cafe | OnPoint: Peek-a-boo, I can't recall seeing you

Islander

Tue, 01 May 2012 20:17:30 +1200

Loved the ass!

Jolisa

Tue, 01 May 2012 20:07:20 +1200

And speaking of lubricious innuendos, here's Josh Drummond's exquisitely titillating peek into the Dotcom/Banks boudoir.

The love that dare not recall its name, not even when it travelled in a private helicopter to get there.

kmont

Tue, 01 May 2012 19:41:13 +1200

Yep, right up there with 'not recalling' where you stood on the Springbok tour back in the day...

nzlemming

Tue, 01 May 2012 16:43:40 +1200

Those Chrisco ads always made me snigger for just that reason. Unlike the ads for steel house framing called "zog" that just make me go WTF??? Can no-one use Google at these companies?

wendyf

Tue, 01 May 2012 14:34:10 +1200

I have to confess – I've sniggered every time I heard the name. Even when it was about Christmas hampers.

Andrew E

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:56:42 +1200

Yes, a little like this.

Euan Mason

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:51:29 +1200

Thinking about Dotcom's motives raises some interesting hypotheticals. Dotcom gives Banksy wanksy $50k, then when the sword of doom approaches he asks BW for a little help.

"No way", says BW, "The stench would ruin my white lily perfume".

"OK", says DC, "I'll show you what happens to people who…

Bart Janssen

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:34:19 +1200

giggling through interviews …

I actually have a colleague who does this when asked hard questions about his science ... he actually giggles and never answers. It has proven to be a successful strategy :(

Paul Campbell

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:21:39 +1200

Actually I was more thinking of the termite exterminators but now I realise it's spelled differently

Jolisa

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:17:57 +1200

the occasional advertising for Chrisco hampers stuffed through my letter box still make me wonder why one would want to buy a hamper full of lard …. but then my ISP orcon makes me wonder too

For making your Southern Fried Chicken, maybe? Or deep-frying the turkey? Not a euphemism.…

Jolisa

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:13:57 +1200

NSFLunchtime, maybe.

Paul Campbell

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:05:06 +1200

Jolisa: heh – the occasional advertising for Chrisco hampers stuffed through my letter box still make me wonder why one would want to buy a hamper full of lard .... but then my ISP orcon makes me wonder too

Keith Ng

Tue, 01 May 2012 12:04:19 +1200

(Do not, repeat, do not look up Crisco on urban dictionary. Hey, I told you not to).

I am of the Santorum generation. Crisco barely registers as NSFW.

Peter Martin

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:52:32 +1200

blithering wing-man

That almost should be in capitals, like Speaker of the House.

*laff*

Matthew Poole

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:36:17 +1200

Act are a convenient fig leaf for National's genuine policy planks, to be sure, but let's not forget that if Banks leaves Parliament and there's a by-election the period between his resignation and the election of a new MP leaves the whole government hanging on the largesse of the Maori…

Aidan

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:34:22 +1200

And because I haven't seen this mentioned here, this is the funniest thing I've heard in ages:

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/AUDIO-John-Banks-denies-Dotcom-relationship-cites-marriage-as-impediment/tabid/506/articleID/27665/Default.aspx

It is so ludicrous, is it possible he deliberately misunderstood and faked outrage so as to give himself an out from the interview? If so, impressive subterfuge and shame on us for…

Hilary Stace

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:32:55 +1200

John Clarke knows what it is like not to remember important
political details

Jolisa

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:32:28 +1200

the Crisco mansion

Note to self (and Keith): Chrisco ≠ Crisco ...

...although I have to say, for this recent returnee from the US, the momentary confusion added a certain lubricious je-ne-sais-quoi to the scenario. (Do not, repeat, do not look up Crisco on urban dictionary. Hey, I told you…

Jolisa

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:26:58 +1200

blithering wing-man

That almost should be in capitals, like Speaker of the House.

Andrew E

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:11:42 +1200

The crucial word being 'fallacy'. And if they don't believe that shit stinks to high heaven, I have some new clothes for their Emperor. Oh, and a bridge that's going cheap...

Keith Ng

Tue, 01 May 2012 11:03:51 +1200

The cost-benefit calculation taking place on the 9th floor of a building in Wellington is likely to be coming down on the side of cost quite soon, I'd say.

Maybe it's a Sunk Cost Fallacy thing. "FFS, we smeared ourselves with so much shit to get Banks in here, we…

tim oliver

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:58:54 +1200

And because I haven't seen this mentioned here, this is the funniest thing I've heard in ages:

http://www.radiolive.co.nz/AUDIO-John-Banks-denies-Dotcom-relationship-cites-marriage-as-impediment/tabid/506/articleID/27665/Default.aspx

Sacha

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:55:02 +1200

Bravo. "Wide" ethics rule for money trader Key. Is this really what we are prepared to put up with in our supposed leaders?

Gareth Ward

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:54:41 +1200

Would Key continue with "ACT's" Charter Schools should a National candidate be elected in Epson?

An obvious question (although probably requiring weasel re-wording) for Question Time.*

Is part of the reason Key is keeping this going is retaining the sole ACT MP as a Minister is part of their confidence/supply…

Andrew E

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:54:27 +1200

The cost-benefit calculation taking place on the 9th floor of a building in Wellington is likely to be coming down on the side of cost quite soon, I'd say. Key may be a nasty right wing thug, but he's not a stupid nasty right wing thug. The benefit of the…

Jonathan King

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:49:26 +1200

This nails it brilliantly.

But, you know? Surely being "unable to recall" something significant from just two years ago is, in itself, enough to make you unfit to hold public office! Is he brain damaged? He certainly sounds it, giggling through interviews ...

Kumara Republic

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:47:04 +1200

ACT is exactly the sort of blithering wing-man National needs right now. I imagine John Key will protract the process as long as possible.

As in "obstruction of justice" protracted?

Carol Green

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:44:58 +1200

Teapot vomit. Keith, I love you and want to marry you.

or similar.

Ditto. Get in line.

Sofie Bribiesca

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:39:45 +1200

and, as we all know, John Key is comfortable with that...

And that's why he's comfortable with John B. Interesting that since Simon Power has left the Party (and now knowing he squashed the chances for Dotcom to own the Coatsville Chrisco Christmas House) lots of this shit is hitting…

Hamish

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:30:13 +1200

You are a true wordsmith! So much gold in one post.

ACT is exactly the sort of blithering wing-man National needs right now. I imagine John Key will protract the process as long as possible.

Paul Brislen

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:27:23 +1200

Teapot vomit. Keith, I love you and want to marry you.

or similar.

Ian MacKay

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:25:48 +1200

such as charter schools

Would Key continue with "ACT's" Charter Schools should a National candidate be elected in Epson?

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:17:22 +1200

...how about letting Sky City have more pokies so they can build a convention centre that will cost the government millions to run?

Or how about selling assets, at huge financial cost to the country?

Aaaah! But that's not breaking the law, that's just dodgy ethics and misinterpretation of the…

Bart Janssen

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:03:31 +1200

Why does this farce continue?

That's an interesting question. Key could end this at any time so why hasn't he?

Is there something else we should be looking at – something just as, or even more, corrupt ... how about letting Sky City have more pokies so they can build…

Joe Wylie

Tue, 01 May 2012 09:20:27 +1200

. . . that time I got helicoptered out to the Crisco mansion where I met an obese Bond villain . . .
Sounds remarkably like a kiddie witness account from the Christchurch Civic Creche case.

Kiwi Nomad

Tue, 01 May 2012 09:03:29 +1200

Why does this farce continue? Because it suits Key to have ACT around. Its nothing to do with seats in the house, as the Epsom seat would be Nationals if it wasn't held by Banks. The only rationale for ACT being around is so that it can be the promoter…

Public Address

Tue, 01 May 2012 09:03:28 +1200

Discussion from blog post.