Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: The End is Nigh . . . Again? https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Rachel Prosser https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80358#post80358 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80358#post80358

That was Winston's shining moment of this election

I watched Winston and thought of Pym's observation of Charles II:

"Nothing in his [political] life, it may with perfect truth be said, became him like the leaving it"

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:01:22 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80356#post80356 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80356#post80356 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:50:01 +1300 Leigh Kennaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80346#post80346 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80346#post80346 That was Winston's shining moment of this election though, he answered (though I may have remembered the exact words incorrectly): I don't have time to answer stupid questions

That was an excellent answer, but sadly deflated by coming from WP – who of course uses that stock phrase whenever asked…

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:27:42 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80251#post80251 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80251#post80251 Rich – I remember another TV miniseries with a similar plot "Whoops Apocalypse!" – staring John Cleese – it was something that never ever ever played in the US – the ending was the same.


"Get you're souvenir mushrooms here ...."

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:25:38 +1300 Kerry Weston https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80135#post80135 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80135#post80135 Yes, i remember Helen making a lot of fuss about integrity & golden handshakes – John Tamihere springs to mind – by not cutting Winston loose, she looked a hypocrite. To then run their campaign on trustworthiness was bizarre.

I know everyone's said it before, but the pre-election TV coverage was…

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:10:41 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80123#post80123 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80123#post80123 World War III which deals with the runup to world war and attempts to resolve the crisis. You assume throughout that they will resolve it and the world will be saved. It isn't. ]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:49:50 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80081#post80081 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80081#post80081 Off-topic, but can I talk up a band touring at present: Reb Fountain and her Bandits? Graham gives her two good reviews for her albums on Elsewhere.

Went to her gig at Arc here on Wednesday last week, and unfortunately the advertising had been screwed up (as in, no physical or…

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:52:39 +1300 Hadyn Green https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80064#post80064 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80064#post80064

And Charlotte Investigates on the small screen? Asking politicians if they were a piece of stationery what would they be?

That was Winston's shining moment of this election though, he answered (though I may have remembered the exact words incorrectly): I don't have time to answer stupid questions

]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:12:12 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80063#post80063 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-end-is-nigh-again/?p=80063#post80063 Discussion from blog post.

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