I bet he has a gun for that inflation targeting business...
cheers

Some people looked and smiled. Some people looked and then looked away again, quickly. Some people stood and stared.

My family has an informal policy for dealing with this sort of stuff, as my niece has Downs Syndrome. We figure it's part of people learning to accept difference around them,…

She's not the only kid I know who has cerebral palsy. My niece does too. She's three. She's learning to…

Hey! Some of us live perilously close to Kelston, you know!

Ah yes, Kelston Perilous...

It makes me sad when people treat me as though I'm stupid because I can't move my body properly.

And when I was 9 I hated the fact that the English kids (at school, in England) beat me up because I had a Kiwi…

Don't be! I'm originally from Kelston (in West Auckland). Palmie is culturally above Kelston by roughly the same ratio that Paris is above Palmie.

Hey! Some of us live perilously close to Kelston, you know!

Is Allan Bollard the Sam Cash for our times?

Wasn't there a story about a cheque that went round and round without paying any tax, and another about how to grow your small business by putting a couple of bullet holes in the wall?

(seems plausibly better than comparing…

Born and bred in Palmy, living in Canberra. Now awash with self doubt.

Don't be! I'm originally from Kelston (in West Auckland). Palmie is culturally above Kelston by roughly the same ratio that Paris is above Palmie.

Also, with respect to Canberra, I really think it's a credit…

you should do a book of these with just rambling yarns,

i don't know if its post-thingy, but just have them keep going and not really noticing where one story changes into the next one,

just one series of things, and then some other guy is talking and drinking…

They didn't count on the Resistance... :)

Ha! why didn't i think of that!

right, 5pm, i'm off

vaguely related to NZ/oz relations...

http://www.invadenewzealand.com/

They didn't count on the Resistance... :)

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=NmNTwKbLHgU

The bronze of elephants sitting on each other. I like that.

Actually, yes. I quite like it too. But they keep it very well hidden.

(For the curious, its called All Creatures Great – One Whale = Ten Elephants )

WTF is there to be proud of?

The bronze of elephants sitting on each other. I like that.

Well hidden though.

WTF is there to be proud of?

Where did I say I was proud? Which isn't to say I'm ashamed either. I just am (from PN). Yeah?

It is windy and dull (both insolation and nightlife). Incontrovertibly true. I could list some of things I like, but I'm not sure…

Nah, James Cagney

Will Ferrell!

Just like flying from Wellington to Palmerston North.

I can't believe people actually do that. Quite apart from the fact that after the airport bullshit, its not that much quicker than driving, there's nothing here.

Now, going the other way, I can well believe. Who cares how you get out…

All day I've been waiting to get home from work to see exactly why a story about Allan Bollard got 16 points on the company naughty word index.

It was worth the wait

I wanna see the company naughty word index.

I wonder sometimes about those email filters that bounce…

I see Russell Crowe playing Bollard

Nah, James Cagney.

I don't hear Bollard denying any of this!

Well, if it weren't true he would sue, wouldn't he?

David, I can't help but feel there are aspects of this tale that maybe should have waited publication until *after* you cleared Homeland…

[canberra] looks as if Albert Speer had been commissioned to redecorate Ashburton on the cheap

http://www.invadenewzealand.com/

It was worth the wait

I for one am outraged by our taxpayer dollars going on these kinds of trans-Tasman piss-ups for senior public servants.

Just look at what they get up to sober. The more alcohol induced paralysis and brain damage the better... :)

with your fancy-schmancy Ph.D

I didn't pay much for it.* Maybe that's why I didn't get the correct truth-detector model included in the package.

*To be precise, I paid nothing, and the Australian taxpayer paid for the lot. Excellent.

Deborah wrote:

Not a happy metaphor. At all.

I felt that the metaphor (in NZ dialect) was consistent with the dubious character of the narrator. Perhaps this isn't sufficiently clear (and let's face it, I'm wrong about lots of things)…

Actually, I take that back. You can't sell it to New Idea or the Listener. Investigate? Now that's a possibility.

I can tell it's not true…

Not a happy metaphor. At all.

It's a literary device. See Unreliable narrator.

but

we're flapping our arms around like a couple of spastics

Not a happy metaphor. At all.

... but could def. be turned into a film by Tarantino

I could hear this/these as monologue plays on National Radio. Nine to Noon. Oh yes. I'd be listening. Even behind the closed curtains in Karori would, I am certain, be the muffled sounds of laughter.

David, you're good.

Bless you. Exactly what I needed.

Here at PA we aim to please!

Ian Llewellyn wrote:

Hunter S Thompson meets monetary policy.

Oh, that's good. May I quote you on that?

Whoops wrote:

Too much punctuation to be Kerouac, not enough drug use to be HST... but…

Too much punctuation to be Kerouac, not enough drug use to be HST... but could def. be turned into a film by Tarantino.

I was waiting for a bunch of central bankers to be rolling down the street chanting: "I'm gonna put your f...in mortgage up!".