Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: At the RWMC with Alan Bollard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=108925#post108925 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=108925#post108925 Bollard: noun; Nautical. 1. A thick low Post 2. A thin Post with a few lines attached.

How strangely apt.......

]]> Wed, 13 May 2009 16:52:14 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107540#post107540 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107540#post107540 Done. Very nice. Thanks.

You know what I said on Emma's thread, I take it back. It was a joke, honest.

Hey, I saw Alan B. at an arty thing the other night. Not why he was there given his obvious preferences for WMCs and the like.

He's taller than…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 23:09:06 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107537#post107537 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107537#post107537 Thu, 07 May 2009 22:56:04 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107531#post107531 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107531#post107531 Thu, 07 May 2009 22:43:15 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107524#post107524 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107524#post107524

Ah, I see that you've spent some time there too.

I live within the dark circle of the Richmond Club's $2 shuttle. Unlike many of my neighbours I've resisted becoming an initiate, yet though I invoke the names of the Ancient Ones, even Chthulhu and Dread Dormammu, Im drawn by…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 22:10:53 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107504#post107504 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107504#post107504 Ewige Blumenkraft ebbing?

fat chance in Christchurch...

The Garden (Danger) City

didn't we just have yet another flower festival
The Ella Sleaze Eternal Flower celebration
by the banks of the serpentine Avon
reinforcing the "ewige Schlangenkraft" as well

presided over by the arch reptile Bhob Parquet

Canterbury is a Rosicrucible…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 19:59:02 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107480#post107480 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107480#post107480 Thu, 07 May 2009 17:04:18 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107466#post107466 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107466#post107466 Thu, 07 May 2009 16:30:31 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107460#post107460 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107460#post107460

Bollard ... sequins

Disturbing image

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 16:09:56 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107436#post107436 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107436#post107436 Underbelly prequel. In a strip club, scowling, swathed in smoke, sequins and whisky. ]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 14:48:43 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107411#post107411 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107411#post107411

"Which country formerly featured a pair white mice on its highest denomination note?"

I'd assumed that they were just a pair of lab critters, part of the general ambience of Florey's role in the discovery of penicillin. Now that it's been revealed that Bollard was up to his tricks in…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 13:10:55 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107409#post107409 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107409#post107409 Never mind the Bollards
here's the Sucks Pustules

I'm sure I've seen giant bats over Richmond Park too
(Oh! BTW you can see those giants The Bats in Cathedral Square
– Chch – This Friday May 8 – 12'15 to 1.15pm)

"We were somewhere around Port Hedland on the edge…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 13:02:16 +1200 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107395#post107395 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107395#post107395

the old $50 Florey 'pineapple', with it's cryptic symbolism of a pair of white mice

Until I googled up a reference I thought you were just running with the surreal humour theme.

"Which country formerly featured a pair white mice on its highest denomination note?"
"..."
"I'll give you a…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 12:33:15 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107367#post107367 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107367#post107367

Alan didn't happen to have a polaroid of Mary-Sue did he?

Perhaps wearing some trashy lingery he'd bought her?

Turned out, her father had more money than God. The PI he hired in the late 80s retrieved the pictures so the big wedding could go ahead.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 11:43:39 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107366#post107366 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107366#post107366

Aussies only introduced the hundred dollar note in 1984. This story allegedly happened in 1974, if Bollard was 23 at the time.

Wow. That was really geeky.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 11:43:34 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107357#post107357 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107357#post107357

Aussies only introduced the hundred dollar note in 1984. This story allegedly happened in 1974, if Bollard was 23 at the time.

Bollard was young, concussed, and already showing an early talent for factoring in the effects of inflation. Howevah, there's no way anyone but the profoundly colour blind could…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 11:05:57 +1200 Paul Rowe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107354#post107354 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107354#post107354 Sounds like that Bollard is full of shit to me.

""They pay me in hundred dollar bills. When I get back to my hostel, I spread it out on the bed, and it's 250 notes. So I go straight down to the Marrapikurrinya pub, and shout the whole bar a…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 10:43:58 +1200 dc_red https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107352#post107352 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107352#post107352

lingery

Lingerie that's been worn for too long?

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 10:34:00 +1200 Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107351#post107351 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107351#post107351

Alan didn't happen to have a polaroid of Mary-Sue did he?

Perhaps wearing some trashy lingery he'd bought her?

Those are all despicable fakes and don't you dare besmirch Pauline any further, she's been through enough this year.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 10:33:33 +1200 Mark Thomas https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107341#post107341 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107341#post107341 Thu, 07 May 2009 10:10:38 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107336#post107336 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107336#post107336 Alan didn't happen to have a polaroid of Mary-Sue did he?

Perhaps wearing some trashy lingery he'd bought her?

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 09:47:13 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107325#post107325 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107325#post107325

... been wondering what's up...

A combination of other work, exhaustion, and a bunch of attempted essays that just wouldn't come out right. It's been a frustrating couple of months.

But hope to be back in my normal routine from now on...

P.S. Additional apologies to some PA readers whose…

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 08:27:46 +1200 Judi Lapsley Miller https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107324#post107324 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107324#post107324 Lovely to have you back David – been wondering what's up – but I guess you and Alan have been too busy carousing to worry about your fans.

:-)

Judi

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 07:51:08 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107323#post107323 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-at-the-rwmc-with-alan-bollard/?p=107323#post107323 Discussion from blog post.

]]> Thu, 07 May 2009 07:51:08 +1200