Southerly: Interview with Rodney Hide
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Someone's gonna end up with pi on their face, if we're not careful. An Eraser Head, so to speak.
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Hide will come to a sticky end I tell you. All this Huffing and Puffing will blow the house down if you ask me. Never the less, Hide is, at least, sticking to Organics I am pleased to say, we wouldn't want him huffing away on sodium silicates now would we? What with their heat resistance and low toxicity. Better to stick with an organic like a good trimethyl asniocyanate with maybe a dash of chloroethyline for that added kick.
And what of the dangers of glue ear I hear you say... WHAT? I SAID GLUE EAR... never mind.
As for those Pie figures. I thought they were talking in the region of 4.774648293 pies per purchase.
So, I guess it won't be long before we see our Rodders back on the telly dancing with Ethyl, Methyl and the Keytones.
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just to say that I am totally in awe of the Π jokes on this thread. Makes me so pleased that I chose Π rather than e.
pie = 8.53973422 (approximately) - so 2 x pie, while not only being a balanced lunch menu, wold also make a pretty snazzy GST level too
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I can't believe I read this.
For those of us whose communities are *literally* being wiped out by inhalant abuse, making light of the problem in this way is insulting. And inappropriate. And bad.
Enough is enough.
Won't somebody think of the children?
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Personally I find the ideas of the ACT party to be 4.26986711
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3410,
I find the ideas of the ACT party to be 1.57079632
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For those of us whose communities are *literally* being wiped out by inhalant abuse, making light of the problem in this way is insulting.
I believe that the correct term is Wipe Out™ed.
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I did some Vivid and was inspired to write this poem:
Rodney Hide stole my glue-bag.
Give me back my glue bag, Rodney Hide.
I want my glue-bag.
I miss my glue-bag.Rodney Hide returned my glue-bag.
It was empty.
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Also in 1981, an SIS operative inadvertently left a briefcase containing sandwiches, Listener magazine and a diary... The briefcase was commonly but mistakenly described as containing a Penthouse magazine and pie.
I only read the Listener for the pictures.
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To make your own Pi do you start with some P and mix it with the square root of -1, then homebake it?
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Would that be, err, blowing up the pi? Wealthier communities together.
You need more than three dolars in your pocket for that.
Approximately $3.14 I believe
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I only read the Listener for the pictures.
Do they still have Jane Ussher?
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"It's never easy to deal with closed-minded people," he admits sadly. "A case in point would be John Key. I have it on good authority that he's never sniffed anything stronger than PVA. Some people might ask whether a person like that has the clarity of thought to be prime minister -- I know it's something that's certainly a concern to me."
And yet we still follow this pied piper. Hide has a point.
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Do they still have Jane Ussher?
No. They like stock photography now, usually actors in exaggerated poses.
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Little Rodders Hide
Sat on the side
Eating his Christmas pi
He stuck in his thumb
And pulled out some gum
And said 'what a good boy am I?' -
Hide has a point.
I correct myself. Rodney is a man of well rounded policies - and pi will have to be rounded - and opposed to points.
And p comes in points, after all.
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The Leader of Men said with pride,
As his eyes went all boggly and pied:
"You may take the mickey,
But I sniff the sticky
And prove that there's nothing to Hide." -
In days he had hair to dishevel,
Young Rodney was quite on the level;
But, casting an eye
On a big slice of pi,
He sold his own neck to the devil. -
Once again, I am almost moved to tears by the poetry skillz of Public Address readers...
Robyn, your poem was an emotional journey. I was sobbing like an overly-sensitive left-winger as I reached the final gut-wrenching couplet: "Rodney Hide returned my glue-bag/It was empty."
In comparison, Philip Challinor's work -- while, as always, deeply thought-provoking -- is, at the same time, verging on cultural insensitivity. I wonder if you are aware, Philip, that Hide's home-town of Rangiora (pronounced 'Rang-Yora') is widely-known for its population of neckless men named 'Rodney'?
Among his fellow Rangiorans, Rodney's neck is widely admired for its length and slenderness. In fact, I understand that he is affectionately nicknamed "Giraffe Neck" (pronounced 'Draafnek').
I hope you will consider attending some cultural safety courses, Philip, before your insensitivity causes somebody to take their own life.
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I find the ideas of the ACT party to be 1.57079632
Except that 1.57079632 ∈ Q
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I hope you will consider attending some cultural safety courses, Philip, before your insensitivity causes somebody to take their own life
I think it shows a certain aesthetic insensitivity on your part to focus so obsessively on the use, in a single line, of necklessness as a moral metaphor. In terms of driving people to suicide, in fact, my real artistic hopes were that the first couple of lines would enable me to bag a few baldies.
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ka pai (well done!)
...or is that Ka Pi
(that wacky Egyptian Soul Music
of a certain ratio...?)I'd always thought of Rodney as a nasal retentive,
a kind of P-Layby Huge Huffner...
But can he keep the The Big A (& NZ) solvent?
(or put another way, will Jaffas become sniffters?)
...and ACT has always believed in Magic Markets... -
Rofflenuinui
This thread is hands down the most concentrated wittiness I have ever beheld, and the neighbours now doubt my sanity more than ever. Thank you fine friends, a thousand thank yous.
I reckon Bollard might enjoy this too..
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A Certain Ratio
Shack up
it's a jack up
it gets my back up
is David Slack up?
this pi's a crack up
slice n dice n hack up -
ACT New Zealand: the money and the bag since 1994.
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