Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: This Week in Parliament (in Recess): 12 January 2015 - 16 January 2015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334915#post334915 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334915#post334915 Woah, Nelly — what an extraordinary combination of coincidences. Of course, if you'd actually tried to deliberately burn down your house then it wouldn't have lit all all (2LT).

This deserves to be a guest post, really...

]]> Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:17:42 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334911#post334911 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334911#post334911 smug walks of some sort, yes.
#showponies

]]> Sat, 24 Jan 2015 09:49:12 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334906#post334906 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334906#post334906 Shucks, David, that’s a nice thing to say about my shameless act of shoehorning in kiwi product placements…

…and I agree these people from the past are still providing problems in the now.

Why only this week Bill Birch (now Sir William Francis Birch) tried to burn down our house!…

]]> Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:18:58 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334879#post334879 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334879#post334879 And in case you missed the photo in Ian’s link, here’s Sir George’s impressive Totalisator in Sydney (click on photo to see full size image).

P.S. And apologies for the delay in replying to the comments on this thread (once again, Ian Dalziel writes a comment cleverer and funnier than…

]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:13:35 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334878#post334878 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334878#post334878 Oh, and in correcting my original LibreOffice document, I see that it autocorrects ‘Totalisator’ to ‘Totalizer’.

No doubt John Armstrong would have noticed. That’s the difference between a political journalist with 75 years experience in the gallery – and me with a handful of engineering degrees and a broken-down stenographer…

]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:10:23 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334876#post334876 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334876#post334876 Totalizer or Totalisator? ….or have I missed the punchline? There is probably a truss-flange involved somewhere.

Well fucken hell – thank you Evan Yates! Yes, there are devices called totalizers in engineering for calculating the total amount of various things (of which the TABs totalisator is an example), but it…

]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:56:28 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334872#post334872 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334872#post334872 viva the difference engine… *
Totalizer or Totalisator?
in Australasia it’s Totalisator as in TAB
The NZ Racing Board has a proud legacy, stretching back to 1951 when the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB) was established as the sole betting operator in New Zealand.
I can see why Bridges and Guy…

]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:25:18 +1300 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334871#post334871 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334871#post334871 Totalizer or Totalisator? ....or have I missed the punchline? There is probably a truss-flange involved somewhere. ]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:16:53 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334863#post334863 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334863#post334863 I don’t know whether I’m mortified...
...or pulling the more terrifying Potteresque (Aitch) Volte-morte-face


:- )

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:53:08 +1300 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334862#post334862 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334862#post334862 You forgot the Twilight reference. That was what the Venturi orifice was referring to, right? Oh, wait, Twilight was Volturi, not Venturi. Now I don't know whether I'm mortified at having mentioned it, or relieved that at least it didn't sink in enough for me to remember properly.
As you…

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:46:50 +1300 Dave Patrick https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334855#post334855 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334855#post334855 A Minister for Sauntering would suit the talents of many in this current mob.

Swaggering, surely?

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:41:23 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334854#post334854 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334854#post334854 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:35:19 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334853#post334853 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334853#post334853 the kind of progressive chap who would give all due acknowledgement to the Ladies’ Rugby Auxiliary, even if they’re not currently winning.

Naturally. There's no losers when every lady provides a plate!

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:30:49 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334852#post334852 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334852#post334852 What you’re implying that racing is not a sport? I’m pretty sure that’s heresey, especially if uttered within about 100km of Winston

I mean if it wasn’t a sport and instead a business then the practice of using pokey profits to pay for prizes would be, um …. illegal

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:59:00 +1300 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334851#post334851 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334851#post334851 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:43:13 +1300 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334850#post334850 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334850#post334850 other sports? *clutches Best Bets* ]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:40:20 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334846#post334846 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334846#post334846 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:18:15 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334843#post334843 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334843#post334843 Well bugger me. Again Haywood has unwittingly written a piece that links to an ancestor. My great grandfather ran the first totalisator around Southland and Otago in the 1880-90s. He was in cohorts with Mr Roberts.

[[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18860810.2.22&srpos=2&e=——-10-ODT-1—-0philip+mason+totalisator+– | Here is a wee mention of GGF and a naughty person trying to…

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:04:20 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334841#post334841 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334841#post334841 Yes, why do we have a Minister of Racing, but not a Minister of Silly Walks?

We don't even have a Minister of Rugby or Netball

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:50:45 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334840#post334840 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334840#post334840 a miner’s gavel….
Once again Dr H holds court with a totes brill gold mine of Kiwi kultural references…
starting with allusions to Foreskin’s Lament,
then bringing home the beacon by wandering into Hicksville’s lighthouse territory (and closing that circle by ending with Key’s ‘I’m no terror Tory’ plea –…

]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:19:37 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334838#post334838 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334838#post334838 Our 88-year-old stenographer, Miss Spong, has asked me to thank all those who sent Christmas gifts to her prison cell. Unfortunately she remains on remand as a consequence of an incident in which a guard was 'shanked'.

Despite her trials and tribulations, Miss Spong valiantly managed to submit her transcriptions…

]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:02:54 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334837#post334837 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-in-recess/?p=334837#post334837 Discussion from blog post.

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