Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: This Week in Parliament https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=158752#post158752 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=158752#post158752 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:37:23 +1300 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=158705#post158705 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=158705#post158705 In the wake of this column I was vaguely disturbed to encounter, in a life imitates art fashion, a story about the
head of the SETI post detection taskforce.

]]> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:43:53 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=158045#post158045 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=158045#post158045 Marsupial won't come back...
in memory of Alex Chilton...
my favourite track : Kangaroo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP2t6flTmyY&NR=1

]]> Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:58:01 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157973#post157973 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157973#post157973 Nothing less!
(Kai Tahu whakapapa to Kati Porou. Why do you think I was allowed there?))

]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:34:48 +1300 Lucy Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157969#post157969 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157969#post157969

(well, he was Ngati Porou)

Well, what do you expect? ;) (My Maori teacher at school was Ngati Porou, so we mostly learned their reo and tikanga. I still have a soft spot for them.)

]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:09:51 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157761#post157761 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157761#post157761 One of the weirdest most wonderful wanaka (as in learning groups) I've ever attended
-gah! Double-post. Sorry.

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:51 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157760#post157760 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157760#post157760 One of the weirdest most wonderful wanaka (as in learning groups) I've ever attended
was held by a veryunusual kai-korero: he not only believed that women of standing could speak on suitable marae (well, he was Ngati Porou) but he wanted to encourage the practise i te motu. But he…

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:50 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157755#post157755 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157755#post157755

Just last week I had a nightmare that I was a kangaroo, and that Steven Joyce was attempting to insert his hands into my pouch.

We married off my eldest on saturday. A requirement of my youngest (who also dressed the bride party) was that I dress up. I have…

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:10:09 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157677#post157677 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157677#post157677 Mounting Olym-pus...

However did you know that if you filled an olympic pool with custard you could comfortably walk on it? True story.

Are you sure you are not thinking of Benny Hill's
The Underworld Water of Jacques Custard?
:- )

Pie = arts queered...
and let's not…

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:52:01 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157668#post157668 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157668#post157668

Emma, we really should form a QI-watchers posse.

Again, I believe we need to conduct some kind of finger-based ritual to avert disaster now.

Like Toy Stories, if you have kids they should be watching Brainiac.

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:24:28 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157666#post157666 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157666#post157666 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:22:08 +1300 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157665#post157665 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157665#post157665

Pics or it didn't happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN2D5y-AxIY

The pool is a little on the small side, but still.

(We did once sit in the Botanic Gardens trying to work out how much it would cost to turn Christ's College's swimming pool into a giant jelly.)

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:20:53 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157663#post157663 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157663#post157663

Pics or it didn't happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIzSCadHph0

Non-Newtonian fluid, right?

Precisely.

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:20:24 +1300 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157662#post157662 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157662#post157662 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:17:42 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157641#post157641 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157641#post157641

However did you know that if you filled an olympic pool with custard you could comfortably walk on it? True story.

You crazy Italians!

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:40:17 +1300 JackElder https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157634#post157634 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157634#post157634

However did you know that if you filled an olympic pool with custard you could comfortably walk on it? True story.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Actually, do you happen to know at roughly what size of receptacle you can get custard to take a point weight of 100kg? There's…

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:29:46 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157626#post157626 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157626#post157626

I've never consumed a gold meal, let alone swam in one.

However did you know that if you filled an olympic pool with custard you could comfortably walk on it? True story.

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:15:11 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157623#post157623 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157623#post157623

gold meal

pure corn, from the wit fields...?

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:12:51 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157591#post157591 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157591#post157591 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:05:05 +1300 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157590#post157590 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157590#post157590

I bet he'd be a lot faster than Olympic gold meal swimmer Danyon Loader

I've never consumed a gold meal, let alone swam in one. I do remember from primary school "religious instruction", that Moses (or some similar biblical figure) reputedly melted down a golden calf idol and made the…

]]> Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:45:25 +1300 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157588#post157588 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157588#post157588 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:55:38 +1300 Pete https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157575#post157575 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157575#post157575 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:09:44 +1300 Paul Litterick https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157428#post157428 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157428#post157428

Hello? My page shows the full name and location of posters??? Is it supposed to do that?

You must have subscribed for the Public Address Premium Stalker plan.

Are you going to share?

]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:10:36 +1300 Ian MacKay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157406#post157406 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157406#post157406 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:01:30 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157401#post157401 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157401#post157401

Hello? My page shows the full name and location of posters??? Is it supposed to do that?

Don't worry I believe Bleheim is off planet...
;- )

]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:53:55 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157398#post157398 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157398#post157398

"One hump or two"

in the wise words of the Tuareg tribesmen
(aka the Blue men)
"Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel"
not to be confused with the Australians':
(aka Bluey)
"Tie me kangaroo down sport..."
or
"If it humps ride it, if it doesn't hump it..."

]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:51:26 +1300 Ian MacKay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157397#post157397 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157397#post157397 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:43:40 +1300 JackElder https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157393#post157393 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157393#post157393 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:38:46 +1300 Ian MacKay https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157378#post157378 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157378#post157378 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:08:32 +1300 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157366#post157366 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157366#post157366 One of the policies proposed in Mark Thomas' People's Manifesto collection is that goats are to be released into the debating chamber, but the members are forbidden to refer to them.

But perhaps the parliamentary camel just stuck his nose in. As you know, once you let the camel's nose…

]]> Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:13:48 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157361#post157361 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157361#post157361 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:18:41 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157357#post157357 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157357#post157357 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:28:31 +1300 Jake Pollock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157356#post157356 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157356#post157356 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:29:45 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157355#post157355 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament/?p=157355#post157355 Discussion from blog post.

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