... and some sort of mutant snake eater who's name escapes me right now.

You must be thinking of Rikki-tikki-tavi, the mongoose.

Or is that just modern paranoia?

Back in those days, the fifties, people like peadophiles were regarded as just another aspect of society. I'm not saying it was encoraged but as kids we were told not to accept sweets from people and that was it. Society back then was far…

Something happened to my Rs.

um... I'd rather gathered that from the story.
Or is that just modern paranoia?

They invited us to attend an "H Block Committee" ... That was our only foray into IRA sympathising

British artist and Turner prize winner Steve McQueen has premiered
his film about the events in H block in 1981 at Cannes this week.

Bobby Sands is played…

www.j*t*g*nt.co.nz.......

wow, i think this is the first time i have seen pure spam here at P.A.S.

....in terms of launching an online business, I would think you would be a LOT more savvy in comunicating with your potential customers. Way to create a bad name from the start!

Let me know what you…

When I was little I wanted to be…

Craig, dear, you're not right wing, you're just a very naughty boy...

Some more very naughty boys, probably not the Mesiah...

Craig, dear, you're not right wing, you're just a very naughty boy...

Hah... you try telling a law student that they should pursue a course of study where the demand actually exceeds supply. :)

I wonder how far some of us have really strayed from our original occupational intentions.

I never managed to have any occupational intentions

Ditto.
I think I've fried my daughter's tiny brain (she's only 6) with all my stories that begin with "Did you know that I used to be…

After spending a few moments catching up with a friend at the UniQ table, I…

I wonder how far some of us have really strayed from our original occupational intentions.

I never managed to have any occupational intentions – I don't even recall the traditional "I'ma gonna be a fireman" as a primary kid. I still don't know what I want to be when I…

But when I was newly 9 my parents saw an ad for a kind-of…

On leaving school and moving towns and joined up at the surf club and their Surf Boat crew.

It was with total distrust and disbelief I found out that…

Inevitable this look is derided as too casual by a womyn in a tee shirt.

>OMG woggles. More men should wear woggles.

Woggles sort of go with the whole short trousers and knobbly knees thing, aesthetically.

If 'aesthetically' is quite the right word here....

Logical conclusion: public servants should wear woggles.

OMG woggles. More men should wear woggles.

Woggles sort of go with the whole short trousers and knobbly knees thing, aesthetically.

If 'aesthetically' is quite the right word here....

Eventually she confessed that she just hadn't wanted to be roped into being Brown Owl.

Now there's an organisational philosophy I could get behind.
"Be prepared... with an excuse not to help out..."

We had a group inspection one time for some bloody event, he was going along the line inspecting everyone's woggles, scarfs, hats, etc.

OMG woggles. More men should wear woggles.

Quite roughhouse at times. Bullrush had been banned at school but we had it at Scouts. In the hall, in the dark. This went on until one guy got a dislocated hip.…

I lost count of the number of KAOS members individually conspiring to gather photographic evidence to someday (20, 30, 40 years) embarrass others, whenever their victims obtained a respectable public profile.

I'm constantly surprised that Chris [redacted] and Shane [redacted] have managed to have successful careers. Not that they were…

While in my first year at Canterbury Uni I too considered joining the club, but due to a…

Are you talking about the six degrees of separation thing, Jason?

Yeah, but amused, not concerned. I don't think many photos were taken.

Are you talking about the six degrees of separation thing, Jason?

Six, gods, it's more like two. I find some new blog by some woman I don't know, compare tastes in gin and politics, and suddenly she says, 'Didn't you used to be married to [redacted]?' And then I get…

Blazing Saddles town meeting reference? Or am I drawing too long a bow?

My mind's ear heard Scooby Doo...

PS: I am getting concerned about degrees of separation and convergence in this community.

Ruh-roh

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Are you talking about the six degrees of separation thing, Jason? I like that aspect of living in a small country. I know a couple of the people who post here (I'm even related to…

Blazing Saddles town meeting reference? Or am I drawing too long a bow?

PS: I am getting concerned about degrees of separation and convergence in this community.

Ruh-roh.

I wanted to join KAOS, but being an avid follower of jesus at the time, I made the mistake of praying about it first.

How do you know that was a mistake?

PS: I am getting concerned about degrees of separation and convergence in this community.

I saw the Mutton Birds play there once. A lonely man tried to pick up a friend of mine. After the gig he was hanging around and said it had been, "Quite good. Nothing like a bit of heavy metal."

Well, I've no doubt he was 100% correct.

H Block. Where a couple of pretentious friends and I formed the Beer and Poetry club, drank jugs and read the odd poem.

Ah, that nickname never made it into my social circle. (Obviously didn't stay long enough at uni). I think it was mainly called "The Hillcrest" (pronounced "Hoowcress")…

and read the odd poem

I think I've read that one too.

Obviously you didn't go to Waikato Uni then...

Of course they knocked down H block a few years back, place hasn't been the same since.

Knocked down? H block was never built at all!

The S-shaped C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L blockstravaganza was planned in the 1960s, but since then the building code had…

London was a big, anonymous place, and I was living there alone and in need of an extended social life. Leaving it to chance, or picking people up in pubs, held no appeal.

London Village…

When I got to university I joined KAOS which sucked up entirely all of my…

So we dedicated our sumptuous repast to him, calling it the ‘Bobby Sands Memorial Dinner’.

Unrelated to the thread, but this reminded me of attending a Rangers versus Celtic game in Glasgow in the early 1990's, and one crowd was singing to the other, to the tune of "She'll be…

So I stayed away.

Nah, see, if it had said something like

Suppose they say, "Come on, you don't need to go to this lecture. Stay and have a couple more hands of bastard gin. Then we can discuss the relative merits of leather and PVC until it's time to…

In 1981 I was working for the Mount Cook National Park. Part of the job was to maintain the mountain huts. It was mid-May and the end of the climbing season and three of us flew…

When sinners tempt you,…

But when I went to uni, I joined KAOS. It…

They invited us to attend an "H Block Committee" ... That was our only foray into IRA sympathising

Obviously you didn't go to Waikato Uni then...

Of course they knocked down H block a few years back, place hasn't been the same since.

The last straw came when…