Posts by daleaway
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And I thought tapped out in that title referred to his having typed something.
Just goes to show that standard English is a better bet than ephemeral slang or txtspk if you want to be understood.
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Six years of Latin, and after all that I was fullly equipped to fight a war in the Peloponnese or govern a small, not too belligerent province.
Couldn't do anything useful in it though.It has come in a bit handy for gardening, and crosswords, and interpreting medical notes. There are better things kids could be learning.
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I take it you are not considering breeding, then.
Round of applause for J Wilkinson!
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And you should be due for a run-in with the organic anti-vaccination police any day now, too. Whooooooo-eee!
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Aha! I was about to suggest "Try goat's milk" when your last para solved the mystery and confirmed the diagnosis. Sack your midwife.
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When did New Zealanders get stuck on TRANSMIT?
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There are a lot of eyes on Shane. He's been groomed for leadership, whether he liked it or not, since birth. And oh, he does like it.
A likeable enough chap though, and as a Taffy Dally Hori having a foot in several racial camps keeps him striving for balance. But as you say, Craig, the sort of personality I believe they call "unconflicted" or "untroubled by self-doubt".
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It's Dennis from Accounts, not Trevor. Take more water with it...
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When I served on one of Creative NZ's funding committees some years back, applications in that category outnumbered available funding by about 12:1. Probably much the same throughout its categories.
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Last night I dreamed I said lingonberries when I meant cloudberries, and when I woke up, it was all true. Rats. (I probably mean mice.)