Posts by Zippy Gonzales
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Of course, I also used to get asked whether I was male or female when I was in China in the mid 90s.
Still fucking with people's heads after all these years, Jack? Good onya.
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I miss the good old days when you could send the rapscallions to Australia.
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When you think of how much of 2000AD's output was basically violence-porn, what Alan Moore managed to do with The Ballad of Halo Jones was pretty special.
IMHO, the best of Alan Moore was a Future Shock about a couple of time detectives. Several frames are repeated with different emphasis as the time cops move through the story. It presaged the panel detail and composition that would continue through Moore's work, and really messes with your head.
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Twang 'em high.
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Horizontal Cook strait bungy!
Sounds like a Garth McVicar cure for violent crime; catapault the guilty into the sea with a giant slingshot. That'll teach 'em.
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Or Halo Jones.
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D.R. & Quinch: The Movie.
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Pursuant to Section 92a of the Copyright Act, I must declare that the bridge idea came from Emperor Norton I, via Neil Gaiman, the dam from reading about the Suez Canal, and the liquid hot magma from Austin Powers. Sorry about breaching all that copyright. Hope they don't disconnect you.
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When we recently crossed Cook Strait on the ferry, my son asked "Why don't they build a bridge ?".
Why not, indeed.
So that's why my stats went apeshit... Cheers, Brent :-)
One thing of great import I didn't mention about a Cook Strait bridge. The power companies would definitely pitch in cash for an alternative to laying cables on the Cook Strait floor. Those things are hell to maintain.
For some reason, the image I have of this alleged bridge makes it look like barbed wire from a distance. Something to do with the silhouettes of wind turbines to power the mass dampers.
Or, if you're tuned for superloon thoughts, you could build a dam right across the strait. Imagine the power one could generate from the ocean height differential. That bright idea is sitting in the mad scientist box next to the power generator on White Island, which is powered by liquid hot magma.
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And is there such a thing as an infrastructure project that would benefit the nation as a whole, rather than just a single region like Auckland or ChCh?
Fuck Yeah! Te Aho a Maui !