Posts by Shep Cheyenne
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Why has the 'tradition' of my old Marlborough Boys' College (one of the many High Schools I was sent to) of an "Undie Run" and the respondant MGC "Bra Dash" not been in existance in my day!?
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Peter, all that need be said in counter is, Tony Veitch.
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Related but off topic - Ying and Yang - why I love and hate Christchurch.
Currently there is a man-hunt going on in Christchurch for a clean cut part-maori with a semi-automatic pistol carrying a black bag who has just robbed a bank in Cathedral Square and while the cops were dealing with that robbed Westpac Riccarton.
The silver lining here is that due to his speed of movement the cops think he was either on the bus or on a bicycle.
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WWJD? (what would jesus do?)
Shit I thought that stood for What Would Jesus Drink?
Red wine, obviously!?
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I believe the Hockey Girls at the Olympics got in trouble for having the wrong colour undies.
It was with absolute amazement I went down to the netball courts as a lad and saw knicker inspections going on, that was a real WTF moment.I have had pedants appeal to the ref that they won by default because one of the blokes in my Touch team didn't have the right socks and another didn't have the right shorts. The reply was, do you want to play or should we just go to the bar now? We played - they won.
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"children of members of the New Zealand Defence Force seeking to study Agriculture at Lincoln University".
That might be the fund that Charles Upham donated rather than take a gift for killing Germans.
It wasn't very exclusive as that could mean almost anyone could get it.Scholarships aren't a problem they're a part of the solution. We need more of them, or address the reason for the need by having Universal allowances and nil fees.
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What of homo economicus and what exactly is that invisible hand of Adam Smith doing?
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Doing a paper round around Riccarton Rd & Blenheim Rd I was never chased by dogs, closer to where I lived there was a Corgi in Middlepark Rd that yapped away but was just the right height for a footstool or would make a nice pair of slippers.
The scary thing for me was my Milk Run for Mr Miller Upper Riccarton/Wigram/Hornby/Socburn and running on Main South Rd (Start of State Highway 1) and having to contend for space with sheep trucks and trailers off to the works. Not to mention the shit and piss which dropped on me and the bottles.
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By age 12 we'ld house a refugee/over stayer from Indonesia for 6 months (some still think he was a govt plant into the Catholic Workers Movement), by 14 a girl in my family home had been sexually abused by the elderly neighbour his wife compensating each time by bringing over a pudding (name suppressed and no prison time on conviction), by 16 my teacher had sexually abused class mates after we drew our home layouts for TD & I'ld had an OD on possibly laced marijuana, attended a student/demolition party with a metre long joint (3 guys had to hold it) and the cops raided 3 times (I left after the 1st raid), I'ld taken part in little school/gang brawls ala Flaxmere/Hastings, by 18 a surf club mate (23yrs) was shot dead by her estranged husband.
I don't see that much has changed in 20yrs for the negitive, in fact I think we have a more open and safer society.
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Would a farmers' market on Saturdays do?
Close proximity to vegetables and dumb animals would be excellent job training for an aspiring MP. :)
And past politians as well it would seem."Capill had also completed a horticulture course through Massey University and until recently was involved in gardening projects around the prison."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10515055