Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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* When telemarketers ask to speak to "Mrs Gallagher", I say, "Oh, I'm sorry. I don't actually live with my parents." This usually confuses them.
* When I was little, I always referred to the Prime Minister at the time as "Mr Muldoon". Then one day my speech and drama teacher told me that was giving him undue reverence and I should call him "Rob Muldoon". Whoa!
* Double-barrel surnames worry me because what happens with the next generation, when Jimbob Kahu-McGillicuddy has babies with Shiloh Jolie-Pitt? Is their offspring named Oswald Kahu-McGillicuddy-Jolie-Pitt? Does UNESCO know?
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* One of the best arguments I've heard for keeping GST on food is that really wealthy people usually find ways of worming out of paying most other kinds of tax, and wealthy people tend to spend a lot of money on food, so the GST they pay on it is one way of getting them to pay tax.
* I'd like the museum to be free for Aucklanders (or perhaps all New Zealanders). Make the tourists pay!
* There used to be a permanent exhibition at the museum about Auckland as a city. It was removed during the extension work and hasn't been replaced. There needs to be something about the human geography of Auckland.
* Also, did you just compare Ashlee Simpson to Tiger Woods?
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For some reason, in my mind, 'dude' is non-gender specific. No offence intended, I assure you!
It breaks my heart everytime a man calls me "dude". It seems like he's saying that he thinks of me as a man, and my femaleness is being ignored, which is horrible.
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A few years ago an American interwebs friend of mine said he had eaten "your kind of food" after a night out at the Outback Steakhouse.
After the googles told me it was an Australian-American chain, I scolded him, but perhaps I was too harsh...
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Reading the scan of Emily Simpson's ripped-out SST magazine editorial, it was interesting to see her general opinion of blogs is that they are quite boring and irrelevant:
Now... Blog. Was ever a word more heavy with the promise of tedium, more swollen with delusions of relevance. The blow-by-blow, the two cents worth, the family pet."
I've just been reading "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky, an excellent book about how the internet is bringing people together in ways never seen before.
In an early chapter, Shirky explains that before blogging and other online expression came along, we were used to only reading stuff that people had written for us to read, be it newspaper or magazine articles, a letter from a friend or business, a note from a flatmate or an official document.
But now the internet is full of publicly available stuff that people have written but is not intended for you to read. It's not private or confidential - it just wasn't written with you in mind.
We are no more the intended audience of some teenager's account of an awesome party on her Bebo blog than we are the intended audience of that same teen when you overhear her at the mall telling a friend about that party.
Just because you can find some writing on the internet, it doesn't mean that it will be relevant to you. And if you keep that in mind, then you'll stop looking for relevance in intentionally irrelevant online writing and instead find stuff that appeals to you.
(Perhaps it was good that Simpson's editorial was ripped?!)
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Correct order has been restored to poltical lolz. Now I can rest.
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The second and third panels of the Olympics logo cartoon are the wrong way around. Unless the guy falls up and then down?
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I feel even more mortified than I did on Carly Flynn's behalf when the auto-cue asked her to say 'Socrates'. Her interpretation rhymed with Dough crates.
From "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure".
Bill and Ted have travelled back in time to Ancient Greece.
Bill: Socrates. Hey, we know that name!
Ted: Hey... [hands Bill a history book] Look him up. Oh, it's under So-crates.Party on, Carly!
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I saw the 3Ds play at Waikato Uni orientation in '93, but you know what I did? I left halfway through because my friend had spied alternahunk Evan Dando having a smoke outside so we went over and told him he was rad.
Another significant 3Ds gig was their spot as the last band on the main stages (only stages!) at the first Auckland Big Day Out in 1994. That was thrilling.
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I like Robert Webb and David Mitchell. They have a sketch comedy show (just finished its second series in the UK) called That Mitchell and Webb Look, and it's got plenty of slighty surreal humour. (Ryan Sproull's been raving about it on bFM lately).
Let's watch a clip of the gameshow Numberwang, which could surely give Wheel of Fortune a run for it's money.