Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Southerly: Happy to Help (If I Can), in reply to Emma Hart,
Dance all around the world - he blurted...
it was the phrase "the Spirit of Street Alignment" where I actually started crying with laughter.
I managed to hold out until :
Rupert was dressed and ready in the wings as the children representing the Unified Timaru Drainage Board danced off stage. Kylinda gave him a quick hug. “Now remember, Rupert, you’re the ghost of George Rhodes. I have so much faith in you. Your dancing is going to be wonderful!”
Of course the bastardised version of the Rhodes Collar still 'turns up' in Canterbury these days - and interesting to note that it was the rustling of sheep by one James Mackenzie that drove Rhodes to sell off 'the Levels' so Timaru could be built.
(well thats my short version - there's more here )There seems to be a vogue for 'Timaru noir' these days what with the release of Amanda Newall's new film The Hoover Diaries
The film includes things likeAndrew Fagan and his band, The People, dressed in fish costumes and recreated an all-ages Mockers gig in Timaru in 1985 for the movie The Hoover Diaries. The film aims to highlight how changes to the fishing management quota in the mid 1980s has affected the industry.
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Her 45-minute film connects three seemingly disparate events that occurred during her teenage years in 1980s Timaru.more here
I'm thinking that South Canterbury is the South Island's Taranaki, Timaru its Inglewood or Hawera, perhaps Dr Haywood could be its Ronald Hugh Morrieson?
:- )here's a few local heroes:
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s possible that Murdoch could step in and pick up more of NZME as APN shareholders let go their NZME shares
...if that upping the ante-elopement goes ahead in leaps and bounds (like a stalling taxi service?) they could rename their flagship The News Eland Herald - a beira of bad tidings as they don't always dot their 'i's and cross their 't's - a daily gazelle if you will...
:- )(gets coat...)
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The NZ Herald today scores an own goal by misspelling the name of a man they write about as being overlooked before his death!
Recycling death: The lonely life of Daniel Binder
He walked the streets and slept where he could shelter. Public spaces were his home and lots of people looked at him - but few actually saw him. Cherie Howie traces the last journey of Daniel Bindner, the man who tragically died in a recycling bin.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11675921
You'd think subs would take the time to double check on sensitive stories...
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Things heat up as China threatens trade war...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/82092018/china-threatens-reprisals-on-nz-dairy-wool-and-kiwifruit-if-government-doesnt-back-off-cheap-steel-inquiry -
Bête blues...
I can't figure how they can spell these 'foreign' words right in the paper itself (used in Tracy Watkins' piece in today's Press ) - but when they get to the web either people or process mangle them:
the site's front page linkHousing National's bette noire
OPINION: Is National experiencing a midterm crisisand
If housing is the Government's achilles heel, it has become Bennett's bêête noire.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/82146247/housing-solutions-out-of-reach
The black beast in action, indeed...
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to David Hood,
Especially as he has insulted the Turkish President in his 'award winning poetry' - http://www.rferl.org/content/turkish-silence-on-boris-johnson-insulting-erdogan/27857878.html
Even though his ancestor was briefly part of the Ottoman Turkish government I suspect the well-upholstered Boris is merely an almost six-foot stool...
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to BenWilson,
from the rank file...
mostly an inherent limitation of the idea of carpooling,
for diverse transport solutions - before Uber there was Cuba...
http://locallysourcedcuba.com/cuba-taxi -
Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to izogi,
The Spinoff declared this morning that it was doing away with comments.
They were damn hard to get comments on at the best of times - I tried several times to place comments on that Gary Steel evisceration of Roger Shepherd's book, to no avail.... and I wasn't even really rude or nuffin', guv, just the facts...
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I did manage to get the most egregious comments removed from the Minto story comment thread - the libellous, the violent and the untrue apportionment of identity....
...and nice to see that The Press has done a positive editorial on his candidacy today.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/81990861/editorial-john-mintos-christchurch-mayoralty-bid-injects-life-into-campaign
