Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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Actually, I think they used the same Stones sample the Verve used, no?
The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" was based on a small sample of the Andrew Oldham Orchestra's recording of the Rolling Stone's song "The Last Time" (Yeah, I've never heard it either). But most of the orchestral stuff you hear in the song was written by Richard Ashcroft, and indeed that's what you hear in the music that was used in the old BNZ ad.
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Tze Ming, it's been a real pleasure reading your blog entries over the past couple of years, and they've sparked off some of the more interesting PA System discussions.
I'm gonna miss your posts, kool thing, but I know this won't be the last we'll hear from you.
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SNAP!
For all intensive purposes, let's call it a drawer. ;)
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Oh, don't get me started on 'guttered' and its ilk. I seem to be surrounded by people who suffer from some weird pseudo-homonym dyslexia...
"One 'foul' swoop" (or even "one 'fowl' swoop") instead of "one fell swoop"
"On 'tenderhooks'" instead of "on tenterhooks"
Oh, you'll love this. The linguistic community has a name for these - they're called eggcorns (you know, the seeds of an oak) - and there's the Eggcorn Database, where you can revel in the linguistic craziness of others.
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Last night's Outrageous Fortune, written by James Griffin, had this brilliant dialogue.
Pascalle had walked into the West's dining room wearing her work uniform - a tight singlet with "NUNGA'S" emblazoned across the bosom, and a short skirt.
LORETTA: If you insist on showing your tits, does it have to be with bad punctuation?
PASCALLE: What the fuck?!
LORETTA: Nungas, as in two tits, doesn't need an apostrophe. Unless the bar is owned by a Mr Nunga, but I highly doubt that's the case.
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gutted
You know what's the weirdest thing about "gutted"? Some people spell it "guttered". I assume they're thinking it means "I felt so low, it was as if I had been kicked to the gutter," which probably makes more sense to them than feeling like you'd been disembowelled.
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I have written a song that politicians can use for election campaigns. It is very versitile and can be used by any politician of any party. And it is in F minor.
Things are going to be quite good
Things used to be bad.
It wasn't very pleasant.
It was all dark and gloomy.
And no one liked it much.But now I can feel
that things are improving.
And the sun is coming out.
Yes, it's going to be quite good.Oh, everyone come together.
Let's celebrate the good new thing.
Let's look in the same direction
and see the clear blue sky.Oh, things are going to be quite good.
Yes, things are going to be quite good.
Wave your hands in the air,
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BTW, I’d like to wish severe misfortune (like having to watch a National Party DVD) on whoever mentioned “Love lift us up where we belong” on here.
Oh, that was me! Terribly sorry. If it's any consolation, I too have the song stuck in my head now and I watched "Ambitious for New Zealand" on YouTube.
I don't understand how a video about ambition could be so unambitious in its production standards.
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My entry for most hated phrase is "World Class".
I missed this when Ben first listed it, but this is one of my favourite love-to-hate phrases.
My theory is that it's actually used when someone is comparing New Zealand with Australia but doesn't want to it look like petty trans-Tasman rivalry.
"Queen Street will soon have world-class paving stones along the footpath, just like in Sydney and Melbourne!"
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Who knows, but if my memory serves Lalio Schiffin and his publishers couldn't be arsed taking action against Jim Anderton's personality cult's unlicensed use of the Mission Impossible theme on a campaign website for several weeks.
Here's another fuzzy memory - didn't Labour use "Up where we belong" (yuck) for their 1984 election campaign, and they didn't have time to get permission to use it so they just went ahead and used it anyway?