Posts by andrew llewellyn
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She didn't seem to have taken offence at the crack about The (Landmark) Forum, despite it being a covert reference to her fondness for sending her management teams to that particular rescue service for people who forgot to have a life when they were 23.
EEEEEK!! I wonder if any of the <strike>retards</strike> Telecom support people I've been dealing with for the last month have been indoctrinated. Might explain a bit.
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Cathedrals take hundreds of years to build
Not if we just convert Mt Eden Prison!
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That's great. Out of interest, who was the 27 year old still working for his father?
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But for the rest of us, asking us to pay for cycleways? Why not just subsidise the building of a Gothic Cathedral in Putararu?
Is that an option? OK, so long as it has gargoyles of all the local body politicians adorning it.
But seriously, there's an argument going on over at Satan's blog about the regional petrol tax - whether motorists should pay for rail. SOmeone pointed out that motorists will benefit if more people (admittedly plebs) use public transport, similarly motorists will benefit if more people use bikes.
But a gothic cathedral would be cool.
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But that's the thing - these weren't designed as community service awards
Do you think Sir Frank would have sprung for the Renouf tennis centre if a gong wasn't in the offing?
And then there are baronets. My (step) daughter would one day be Sir Maddie, if she were a boy (it doesn't pass to daughters), and if her great grandfather would ever expire & pass it on to her grandfather (he's 102). His grandfather was originally knighted.
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Both are ONZ though, which is theoretically much cooler, but I guess not when people are introducing you.
Nowhere near as cool as being introduced as FONZ
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I didn't know MBEs were fatal.
Lovely cars - was he driving too fast?
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Ta Graeme.
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Rear Admiral of Vice.
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Would Clark accept a damehood? Oh wait, it was Bolger who got rid of them wasn't it?