Posts by Lyndon Hood

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  • Busytown: For the (broken) record,

    She also noted that Penguin had forbidden the Listener to quote any further from the novel.

    They can't actually do that, right? Fair use for review and all.

    And even if they could, the spectacle of them taking an action against someone for stealing words would be hilarious.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Getting out of the archives,

    If we're bitching about ads on the back of buses, I've got to nominate that

    "You're four times It's hard to more likely to do two things have a crash at once..."

    thing for the counterproductive placement of difficult-to-process input in the middle of traffic award.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Not in front of the children,

    Brutus is an honourable man

    Doubly relevent because the (rhetorical) irony arises from him technically honouring restrictions placed on his speech.

    I've daydreamed about offending the privileges committee and making an apology along those lines. Somehow I doubt either of those things would actually happen.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Not in front of the children,

    regardless of whether any information is conveyed to anyone or not

    Huh? I would think most of the legal test you're think of are in precisely those terms.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Not in front of the children,

    Come to think of it, why all the complaining about Adagio when then story in Fly My Pretties was all about two kids saving their family by chasing P?

    (Okay, 'Pi', which was the name of a fantail, but that's what it sounded like.)

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Not in front of the children,

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Not in front of the children,

    Sir, both my former teachers and my Google dictionary search say you are mistaken.

    Russell's original comment send me off to Wikipedia, where I found that Wikipedians apparently think some odd pairs of vowels identical.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Hard News: Not in front of the children,

    Nat Rad is still going on Adagio, though I note they've yet to mention any actual people actually complaining.

    They I/V'd Bill Hasting for midday report who explained that (yay!) the only limit on a theatre performance is public indecency.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Up Front: I'll Take Actium and Trafalgar,

    BoingBoing commenters assert that, since the things that guy has completed were not part of the initial game, they're presumably not the be all and end all of it.

    And that the next update will just add a few more anyway.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

  • Public Address Word of the Year 2009,

    __Haraweary: How the Maori Party feel about their prodigal son.__

    Exhonerated: What happened to him.

    I'm sorry if this injures any of you, but it occured to me and I thought it should be recorded somewhere...

    Hone soit qui mal y pense.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1115 posts Report

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