Posts by Joe Wylie

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  • Hard News: Only in a relative sense,

    You're a real hardass Giovanni. Compared to his former 'hairy armpit' frothing, the Bumpkin Abroad has made great strides. Apart from a little Strangelovian wrist-gnawing he's almost house-trained. Maybe cut him a little slack, channelling Rush Limbaugh's infantile sewage into a semblance of adult English is hardly a fun pursuit.

    A few localised touches might have helped, tho - e.g. "The great depression would look like a cake walk." - how about "The great depression would look like a police poultry-porn night in Palmerston North"?

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Don’t let them eat cake,

    Some boys have always liked to drive fast - my father being one of them

    Your dad, eh? Wow! I watched him driving at Levin, a Maserati if I recall correctly, when I were a kid.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • Up Front: Girls Can Do Anything. You…,

    http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=x_dJ58DurQc

    Adopt Australia's 'lesbians only' selection policy.

    The story that inspired the excellent Frontline episode Add Sex and Stir .
    A longish clip, part 2 is up on YouTube as well. Bruno Lawrence at his best.

    I'll be that weird woman always hanging around at strangers' games. "There's that crazy old cricket lady," people will say, "the one showing the inappropriate amount of cleavage."

    Satan forbid, though, that you don't morph into some kind of female Plumley-Walker.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • Southerly: E=mc^2... Your Views,

    Maybe that Brotown character is based on someone behind the scenes.

    KnowledgeBro! Just like I pictured him!
    Where's my t-shirt?

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Don’t let them eat cake,

    umm spoilers don't help you do burnouts

    Right. Spoilers are for guys who haven't discovered penis gourds.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • Southerly: E=mc^2... Your Views,

    Who is this 'knowledge bro' character?

    The one in bro'Town with the eyeglasses?

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Don’t let them eat cake,

    Query regarding de-pimping: what happens if you take a big-assed spoiler off a Honda Civic hatchback? Does it lose speed immediately?

    Don't spoilers work like an upside-down aeroplane wing? Kind of force the tyres into contact with the pavement in order to maximise traction. Remove the spoiler from a hot Civic and it kind of just hangs there, revving wildly. Ample opportunity to wag finger, or stroll over and stab.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Don’t let them eat cake,

    At the turn of the 20th century in Australia, the term "hoon" (and its rhyming slang version "silver spoon")[3] had a different meaning: one who lived off immoral earnings (i.e. the proceeds of prostitution – a pimp or procurer of prostitutes).

    Definitely still alive in that sense in the early 70s, e.g. 'living up the Cross with a hoonie boy". Now it seems that the NZ meaning of the word has come to prevail.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • Southerly: E=mc^2... Your Views,

    EXCELLENT COLUMN WOULD TRADE WITH AGAIN HAIL SATAN!!!!! :)
    So going on a T-shirt.
    I'd buy one!!!

    PAS laugh of the year, and it's barely February.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

  • Hard News: Only in a relative sense,

    A copy of the Mazengarb report was sent to every home just before the 1954 election to scare the public and show the government was acting.

    So that's how the bloody thing got there.
    While my parents would have rather died than vote National, they dutifully stashed their copy in a bottom drawer. What a sneaky barrel of laughs it proved to be for us kids once we found it.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report

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