Posts by Steve Barnes
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So. Robyn have you been hacking into Crosby Textor eMails again?
Polling shows that while mainstream New Zealanders enjoy the musical Cold Players pop group, being seen to support musicians of a local nature may prove to be a more robust stance to take in a chronlogically forward direction.
Our Sound-Alike-Tron 2000 device has detected that the Mutton Bird musical group's song "Anchor Me" shares 78.3% of the same attributes that audiences favour in the Cold Players "Clock" song. Therefore, it is our recommendation that Mr Key's favourite song is now "Anchor Me" by the Mutton Bird.
A compact disc of this song will be provided to Mr Key. It is recommend that he listen to it at least once.
http://publicaddress.net/system/topic,1230.sm?i=20#forum-replies
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Actually giving away money is not as easy as it looks
Of course you can give it to"development agencies offering education and opportunity and campaigns against HIV and AIDS in developing countries"
Which sounds good but if that is really short hand for the UN
Which sounds a bit bumlikky considering This
A number of other potential candidates were mentioned by commentators but did not run, including Bill Clinton (former President of the United States), Helen Clark (Prime Minister of New Zealand if not re-elected in 2005),
And the
Women Candidates for United Nations Secretary-General September 13, 2006And This
National would be willing to support any bid by Prime Minister Helen Clark to become United Nations Secretary-General, leader Don Brash said yesterday.
"It is clearly in New Zealand's wider interests to have New Zealanders in those kinds of international positions so we would certainly want to be as constructive as we could be," he said.
He was commenting after Weekend Herald columnist Fran O'Sullivan suggested speculation was building in foreign affairs circles about Helen Clark as a possible contender and that she may have sought the support of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Woops. I think I still have the Foil Hat on from another thread.
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Last CD you bought?
Albertine by Brooke Fraser.Hmmmm.
Brooke Gabrielle Fraser (born December 15, 1983 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an award-winning New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is also one of the principle worship leaders of the Christian worship band Hillsong United. Brooke is the eldest of the three children born to former All Black, Bernie Fraser
The CD was released in 2006
(puts foil hat on) This is Crosby Textor at work here. I mean 2006? he hasn't bought a CD since then? Does he Download?? This Brooke girl is just soooo squeeky clean and the daughter of an All Black. An idol made for image creation. We must venerate this Key chap, let us give him a name to worship him by.
OhBe wan Key John Knobby, perhaps? -
a man who seems to be struggling to find worthwhile policies, let alone articulate a vision for NZ in the 21st century
Oh come now. The man has articulated his visions, he is ambitious for new Zealand. His ambition is to sell it off as soon as he can, strip it of its worthwhile assets and whoop it up with his mates when they can roll about in all that sexy money.
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Surely a couple of chapters devoted to masturbation are not enough to destroy the fabric of society?
But may well increase the incomes of many opticians. ;-)
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The other thing writing allows you to do is get inside the heads of the participants.
And maybe that is why"the powers that be" and their lobbyists just want anything that may "corrupt" swept under the proverbial carpet. There are no definitive studies as to what level literature can corrupt society but there are instances where it has affected individuals and then there is "crazy conspiratorial bullshit"
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I suppose he does rule the party with an iron hoof.
iron hoof? That there be rhyming slang, who are you calling an iron Hoof?
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Russell. Can we please have BY lines on System? I had to make the giant leap over to PA to find that Emma wrote this piece.
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About a 6-12 months (not sure exactly) after ihug started offering Wired Country connections, we shifted from a regular Telecom line and 56k dial-up to a 256kbps connection
I tried to do that. Thje tech came round and clambered all over the roof to find the best spot for the antenna, there was a small tree between us and the Sky Tower which was all it took to kill the connection, we ended up with a long pole sticking out over the driveway with a thing that looked like a discarded packed lunch stuck on the end. So, after running about 100 mtrs of cable and checking the signal, the techie guy attempted to get a connection set up. After about an hour of stuffing about on my comp. he finally tried calling the help-desk with the usual result "we're sorry, both of our phone jockeys are taking a nap at this moment. Your call is impotent to us. You are 8274th in the queue" so he "called a friend"
"sorry chum, the box of IP addresses got wet and they all fell out of the bottom, actually, and keep this under your beanie, we're like totally oversubscribed, under supplied and totally screwed. Come back in about six months"
So, Luckily I didn't get my Wired Country connection but I did get to keep the ugly pole and 100mtrs of cable but the tech left and took his packed lunch with him.
I went with Woosh in the end and to be honest, in spite of it not being able to handle hi def streaming video of things that might or might not be interesting, I feel well served.
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Key: "Fast Car" by Tracey Chapman
You don't expect it but then you think about and think "yeah it could fit".I had just read this when I saw that
Where does a junkie’s time go? Mostly in 15-minute increments, like a bug-eyed Tarzan, swinging from hit to hit. For months on end in 1988, I sat inside a house in north Minneapolis, doing coke and listening to Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” and finding my own pathetic resonance in the lyrics. “Any place is better,” she sang. “Starting from zero, got nothing to lose.”
Apt?