Posts by andrew llewellyn
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I took that test... apparently NZ First is my party with their and my views in 78% alignment! AAARRGGHHH!!!!
apologies, but that did make me laugh.
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Oh yeah, and when the worst gets here, we'll eat the cat.
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What is it with ginger cats? Ours is a aerialist & used to traverse a 3rd story window sill (from the outside) - the idea was that as he came along, we'd open the window & he'd come into the kitchen.
One day his timing was off & he walked past the only openable window & came to the end of the sill.
We could only watch then, as his predicament set in & he attempted to turn around... quite an impressive manoevre even if unsuccessful.
The landing was more of a whoosh than a thud because he landed in a large catnip bush.
He was hyperventilating when found, but happy.
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But on the other, he claims he was oblivious to his colleagues dodgy dealings even though Elders was a small firm and they were all mates.
Um... was it that small? I worked for them in the late 80s/early 90s & we had 4 floors of Elder's House (now something else - that place with a big head outside in Victoria St) in Wellington, as well as an AUckland office & subsidiaries - all reporting back to HQ somewhere in Oz.
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Cheers Hadyn, so it's not a sitcom.
Speaking of guys dressing as queers and women, does anyone want to compare and contrast with The Millen Baird Show?
No, because I've never heard of it - but does anyone else (aside from me) suspect that Julian Clary is secretly straight?
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Never seen it - I'm guessing (by the names Daffyd, Myfanwy etc) that it is set in Wales?
A quick look at wikipedia shows me this:
At Kelsey Grammar School,
Brilliant. A lot easier to pronounce than the one I went to.
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Last I heard, said book was starting to end up in the bargain bins. No one seemed to take it very seriously to start with. I myself thought it was unintentionally funny.
At a family birthday party in May, a guest (who is rumoured to be a campaign manager for a Nat candidate) was positively gleeful about the contents of the book:
"Do you know how many of them are gay or lesbian?" he asked of anyone who would listen.
"All of 'em" I said & got brownie points for the future.
He & his circle definitely took it seriously (they were outraged at Nicky Hager & the Hollow Men though).
Some of the other guests were a bit bemused. Particularly the ones who work for cabinet ministers.
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People with the same name as me posting their psuedo political ramblings to the Letters to the Editor page of the Herald.
Like this
Aw man, what a boredom buster! I've just fired off 15 letters signed as Ray Gilbert, to 6 newspapers on sunspot activity & its effects on United Future's polling.
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I liked this quotation from the beginning of chapter 2 of the God Delusion:
Winston Churchill's son Randolph somehow contrived to remain ignorant of scripture until Evelyn Waugh and a brother officer, in a vain attempt to keep Churchill quiet when they were posted together during the war, bet him he couldn't read the entire Bible in a fortnight: 'Unhappily it has not had the result we hoped. He has never read any of it before and is hideously excited; keeps reading quotations aloud "I say I bet you didn't know this came in the
Bible ..." or merely slapping his side & chortling "God, isn't God a shit!"' -
My favourite
Shane Warne : I've waited two years for another chance to humiliate you.
Daryll Cullinan : Looks like you spent it eating.