Posts by Evan Yates
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but what happened to "going forward"?
Pedantically speaking, isn't that a phrase? Along with "Nanny State", "Yes We Can", "Hockey Mom" etc..
Should they get the dash treatment to make them hyphenated words?
"Nanny-state", "Hockey-mom"?I went to a conference in 2007 and heard a speaker use "Going Forward" 27 times (I still have the tally mark sheet if you want proof) in a 15 minute presentation.
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"Bunking" vs."Wagging".
I always thought it was a North Island/ South Island thing (like bach vs. crib).
Where did you come from and what term did you use to describe unauthorised absences from school in your era?
Me: Whangarei | Late 70s, Early 80s = Bunking.
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__"You've got Di Canio
We've got your car stereos"__To the tune of a famous opera that I should know the name of.
Just doing the scan thing in my head... this could fit with "La Donna è Mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto.
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Whoever ran the PA music went for almost 100% Kiwi gold, and bawling 'Why Does Love Do This To Me?' has never felt as good as it did that night.
As a somewhat fogiefied NZ'er, I have a question. What do the kids today use as their raucous party participation songs? Are there any possibilities for sports-match use?
I suppose there has to be some demographic overlap where the tune has enough popular exposure to be known to the majority of the crowd or it will not have the "Big M" momentum for adoption.
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Quite apart from the fact that I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
That's the great thing about sports crowd singing. You don't need to be good, just LOUD!! It's really bizarre how the dynamics of large numbers can overcome the lack of tunefullness of any individual (or sub-group).
Statistically speaking, there are probably enough good singers in any crowd of sufficient size to make it sound ok anyway.
What I can't stand is national anthem singers who jazz up the tune so that more pedestrian singers (like me) can't follow along. Yes, Geoff Sewell of Amici, I AM looking at you. Those syncopated phrases may be just the bizzo in a recording studio, but 90% of the fans trying to sing-along can't imitate/anticipate them. SO STOP IT!
I would really like Slice of Heaven to be our test-match song. Imagine 50,000 voices belting out the "Dah, dah, dah.. boom boom, dah, dah, dah" bit. Even the so-called non-singers could manage that!
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Actually, I'm probably not...
I should read the content of my link before linking to it just to make a funny. -
Disestablishment is doubleplusungood!
I am definitely an Antidisestablishmentarianist!
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Barack Obama wannabes often end up sounding like William Shatner.
Speaking. Individual. Words. As. Complete. Sentences. To. Indicate. Seriousity.
(Also, be careful not to just invent new almost-words on the fly. GWB, I'm lookerating at you.)
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I'm a Man U fan...
I was a Liverpool fan as a youngster but thanks to one Bruce Grobbelaar and his match fixing antics I quit them and wandered aimlessly in football limbo.
Then like a good scientology recruiter, Man U took me under their wing when I won a trip to Manchester (thanks Vodafone and Ric Salizzo's Sportscafe). I got a business class flight to the UK, a tour of Old Trafford, got shouted lunch at the Red Cafe, was given a personalised Man U shirt and also another shirt and ball signed by David Beckham (6 weeks after which he left and went to Real Madrid).
Now I am in the cult.
Perhaps I need to be de-programmed. (Where is Harvey Keitel when you need him)
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1.5Mb of ram (actual core, hand threaded by someone in the 3rd world)
What?! You mean Yorkshire?...