Posts by Ray Gilbert
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Is Graeme Hunt cockney rhyming slang?
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It's getting more popular though, particularly the Awhitu Peninsula. The Regional Park is a real gem as well, some of the best views and well equipped picnic areas in Auckland as well with hardly a person in sight.
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I reckon that Buck Owens clip should come with a warning that the jackets may induce epilepsy
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http://www.fatcat-fishface.com/music/fatcatmymother.mp3
You'll have to listen for a minute or so to "get it"
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I got to meet Lockwood Smith during his time as Quizmaster on Its Academic. He strolled into the contestant's waiting area, told us what a great rower he used to be and how he could have raced for New Zealand then left without waiting for a reply from us - whanker.
Kinda got my own back though - when the show was aired there was a shot of our team with me in the middle without sound. I got the previous question wrong and let out a silenced but very obvious "fuck". Profanities on children's time TV were not common in the early 80s
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OUSA and the Canterbury engineering students had tried to organise events, including a Feelers concert for the students, but the council had blocked them, Mr Darlow said.
I think I'd rather be pepper sprayed
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"Students. In the 60s they burnt US flags; in the 70s they burnt bras; and in the 90s, in Dunedin, they started burning couches. Idealism was replaced by nihilism."
Not quite the 90's. I was there in 1986 when students were burning couches, throwing Molotov cocktails and firing sky rockets at the fire brigade and Police to "celebrate" Guy Fawkes. One women lost her eye when she was struck in the face by a firework.This kind of thin continued to be a problem for the 5 years I lived in Dunedin.
Funnily enough one of these nights made it into Bill Payne's book on gangs - Staunch. Where he talks about one Easter weekend when the greatest band in the world contest was being held in The Nerve Center. Police described the people there (me included) as "the scum of the Earth". No problems in the gig, no cops called. Yet down Castle street students taking part in the Easter Tourni were throwing bottles at the Police and overturning cars.
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Anyone out there ever play Talislanta then? Lots of fun for 1980s geeks and stoners!
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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
Ray Gilbert
John Howard stepped in and acted to stop abuse in Aboriginal communities. Typically he was howled down by the PC brigade as a racist but he did what he saw was necessary. Helen Clark needs to do the same here but of course she and her PC hangers-on would rather see children maimed and killed. This country is spiralling down into third world status, not only in child abuse but in health care, education, transport, you name it. Clark must go - and the sooner the betterAhhh!