Posts by Robyn Gallagher

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  • Busytown: Cry me a river,

    That was A.R.D. Fairburn, the Devonport dweller! I believe the house in which he wrote that line is currently for sale. There are still ferries at the bottom of the garden, although a pretty crap ferry terminal.

    This is the house in question, on the corner of Mays St and King Edward Parade. My mum used to visit her Fairburn cousins there during the school holidays and says back then it was a rambling bohemian abode, full of all sorts of cool stuff.

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report

  • Quake,

    And the TradeMe forums as well, Giovanni. That's amber alert, isn't it?

    The Trade Me forums are the first place I go to check if the vague rumbling I felt was indeed an earthquake.

    Last night there were heaps of discussions underway, many of them verging on hysteria. I mean, what does a discussion topic called "TSUNAMI!!!!!!!!!" suggest?

    There also seemed to be an idea that the tsunami report issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii somehow meant that a tsunami was going to hit Hawaii.

    And then there was anger that "the media" were leading us astray by their "misleading" news reports.

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  • 180 Seconds: THE IMMATURITY DEFENCE,

    The URL for the mp3 doesn't work. The hash character needs to be converted to %23 because hashes are used in HTML as a fragment identifier.

    It should be this.

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  • Island Life: Tune in, turn on, score…,

    Put the stuff in Coca Cola. It's consumed in vast quantities. Young people seem to subsist on it.

    Coca Cola? Wot, is this the 1950s, Gramps?

    The beverages of choice I see young 'uns drinking around Wellington Station every morning are hot chocolate for the girls and cheap energy drinks for the boys.

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  • Cracker: Home (Is Where I Want to Be),

    Why did you want to buy a house?

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  • Field Theory: Pimpin' Ain't Easy,

    Normally when a brothel owner gets in the paper upon opening a new whorehouse, it's because some neighbours aren't happy at the business opening in their 'hood.

    But lucky Logan gets to wear a nice suit and pose with a smile on his face and talk about his "sports fundraising".

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  • Hard News: In the nicest possible way,

    If anything, he comes across as a Claytons Rambo in that photo.

    Are you meaning Clayton Weatherston?

    "A Claytons [noun]" is a Australasian English phrase. It stems from Claytosx, a non-alcoholic whisky substitute that was marketed as "the drink you have when you're not having a drink".

    Wikipedia sez:

    The term "Claytons" [is] used as an adjective to signify a compromise which satisfies no-one, or any form of inferior substitute or low-quality imitation, largely synonymous with the word "ersatz". For example, a hasty or temporary repair may be only a Claytons solution to a problem.

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  • Island Life: Adventures in English,

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  • Island Life: Adventures in English,

    And maybe some alternatives to "gutted" while we're at it.

    How about the alternate spelling "guttered"? Guttered, mate. Guttered.

    Also "over the moon". Husbands seem to be over the moon the most, usually when their wives announce they're pregnant, have a baby, lose weight or get a nipple piercing.

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  • Hard News: In the nicest possible way,

    Because it's Friday, a glorious cover of Joy Division's "Transmission" by a Manchester steel drum group:

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