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  • Up Front: Eat Up Your Brothelly,

    You're like baked beans on toast.

    On the contrary, my dear.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Up Front: Eat Up Your Brothelly,

    Yikes! I guess Big Ted and Little Ted have a role to play??

    I'm sorry to have to report that Little Ted was killed in an explosion.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Up Front: Eat Up Your Brothelly,

    I wouldn't hold out much hope for the brothel side of things - if there was money to be made it already would be being made.

    I agree. A lot of the time, you can't even give it away.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2010:…,

    Cool.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2010:…,

    It sounds great. Thanks to everyone involved for all the organisation.

    Given that the theme is 'creative collaboration', will there be any system in place to connect attendees with each other to that end?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Speaker: John Roughan is Scared,

    she's not wrong.

    Yeah, I know.

    I was just imagining Cookie Monster after a lobotomy, shuffling slowly forward, saying "Cookies... are a... sometimes... food...", and then winking.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Stories: Famous blue raincoats, etc,

    I got my leather jacket 15 years two months ago, in a shop somewhere near Baltimore as a birthday present. Bomber style, which makes it slightly short for me but everything is too short for me. Zip went about five years ago but still real comfy and the rest of it looks like it will last for about another 15 years.

    I have a similar story. Unfortunately, I grew a little bit more and it didn't, so I still wear it, but it's fractionally tight. I'm up for another one, to be honest.

    I have a collection of tshirts I don't want to toss away--including an original (but threadbare) WKRP in Cincinnati tshirt, and a Springsteen concert shirt (Cleveland, Ohio 1979)...

    My now-oldest is a 1984 Cannes Film Festival t-shirt. Again, a wee bit too tight thesedays, and too threadbare to be used as anything other than a prop. The oldest that I still wear is an 11-year old "Napster" shirt. Oddly, people seem to have forgotten what it was, since I don't get a quarter of the comments I got 5 or 6 years ago.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Speaker: John Roughan is Scared,

    Here is where I do my semi-regular rant about poor Cookie Monster now being forced to sing 'cookies are a sometimes food'. He's fucking COOKIE MONSTER.

    I really hope that that was a scene from
    Monsterpiece Theatre presents: One Flew Over The Cookie's Nest.


    Otherwise, another small part of me will die inside.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Up Front: The C Word,

    Then turn to John Hughes in the 80s. 'Pretty in Pink', or 'The Breakfast Club' for two examples. You'll see so many up-turned collars you'll want to have one yourself.

    If you trace back all the 'retro' fads of recent decades, you'll remember that the late '70s / early '80s spawned something of a '50s revival, and the popped collar thing of the time I think stems from that.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Speaker: John Roughan is Scared,

    In Auckland people tend to drive as if their "right of way" is all that matters

    I don't know; after spending time driving on the Shore, I find City drivers relaxed, pleasant and courteous.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

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