Posts by David Slack
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What sort of customer is drawn to a cafe where the special o' the day board has become a deaths o' the day board?
Yes Robin! Exactly. Thankxs for that.
"No, I'm far too upset about Micheal[sic] Jackson and Farah[sic] Fawcett to eat."?
Should that be [ded]?
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I'm actually quite fond of the oft-overlooked Relayer!
Yes indeed. Which reminds me: add to that list of fans in their ones and twos the listener who nominated a track (part of Gates of Delirium, I think) from that album for the best song ever written on Jim Mora's show.
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Was it as clever sounding as it looks in print?
Next time, I think the title will be #1 Crusher
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Can I just say when I first saw the title of this thread, my initial reaction was - there's one here. When my stepson has gone, of course.
You're boundlessly generous and thoughtful, Jackie. The title is in fact a quotation of Minister Collins on Morning Report.
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Don, quite. I still predict this government will be remembered not for what it did, but for what it failed to do.
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Stephen, it sounds even more exciting when someone else describes it.
Ian, I had an email from someone today saying of the Party Central name:
perhaps there was a large sign bearing that legend on the lounge wall of John's Canterbury University flat. -
Welcome back, David. Whatever physical impediments remain, you have a mind within that plainly could not be stronger.
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True, but is Roger Douglas?
A vegetarian Friedmanite pig-farmer.
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Final two questions to the PM in this afternoon's press conference:
Have you had someone review the appointments Dr Worth made while he was minister? Answer: "No." Are you going to? Answer: "No."Never mind the last quarterly result. Let's focus on the next one.
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My uncle, Yorkshire-born, took his family back home around 73 or 74. All the news at the time was about short working weeks, power cuts, strikes, and the whole country grinding to a halt. I couldn't believe he wanted to do it. They were back here in about nine months, from memory.