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Post by Wyndham on Jan 26, 2009 21:27:00 GMT -5
I know chook! Robert taught me that. A chook is a chicken. Black chicken wine. A famous lesson of my life to be taught to any son of mine at an early age is never to drink anything containing alcohol in a bottle, with a bird on it . . . especially if the bottle is made out of plastic.
I was teasing Pink, mostly. We have decent wine in Canada too, believe it or not. Partly because we always made it here, and partly due to postwar immigration from countries with serious wine making traditions. They discovered recently that we've got all the cool grapes too -- even champagne grapes. The French brought them here before that became illegal!
Still, champagne grapes or not, if its named after a bird, labled with a bird (or is in a plastic bottle), I won't touch it (unless its free, and I'm not driving).
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Post by pinkozcat on Jan 27, 2009 2:20:09 GMT -5
Yes, the label has a black chook on it but it is in glass, albeit with a screwtop which is pretty much par for the course nowdays. I read just a day or so ago that Australians are turning to New Zealand wines - turncoats !! I come from South Australia which was settled by German immigrants who planted wine grapes in the Barossa Valley in the 19th century. Now I live in Western Australia which has a growing wine industry and actually turn out some very nice wines.
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 30, 2009 3:06:03 GMT -5
No, far too young to remember that wine, Pink ;O)
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Post by pinkozcat on Jan 30, 2009 20:15:17 GMT -5
Be glad; be very, very glad. It was disgusting ...
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Post by pinkozcat on Mar 13, 2009 19:56:24 GMT -5
This quote, attributed to R J Wiedemann, was published in our newspaper today:
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
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Post by pinkozcat on Apr 1, 2009 22:44:11 GMT -5
Apropos the G20 Leaders summit there was an article in today's West Australian Newspaper comparing the "it" factor of our countries' leaders. "Top of the list, of course, is Barack Obama. Yes, We Can. And yes, we would. He's so lithe and handsome and funny and smart, and he bestrides the free world like a Colossus and will buy us each a puppy ... "The best that can be said for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is that he could moonlight as a television evangelist, and he does look like a man without any sort of body odour, which may have niche apeal. "As everyone knows, power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Just not for Kevin Rudd, who is the very antithesis of a hunky Aussie and whose flaccid features and trying-too-hard specs make him look like the unholy love child of Paul O'Grady and the Pilsbury Doughman. (Think Bert Newman and the Teletubbies)"
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Post by Wyndham on Apr 2, 2009 6:35:43 GMT -5
That's about the size of it Pink. Everybody here thinks that he's actually a robot -- perhaps a General Dynamics product, intruded into our system by the last US President. He has plastic hair, for one thing. He's been filmed in -40 weather, with a strong wind blowing, and his hair doesn't move, nor does he appear cold. It just isn't natural. Downright creepy in fact. He attends these things to get himself photographed next to Obama, in a pathetic attempt to boost his popularity, and to claim credit for the relative solvency of the Canadian financial system. We're on to him though. He was George W's mini-me, bought and sold; the only reason that the banks are doing relatively well was that Parliament wouldn't let him de-regulate the way he (and they) wanted to, and a stone would have won against him in the last election except that the Libs ran something worse than a stone, and Harper's oil friends made sure that he had LOTS of money, which he freely used to corrupt proceedings.
I take exception only to one of the characterisations you indicate. Harper has got the pasty white, Pillsbury look down to the button. In a shirtless, caspar-look-alike contest, he'd make your PM look like Mr. Universe.
Next time they meet, hopefully, an election will have taken place and we'll have somebody to send somewhat less embarrassing. Hint: he was teaching at Harvard while Obama was a student there. He's written a gigillion books, and use to have his own show on BBC. He's been voted, for successive years the 'sexiest man' in Canada . . .
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Post by Tenarke on Apr 2, 2009 18:09:21 GMT -5
I’ve also been watching as much of G-20 as CNN deigns to show. Apparently one of the “Big Stories” for them was the fact that when the Obama’s met the Queen, her majesty actually touched Michelle on the back and Michelle in turn touched the royal back, right back. Sort of a semi hug – no fist bumps however. CNN consulting with their London protocol expert did establish that since the Queen touched first it was OK for Michelle to touch back. Thus no protocol was breached. Otherwise nobody touches the Queen – except Prince Philip, maybe.
I also was interested in a group picture of all 20 heads of state. Most of the Premiers were in static groups with President Obama moving around, shaking hands, chatting – working the room. I noticed that Angela Merkel was tracking him closely, head on a swivel, a warm smile on her face and a thoughtful expression in her eyes.
But then I do have a rather naughty imagination.
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Post by Wyndham on Apr 2, 2009 18:44:28 GMT -5
Our PM avoided that group picture! It was in the papers today. I think he was wise. He doesn't photograph well, and has really pulled some boners. You wonder where his handlers are sometimes. here's one -- Steven Harper allowing himself to be photographed in a Chinese Robe. Yikes! images.theglobeandmail.com/archives/RTGAM/images/20080523/wcoessay0524/0524harper188.jpghere's another -- Steven Harper disguised as a cowboy at the Calgary Stampede, but looking very like a village person badly gone to seed -- www.tdhstrategies.com/images/Harpercowboy.jpgWhat a maroon, as Bugs Bunny would say. Worst, however, was a campaign ad that they had to pull because the response to it was so negative. At the end, he turned his head and smiled, but the effect was so robotic and creepy that you couldn't help but think of the exorcist, or Chucky.
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Post by pinkozcat on Apr 3, 2009 2:02:06 GMT -5
Tenarke, I remember the furore when Paul Keating, our then-prime minister, put a hand on the queen's back as he steered her in the right direction towards something or other. She certainly didn't touch him first and the press didn't let up for days.
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Post by Wyndham on Apr 3, 2009 6:23:34 GMT -5
I know Keating: the Lizard of Oz, right?
We had a Mayor who did that once, about twenty-five years ago. He was the Mayor of Thunderbay. Walter Assef, but everybody remembers him as 'Jolly Wally'. Apparently he put his hand on the Queen's behind to steer her in the right direction. He alway denied it, but it was photographed. What isn't denied is that in introducing the Queen to the townsfolk he referred to 'Prince Phillip and his lovely wife'! I bet the protocol wonks had a heart attack. Apparently his nickname was coined by Prince Phillip who when repeatedly approached about the incident here and back in the UK, sought to defend him, and referred to him affectionately as 'that jolly little mayor of Thunder Bay'.
Sort of funny really. Wonder that he's still alive, however. I'm not thinking about the Queen's security (he was just grabbing ass) but amazing that some outraged old IODE lady didn't hunt him down and beat him to death with her umbrella!
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Post by Aravis on Apr 7, 2009 12:37:10 GMT -5
Pink, I loved those descriptions of the leaders! *chuckle*
Yes, I've heard a lot about the way Michelle and Elizabeth (don't you love how casually I call them by name? *G*) got along so well. The queen even reportedly asked Michelle to keep in touch! Tenarke, I loved the way you qualified Prince Philip's permission to touch her. *LOL*
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Post by pinkozcat on May 28, 2009 19:55:46 GMT -5
Subject: Neologism
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative meanings for common words.
The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are this year's winners:
1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
9. Karmageddon (n): its like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's stupid AND an asshole
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Post by pinkozcat on Oct 4, 2009 21:27:08 GMT -5
There is a thing which I find really interesting about this board; the last post was on 28th September and yet, over the last 24 hours there have been 48 guests looking in. Who are they and where are they from?? One of them is me - I always check for new posts but there are only about five active posters and we can't account for the other 43 visits ... or can we?
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Post by RobertGraves on Oct 5, 2009 1:28:52 GMT -5
I can't fathom it.
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