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Flight of the Conchords gets three Emmy nominations

2008-07-18T05:56:24Z

Great news! Flight of the Conchords has received three Emmy nods for directing, writing, and original music and lyrics. It didn’t get an Emmy nomination for best comedy series, which I think is a sin. Not bad for a show conceived by a bunch of ...

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Irish-owned newspaper tries to drag down Miss New Zealand using racist agenda—and fails

2008-07-12T11:15:50Z

It’s quite easy to work out the agenda of the mainstream media when it comes to an article like this, trying to harm Samantha Powell’s chances at Miss Universe tomorrow night. Personal aggrandizement of the journalist, or, if not the journalist,...

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Young Farmer of the Year

2008-07-12T09:59:15Z

I see that the annual Young Farmer of the Year contest is on again, televised on TV One. The questions aren’t that easy. But what they don’t show are the heats, featuring questions such as, ‘How many legs does a sheep have?’ And, ‘What is th...

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Ten out of ten

2008-07-12T01:12:56Z

Spotted in Waikanae (an hour north of our office) last week while we were heading to a beauty spa for a story: a lovely and well maintained Austin Ten.

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One letter off

2008-07-09T14:02:34Z

From the menu at Arbitrageur, a wine bar in Wellington, New Zealand: I would have had a Château Lucire instead …

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Torchwood (we’re only 21 months behind)

2008-07-09T09:28:14Z

Torchwood finally premières on TV2, 10.30 p.m. tonight. So how many years behind the British are we? And has anyone seen a single promo for this show?

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ANZ Bank: revelations from the executive level

2008-07-05T12:17:56Z

[Cross-posted] If you follow my ramblings, even when they don’t make sense, you know I had my knives out for the ANZ National Bank here in New Zealand for what I think is questionable practice. So it was interesting to meet a few people tonight ...

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’77 Granada for sale

2008-07-05T04:12:50Z

I was out at Nicole and Paul McKinnon’s today with my friend Cas, and I can now, with their permission, mention that the 1977 Ford Granada (left-hand drive) that was featured on this blog a few weeks ago is for sale, so that they can get a car for...

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Memorable ’70s New Zealand TVCs

2008-07-04T11:06:11Z

The youngsters at work hadn’t seen this 1979 TVC for Kentucky Fried Chicken before. However, the following TVC for Cadbury’s Crunchie is even older (1975) and they remembered it, due to its long run, even after the packaging changed. (There was...

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It’s just a promo for a TV show

2008-07-03T02:34:52Z

For a moment I thought this was a real billboard saying someone was missing (see the bad typography), since it was the only one I saw. Turns out now it’s for a TV show. OK, this was clever (and we do have a lot of clever ads) and I am very glad...

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