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David's seen it all. 'After the Doug Howlett incident and rumours of the All Blacks' drinking culture, this branding may be a step too far.'
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Aunty Glenys Ogg, of Manukau, was looking after Max, 5, and Nina, 4, for a few days during the school holidays. While stopped at traffic lights on the way to the airport, Nina said: "Oh look aunty, there's that girl from TV." Aunty looked around, thinking breakfast TV or children's presenter, but couldn't spot anyone who looked like a girl. When asked where, Nina pointed to a billboard and there she was in all her pre-election glory - Helen Clark.
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Bureaucracy is stupid: (1) German poet Friedrich Schiller has been dead for more than 200 years. But that didn't stop the government sending him a bill for his TV and radio licence fee. The bills kept coming to the Friedrich Schiller Primary School even after the headmaster wrote to the collection agency reminding them Schiller was dead. (2) When students at Kentucky's Woodford High School began wearing black and gold clothing, school officials thought they were gang colours and banned their use. Black and gold are also Woodford's school colours. (Source: Reason.com)
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The comment by Matt Hancock about Ford Falcons as company cars really annoyed a reader. "It's typical of people leaping to conclusions based on a small piece of information," he says. "Maybe the Falcon driver has a family of five. It's their only car because the kids walk to school and their partner does the same, but they do like to get out and see the country. Maybe they have a boat, possibly an environmentally friendly yacht, and need something suitable to tow it. Matt's solution would be for this family to have two cars, with all the associated extra cost."
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