Mark says: "Times are certainly changing with the credit crisis. Listening to Radio Hauraki in the morning, the news/sport/weather used to be 'brought to you by ...' one of a number of lending institutions. Now it is Baycorp."
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Roy Billing, a New Zealand actor living and working in Australia, who plays the drug lord Robert Trimbole in TV3's Underbelly, is now a very familiar face in Australia. He wrote this to his mother-in-law, who sent it on: "I am going to have a busy year as the show has pushed my profile into the stratosphere ... can't go out the door anymore without getting recognised. Best comment was from some old codger who said to me ... 'I hear them calling you Trimbole. You know, you look exactly like him. But that fellow who plays him on the TV looks nothing like him at all'."
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While reading a Herald blog on daylight saving, Kate noticed this comment from a ratepayer in Pt Chevalier: "I have noticed that my curtains are starting to fade with all the extra hours of sunlight due to daylight saving. This is most distressing. Can't we go back to the dark ages instead of daylight saving?"
"I'm not sure if they are taking the mickey or not ... but daylight saving doesn't make more daylight hours in the day, it just changes the amount of time we are awake to enjoy them."
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Jonathan Zavou writes: "On the subject of 'oh' being used for zero. I am guilty of mixing zero and 'oh' in the same numerical reference. However, the Collins English Dictionary refers to 'o' being another name for nought, and nought as another name for zero. The online reference site www.Dictionary.com refers to 'oh' and 'o' as zero. I haven't checked the Oxford English Dictionary yet but I suspect it'll be the same. For complaints on this matter please phone oh-800-zero-oh-zero-oh-zero-oh."
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See today's Herald cartoon
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