Carol Beer from TV's Little Britain and Danny Watson from Newstalk ZB. (Found at local media site DanNews.co.nz )
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As tonnes of unwanted phone books get delivered throughout the country, one reader writes: "The only good news was that the delivery date of the phone books was one day before the council's recyclable rubbish day. It would be interesting to see how many new/unused white and yellow pages end up at the tip today."
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Two clueless Amazon reviews of Casablanca:
1. "I rented this waiting to be blown away. I'm still waiting. I expected a lot more action. I'm pretty sure I will enjoy it a lot more when Warner Bros finally gets around to releasing the colourised version, the way this movie needs to be seen - the world is not black and white, why should our movies be? And Ingrid Bergman is no Maryland Monroe."
2. "Ingmar Bergman is like totally hot, and Bogart is easily the best-looking, chain- smoking catcher's mitt to ever wear a tuxedo, so I just got sorta lost in the moment or whatever, but then they started ripping off all sorts of catchphrases. I was mad enough when Wayne's World stole "schwing!" but this movie steals tons of catchphrases: "Play it again", "this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship", etc. It even has a whole speech of nothing but catchphrases. Hire a screenwriter next time. And the movie ends wrong! Wrongly. Whatever. She's supposed to get on the plane, and Bogart is supposed to be sad, but then she's supposed to get off the plane and everything is happy." (Source: Cynical-c.com)
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There's a recession, so let's help each other out: A reader is trying to track down a woman whose car was badly damaged by a truck at the Irish festival two weeks ago behind Motat in Pt Chevalier. It is a red BMW 318i and, according to the plate information, the owner lives in Mt Albert. "I went to the address listed, but it wasn't an actual address. At the time of the incident, I did a u-turn when I noticed the truck was not stopping and got his plate and the company he works for. I even asked him if he was going back to let the person know he hit them, but he denied hitting the car. I have since been contacted by the company, after checking to see if he had reported it, and he has unfortunately been fired due to this incident - he was using the truck to move to Wellington and did not tell his employer he hit a vehicle. I would like to make sure the woman's car gets fixed." If this is your car please contact Sideswipe and we'll put you in touch with this Good Samaritan.
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See today's Herald cartoon
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John Lewis writes: "Following the Air New Zealand pilot dodging the bunny on the runway, I once had a day out on a 6000-tonne Royal Navy guided missile cruiser in the UK and was astonished by the frantic evasive manoeuvres employed by the captain to avoid a lobster pot moored in our path. The reason was that it might have chipped the propellers (screws) and altered the sound signature, making it easier for enemy sonar to detect."
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Today's Webpick: Emergency services dispatcher makes a bad taste joke... Click here and scroll down.
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