#58045
02/20/2002 9:25 PM
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#58046
02/20/2002 9:35 PM
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Oh, no  ! you and I were posting at the same time, Max! Subject Re: Vegemite Posted by consuelo (addict) Posted on Wed Feb 20 16:30:28 2002 Well, let's see. I have a waffle iron I can bring as well. Strawberries will be in season[yumm-e]. Ginnette, I bought some [red/brown] raspberry chocolate [/red/brown] today to share with y'all if I don't eat it all myself. If the Kiwis are taking requests, I desperately need a jar of Gran's Remedy[holding my nose-e] I'll be watching and cheering the US'n girls, you betcha! Subject Re: Vegemite - NO MORE Posted by Max Quordlepleen (Carpal Tunnel) Posted on Wed Feb 20 16:32:43 2002 If the Kiwis are taking requests, I desperately need a jar of Gran's Remedy[holding my nose-e]  I'll be watching and cheering the US'n girls, you betcha I don't knowe about taking requests, but this Kiwi is making one - please switch to the REPRISE thread. THis one is getting too long. http://maxqnz.com/Hints.html
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#58047
02/20/2002 9:36 PM
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#58048
02/20/2002 9:41 PM
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#58049
02/20/2002 10:06 PM
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I'll give you lamingtons, but unless Te Awamutu has suddenly crossed the Tasman, you ain't getting Crowded House. Don't dream, it's over.
On the contrary, Don't dream it's over... In the World Where You Live, Melbourne hasn't moved across the Tasman...
Crowded House was formed in Melbourne, Australia, in late 1984,
Courtesy:http://www.etext.org/Mailing.Lists/house/ch-band-bio.html
Now we're getting somewhere... 
Hev
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#58050
02/20/2002 10:45 PM
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#58051
02/20/2002 11:13 PM
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Have Crowded House, sans Neil Finn. In the meantime, can I have another piece of chocolate cake?
"I feel possessed!" She goes on. "It's only natural.. but, Please don't be Mean to Me."  And were we debating the origins of Crowded House? Or Neil Finn?
Sister madly,
Hev
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#58052
02/20/2002 11:35 PM
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#58053
02/20/2002 11:52 PM
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The chain thus goes like this. NZ>Neil Finn>Crowded House. That's so simple even an Aussie should be able to get it.
And following on from that logic, there's no way you can deny ownership of Sir Joh. NZ>Joh Bjelke-Petersen> the ruin of Queensland Don't you worry about that... Aaah, finally I understand!! Thanks for the heads up, Max! Have so enjoyed this...
Hev
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#58054
02/21/2002 12:03 AM
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#58055
02/21/2002 2:27 AM
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The USA's Jim Shea just won Gold in the skeleton making it the third generation of Olympic champion athletes in his family! His 91 year old Grandfather was supposed to join him and his Dad at the Opening Ceremonies but was killed in an accident by a drunk driver 2 weeks before the Games. Shea had a picture of [his Grandfather] in his helmet on the sled...said 'it was the fastest his Grandfather ever went...he was with me going down that hill!'
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#58056
02/21/2002 2:42 AM
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At least he remained standing for this silver. Good job, Apolo!
edit Ohno again! I was at my puter and didn't catch why Ohno was given gold. Hmmmm.
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#58057
02/21/2002 2:44 AM
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#58058
02/21/2002 2:55 AM
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...Jim Shea just won Gold in the skeleton making...
Oh my! Didn't know that was an Olympic sport these days... Congratulations, none-the-less!
Hev
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#58059
02/21/2002 3:20 AM
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Imagine the pressure on the 4th generation of Sheas. Lot of very careful parenting required methinks.
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#58060
02/21/2002 3:23 AM
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The skater who actually came in first was disqualified for blocking Apolo.
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#58061
02/21/2002 3:40 AM
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>disqualified for blocking
blocking is legal; he was disqualified for "cross-tracking", which is evidently crossing some virtual line to block.
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#58062
02/21/2002 3:43 AM
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Shea wore his Grandfather's 1921 Olympic Gold Medal on the podium for the award ceremony...great, but tough, moment.
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#58063
02/21/2002 12:35 PM
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Max,
Good try, but you missed some causal logic out which would probably make it clearer to our benighted cross-Tasman brethren and sistren:
Te Awamutu>SPLIT ENZ>Australia>CROWDED HOUSE
HTH
Midland Kiwi
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#58064
02/21/2002 8:42 PM
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#58065
02/21/2002 9:00 PM
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>It seems like Dave Barry shares tsuwm's view of the "resolution" of the figure-skating debacle.
actually®. he, as well as y'all, missed the salient point of my point; i.e. and to wit: what was the final result if you throw out the (allegedly) corrupted vote? not even Dick Buttons has dared to address this icy issue.
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#58066
02/22/2002 12:31 AM
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Good luck bel and Bean! May the best team win!  At the end of the second period, Team Canada leads 3-1. Team Canada scored their 3rd goal with 1 second left in the 2nd period! GREAT GAME! CONGRATULATIONS CANADA! FIRST-EVER WOMEN'S HOCKEY GOLD!!!
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#58067
02/22/2002 1:49 AM
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CANADA WON. CANADA WON. CANADA WON.
Oh, I am so proud. It lifts your heart to see your flag flying and the players singing the anthem. Oh, oh, and it's our first gold ever.
It was a great game. I was whooping and cheering all the way through. Like I'm EVER going to get to sleep now.
Hugs all around!!
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#58068
02/22/2002 1:55 AM
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I believe the Brits thanks primarily to a bunch of Scots won their first gold medal today in - of all things - Curling. What is Curling anyway? Sounds like a sport for hairdressers...
Regardless of my knowledge (or lack thereof) about the sport, CONGRAT ULATI ONS! to all residents of the old Dart!
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#58069
02/22/2002 2:03 AM
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No, it is quite an interesting sport Hev. A bit like pool but on ice with big ole stones. It looks banal but it takes a lot of strategy to play.
Yup, the Brits won it and on the LAST stone. Extremely tight game. They should be proud. Congrats to our British friends.
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#58070
02/22/2002 2:14 AM
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02/22/2002 2:16 AM
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02/22/2002 2:25 AM
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I hear now that the Russians are threatening to withdraw their team because they have been humiliated in the skating competition by the judging and the behind-the-scenes politics. :-|
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#58073
02/22/2002 12:19 PM
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What a game, eh? My husband, who didn't even really like hockey when I met him (blasphemy!), has been watching the Olympic hockey games with me and enjoying it. We both yelled so loud at the end of the game that the cat streaked out of the living room in terror. (Clearly this beast has no appreciation of a good hockey game!) Yay Canada!!!!!!! And let's not forget, congratulations to the silver and bronze medalists, US and Sweden!
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#58074
02/22/2002 2:38 PM
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And could you believe the 13 penalties, Bean? Eight in one row, too. I though I would just about faint when the dang wistle would blow.
I am tremendously impressed with our ladies. They didn't flinch, didn't throw a tantrum or show any sign of agression whenever the tweeting whistle would blow. They just shrugged their shoulders and moved on to the penalty box. I am a little surprised that they had an U.S. referee in a Canada/U.S. game though. The ladies earned their gold.
I'm such a sap though. All the while I was so proud and happy for our ladies, I felt sorry for the U.S. ladies. They were crying and it was sad. I hope they feel better today. I know silver is not what you go out to get, but it is a proud thing nonetheless.
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#58075
02/22/2002 3:27 PM
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And a big USn congrats to the Canadiennes.
I find watching hockey on TV to be an exercise in futility; buncha people skating around to no apparent purpose then suddenly half of them raise their cudgels in the air with looks of glee. They should maybe make the puck bright flashing pink so that it can be seen.
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#58076
02/22/2002 3:45 PM
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They should maybe make the puck bright flashing pink so that it can be seen.
Fox (or some network) tried an experiment where using a special puck and sensors around the arena, on your TV screen the puck was surrounded by a blue glow. It even let you see where the puck was along the near-side boards (usually impossible due to the camera angle). I thought it was a great innovation, but the whinging of purists combined with the $400/puck price tag brought about its quick demise.
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#58077
02/22/2002 3:50 PM
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make the puck bright flashing pink so that it can be seen
I don't watch too much hockey, but didn't they actually do something just like that for a while? Using the technology more commonly seen in football games with the yellow first-down line? For some reason it didn't go over.
Edit: five minutes late (and $400 short), I see. FL's post wasn't there when I looked two minutes earlier! :-)
...Oh well. Let it stand.
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02/22/2002 3:53 PM
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Needless to say, Canadians had a field day with that one. We are privately quite proud of our ability to watch a hockey game and follow the motion of the puck unassisted, thank you very much!
When you watch a lot of hockey, you know where to watch for the puck. The cameramen have to be especially good. It was pretty noticeable during one point in the game on TV yesterday - one girl blasted a pass in one direction, my head turned that way, the camera went that way - then we realized that by some quirk of physics the puck had bounced the other way, and the view whipped back across the ice. The camera almost never loses sight of the puck to that extent. I nearly got whiplash following the view to the other end of the ice!
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#58079
02/22/2002 5:04 PM
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congrats to the UK curlers..........all scottish of course and yes all the stones weigh 42lbs each, and the British team skipper is estimated to have pushed 5 tons of rock over 50 miles during the course of 13 matches, and yes the stones all come from the Ailsa Craig quarry in Scotland where the game began.
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#58080
02/22/2002 6:15 PM
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Angel:
I dunno how she can say no Bel! I have two waffle irons I could bring with me to make the task easier.
I can just see me explaining to customs, "yes sir, they are waffle irons. What are they for? Well, um, they are, um, for making waffles?" She said wafflingly! Oh no! Why didn't Faldage tell me this? I know Michigan is a long way away from upstart [sic] NY, but.
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#58081
02/22/2002 6:24 PM
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OOOO Faldage, put 'em up, put 'em up. You are in trouble now...
make the puck bright flashing pink so that it can be seen
Heaven forfend! I'm with Bean on this one. It was terribly distracting to have that blue line trailing after the puck like a comet tail all over the ice.
Just a little perspective here...It is a BLACK puck on a WHITE surface.
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#58082
02/22/2002 7:19 PM
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a BLACK puck on a WHITE surface
Moving very fast and looking very small. I can see that if you understand what the skaters are doing that it probably looks a little less like willy nilly skating about, but it's no way to be introduced to the sport. I don't even like watching *baseball on TV. I want to make up my own mind about where to look.
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#58083
02/22/2002 7:25 PM
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OOOO Faldage, put 'em up, put 'em up. You are in trouble now...
He's in trouble from all quarters now... [checking passport]
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#58084
02/22/2002 8:00 PM
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JazzO and I will agree with you on this one!
[Oh, that's Scots rock...]
... as long as I'm on a roll...
The Simpson family are driving through Capitol City where "Dancing Homer" is gonna work the 5th inning (the Beer inning) as their apprentice mascot... as they pass a trio of guys dressed in black Hebrew garb Bart yells out "Look! There's ZZ Top"... "YOU GUYS ROCK". One looks back and says, "EH... maybe a liddle".
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Joh Bjelke-Petersen? ... oh, on second thoughts - you can have him
