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We need “operation 9” to suppress the bookies

Written By: - Date published: 12:37 pm, March 30th, 2012 - 22 comments

Evidently the people at iPredict don’t like being called “bookies” or being described as “opening a contract” on someone. We are now being targeted by this shadowy organisation.

Perhaps it is time that the police exerted themselves as the entertainment for the media and started operation 9 against this subversive organisation

Caption Competition

Written By: - Date published: 3:13 pm, March 29th, 2012 - 71 comments

ImperatorFish: Police To Investigate Taping During Press Conference

Written By: - Date published: 4:10 pm, March 27th, 2012 - 3 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Police have launched an investigation after Police Assistant Commissioner Malcolm Burgess alleged he was taped while speaking at a press conference yesterday…

Key’s speech explained

Written By: - Date published: 12:34 pm, March 16th, 2012 - 13 comments

Reorganisation is busy-work for when you can’t think of anything useful to do.

ImperatorFish: Won’t Someone Think Of The Lamingtons?

Written By: - Date published: 3:37 pm, March 12th, 2012 - 6 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here.

Scott has a Guest Post from Neemish von Tartt, the CEO of For the Sake of Our Cakes Trust

ImperatorFish: English Says Asteroid Strike Good For Country

Written By: - Date published: 4:29 pm, March 9th, 2012 - 3 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here.

Scientists yesterday announced that a giant asteroid is on a collision course with the Earth. They predict that the huge rock will hit the southern part of the North Island tomorrow, destroying most of Wellington and leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead.

However, Finance Minister Bill English said there was no need for panic over the news.

ImperatorFish: Dick Fritter’s Salute to John Key

Written By: - Date published: 1:19 pm, March 9th, 2012 - 4 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here.
Our latest Political Pundit column in praise of the masterful John Key – parliamentary clown extraordinaire.

Republican Humour

Written By: - Date published: 4:29 pm, March 7th, 2012 - 10 comments

With Super Tuesday closing inconclusively in the US Republican Party Presidential Nominee race, here’s a chance to laugh at the contenders…

A question

Written By: - Date published: 10:25 am, February 25th, 2012 - 31 comments

If “you don’t wear your guns on the outside“, where do you wear your guns?

ImperatorFish: Closing The Incompetence Gap

Written By: - Date published: 3:40 pm, February 20th, 2012 - 3 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Bollard says the NZ-Aus income gap may not be as large as suggested – but what about the incompetence gap?

ImperatorFish: If Political Journalists Wrote Sports News

Written By: - Date published: 2:27 pm, February 13th, 2012 - 8 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Speculation began yesterday that Richie McCaw may face a challenge to his captaincy of the All Blacks, after the team’s near-loss in the Rugby World Cup final.

Caption contest

Written By: - Date published: 6:19 pm, February 12th, 2012 - 67 comments

Snow Whites meet the forgotten dwarf – Wavey.

John Key’s emergency descent

Written By: - Date published: 11:22 am, February 12th, 2012 - 15 comments

A great graphic from the Sunday Star Times as John Key starts dropping towards a hard landing in the personal popularity stakes. And in the great tradition of  journalists everywhere, the rest of the article is about how he is still preferred by rubber fetishists.

Armed police storm Key mansion

Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, February 10th, 2012 - 25 comments

Armed Police assisted by the Eagle helicopter, the counter-terrorism unit, customs officials, and the police launch towed on its trailer have raided Prime Minister John Key’s Parnell mansion, executing warrants relating to the illegal ‘DJ Key’ election ad. Simultaneously, a joint Police-SAS taskforce has stormed RadioLive, deploying teargas and tasering all present.

Caption contest

Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, February 7th, 2012 - 71 comments

Citizens on the Internet

Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, February 3rd, 2012 - 5 comments

ImperatorFish: Call Me, John

Written By: - Date published: 2:50 pm, February 3rd, 2012 - 41 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Catherine Isaac “loves education”, and spent six years on a school board of trustees; Scott is a big fan of education and spent several years in various schools – he fancies an “working” group job setting up Charter Schools too…

ImperatorFish: Shock As Labour Discovers David Farrar Is Not The PM

Written By: - Date published: 10:07 am, February 2nd, 2012 - 12 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Labour Party MPs are said to be red-faced, after discovering that prominent blogger David Farrar is not the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

ImperatorFish: Sonny Bill Has No Plans To Sleep With You

Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, January 31st, 2012 - 2 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

The stock market dipped sharply in trading today, after no stories appeared in any of the major newspapers about Sonny Bill Williams for almost two hours.

Teapot tattle

Written By: - Date published: 2:25 pm, January 26th, 2012 - 122 comments

The Teapot Tapes have leaked on to the internet.

You can torrent it and listen past all of the noise.

ImperatorFish: Nats Must Act Urgently To Save Us From The Sun

Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, January 25th, 2012 - 22 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

The biggest solar storm for six years is headed our way. What is John Key going to do about it?

ImperatorFish: Police Defend Bloody Kindergarten Raid

Written By: - Date published: 2:12 pm, January 24th, 2012 - 1 comment

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Police and Armed Offender units raided the Meriwether Community Kindergarten just after morning tea, but the raid turned violent when some of the children put up a fight.

Friday Economics Joke

Written By: - Date published: 11:46 am, January 20th, 2012 - 8 comments

Gibson puts his money where his mouth is

Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, January 16th, 2012 - 20 comments

An interesting passage from Herald on Sunday article on Ports of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson and Maritime Union President Garry Parsloe: … “Gibson won’t confirm reports he earns $750,000, saying “I don’t do this for the money,” … Parsloe grins. “They should stop paying him then. That would save the port quite a lot of money every year for a start”

The problems of pBooks

Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, January 13th, 2012 - 30 comments

My iPad was powerless, so for the first time in a month I reached into the vast numbers of pBooks that litter our shelves and are going to be a real pain to move in a month, and tried to start to read one.  I looked at the video of instructions from the 14th century and while that showed me what side to open it from. But where was …….

ImperatorFish: McCaw, Carter Supreme Winners At Literature Awards

Written By: - Date published: 11:31 pm, January 11th, 2012 - 3 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Scott’s take on John Key’s contribution to The New Zealand Literature Heritage Trail booklet.

Post-xmas blues

Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, January 6th, 2012 - 15 comments

My blobbed out and weight gaining holiday in sunny Southland  is over. I’m back at work and feeling like an early day. Generally I have the post-Xmas blues and a couple of kilos that I need to wear off. But this came up on my playlist at work…. Yeah right

ImperatorFish: Spill the Beans, Now!

Written By: - Date published: 4:07 pm, January 5th, 2012 - 15 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Scott suffers from being a political blogger with sudden time on his hands, and a lack of politics.

ImperatorFish: New Year Bombshells Rock Nation On Edge

Written By: - Date published: 9:06 pm, January 4th, 2012 - 7 comments

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Scott suffers from a lack of news.

Concerns Mount Over Absence Of Social Media Gaffes

Written By: - Date published: 9:52 pm, December 30th, 2011 - 1 comment

Scott at ImperatorFish is worried. A National Party MP’s colleagues have become increasingly concerned about his wellbeing, after he failed for two consecutive days to make a fool of himself on Twitter. Concerns were raised when colleagues of Tau Henare realised that they had not noticed a single social media brainfart from the list MP for over 48 hours.

Peter Jackson – “Satan’s Little Helper”

Written By: - Date published: 4:34 pm, December 29th, 2011 - 113 comments

Ken Perrott at Open Parachute points out another of those strange absurdities of our time. The Christians (well some of the stranger sects) think he is… arghh it is absurd – I’m not going to say it. And it is too early to be a shameless self-promotion. My only question is to wonder how this will cause John Key to give taxpayers money away again? And how much this time?