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Minister for Unemployment and Associate Minister for Overseas Holidays Paula Bennett. She really seems to be enjoying herself and not posing at all in this picture by Herald photographer Brett Phibbs.
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Christmas present
Couldn't resist this excellent BODY cartoon:
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A very Tory Xmas
'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the House, Nats announced policies, they're usually scared to espouse. Journos on holiday, Key out of reach on his Hawaiian vacation, It was the time to let slip, their plan for ACC privatisation. These lines hardly rhyme…
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Journos manufacturing the thousand year winter
On RealClimate.org I ran across this amusing example of the capacity of the media to inflate a science story to whatever their headlines demand - "Coldest Winter in 1000 Years Cometh - not", which is adapted from the German original at KilmaLounge It all starts…
climate change humour making shit up Media science the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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Guest post: Beware Food Police!
To arms! To arms! The Food Police are coming! Remember how I led you in the battle to get junk food back into schools? It was a near-run thing. If we hadn't acted, the days of the 12 year-old who can't climb a flight of…
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Afternoon funny
I saw this old American comic and the coincidence was just too bizarre. I had to share. I guess his name really is perfect for TV. (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is quite amusing in general)
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In search of Pansy’s legacy
In the Herald yesterday, there was a half-page ad thanking Pansy Wong for her "significant contribution" to National's coffers the country. John Campbell went in hunt of that contribution. Worth watching all the way through for Duncan Garner's assessment. As a bonus, Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi…
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Garagin Way tickets
We have four pairs of tickets to give away for the Garagin Way play in Auckland at 181 Hobson St on the nights of Sunday the 5th or Monday the 6th. As the competition we ran was a bit of a fizzer, we'll just give…
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Prizes! Tickets to Gagarin Way
You may have seen ads on the site recently for a comedy play called Gagarin Way, which opens in Auckland this Wednesday. As part of the Scoop ad cartel, we have four pairs of tickets to give away. Here's the game: best - ie most…
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Lost in Wiseacre Wood
Feel like some Friday fun? Do you know a haycorn from a heffalump? If you answered "yes" to both questions then I think you're going to appreciate this piece of genius from Lyndon Hood: One day the Bear and his friend, the Small Pig, were…
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Armstrong on Do Nothing Key’s big adventure
John Armstrong's straight-faced piss-take of John Key's holiday very important diplomatic mission to Japan last week is very very funny. Without a hint of irony, Armstrong reveals how Key achieved nothing, talked big only to be put in his place by the big boys, and…
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National standard in pronunciation
Plumedekiwi has revived his disturbingly good John Key impression in a new vid. This time, John is explaining the importance of national standards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLGnE7Ga7z8
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Caption competition
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‘Minister Hitler’ comment upsets Farrar – sad he didn’t think of it himself
It's interesting to see the amount of anti-teacher information National is sending to Farrar and Slater. The depth of research involved in uncovering this stuff means it's clearly research unit work. The latest tidbit they've got their knickers in a twist about is a principal…
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SAS inspires money-making scheme
I'm a nurse at a public hospital. Our social fund is looking a bit thin this year so we thought would invite school groups to come along to the hospital, charge $25 a head, and let them play around with the equipment like X-ray machines…
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Friday photo op
Labour Party leader and PM of Japan John Key talks to visiting US President Hillary Clinton.
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Friday fun: in praise of public transport
Another 5-second film. Joyce might want his holiday highway Road of Personal Significance but has he considered the benefits of buses for crime fighting? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AAK1t2afjQ Also, you know Dino Comics, eh? Ryan North, the author, wrote a book with some other web humorists called 'Machine…
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Caption Contest
There was some expenditure that didn't qualify under the old scheme...We've looked to broaden that out. John Key on Warner Brothers, 27 Oct 2010
capitalism caption contest film International tax welfare workers' rights
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Caption Contest
It was not until last night that we received confirmation of the retraction from SAG, NZ Equity and AFTRA through press reports. Warner Brothers Entertainment spokesperson lprent updated: The above is incorrect - it was New Line Cinemas who said that, not Warners.
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An understanding of class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYY1QGK0jQ Here's John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in the classic "An Understanding of Class", a lovely commentary on one of the pillars of capitalism. Since the abandonment of class rhetoric by Labour a few decades ago, we no longer have a lot of…
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Cthulhu’s hold on Espom threatened
This might just be Danyl's best satire piece ever: National to stand Spider God in Epsom The National Party has announced that it will stand a candidate in Epsom during the 2011 election and Prime Minister John Key has thrown his support behind the nominee.…
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Friday fun: a drug-free Parliament by 2020
I've had this sitting draft for months :) Last year, Icelandic comedian Jon Gnarr set up the Best Party to parody the parties that brought Iceland to ruin. The party contested the Reykjavik local elections with Gnarr promising a drug-free Parliament by 2020, a polar…
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More ACT identity theft?
In recent days, David Garrett has been spotted hanging around Parliament. Now, The Standard has acquired a picture of ACT's new MP, 'Hilary Calvert', arriving at Parliament. It raises further identity theft questions within the party. Some evidence suggests that the real Calvert was brain-dead…
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Caption competition
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10/10/10
Today is 10 October 2010, a significant date for two serious reasons (neither of which I heard of in advance to do a post on dammit). And for one silly one! 10/10/10 - 101010 - in binary it's 42, the answer to life, the universe,…
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New ‘no darkies’ party to form
Paul 'real New Zealander/dickshit' Henry, Maurice 'no shi'ite' Williamson, John 'I wish South Aucklanders hadn't vote' Banks, Melissa 'South Aucklanders are all crims' Lee, Paul 'cheekie darkie' Holmes, and Michael 'brown slug/fat Indian' Lhaws have joined forces to create a new political party for 'real…
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Phil Goff – Evil SuperGenius?
Is Phil Goff an Evil SuperGenius? Pertly vigilant National Party blogger David Farrar alerts us to our peril! Consider Exhibit A, DPF writes: Labour on Papatoetoe electoral fraud The Labour Party will take action if any of its members were found to have been involved…
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Paul Henry’s jokes about women, deaf people and infant deaths, proudly brought to you by TVNZ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8fs3ylxqKo Here's a compilation from TV7's Russell Brown from April this year, highlighting the value for money taxpayers get from paying Breakfast Bigot Paul Henry $300,000+ per year: ridiculing the appearance of guests whose opinions he disagrees with, ridiculing deaf people, women, and the disproportionate…
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Caption Contest
The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is that he’s prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud. TVNZ, 4 Oct 2010
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Friday funny: Paul Henry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2brCMurd2U&feature=player_embedded hat-tip: mellow yellow