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June 7, 2011 10:00am by David Farrar

Shrek

I was amused that the TV news last night seem to spend more time on the death of Shrek, than they did on profiling the new knights and dames.

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Positan

The ever diminishing quality of TV “journalism.”
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June 7, 2011 10:06am
mikenmild

Sir Shrek, to you!
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June 7, 2011 10:11am
annie

All is as it should be.
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June 7, 2011 10:11am
Seán

Well says it all really. What is more interesting?
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June 7, 2011 10:20am
queenstfarmer

Amused or saddened?
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June 7, 2011 10:32am
backster

A very special animal who brought joy and happiness to many. His passing leaves a small ache in the heart of all animal lovers.
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June 7, 2011 10:34am
RRM

… for services to sport.
… for services to sport.
… for services to sport.
… for services to sport.
… for services to sport.
… for services to his own success.
… for services to sport.
… for services to sport.
… for services to being a short, aggro little f*cker and unwanted ex-mayor.
… for services to sport.
… for services to sport.

Yes I can see why the death of Shrek the Sheep would rate as pretty newsworthy by comparison. 😛
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June 7, 2011 10:44am
Murray

I see he’s being “cremated”. Isn’t that actually a bbq?
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June 7, 2011 11:04am
GPT1

Embarrassing is a better word.
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June 7, 2011 11:08am
Murray

Well its certainly a silver platter for the Aussies to beat us with GPT1.

I wonder if deal leader will fly home for the service… and will she bring her own mint sauce.
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June 7, 2011 11:21am
shoreboy57

Why amused – Shrek did more for the economy that half of those listed (precious international news footage). Ditch those who were paid to do their job (sometimes rather badly) – then scored a gong and I might have some sympathy. Howard Broad – joke. Failed candidate for Auckland City – even worse
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June 7, 2011 11:24am
Inventory2

Apparently there is going to be a memorial service at the Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo. What are the odds Helen Clark will attend, given that a photo opportunity with Shrek was of higher priority than meeting 15,000-plus Maori protesting at her government’s Foreshore and Seabed Bill?
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June 7, 2011 11:29am
kino flo

One News last night – 5 and a half minutes on the Honours, 52 seconds on Shrek.
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June 7, 2011 11:30am
lofty

Sheeit kino flo, how do you know that? Is it true, and if it is you have far too much time available for trivia. 😉
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June 7, 2011 11:38am
kino flo

My Sky! Interesting exercise in perception tho!

OTOH, Close Up did a story on it as well.
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June 7, 2011 11:38am
kowtow

Why amusement?
TV “news” on both channels is little more than infotainment or PR releases from govt departments ,political parties and large corporations selling whatever message they have to an increasingly imbecilified public ,referred contemptuously to as either punters customers or clients.

Long gone are the days of an interested,engaged citizenship.
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June 7, 2011 11:38am
flipper

Actually, DPF….
If one puts aside the gongs for the job etc (inc pro sportsmen and women) the coverage was about right.
Flipper’s rule #1:
No gongs for paid employment.
ongs only for charity, specific acts of bravery, or other identified individual achievements etc.
No “Gongs on behalf of….”
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June 7, 2011 11:43am
Murray

So… you don’t have any “gongs” then flipper?
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June 7, 2011 11:47am
Shunda barunda

I was waiting for Shreks minders to start blubbering, and I swear, if they had have done so the nearest blunt object would have been thrown at the TV.

Thankfully it wasn’t necessary, but I get the feeling it was pretty damned close.

Grief athletics for dead sheep now?

Blarr-dee sheep!!!

And it must have smelt terrible! like one giant sh!t infested dreadlock!
Actually, it would have been quite entertaining watching them cremate it!! 😀
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June 7, 2011 12:01pm
David Garrett

Sorry to be a Grinch here, but I suspect this death announcement is probably a few years after the fact….a bit like the old Soviet Union when ” Mr Breshnev has a heavy cold” meant ” he’s at deaths door”, and “suffering from pneumonia” meant “he died three weeks ago, but we had to have some internal struggles for succession before we could announce it”….

Some farmer or vet might like to opine on the likelihood of a sheep reaching 17 years….
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June 7, 2011 12:06pm
nasska

The country’s near had it…..now we have nutbars getting emotional about the demise of a dog tucker ram.
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June 7, 2011 12:09pm
Murray

As long as they kept him on ice David we can still have a barbeque.
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June 7, 2011 12:11pm
MT_Tinman

As I was overlooked for honours again this year (for services to the red wine bottle recycling industry) I think this is perfectly fair and correct.
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June 7, 2011 12:22pm
nasska

Murray

I hope I never get hungry enough to attend a a barbeque where the guest of honour & main course is a geriatric ram. It would be like eating used shoe leather superglued to bone.

Dave G

Seventeen years would be an exceptional age for a sheep. Usually their teeth are stuffed well before half that age & if they are not knocked off for sausages or dog tucker they starve slowly to death. Having said that my parents lived down the road from a mad woman who owned a ewe she swore was over fifteen years old. Looked & smelt half dead, a bit like her.
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June 7, 2011 12:27pm
Murray

Then you haven’t ever really been that hungry nasska.
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June 7, 2011 12:39pm
shoreboy57

Dave G & Nasska

The life expectancy of sheep is similar to large breeds of dogs, about 10 to 12 years. Some breeds are known for being longer-lived, e.g. Merino. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the oldest sheep lived to be 23. She was a Merino.
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June 7, 2011 12:48pm
David Garrett

Well there you go…perhaps the announcement from the Politburo was genuine in this case….
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June 7, 2011 1:03pm
IHStewart

Shrek achieved a lot DPF or rather his owners and their community did. I rather suspect he in many ways was a very important animal in the NZ economy. I hope he gets a statue, he deserves it.
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June 7, 2011 6:22pm
IHStewart

@ David Garrett, I have avoided getting into a fight with you largely because I feel you have paid your price and it was a very high price but really look at your own Wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrett_(politician) and don’t fucking talk to me about a couple of great Kiwis in Central Otago doing great stuff for thier community.

“He was educated at Edmund Campion College, Gisborne. In his early years Garrett was a member of the Socialist Unity Party and a Labour Party activist.[3] Garrett worked as a lawyer and a pro-bono legal adviser to the Sensible Sentencing Trust.”

These are good people, I am sure they are National voters, unlike me and trust me I wish we on the left had anyone to match we don’t and that is why we are so fucking bankrupt.

Don’t fucking hit people who do good.
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June 7, 2011 6:52pm

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