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August 29, 2017 4:00pm by David Farrar

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Twizel is more lively than I imagined.

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Igotta Numbum

Sure to be a hair-raising event!
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August 29, 2017 4:05pm
- Johnboy
  
  Her first name sounds like it may be Brazilian though IN. 🙂
  
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  August 29, 2017 4:08pm
  - cmm
    
    Gabby will be along shortly to lick the poo.
    
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    August 29, 2017 4:29pm
    - GazzaW
      
      A habitual coprophagist it seems.
      
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      August 29, 2017 4:55pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  You could lend her your numbum, I am starting to feel sorry for her.
  
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  August 29, 2017 8:41pm
- Wangas Feral
  
  I want to know if the carpet matches the drapes.
  
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  August 30, 2017 12:07pm
Johnboy

The signwriter’s probably an Labour activist/English teacher. 🙂
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August 29, 2017 4:06pm
- howitis
  
  No penalty for being wrong if a teacher.
  
  You can’t get me I’m part of the Union!
  
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  August 29, 2017 4:52pm
cmm

Something like a Pub quiz then?
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August 29, 2017 4:28pm
ROJ

I know there is an election on, but that top line seems to imply that Labour is the result rather than cause of the meeting?
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August 29, 2017 4:40pm
RF

Now that’s a curly question. Hat tip to Mark Todd.
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August 29, 2017 4:42pm
- jims_whare
  
  I wonder if it could be considered ‘treating’ under the Electoral Act?
  
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  August 29, 2017 9:21pm
Adolf Fiinkensein

You know, it’s funny how the eye sees what is expected. I read that damned sign four times before the penny dropped.

Oh well, that’s the National party vote buggered in Twizel.
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August 29, 2017 4:44pm
- pejhay
  
  I see it ! They left the ‘i’ out of Liabour…
  
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  August 29, 2017 4:49pm
- ROJ
  
  No, no – that would be a bottom line …
  
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  August 29, 2017 4:58pm
- cmm
  
  I wish it was only a penny.
  
  If they get it it’s going to cost way more than that!
  
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  August 29, 2017 5:38pm
- softail 1450
  
  yes it’s astonishing ,I must have read it 6 times before I saw the glaring mistake ,,ha,ha,ha, I feel a bit sorry for the proof reader .
  
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  August 30, 2017 6:18am
  - Paulus
    
    Wot proof reader – surely it would be an election expense to pay for that.
    Probably the local school teacher for free !
    
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    August 30, 2017 8:24am
    - Nosmo King
      
      Or it could be proof read by those disgruntled unpaid interns hired by the “Campaign for Change” weasel…who knows?
      
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      August 30, 2017 12:32pm
  - geoff3012
    
    Still can’t see anything wrong with it???????
    
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    August 30, 2017 10:55am
    - softail 1450
      
      geoff,,,pubic,pubic,pubic, got it now?
      
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      August 30, 2017 11:42am
Dave Stringer

It was once the place of the biggest (by number of pupils,) college schoool in New Zealand.
The lake that it is beside should not exist as it was never approved but built on a whim by the man in charge of the National building organisation at the time of the dam building. Folklore has it that he didn’t lose his job until there was a national rowing competition held on the non-existent lake and somebody back in works noticed.
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August 29, 2017 4:48pm
- GazzaW
  
  Most if not all of the Kiwi rowing legends would have graced the waters of Lake Ruataniwha as a college rower at the Maadi Cup regatta. One of the world’s most beautiful courses along with Lake Karapiro.
  
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  August 29, 2017 5:02pm
- PaulL
  
  Wikipedia says the lake itself was approved, but the rowing course that was put into it was financed by public works, and the rowing clubhouse had bridging finance from public works. Max Smith was forced into retirement based on allegations this bridging was misuse of public funds. Sounds like he was a local hero though.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ruataniwha (refer the recreation section).
  
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  August 29, 2017 5:20pm
  - pejhay
    
    I think you mean financed by Pubic Works, and misuse of Pubic funds.
    
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    August 29, 2017 5:36pm
  - Nookin
    
    There was a huge amount of sympathy for him when he was ushered out. It is a brilliant facility and the South Canterbury/McKenzie Country community should be eternally grateful to Max.
    
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    August 29, 2017 6:01pm
emmess

Am I missing something?
I don’t get it.
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August 29, 2017 4:58pm
- holysheet
  
  pubic meeting?
  
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  August 29, 2017 5:04pm
- Adolf Fiinkensein
  
  You and I must use the same brand of reading glasses.
  
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  August 29, 2017 5:11pm
  - Souvlaki
    
    Should have gone to spec savers!
    
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    August 29, 2017 9:18pm
waikatogirl

Haha, is she the local sex worker? ?
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August 29, 2017 5:11pm
- David Garrett
  
  Waikato: Shame on you madam! “Sex worker” indeed…what happened to the perfectly adequate and ancient word “prostitute”?
  
  Off topic a little, but worth the tale I think…
  
  The proprietor of “The Whitehouse”, a well known house of ill repute – sorry sex workers’ place of work – in Auckland wished to place a large ad saying “PROSTITUTES WANTED’ just after the law changed…Granny Herald baulked and said “No no, we call them escorts or masseuses”..Mr Le Gros said “Run the ad as I want it, or no more ads for my premises[ he owns a couple I think] in your paper”
  
  He got his ad.
  
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  August 29, 2017 6:40pm
holysheet

If she follows the liabore track record so far, it will be free Brazilians to all.
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August 29, 2017 5:20pm
NoCash

That is fitting… after all it’s an erection campaign.
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August 29, 2017 5:29pm
doggone7

To continue the theme … with a Southern connection … With the latest revelations about Bill English in the Barclay affair someone else could be rooted.
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August 29, 2017 5:37pm
- David Garrett
  
  doggone: Don’t be a poofta…If you have some goss, let’s hear it…
  
  What can be more cowardly than refusing to give details when you are hiding behind a pseud?
  
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  August 29, 2017 7:18pm
mara

Snort! When you get to my age, pubic events tend to occur in hospitals with “12 year old doctors” who are carefully trained to not appear to be distressed by looking at “grandma’s old bod”. Trust me, I know these things.
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August 29, 2017 5:56pm
- Paulus
  
  I was in hospital recently undergoing an op when I was given a small electric razor and told to shave my own pubics – where have all the lovely nurses gone like in the old days ?
  Then it was a giggle.
  
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  August 30, 2017 8:27am
  - jcuk
    
    Even better when I was given a catheter by a female doctor …. later removed by male nurse 🙂
    
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    August 30, 2017 9:41am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Sad lol
      
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      August 30, 2017 2:19pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

whatever bro, Jacinda effect will easily carry her through….she is winning….
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August 29, 2017 5:59pm
David Garrett

DPF; You say you didn’t know Twizel could be so lively…clearly you have never lived in the provinces!

I am reliably informed that the first ever key party in New Zealand was held in Hawera, Taranaki, in 1972 at the house of a now prominent and very respectable local lawyer…

And you’d be even more surprised by what we get up to out here when the moon is full, and the weather is clement…
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August 29, 2017 6:43pm
- Inandout
  
  No, there used to be a scrap dealer in Newmarket circa 50 to early 60s who (apparently) had key parties in his penthouse. I won’t say his name.
  
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  August 29, 2017 7:00pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Inandout: You’re no fun!!
    
    If it was happening then, 60 odd years ago, said scrap dealer is almost certainly dead, and if not he’s away with the fairies, so I think you are safe naming him…The lawyer I mention is still very much alive, so I definitely can’t!!
    
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    August 29, 2017 7:02pm
    - Inandout
      
      Speaking of lawyers, this is perhaps why I shan’t mention names. Johnny may still remember his lawyer parents taking off the same night every week in a taxi and wondering where they went. Or little baby sat Jimmy whose Police dad would take off with mum also in a taxi. Nay, some things best remain unsaid.
      
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      August 29, 2017 9:43pm
- Karl_nz
  
  The Mackenzie Country Motor Inn, Combined Services Club, RSA, Fire Station, Police station, Squash Club and Staff Hostel were all great places for a cold ale in 1980’s Twizel … a lot of watering holes for what was then a small town. We were a friendly lot!
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:35pm
rangitoto

I’m surprised we haven’t had a report on this meeting from Johnboy.
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August 29, 2017 6:54pm
Rachael Membery

It could be worse
‘Meat’ your Labour Party candidate at the Pubic Meating?
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August 29, 2017 7:15pm
- David Garrett
  
  Rachael: Indeed!
  
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  August 29, 2017 7:16pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Would be no better meating in public either come to think of it ;).
    
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    August 29, 2017 7:27pm
Rachael Membery

I wonder how many signs there were printed, money back from the printer I reckon.
Misleading advertising?
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August 29, 2017 7:26pm
- Gabby
  
  It’s a fiendish plan to cut campaign spending. They get a refund and leave the signs as is.
  
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  August 29, 2017 8:49pm
  - Paulus
    
    Great advertising – all pubiclicity welcome !
    
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    August 30, 2017 8:29am
David Garrett

Rachel: No, they look like paper rather than corruflute signs…and even they are pretty cheap these days…$22 a crack for an “election” size one if you order 300 or more…
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August 29, 2017 7:36pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Looks like she is expecting to reuse it, there is no year either, open invitation?
  
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  August 29, 2017 7:46pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  $22 a crack, it gets worse lol.
  
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  August 29, 2017 8:10pm
  - softail 1450
    
    you’d be fun at a piss up Rachael,you don’t miss a “thing”.
    
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    August 30, 2017 7:38am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      I am pleased to say that I have deftly avoided many ‘things’ in my time ;).
      Does anyone else remember Cheech and Chong’s Tactical Woman’s Alert Team? T.W.A.T
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ONOQnV2pzw
      
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      August 30, 2017 2:11pm
      - mikenmild
        
        No, but this made me think of another classic Cheech and Chong scene, talking on the police radio:
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/96214321/mystery-man-broadcasts-pig-grunts-and-obscene-abuse-on-police-radio
        
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        August 30, 2017 2:15pm
oldgolfer

Allcomers welcome.
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August 29, 2017 7:49pm
Duxton

Will she be waxing lyrical about Labour policy?
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August 29, 2017 7:53pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Not if she has been the butt of too many….jokes.
  
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  August 29, 2017 8:08pm
  - Duxton
    
    I’m sure she will get a good hairing…..I mean, hearing.
    
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    August 29, 2017 8:18pm
Duxton

Seriously, I do hope the local rural community turn out in droves. What a wonderful opportunity to break a Liabour candidate.
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August 29, 2017 8:14pm
RRM

A pubic meeting with the Labour candidate probably beats shanking a merino, or whatever people in twizel normally do to get their rocks off…
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August 29, 2017 10:40pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Shanking, as in knifing?
  Is there a meatworks there?
  
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  August 29, 2017 11:01pm
Sublime

Let’s do this 😬
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