Also cited were "bad business decisions"
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=00063565-4C32-1627-93...
A real shame though ... but it probably lasted a lot longer than many people would have expected.
Friday 27th
The Dogs Bollix
Thought Creature, The Situations, The Bengal Lights and Vietnam War
//who the hell is blink?//
Check www.blink.net.nz and www.alowhum.com
Facework by The Rainy Days "...... In short, absolutely bloody fantastic. - Stephen Kerr, Sunday Star-Times"
And then Down at Your Life by Shaft
I have vivid memories of some of the meals my mum, bless her soul, used to serve up to us when I was young. While my mum is an excellent baker as a preparer of meals she did leave a lot to be desired.
Until I left home and joined the Army I didn't realise that cabbage actually had a flavour! And texture.
I enjoy food though I wouldn't describe myself as a gourmand.
I do like a good curry, steak is always acceptable and good mashed spuds are hard to beat.
So what are your favourite meals and just for balance what meal would bring back bad memories, perhaps, or would simple not be acceptable.
My favourite meal would be:
Buffalo Mozzarello & Proscuitto ham for a starter.
French Onion Soup (a bit tragic I know, but onions are good for you.)
Roast pork, gravy, apple sauce, roast spuds & mashed spuds (carbo loading for the marathon I will never run) steamed carrots, steamed cabbage with lashings of butter and fresh ground pepper and minted fresh (not frozen) peas.
Dessert would be either fresh fruit or a lemon granita.
Least favourite meal
No starter or soup. (bugger)
My mum's watery mince and over-boiled spuds (no butter and parsley) cauliflower (with no luscious cheese sauce) and canned peas (yuck!!!)
No pudding cos I didn't eat all my peas!
By rdor's standard I am extremely old. I am therefore going to restrict my activities to only those that are necessary to maintain my continued existence. But I guess I will have to review my diet as I won't be able to get passionate about the food I eat as that would be disgusting. So I guess it will be watery mince and over-boiled spuds (no butter and parsley) cauliflower (with no luscious cheese sauce) and a slice of three day old bread for pudding.
Nah ... fuck it if I want to be passionate about something I will be despite the obvious embaressment it might be causing to all those young people who cannot tell the difference between margarine. (And you probably need to be old to understand that!)
Are you sure all three of you aren't in fact Bruce?
I find these multiple logins frustrating. And confusing ... reminds me of a song ... Who are you?
But at least I know I am me ... or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof. Or am I ... Just what is it that determines who you and how many multiple logins you need in order to feel fulfilled?
Also try wavpad from NCH Swift is free and pretty good. Smallish download plus they have a bunch of other tools as well.
//It's OK to like more than one genre?//
OK?? I think it should be compulsory!
//Then you get old and lose interest in music altogethor.//
Really?? How old do you have to be before this happens. My mumand dad are both in their 80's and still enjoy listening to music. Unless of course you mean so old you are dead ... in which case I strongly suspect you lose interest in pretty much everything.
Then again you could just be plain wrong! Fancy that!
If your stereo has additional inputs (on the back probably) you might be able to connect a turntable to it. But you will almost certainly need a preamp of some kind to get the input signal up to a decent level to drive the amp.
Both my sons have newish stereos ... we used the "MD" input on one and the "Video" inout (meaning in this case audio signal from a VCR or TV) on the other to connect the turntables to. In both cases I had to create a pre-amp to put between the turntable and stereo to boost the signal. Unfortuantely as one turntable was from an AIWA component stereo and the other is a Sansui turntable I needed to build slightly different preamps for each as the signal from each turntable was a different level. Kinda tricky. I used a simple universal preamp kit from tricky dicky's which is realtively simple to modify. I also needed a power supply for each preamp. You could possible get away with a wall wart for this but that would need some jiggery pokery ... I guess it is sounding a little complicated but it is unlikley that you will be able to source a suitable preamp ready built these days.
I am lucky that my original training was in electronics so this was not too much of a stretch for me.
In my opinion even assuming you can get the turntable powered up and have an input on the stereo to connect it to finding a suitable pre-amp or getting someone with some resonable skill to build it could be more than it is worth.
A better option depending on funds might be something similar to that shown at the link below. I have seen similar in stores, though not in the 04. You could try slightly more up-market gift shops and the like.
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Bugger ... that would be a model 4080 not 4008. The 4008 is an 8 string bass IIRC.
//but can you get two-necked guitar/bass hybrids so you could look just as cool as Jimmy Paige?
Yes, the Rickenbacker 4008 (see link) was produced in the mid '70's. I think if you had one of these you would definitely look cooler than Jimmy Page ... and be a little more musclebound to boot.
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One of the best covers of all time, in my opinion, is Joe Cocker's take on "With a little Help from my Friends" ... the original Beatles version is a bouncy little number which pales into insignificance when compared to Cocker's full on blast.
And further to the original comment and as stated elswhere many siginifcant bands got their start playing covers. Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Rolling Stones spring immediately to mind.
And I like it when originals bands throw in a cover or two provided that they make a decent job of it and put something of their own touch into it. It doesn't need to be a familiar song for this to work either.
Second Go.
Jack Ruby, Dustin Hoffman (I can live with that), Henry Fonda, Gene Kelly.
Peter Sellers, T.E. Lawrence, Robert Redford (Yay) and Cat Stevens
rdor, they say that everyone is entitled to their opinion; in your case I think we need to make an exception.
Also, the article linked to above is dated May 2005, so this is not something new. It has been around for a while. Obviously someone in "the Commies" has discovered this and leapt to the conclusion that "they" (presumably the US Government) is tracking "us" (the Commies.)
I strongly suspect that if the US Govt wanted to track someones browsing habits they would choose a method that did not provide an opt-out option and which can easily be circumvented with common (Symantec and McAfee) anti-virus and anti-spyware tools. Unless of course all these businesses are in cahoots with said US Govt ... which could of course be the start of yet another conspiracy theory.
By the way ... if you use e-mail and get those ever so helpful e-mails from friends and acquaintances about the latest, most virulent and dangerous computer virus ever then the link below is worth checking. It lists known virus hoaxes.
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Re: Yahoo and Web Beacon.
See Link and note capability to opt-out.
It seems that Yahoo is tracking all web movements, not specific to anti-war. I guess that someone could potentially collate a list of Browsers that access such web sites but provided that, as Yahoo states, no personal information is collected it would be a bit of a stretch to suggest that "they" are tracking you.
Still, I do have reservations about this sort of thing; while I can understand that Yahoo would need to gather information about their members in order to generate money from advertising the apparently insidious way in which this information is obtained and the lengths to which someone must go to opt-out is, I believe, similar to inertia marketing. It certainly does highlight the need to read all the terms and conditions when you apply to join up similar services.
The language on the relevant page is quite clear and unequivocal and should be easy enough to understand assuming you know to look for it.
It would pay to be aware that web bugs are not just restricted to Yahoo ... they can appear (or in actual fact not appear, as they are also called transparent gifs) on any web site. Even this one, though I am not aware that they do and haven't bothered to check. I'll need to check the T&C's again :-)
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Peter Posa
Frank Gibson Snr
Sister Mary Leo
Peter Sinclair
Mike Nock
Julian whatsisname ... the blind jazz pianist
I could go on ... but won't :-)