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From tanizard: When you see this, quote Lost.

SAYID: I was in the Gulf War.
HURLEY: No way. I got a buddy who fought over there. He was in the 104th Airborne. What were you- Air Force, Army?
SAYID: The Republican Guard.

& cause I can't just do one:

ARZT: I'm sorry that I'm not cool enough to be part of your merry little band of adventurers. I know a clique when I see it. I teach high school, pally. You know, you people think you're the only ones on the island doing anything of value. I got news for you. There were forty other survivors of this plane crash, and WE ARE ALL PEOPLE TOO!

It's like INBUILT META. Oh, Arzt, we were so amused devastated when you went splodey.

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landing

get this,
I was born on the edge of the world.

We're tougher out here, don't you get it?
in old maps new zealand
barely makes it on there, the tip of the North

growing up,
falling off the edge of the world,
It puts the sky in us, the space
and the stretching, open spaces;

white clouds for miles, aotearoa
is balancing on the rim
of the biggest dinner plate in history.

new zealanders, we know what we're about
we do a good balancing act;
afraid that someday we'll fall off the edge of the world,

we're busy learning how to fly.

This is actually a recap of an earlier poem which I didn't tag or memory at the time and now of course have lost. *facepalm* I think I like it better than the original, but not actually having the original I'm not sure. :P

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All New Zealanders, and anyone who's seen any media coverage of a general election, MUST read Diana Wichtel's hilarious TV Review for this week, optimistically entitled "Getting Results," about the media circus on Election Night. At a friend's 21st until about eleven, I apparently missed the most hysterical lines from John Campbell in particular, who came up with such gems as

"Richard Langston is with us now. He looks like he's been sleeping under a bridge."

(On the TV1 panel's discussion of Clarkson, a running right-wing MP who grabbed his crotch in public- don't even ask)
"We have the crotch grabbers on this side and the non-crotch grabbers on this sid. And I'm sitting in the middle with my legs crossed."

(On the PM's parents leaving her house) "That's her mum and dad. Either that or the stress of the night has aged her considerably."

"I haven't had a clue all the way along. I haven't a clue. Go, democracy."

*wipes tears from eyes* Oh, John, you're bloody marvellous.

The entire article is hilarious, though, including an election to the fabulous Election Night Drinking Game, which I personally think should have got one of Russell Brown's Election Media Awards. These were also very funny, with an award for

The Quote You Never Thought You'd Hear going to Don Brash for "I don't want any candidates talking about their testicles, to be quite frank."

The People's Art Award to the Make Your Own National Billboard website.

Best Personae to John, Paul, George, Ringo and Yoko of KeepLeftNZ

But what really summarises the whole fiasco, to me, is the Strangest News Event Award:
"The campaign involvement of the Exclusive Brethren, who don't even vote? Bob Clarkson's left testivle? Pontell's ponytail wig? A bomb threat by a man demanding to talk to Helen Clark shutting down Taurange two days out from the vote? Another man's threat to fly a stolen plane into the Sky Tower on election night? The Green's Keith Locke carrying out his promise to run naked through the streets of Epson if Rodney Hide won? Take your pick. it was a very strange campaign."

New Zealand Aotearoa: You only wish your country's election campaign was as cracktastic as ours.