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Jan. 4th, 2008 08:59 pmThree moments of amusement (OK, two moments of amusement and one of schadenfreude) in my day today:
1. Yesterday's NZ Herald ran a story on the US primaries yesterday that colour-coded the Republicans blue and the Democrats red. There are many excellent reasons for a New Zealand newspaper to do this: our democrat "analogue" (such as it is) is red, and vice versa, and of course red is traditionally a colour associated with the left wing (I guess the Dems don't use it either because the Republicans got there first or because as a lw party they're worried about being associated with socialism, which I hear is a bad word in US politix.) Nevertheless, I got about three-quarters of the way through Huckabee's bio before thinking "Hang on, he doesn't sound like a Democrat..."
2. My parents are going to a wedding tomorrow, which is lovely. Tommy, their friend who is getting married, lives in Wellington and so does the bride, whose name I don't know. Nevertheless, when my mother checked the invitation this evening to find out where the wedding was happening... she found out it's in Auckland. About ten hours' drive away. I laughed and laughed and laughed.
3. They're playing Titanic tonight and my brother and two of his mates are drinking whiskey and ginger ale (apparently this is known as a "CC and dry." it was fairly tasty.) and leering at Kate Winslet's boobs. Or at least, they said that was why they're watching it. The problem is, they all know the movie, like, back to front, and chorus along - not "I'll never let go, Jack," but "I haven't done that for years!" and "Are you ready for a real party?"
It's HILARIOUS.
1. Yesterday's NZ Herald ran a story on the US primaries yesterday that colour-coded the Republicans blue and the Democrats red. There are many excellent reasons for a New Zealand newspaper to do this: our democrat "analogue" (such as it is) is red, and vice versa, and of course red is traditionally a colour associated with the left wing (I guess the Dems don't use it either because the Republicans got there first or because as a lw party they're worried about being associated with socialism, which I hear is a bad word in US politix.) Nevertheless, I got about three-quarters of the way through Huckabee's bio before thinking "Hang on, he doesn't sound like a Democrat..."
2. My parents are going to a wedding tomorrow, which is lovely. Tommy, their friend who is getting married, lives in Wellington and so does the bride, whose name I don't know. Nevertheless, when my mother checked the invitation this evening to find out where the wedding was happening... she found out it's in Auckland. About ten hours' drive away. I laughed and laughed and laughed.
3. They're playing Titanic tonight and my brother and two of his mates are drinking whiskey and ginger ale (apparently this is known as a "CC and dry." it was fairly tasty.) and leering at Kate Winslet's boobs. Or at least, they said that was why they're watching it. The problem is, they all know the movie, like, back to front, and chorus along - not "I'll never let go, Jack," but "I haven't done that for years!" and "Are you ready for a real party?"
It's HILARIOUS.
