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labellementeuse) wrote2007-10-12 07:09 pm
labellementeuse) wrote2007-10-12 07:09 pm
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If you are a New Zealander and have a sense of humour, or are someone who lives in a country where sport is taken too seriously and literature isn't taken seriously enough (so... all countries, then?) you will probably find this funny: Can Lloyd Jones expect the All Blacks treatment?
Those watching the TV coverage at home - including a shot of a despondent 10-year-old clutching a copy of Mister Pip to his chest, telling a reporter that he’s not so sure he does now want to be a writer when he grows up - will down another beer, then another, to drown their sorrows. Wives and kids will cop a blow or two from frustrated, drunken husbands.
Those watching the TV coverage at home - including a shot of a despondent 10-year-old clutching a copy of Mister Pip to his chest, telling a reporter that he’s not so sure he does now want to be a writer when he grows up - will down another beer, then another, to drown their sorrows. Wives and kids will cop a blow or two from frustrated, drunken husbands.