Saturday, November 28, 2015
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The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
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As national motto, I propose "One good fern deserves another."
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We'll keep the black flag flying here...
Smut has read the instructions incorrectly. You have to be Full o' Gin to vote. With no swastika option 65% of the population will stare dumbly at the paper for 30 minutes and then eat the marker crayons.
AK: As I understand it, that is the whole purpose of the exercise: preserving the Onion Jack and close similarity to the Oz Rag, thereby allowing those of us from Oz to adopt shortened vowels and pretend not to be responsible for inflicting Toady Abbott on the planet. Now what are you blokes going to do about that awful dirge of an anthem?
There has been much humourous talk of a new New Zild anthem but Pink Floyd has refused to allow the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" to be used. Pry Mincer Key seems to be very fond of "I'm too sexy for my shirt" so I imagine it will be that.
Youse guys totes own Tones. When he has his 2GB programme he will become Straya's creepy uncle.
Well, those years in the seminary may finally pay off. Actually, I believe that the alien cestode that was mistaken for his tongue is so disgusted by his fall that it is now looking for another host.
The head of the Middle-Management-Mediocrities Commission for Picking Johnkey-Approved Flags is one John Burrows. He encountered the ingratitude of the masses, who do not appreciate the options on offer -- they do not deserve his fine design choices, and do not understand their patriotic obligation to support one of them -- and his whining reached a heroic pitch.
“I hope there won’t be much gerrymandering because I think people have got to see what an important occasion this is.
“It’s the one chance people have in their lifetimes to do it. So to actually waste a vote for political or other reasons I think will appear to most people as unpalatable and unattractive.”
By "gerrymandering" he meant "strategic voting", and by "waste a vote" he meant "not support", so you can see that he is an expert on the democratic process.
There is also the hilarity of at least one of the flag designs being on the packets of various New Zild exports including plastic party plates. "Everytime you eat sausages at a BBQ you salute the flag"
Has anyone heard from the Flag Change Panel lately? One minute they were explaining how great the four options were, and how bad all the others were, and how adding a fifth option (just because it was less unpopular) would ruin the integrity of the process; next minute there was the fifth-option legislation, and the panel fell silent. It is as if they received a firm message to shut up and stop reminding people of why they loathe the entire exercise in dicking around.
I imagine they have have been whisked off to important tasks in far flung parts of the globe WHERE THERE AREN'T PHONES OR INTERWEBS and are giving flag choosing lectures to apprentice dictator classes.
Was this flag considered? No it was not.
AK:
Was this flag considered? No it was not.
I can only assume that insufficient cannabinoids were available at the time.
As for places WHERE THERE AREN'T PHONES OR INTERWEBS (unless Rupert says so): have you considered looking in Luritja country on the West Island?
We mean no harm to the Luritja people and given the climate they probably don't need anymore hot air. How about the Marianas Trench?
Well one particular Kiwi has runs on the board about future Oz flags already.
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