Name these objects!

August 18, 2006

Ok team pop quiz. What are these?

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UPDATE: And the winner is John. They are Viking coins, or more to the pointgame tokens based on Viking coins that I made for use with a board that is currently off at the engravers being cut with a various vikinesque patterns. The game is Tafl - Viking Chess and will be available for order in time for the Upper Hutt Spring Festival (Sept 2nd) if all goes to plan.

Below is the latest addition to the set, the king piece (in this case “Eric”) cast in brass. Yes furnace two is now functional and we are moving into brinze and brass casting.

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Friday Night Free For All

August 18, 2006

You know the drill, swearing is allowed here. We don’t go putting on the dog at HMWAH although we have been known to set the dogs on people but thats another story.


And a little something for the cubicle rats out there…

August 18, 2006

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Why govt depts are having computer trouble?

August 18, 2006

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Yer wot?

August 15, 2006

Prime Minister Helen Clark says New Zealand companies that produce some of their goods offshore should be catered for by a proposed Buy Kiwi Made campaign.

So….. it’s Kiwi made…. in….. China?

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Oh…. yay?

In actuality it’s a Buy Kiwi “designed” campaign then? Are we going to get royalties ever time an Aussie eats pavlova or claims Tim & Neil are Aussies?

You’re an idiot lady.

Others tend to agree.

Meanwhile the Don has fainally discovered a pair to told her to cram it on another issue. Keep swinging Don, you’re bound to land one eventually. If you think it’s defamation lady get a lawyer. This may come as a shock to you but you saying something doesn’t make it so.


Murray’s Cryptic Movie Reviews

August 14, 2006

Or TV in this case and frankly I don’t see Lisa Kudrow coming back from that one.

Were there no Gilligans Island reruns they could have put on instead?


Fire bad, tree pretty…

August 14, 2006

restraining order legal.

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Bugger!


Take the test.

August 13, 2006

Comment from the Islamophobia Inspector;

I regret to inform you that this weblog and some of its comments have been identified as potentially Islamophobic. Under EU Directive DCLXVI it is compulsory for all contributors to take the following Islamophia test immediately:

YOU MAY BE AN ISLAMOPHOBE IF…

(1) You refer to the midwinter holiday as ‘Christmas’.

(2) You save loose change in a p***y-bank.

(3) You allow your children to read unexpurgated versions of Winnie the Poo.

(4) You doubt whether it’s politically correct to stone rape victims.

(5) You believe that the earth is round.

(6) You think there’s something weird about a 50 year old man marrying a six year old girl.

(7) Your children have Barbie dolls or Teddy Bears

( 8) You object to being a second class citizen in your own country.

(9) You fail to celebrate cultural diversity when your daughter is gang-raped for not wearing a headscarf.

(10) You think government policy should be determined by your elected representatives rather than a howling mob.

(11) You object to your taxes being used to support people who are plotting to kill you.

(12) You aren’t convinced that ‘Jihad’ means ‘Inner Spiritual Struggle’.

(13) You don’t understand why the Jews must be exterminated.

(14) You allow your children to play with LEGO.

(15) You aren’t married to at least one of your cousins.

(16) You sometimes have doubts about BBC reporting.

(17) You occasionally wonder what’s inside those walking tents.

(1 8) You realise that taqiyya is not a Mexican beverage.

(19) You believe moderate Muslims ride unicorns.

(20) You don’t appreciate the multicultural need for Methodist grandmothers to be body-cavity searched before boarding aircraft.

(21) You claim to understand the words “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”, even though you don’t speak Arabic.

(22) You object to taxpayers’ money being spent for terrorists to hold a festival to commemorate the anniversary of their massacres.

(23) You have reservations about ‘faith schools’ where the kids will be taught that you and your family are najis (excrement), at public expense.

(24) You don’t understand why flying your country’s flag has become a hate-crime.

(25) You don’t appreciate why it is so insensitive and offensive for the police to prevent oppressed minorities venting their frustration by mass murder.

EVALUATING YOUR SCORE
How many of the questions did you answer ‘YES’ ?

On a scale of 0 to 25

0 you are a Dhimmi
1 to 5 you are a Najis Kaffir
6 to 10 you are an Islamophobe
11 to 15 you are a Thought Criminal
16 to 20 you are an Enemy of Allah
21 to 25 you are a Zionist Crusader offspring of pigs and monkeys.

Fatwas are automatically awarded for all scores above 5

Fatwas will been posted in plain brown paper envelopes in a choice of laminated or embossed styles, generously sprinkled with ricin, anthrax, sarin or cobalt-60

If you score 21 or better you qaualify to shop here! May as well, they’ll be forcing you to sew on yellow stars soon enough anyway.


Cry Havoc and let slip the Gnomes of War!

August 13, 2006

Alrighty for those of you that are unawre the Reuters fauxtography situation has given rise to a competition at Ofre’s Politics designed to test what will get though their rigorous vetting procedure and pretty much to take the piss out them.

All you have to do is photoshop this gnome into any image of Lebanon and get Reuters to publish it to win.

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Here’s some of the attempts which so far haven’t quite squeaked through…

First up from 123beta,  he swaers it’s genuine but frankly that guy running looks pretty sus to me.

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Next from Swamp Blog we have what is clearly a group of Terrorgnomes out planting IED’s as part of terrorist operations in Southern Lebananon. Again those Reuters guys were just too good and spotted the faked flags. Damn.

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From Drunken Wisdom we have this;

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Members of the crack garden terrorist arm, Hezgnomah, on parade this past week. ©Rotters

But those eagle eyed editors pinged them for photoshopping in the palm tree into the background to make it look like its taken in ME when in fact this shot was taken just of Picadilly Circus in London.

Finally this effort from the Ogre himself almost made it but Reuters discovered that in the origional there was smoke every where and thats been completely matted out in this version.

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It’s all about the money.

August 13, 2006

Whaleoil has a new theme song for Liarbour.

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