I FOUND THIS little gem on Cameron Slater's Whaleoil blogsite (yes, yes, I know, but it's actually a really interesting place to visit!) and I just had to re-post it on Bowalley Road.
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Ruminations of an Old New Zealander
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- Chris Trotter
- Chris Trotter has spent most of his adult life either engaging in or writing about politics. He was the founding editor of The New Zealand Political Review (1992-2005) and in 2007 authored No Left Turn, a political history of New Zealand. Living in Auckland with his wife and daughter, Chris describes himself as an “Old New Zealander” – i.e. someone who remembers what the country was like before Rogernomics. He has created this blog as an archive for his published work and an outlet for his more elegiac musings. It takes its name from Bowalley Road, which runs past the North Otago farm where he spent the first nine years of his life. Enjoy.
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2 comments:
I suspect that Angie is more or less as good as Volodya at chess.
But the real game is poker and the latter holds the aces. Moreover, he's notoriously poker-faced.
Cameron, meanwhile, is best advised to stick to tiddlywinks. It's probably too late for him to take up caber-tossing.
Obama thinks: My lying bullshit opening isn't working. I can usually BS other players off the board! O dear I'll have to pretend I gave him the game because if I didn't he'd get violent and kick our asses.
Cameron thinks: I'm pissed the Obama opening I spent a lot of time studying is crap. We'll have to figure a way to chuck this interloper out of the club! He can f*ck off back to a Russian Chess Club!
Angela Merkel thinks: The Obama opening makes me look like a Washington prostitute whose foreign policy is not German or in the interests of Germany but Yank BS. How much longer do I have to lie down for this pseudo chess master? the real one's over the table, Right all stick together! We'll get rid of this upstart though I'm impressed with his gas line!
Other Nato Leaders: O dear O dear he's not impressed with our Nato posturing BS.Bastard's winning!
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