Comment from Angelite

Exceptional

Bloody Awesome Mate.

A thoroughly enjoyable read, had a good giggle and even read it out to the hubby and kids lol

Great rhyme and rhythm

Lovely use of history and with the pavlova , phar lap and lamingtons.

Thanks for sharing
Angel

 Comment Written 05-May-2011

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reply by the author on 05-May-2011

Good to find another kiwi on here - hope yo will be watching tomorrow night
Steve

Comment from KiwiGal

Excellent

You make my heart sing! I was feeling a bit down because of my French cats - and because tomorrow is an extremely painful anniversary for me.
You will have to become the modern-day balladeer for NZ - the chronicler of our most memorable moments.
A confusing note: we've won all the cups so far ... but Oz has the best team in the world???

A little grammatical note:... cabinet Aussies' view
... the crowdS pour in (or the crowd pourS in)
... the anthems play.. - perhaps there you could put "the PEOPLE hush" because it really should read 'hushes'.
Whaddya thunk?

I like that you've written this before time: it means either way we've won .. you've won.
Why is there not a six-star for exceptional with this??

And will the Yanks understand or appreciate this ... I think not! You will get lots of... Huh? Just tell them they should get a life outside of 9/11 and TSA groping and Trumped up birth certificates.

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 Comment Written 05-May-2011

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reply by the author on 05-May-2011

You must be better informed than me - I haven't got a clue what you're talking aboout with TSA and birth certs...
I think Australia are still regarded as the best even though we've made a habit of sneaking up on them in some big finals...
i'll check out the little glitches - I posted in a bit of a hurry - not sure whether to bother actually!
Anyway - thanks for the enthusiastic review, and hang in there through that bad day tomorrow.
Take care
Steve

reply by KiwiGal on 05-May-2011

Well at least you're homophobic for the right country(ies)! The TSA is the US airport security team with the right to grope most intimately and familiarly anybody they feel like pulling aside as a potential 'security risk'. This includes 6 y.o. children and many pretty women. They have identified lesbians as being the happy gropers.
They reserve their 'best' groping for those who refuse to be nuked and prefer the pat-down. Most of them live to regret it. There have been hundreds of logged complaints already, but nobody seems inclined to put a lid on it.

Donald Trump, who is hinting strongly he will be running for Republican President, and who has likened a new kind of (unsuccessful) golf club for teeing off with people's attempts at being homosexuals.. was banging on for a while at the legitimacy of Obama being President - as if his Hawaii birth certificate was not vetted and accepted when he first went for President. He also intimated that Obama did not deserve his entry into Princeton (or wherever) - that he was maybe let in on quota. Both, of course, are bollocks, and when finally Obama decided to release his legit certificate, he did so at the annual Press dinner and completely rubbished Trump who, as a paper owner, was in the crowd. Got his own back well and truly.

If you want to watch it:
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-obama-correspondents-dinner-birther-2011-5

Thanks for the support re tomorrow.

reply by KiwiGal on 05-May-2011

I TAKE BACK the apostrophe in Aussies .... I read it wrongly. Sorry! Er, the rest stand, though. H.