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Otaku-sempai
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May 19 2015, 12:51am
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Wark!
"At the end of the journey, all men think that their youth was Arcadia..." - Phantom F. Harlock
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Starling
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May 19 2015, 5:56am
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Look at number 7 in this gallery
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That might be what you are after.
I am thrilled to see the NZ public treating the Prime Minister's vanity project with the 'respect' it deserves.
Personally I rather like numbers 14 and 17 in this gallery - simple, yet elegant.
Ten people came to the first flag meeting in Christchurch. I'm amazed it was that many. I possibly should have gone for the afternoon tea, as I imagine the outrageous $26m budget would provide plenty of sausage rolls.
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Lissuin
Valinor
May 19 2015, 7:53am
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1301 designs. 95 of those submitted by identifiably female names. Odd.
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Do you suppose New Zealand women know this is a silly exercise and have more important things to do? 
Campbell Live 1/2-hour phone text poll just now: Does New Zealand need a new flag? 25,000 responders - 88% No, 12% Yes
Their poll in January had a very similar result.
Give it up, John.
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Elizabeth
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May 19 2015, 7:55am
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The White Tree of ... New Zealand?
Actually, some really nice ones, along with some hilarity.
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Starling
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May 19 2015, 9:22am
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I believe we do need a new flag, or at least we need to start the conversation about it. We do need to slap the Union Jack right off our flag, as Otis Frizzel so eloquently put it.
But this whole process is such a self indulgent and flawed dollop of bovine excrement!
How can we have a referendum to choose a new flag when we have never been asked if we want it changed in the first place? That should have been the start of the conversation. Seems pretty basic to me.
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dernwyn
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May 19 2015, 10:27am
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I've got to remember this: "dollop of bovine excrement".
Starling, you have an amazing way with words! 
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
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Lissuin
Valinor
May 19 2015, 11:48am
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knows her way around the TOS, I reckon. 
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Kilidoescartwheels
Valinor
May 19 2015, 1:33pm
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I vote for the sheep & ice cream flag
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Proud member of the BOFA Denial Association
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Ethel Duath
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May 19 2015, 2:43pm
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that one for my own personal country I'm creating--actually, I seem to have been involved in that before around here.
Anyway, I had no idea they hadn't even asked the public!
We had that happen here in NY, but it was just the license plates--they claimed the police couldn't see the numbers on the nice shiny white ones, and that we desparately needed a whole new design. The local news went on a nightime ride-along with a nice officer, who declared he could see the stuff on the plates just fine; and through the news camera inside the car, so could all the rest of us. They won anyway (the reporter hinted about all the revenue when we all had to buy new plates instead of switching the old ones to a new car), and now we have these odd boring semi-retro ones.
Hope you guys have better luck there! (It's a bit more important than the "label" on a car.  )
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Ethel Duath
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May 19 2015, 2:45pm
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I li[c]ked that one too.
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Starling
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May 19 2015, 6:32pm
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I am simply trying to disprove
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the commonly held belief that people who swear regularly and copiously are in possession of a limited vocabulary.
On a side note, someone around here should submit a few Thorin and/or Thranduil portrait NZ flag designs. Imagine how majestic they could look in a *light* Wellington breeze, proudly installed above the Beehive...
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Ataahua
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May 20 2015, 5:16am
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I like a space-invaders themed one
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where the 'extra' stars are being blown off the Australian flag.
Honestly, someone has designed it!
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Ataahua's stories
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
May 20 2015, 2:51pm
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I know I don't get a vote but if I did I'd vote laser-eyed Kiwi
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I think that one is feisty, kind of like New Zealand.
But leave it to Fox News not to be able to recognize the context of the "four stars" in the corner. I swear they have no idea of anything outside of their own little world. Being from the Northern Hemisphere, I've never seen the Southern Cross, but I've read enough books about the sea to understand the importance of it. (Not to mention loving the CSN song...  ) I can imagine crossing the equator and watching the familiar sky disappear and looking for something else to steer by. That is one sight that is on my bucket list!
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Heed WBA when building blanket forts.
ITLs don't get enough FAS. :)
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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Starling
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May 20 2015, 6:10pm
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You might find this interesting.
It's lovely to see Matariki celebrations becoming more mainstream. Our children at school are learning about Matariki at the moment, and we finish our unit with a visit from the Matariki Stardome, which will be very exciting.
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Dame Ioreth
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May 20 2015, 7:50pm
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I love seeing old customs come back. I'm glad they are incorporating them into the school curriculum too. I would love to see more Native American culture incorporated into our school's curriculum. We learn about it only in the context of European history. My first middle school was across the street from the Tuscarora Reservation so I picked up some of the culture that was left from kids in school, but not school itself.
Coincidentally, the Pleiades were one of the final clues in the Murdoch Mysteries Infernal Device online interactive. They are almost gone in our sky in the Northern Hemisphere; we see them in our fall too.
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Heed WBA when building blanket forts.
ITLs don't get enough FAS. :)
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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Bombadil
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May 21 2015, 12:10am
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RED above a Blue Hobbit Hole
3 White Dots, one for a Round Door &
2 Smaller ones on either side for Windows...
Don't think it will win though...
www.charlie-art.biz
"What Your Mind can conceive... charlie can achieve"
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Ataahua
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May 21 2015, 2:09am
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Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Ataahua's stories
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swordwhale
Tol Eressea
May 23 2015, 4:58pm
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Na 'Aear, na 'Aear! Mýl 'lain nallol, I sûl ribiel a i falf 'loss reviol...
To the sea, to the sea, the white gulls are crying, the wind is blowing and the white foam is flying...
JARVIS is my copilot, and it's bigger on the inside...
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swordwhale
Tol Eressea
May 23 2015, 5:00pm
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well it might be time to "slap that union jack" off there...
now that it's memorial weekend here in the US and everything is stars and stripes and stuff...
(we still love you England)
As an outsider, i first think of kiwis and ferns and Maoris... and that it's an island, uh, two islands...
I'd hope they'd put something Maori on there.
But then, sheep.... baaaaaaaaaaaaah
Na 'Aear, na 'Aear! Mýl 'lain nallol, I sûl ribiel a i falf 'loss reviol...
To the sea, to the sea, the white gulls are crying, the wind is blowing and the white foam is flying...
JARVIS is my copilot, and it's bigger on the inside...
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