Quips and quotes: December 12, 2015
“Saving is a fine thing, especially when your parents have done it for you.” – Winston Churchill The post Quips and quotes: December 12, 2015 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
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“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.” – Andrew Carnegie The post Quips and quotes: December 19, 2015 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleQuips and quotes: January 2, 2016
“Stop anthropomorphising inanimate objects. They don’t like it.” – Twitter The post Quips and quotes: January 2, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleChristmas quips and quotes
A selection of our favourite Christmas quips and quotes. The post Christmas quips and quotes appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleQuips and quotes: January 9, 2016
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” – Charlie Chaplin The post Quips and quotes: January 9, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleQuips and quotes: January 16, 2016
“There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.” – novelist Geraldine Brooks The post Quips and...
View ArticleQuips and quotes: January 23, 2016
“No one but a fool is always right.” – UK playwright David Hare The post Quips and quotes: January 23, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleQuips and quotes: January 30, 2016
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” – Friedrich Nietzsche The post Quips and quotes: January 30, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleQuips and quotes: February 6, 2016
“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem The post Quips and quotes: February 6, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleQuips and quotes: February 13, 2016
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as you please.” – Mark Twain The post Quips and quotes: February 13, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleWords of wisdom: April 2, 2016
“To be or not to be. That’s not really a question.” – Jean-Luc Godard The post Words of wisdom: April 2, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleWords of wisdom: April, 2016
“‘A hizzy at the hozzy’ – it’s Australian for ‘a hysterectomy at the hospital’.” – Wallace Chapman translates on RNZ The post Words of wisdom: April, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleTop zingers from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
President Obama stayed true to form while Larry Wilmore's performance was reminiscent of Stephen Colbert's excruciating roast of George Bush. The post Top zingers from the White House Correspondents’...
View ArticleWords of wisdom: May, 2016
“Your mum is so mean she has no standard deviation.” – Intellectual joke in the Week The post Words of wisdom: May, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View Article8 outrageous claims made in the Brexit debate
Hitler, Isis and the Queen have all been invoked as the debate over the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union rages on. The post 8 outrageous claims made in the Brexit debate appeared first...
View ArticleListener cartoons by Chris Slane
A selection of scathing political and social cartoons from our esteemed cartoonist Chris Slane. The post Listener cartoons by Chris Slane appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleListener cartoons by Alex Scott
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View ArticleListener cartoons by Steve Bolton
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View ArticleListener cartoons by Phil Parker
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View ArticleWordsworth competition: Regional paper headline on a slow news day
Readers were invited to submit a bogus headline for a regional paper on a very slow news day. The post Wordsworth competition: Regional paper headline on a slow news day appeared first on New Zealand...
View ArticleWordsworth competition: False historical trivia
This week’s Wordsworth competition was to dream up a piece of false historical trivia. The post Wordsworth competition: False historical trivia appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleWordsworth competition: Poem beginning with ‘I told a white lie’
Last week’s challenge was to compose a rhyming couplet describing what might happen if Donald Trump becomes President. The post Wordsworth competition: Poem beginning with ‘I told a white lie’ appeared...
View ArticleMedialols: August, 2016
Support for cannabis reform – why so high? radionz.co.nz, 16/8/16 The post Medialols: August, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleMedia moments: July, 2016
How not to die: 10 killer questions - Dominion Post, 2/7/16 The post Media moments: July, 2016 appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleListener cartoon collection
A collection of political and social cartoons by Listener cartoonists Chris Slane, Steve Bolton, Alex Scott and Phil Parker. The post Listener cartoon collection appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleWords of Wisdom: September Edition
“The economy depends as much on economists as the weather depends on weather forecasters.” - Jean-Paul Kauffmann The post Words of Wisdom: September Edition appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleWordsworth competition winners: New collective noun examples
We received a blizzard of entries for this week’s challenge, which sought examples of collective nouns. The post Wordsworth competition winners: New collective noun examples appeared first on New...
View ArticleWords of wisdom: October 2016
“Supporters of Donald Trump are saying the fact that he lost a billion dollars and then didn’t pay income taxes for 18 years means he is a ‘genius’. So, three marriages makes him a ‘feminist’.” – US...
View ArticleWordsworth competition: Haiku for Halloween
This week, readers were invited to submit a frightful haiku for Halloween. The post Wordsworth competition: Haiku for Halloween appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
View ArticleWordsworth: New national anthems in four lines
This week's challenge was to compose a fourline verse for a new national anthem. The post Wordsworth: New national anthems in four lines appeared first on New Zealand Listener.
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