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Catherine Robertson's avatar

Mark Easterbrook - I met my husband in 1989 and Free Fallin' was our song

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Mark Easterbrook's avatar

Lovely! A good friend of mine was in a should-have-been-worse car crash, where they were airborne for what seemed like an eternity as it played on the car's tape deck...

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Catherine Robertson's avatar

You would not forget that in a hurry

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Michael Parrish's avatar

Bloody superb! The inalienable truth explicitly put. Thank you.

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Daniel Howe's avatar

well said, not teaching our real history in schools properly' is part of the ignorance to many still spew. How can you see tomorrow let alone today if you 'won't' understand yesterday. Shadows, were all painted across a large wall in my artist brother and my shared bedroom. girls loved the painting, so my brother did another wall, 1960s

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Lisa's avatar

I like that sign idea!

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Michael Smythe's avatar

I thought I was pretty clued up about our racist history (and present). Then I read this very sobering piece in yesterday's Sunday Start Times.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300288698/our-history-of-mori-segregation-needs-to-be-part-of-the-curriculum

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jb's avatar

Remember Hunter Thompson’s Freak Power platform when ran for (and narrowly lost) Sheriff of Aspen CO in 1970?

Change the name 'Aspen', by public referendum, to 'Fat City'. This would prevent greedheads, land-rapers and other human jackals from capitalizing on the name 'Aspen' ... These swine should be fucked, broken, and driven across the land."

“Rip up all city streets with jackhammers" and "sod the streets at once ... All public movement would be by foot and a fleet of bicycles, maintained by the city police force."

Went on, getting better and better….

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