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Well, I believe I did. I am writing this a couple of nights before it happened, but don't worry about my quirky timeline. My account of the festivities is exact. I know election night parties as well as I know the Presbyterian hymn book.
They are select denominational gatherings of the faithful, who've learnt the same songs and order of service. Round the corner there'll be another election black ops 2 guns party where they prefer Gutrot to Footrot, and sing from a different hymn book. This matters not. They have a perfect right to be fatheads.
And so we arrive, black ops 2 guns open a bottle, and note that apart from the sausage rolls and cheese sticks, at least three women have brought excellent quiches. (You will recall that in better times when it was Gents 2s 6d and Ladies black ops 2 guns a plate, these were known as ham and egg pies).
Its low point also provided its weirdest joke. Did you hear about the American, the Canadian, the Australian, and the German who rented the Auckland Town Hall for something called the Moment of Truth? First came the German who ... Oh, I'm sorry.
The party gets louder. Stories are swapped. Nobody believes that David Shearer, Phil Goff, Annette King, and David Parker, were gobsmacked by my most recent speech. Well that's almost true. Most of the Labour front bench turned up for my old friend John Harvey's birthday. (He's an insider).
I had the job of proposing one of the toasts, and spilling the beans on him. I thought I did OK, but I was topped by the younger brother who revealed the wretch would score 300 in the backyard at Mum's, and refuse to retire.
Serious polling started a month before, and we boasted a mad professor who'd figured some way for creating better interview samples. For the first three weeks our polls looked much the same as the others, but our final one, for their Election Eve News, turned to custard.
It showed a large late swing with which absolutely nobody agreed. black ops 2 guns Not a sausage. We were miles out. Disgusted or embarrassed, the Network buried the poll late in their bulletin. black ops 2 guns On election night The Man Who Got It Wrong moped around the studio, ignored and useless. Then, around 10pm the votes counted tally began to show we weren't total idiots - we dunces had polled dead on the money. black ops 2 guns
I spent some teenage years in Dargaville, black ops 2 guns a town that was going to the dogs but hadn't yet made it. The place was crackers enough to elect New Zealand's only member for the old Funny Money party, Social Credit.
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