THE WORD ON THE STREET ......

We think this is the funny as fuck story of the week.

Treasury fella loses his notes on a possible restructure of our two spook groups.

Its funnier, in light of our good mates altercation with those watching the watchers, last week


We think that there is great merit in getting the GCSB to play nicely with the SIS and the Police little spooky coppers lot as well. We also think that if the notebook had fallen into the hands of anyone but RNZ, it would have been fuel for stories for bloody weeks.

Now here's a very, very funny odd, almost spooky thing - the tags to the story called CASPERS NOT SO FRIENDLY - dont work.

Maybe we have pissed off the shadow walkers -

Yikes....

We will buy them a beer next time we are in the Feathers or Beaujolais.

CASPERS NOT SO FRIENDLY

We like to photograph things from time to time and a mate of ours, who once was a good scribe, is also a lover of the digital still art medium. He has been wandering around town in search of architecturally interesting features and he spied a good 'un in Pipitea Plaza. there was a bit of scaffolding ona new building which added to the angular interest.

He was doing the arty snapper thing when he was approached by a very polite but very insistent bloke who told him he could not take any pics " because it was a government building."

Well says the just as insistent amateur snapper, "I have worked in government buildings and there were no rules on taking pictures of them"

"Sorry" says the insistent security chappy. "You can't take pics of this one and please delete all the ones you have already taken . "

Mate thought this was very odd but he desisted.

But he went home and googled the address and its the home to the GCSB.

Now we are all in favour of our government keeping there ears and eyes on terrorists but bugger me, a few pics of the architecturally interesting office block owned by some very nice Maori fellas is a bit over the top...

SINGLE WOMEN BECOME BATTLE AXES.

Its nearly fifty years since this was written and boy has a heap changed. Its is some old bastarrd whinging about the percieved downsides of employing women as trade commissioners.

We particularly like his belief that women trade commissioners would be okay if there was trade in "clothing and accessories."

We especially like the assumption that single women "spinsters" turn into "battleaxes" while men mellow with age.

DFAT 1960s

FRIDAY ROUND UP ON A THURSDAY

What was with the vestal white outfit that Helen Clark wore at her "see you later"nz gig in parliament yesterday?Does she now see herself as an international angel for peace ?

Isn't the Tailor of Panama Street a very well informed read?

Why aren't New Zealand spooks as cute or as smart as the ones on the TV series Spooks?

Isnt it great that not many people know that Boulcott St Bistro serves half price Taittengers on a Monday night and don't they do a lovely tripe dish?

Will we see some good Maori appointments onto Government boards in the future?

LABOUR SPOOK OUTED -AUTHORITIES SHOULD GET TAPE.

Finally the bugger who taped conversations at the Nats conference has been outed. Well done Farrar and WhaleOil and the Herald.
More investigation is needed into this venal jerks background. Sadly, we note he was brought up in Invercargill. We know that it is legal to tape a conversation as long as one party knows its happening - what is illegal is if you tape the conversation between two other people without them knowing. We reckon thats why Keizer wont release the tape - it will have evidence that he taped conversations between National Party people without them knowing.
And thats a serious offence.

QUEEN BEE JOINS DOTS GETS RED LINE TO EU

Its been a great week for spook stories and while we here at Roarprawn have been concentrating on fish quota scandals, Queen Bee has been analysing a very interesting development. We think that it fits - the sad thing is that it means that those silly boys that Labour uses, have really been sucked in by someone playing a much bigger and more elegant game than they could ever dream of. But it could have devastating consequences for NZ.

Read what Queen Bee has to say here

Caspers little helpers

There are one or two of us who are tearing at the heels of government - and all of us have had computer problems - go figure.