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November 9, 2011 8:18pm by David Farrar

What will happen if Wellywood wins

Brilliant video. Story at Dom Post.

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reid

I wish that guy would do the same for the MMP debate.

Then maybe people might know there’s a referendum in a few weeks. Let alone what all those complicated initialisms stand for, let alone work.
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November 9, 2011 9:04pm
s.russell

So Wellywood gets blown away, eh? Wonder whodunnit. Eye suspect a taniwha.
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November 9, 2011 9:09pm
Steve

A long time ago someone said “leave an axe and a balaclava outside Hone’s office and tell him it’s on Maori Land”
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November 9, 2011 9:20pm
Murray

I have an alibi.
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November 9, 2011 9:47pm
RKBee

It will be great if Wellywood wins… then we can say… There’s a lot of Dead Wood in Wellywood.
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November 9, 2011 9:55pm
East Wellington Superhero

The great passion surrounding the Wellywood ‘controversy’ shows the shallowness and real priorities of liberal white people.
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November 9, 2011 9:56pm
Fletch

Check out the funny stories scrolling across in the tickertape as well….
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November 9, 2011 9:57pm
Murray

Who the hell are you calling liberal… and white come to that?
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November 9, 2011 10:13pm
East Wellington Superhero

@ Murray

All the pansy cry-babies in Wellington who get upset because people in other places (who actually don’t give shit about Wellington – except that it takes their taxes) might think they’re not cool because of the sign.

I’m white BTW.
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November 9, 2011 10:29pm
Murray

As am I depending on the conversation. Then I get to play th victim card.
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November 9, 2011 11:10pm
Andrew McMillan

Great video! I’m all for the Wellywood sign, but it seems that Wellingtonians are just a little too precious.

Put the sign up and get over it, in a few years you’ll be wondering what all the fuss was about!
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November 9, 2011 11:51pm
expat

Taxywood
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November 10, 2011 5:11am
KiwiGreg

Wellington – making small towns look big. Good to be on the “A” issues
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November 10, 2011 6:47am
Manolo

Why the hype about a completely irrelevant and unimportant sign?
Surely, there are more important things to discuss, e.g., NZ becoming a republic or the sexual life of sand flies in Milford Sound.

Long live the Wellington “intelligentsia”.
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November 10, 2011 7:59am
Peter

The problem with the sign is that it gives people a licence to call Wellington “Wellywood”.

No one in Wellington uses that name. I’m not sure anyone does. If tourists started using the term when talking to Wellingtoniains, they’re going to leave with the impression Wellingtonians are short tempered.

It’s like calling your town “Wankersville”. Or “F*ckland”.

It’s not just a sign.
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November 10, 2011 8:13am
Ed Snack

Peter, I think those are quite reasonable substitute names for Wellington ! Now if only Wellywoodians (sorry, Wellingtonians) could just get over themselves a little…
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November 10, 2011 8:21am
Peter

You could use those names, but you wouldn’t be ensured a polite reception.

The Wellington Airport board does not have a right to define us. It’s as simple as that.
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November 10, 2011 8:43am
Mark

The Wellington Airport Board must have fuck all to do apart from put up landing charges and figure out new ways to use their monopoly position to extort more money from travellers so to fill in time they come up with this sort of mindless bollocks.

Well done news parody
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November 10, 2011 9:30am
Pierrick

Why would anyone want to put a sign there in the first place? This blog urges us to vote Green, and here we are debating how best we can chop trees, create pollution (through manufacturing and fitting) and generally deface a hillside.
Leave nature alone! Scrap the whole sign idea. Spend money on more worthwhile projects.
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November 10, 2011 12:27pm
Michael

In case you are wondering, the ticker at the bottom reads:

Hickey partially paralyses woman..psychic sheep to be knighted for predicting New Zealand rugby world cup victory…J.L.E sued by American woman for alleged internet pregnancy…Diver retrieved camera from light kelptomaniac [sic] octopus…Korean popstar ‘Boi’ tries to kiss Prime Minister…Local Ping-Pong hero Hyun-Kyung breaks opponents ankle in heated match…T-Bone poops, pees, and gets his bum-bum washed – ‘All in a days work’ he states…Polish whiz-kid Krzysztof Szczepanski learns he has been spelling his name wrong for 30 years…Kiwi man admits to dying hair because ‘the ladies dig the gince’…Wellingtonian Mr Ashley reportedly ‘channeled’ literary characters after accidentally consuming own homemade moonshine…local man found dead in pile of Star Wars toys…It’s official- Jesse crowned new Queen of the West Village…American born ‘D-Rock’ Auyoung convinced he is Bruce Lee…James Esteban Willing-Turkey-Ham Junior the Third changes name to ‘Meat’…Sir Ignacious Pena knighted for valor in virtual combat…Wellington homecoming for local legend ‘Riys’ results in many arrests for public intoxication…Man buys Harry Potter Car…Creepy Wellington based artist Jancemachine finds love with his own reflection
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