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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Go Wellington

1. formerly "stagecoach", the people responsible for providing public transport to the city
1a. voted "world's most banal company name" two years running
1b. included "services" are the alleged number two bus, which many people maintain is fictional. I live on its route and have never seen one. especially when I'm tying to go home
2. hard to love company that provides opportunity for misanthropes to blunt their customer service skills further. often cited as the reason why people drive to work,

guy fawkes night fireworks display

1. an event held annually on the fifth of november where a boat is loaded with roughly ten tons of fireworks, set adrift on lambton harbour and a match thrown in to the joyful glee of the thousands of spectators gathered around, and the dismay of the city's pets.
2. the annual point where hundreds of people forgive the wellington city council, who foot much of the bill for the event.
2a. usually by March, most of them have a reason for redisgruntlement
3. the source of one in every twenty pictures inside the wellington flickr group.