I've bought the Prime Minister a present

**Ixion** · 27th October 2009, 14:00

Seeing how he has trouble with arithmetic, like multiplying $3700 times 100000 bikes, I thought we could give him something to build his skills.

I've got another copy for Nick Smith.

**Bald Eagle** · 27th October 2009, 14:10

Originally Posted by Ixion

Seeing how he has trouble with arithmetic, like multiplying $3700 times 100000 bikes, I thought we could give him something to build his skills.

I've got another copy for Nick Smith.

love your thinking , possibly a copy of Pinnochio as well to help them both with the morality of telling the Truth.

**slofox** · 27th October 2009, 14:14

Originally Posted by Ixion

Seeing how he has trouble with arithmetic, like multiplying $3700 times 100000 bikes, I thought we could give him something to build his skills.

I've got another copy for Nick Smith.

Originally Posted by Bald Eagle

love your thinking , possibly a copy of Pinnochio as well to help them both with the morality of telling the Truth.

Good thinking both...

**StoneY** · 27th October 2009, 14:24

Truth...TRUTH! You cant HANDLE the truth........

Gotta love Jack Nicholson!

**klingon** · 27th October 2009, 14:51

LOL great idea Ixion! he media definitely needs to know when you're handing that over!

**Pussy** · 27th October 2009, 14:54

Originally Posted by Ixion

Seeing how he has trouble with arithmetic, like multiplying $3700 times 100000 bikes, I thought we could give him something to build his skills.

I've got another copy for Nick Smith.

Love your work, Les!

**rainman** · 27th October 2009, 15:01

Originally Posted by Ixion

Seeing how he has trouble with arithmetic, like multiplying $3700 times 100000 bikes, I thought we could give him something to build his skills.

I've got another copy for Nick Smith.

Originally Posted by Bald Eagle

love your thinking , possibly a copy of Pinnochio as well to help them both with the morality of telling the Truth.

You're both barking up the wrong tree, sadly. This is the post-modern age (NZ has finally caught up to the Clinton era), where narrative is all, and truth counts for nought.

In other words never let the facts get in the way of a good story. These bastards are privatising ACC for ideological reasons and will spin up a crisis to get us all scurrying around fighting little side battles about who subsidises whom, who has the correct stats, and whether the rates are iniquitous or not, while they carry doing what they first intended to. They are olde-worlde feudal lords, not enlightened servant leaders.

And TVNZ is next.

**davereid** · 27th October 2009, 15:02

Thats the "Bright Sparks" maths book... you should keep it.

John & Nick need "maths for dummies"

**Mikkel** · 27th October 2009, 15:27

Interesting front cover - you can extract all sorts of metaphors from it.

**R6_kid:Me** · 27th October 2009, 15:31

Throw in a calculator while you're at it... just make sure it's not one of those fancy scientific ones - it might be too confusing for them.

**Rayray401** · 27th October 2009, 15:34

Originally Posted by R6_kid

Throw in a calculator while you're at it... just make sure it's not one of those fancy scientific ones - it might be too confusing for them.

A nice pink one will do.

**Mully** · 27th October 2009, 15:43

Get the big cheese of ACC one too - see if you can get onto Campbell Live to present it to them.

**Pixie** · 28th October 2009, 08:26

Originally Posted by StoneY

Truth...TRUTH! You cant HANDLE the truth........

Gotta love Jack Nicholson!

Side Show Bob wasn't it?

Bart: We want the truth!
Bob: You want the truth? You can't handle the truth. No truth-
handler, you. Bah! I deride your truth-handling abilities.
Judge: Will you get to the point?