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| Thread ID: 128634 | 2013-01-04 23:08:00 | a dibble thread for you | Frank_sumbody (16923) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1321353 | 2013-01-05 12:40:00 | AFAIK Dunedin just means Edinburgh of the south. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1321354 | 2013-01-05 19:35:00 | I thought (officer) dibble from good old "Top Cat" :lol: A real classic show that one! |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1321355 | 2013-01-05 19:50:00 | When ever I see Dunedin on the TV1 weather live cams, it always looks like an industrial back yard. I hope its not as depressing as that in real life. They say that years ago Dunedin was the richest city in NZ, all the big family money was there. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1321356 | 2013-01-05 20:28:00 | Used to be plenty of old money in the Geraldine/Timaru/Temuka area as well, some really big parks/botanic gardens and big churches and buildings. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1321357 | 2013-01-05 21:31:00 | How odd, putting "dundee Dunedin Edinburgh" gets strange results, I wonder who is right, I was told my version some years ago. It is a bit like how the thermionic value got invented, which turned crystal set radio into real radios, before the transistor came along. Talking of thermionic valves, one of my old lecturers, a Dr.Bull, invented the beam tetrode valve when he was at Marconi-Osram in the 1930s. Yet another lecturer was a student under Aston, of Aston's Mass Spectrometer fame............... |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1321358 | 2013-01-06 00:45:00 | When ever I see Dunedin on the TV1 weather live cams, it always looks like an industrial back yard. I hope its not as depressing as that in real life. No, it's not. Dunedin is actually quite nice. I love all the old buildings, they ooze character and the railway station is gorgeous. Though I have to admit I am not keen to go near any of them anymore, after our (ChCh) quake. :( |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 1321359 | 2013-01-06 00:53:00 | I like Dunedin too. Nice botanic gardens. Beautiful architecture. Drunken scarfies. What's not to like? :D |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1321360 | 2013-01-06 02:39:00 | Dunedin is a great city. It is far more conservative than cities like Auckland, Wellington, and ChCh. Auckland and Wellington (particularly Akl) tore down all of their heritage buildings and replaced them with crass steel and glass towers, so they are quite anonymous cities now. Dunedin has kept most of its heritage buildings and is therefore much more interesting. We will value Dunedin all the more now that ChCh has lost most of its 19th C buildings. Pretty strange judging a city by the TV1 weather cams! All of the cities look bad on those cams (except for one of the views of Wgtn). Even Tauranga (is it even a city - why is it with the others?) looks like an industrial backwater on its weather cam. Go and have a look around Dunedin, and you will be sure to enjoy it. You can even do a tour of the Speights brewery if you want to see how they make such ordinary beer! |
John H (8) | ||
| 1321361 | 2013-01-07 22:49:00 | All my Family is from Dunners. I personally love it down there. I love the Speights Brewery tour! $20 for 15 min freedom on the taps at the end ;) Then after wards go down to the Octagon for a nicer taste of Crak Ale and then off to the Duke of Wellington (yes I know it's in Dunedin) for a glass of better beer still - Abbot Ale :) |
lordnoddy (3645) | ||
| 1321362 | 2013-01-10 04:33:00 | Err... going back to the original post's title... there may some confusion here, as in "dribble v "drivel" (boggletondrive.com) and "dibble" (en.wiktionary.org) also known as a "dibber" (I made one of those in a woodwork class at school - still got it (never used!! :) ) Signed: The Vocabulary Police |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
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