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Remember this 1980s ad for a bygone technology? This Kiwi classic for BASF cassette tapes used a catchy tune performed by NZ jingle king (and former member of The Underdogs) Murray Grindlay and ad industry diva Jacqui Fitzgerald — an adaptation of the 1953 Jean Shepard/Ferlin Husky hit “A Dear John Letter”. Pioneering NZ filmmaker Tony Williams directed, creating a Korean War/M*A*S*H* setting and using a Wellington quarry as a stand-in…

This guy just raised the bar for “I’m-leaving-town” emails….

This was sent around colleagues at Weta in Wellington (by headband guy Jesse Lewis-Evans) and forwarded to us here. Delightful!

Black humour for the 80s child.

This is really fucked up: Marie Claire online have developed a virtual weight loss tool which allows you to upload a picture of yourself and see what you’d look like thinner. (Or fatter, I guess.)

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These four kiwi blokes pull off an a clever hula hoop stunt… A round of high fives, well deserved. It’s going viral…

Anyone know who these guys are? I’m sure Campbell Live would love you fellas to try and do it again for live TV.

Warwick writes: “I have a good friend by the name of Stu, an artist who lives, as artists do, in an isolated but comfortable hutch deep in the Waitakere Ranges. Very occasionally he will venture downhill to restock the pantry with his usual essentials, most of which begin life as either grapes or hops. This week however he decided to invest in yet another food group – cheese…

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