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Suburban Cowboy

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Floored by the flu

The Suburban Cowboy has been laid up by the dreaded flu and finding daytime television is no remedy.
Shane Budden
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Sticking it to my maths ability

My maths wasn’t always bad – it was quite good right up until year nine when maths got harder and, in a perhaps not un-related development, I started playing hockey.
Shane Budden
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No finer choice to make

Unfortunately, that was the end of the holiday, and we had to come back. As soon as we touched the ground, my phone lit up with texts.
Shane Budden
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The beauty of indifference

New Zealanders have a passionate, finely developed and deeply held sense of complete and utter indifference to our politics.
Shane Budden
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Anxious about impending election

Everyone is a bit anxious around elections these days, mostly because the Americans recently had one and the results were, shall we say, uneven.
Shane Budden
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Adding alpacas for romance

Suburban Cowboy is now prepared for Valentine's Day and what gifts are acceptable.
Shane Budden
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Trumpeting a year of insanity

Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt and manages to find someone crazier than him to be his running mate.
Shane Budden
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Going cold on idea of fridge update

The numbers for takeaway places are buried beneath magnets from plumbers, tree loppers and politicians, plus of course calendars from real estate agents, some of which are so old the year only has three digits (the calendars I mean, not the agents).
Shared meal
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All aboard for next review

We have stacks of on-line reviews, movie reviews, restaurant reviews – and we are even constantly asked to do reviews ourselves.
Shane Budden
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Breaking up popular opinions

Breaking was very popular back in the 1980s, possibly due to the amount of additives contained in food in those days.
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Election bombardment under way

An election campaign is a great time to be a voter, because for a few short months – and only for those months – politicians of every stripe care about your opinion.
Shane Budden
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Stealth required for car purchase

What I really need when car shopping is one of those camouflage suits the aliens in the Predator movies have.
Shane Budden
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Patient loses patience with procedures

So my doctor has gone through his list and decided there are a number of unpleasant tests I had to endure before we part company.
Shane Budden
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A trivial reason for going to law school

Back before the development of the internet, smartphones, and the practice of combining them to cheat at trivia nights, I was a useful person to have on your trivia team.
Shane Budden
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