<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:09 one oclock <,> <{><[>not one oclock one sitting <[>just cos it's easier to do if if everybody's gonna if they're gonna leave early mike'll be here as well mm what time's mike coming over must change our word david's getting a phobia about it what time's mike coming over dear i don't know <,> in the afternoon i think and the fuss isn't so much having the one pot it's having it all together <{><[>isn't it <[>i reckon have pasta NO i HATE pasta <.>sp you like spaghetti bolognese mm you like <{><[>spaghetti <[>don't you like the spaghetti cooked separate in <{><[><.>that <[>i don't like that pasta that looks like <{><[>seaweed <[>laughs voc fettucine <{><[>yeah <[>no lasagne whatever lasagne oh <{><[>that's nice <[>fettucine's yummy lasagne has cheese on it that's like vomit <&>1:00 laughs you put the cheese on it doesn't have the cheese built into it <,,><&>3 that's <,,><&>3 parmesan parmesan cheese yes mm that's horrible dad had it once in an italian restaurant never again no it's not horrible they have it they have it in little bowls and you put it <{><[>on <[>sprinkle it on yeah tastes like vomit does not SMELLS like it oh you guys are <{><[>weird <[>smells foul laughs but it's YUMMY well what'll we have fettucine would you like to have spaghetti bolognese <{><[>i haven't got any fettucine <[>i don't like spaghetti bolognese i'm not having any further into pastas than spaghetti what about when i cook on mondays i can cook what i want i'll cook fettucine <{><[>next week <[>well you won't be cooking this monday because everybody'll be here so would you like to do spaghetti bolognese tonight <,> since you'll be home um i might not be home i'll be dancing with val oh i'd better take some mince <{><[>out anyway <&>2:00 <[>we've got some um some holey spaghetti up there? have you seen it TUbular spaghetti i suppose <,> that i brought home from one of the flats <{><[>word when i was word <[>there's some pork pieces left up there too and i really have to finish the pork <{><[>pieces <[>can't have pork pieces with pasta no <,,><&>5 have you seen this stuff <,,><&>8 see it's got a HOLE in the middle how do they bore the hole down there they have little worms that do it? do they really yeah train them oh yes <{><[>oh the spaghetti doesn't usually have a hole in it <[>oh no makes it thicker so that when you cook it you know so that so it's still the same thickness but it's got a hole but it makes the cooked spaghetti thicker <,> for those of us that like thick pasta <&>3:00 mm laughs well shall we have that YEAH oh it's just it just tastes the same it's just that it makes the spaghetti bigger <{><[>it's yummy <[>well i'll i'll take a couple of other lots of mince out then shall i yep do you want to have that and you can do spaghetti bolognese in the microwave can't you can you mm word do you like lasagne <,,><&>4 bit of a girl aren't you he's not a pasta person at all was that meant to be a criticism david laughs bit sexist isn't it yeah i guess it is really eh you quite like lasagne? <,,> when we had it at bobby's place you liked it i didn't i ate it and smiled but that doesn't mean to say i liked it <,,><&>3 <{><[>you QUITE like it <[>you can get <,,> you can get um three coloured fettucine <,> did you know that <,> it <.>comes you know how it's normally green in when you have <&>4:00 it in restaurants well you get it in three colours you get white and i think white and yellow and green clears throat <,> it's really cool yeah i think there's one of the recipes in my thai book actually <,> no one of the recipes in one of the books i was reading <,,><&>5 yeah i still like mashed potatoes and peas laughs and <{><[>pie <[>and cheese <,,> b y m's running a um <,,> end of year <{><[>trip <[>who b y m? who's b y m? oh that's word yep yep they're running a trip to mexico at the end of the year you going oh i don't know thinking about it eh <,,> mexico'd be good you know how big mexico'll be turn of the century? population yeah it's got the biggest city and there's about fifteen million in mexico itself isn't there so i would <,> i would say it'd be fifty million i <&>5:00 suppose laughs twenty six twenty six million at the turn of the century that's bigger than canada <,> canada's got twenty FIVE million now i think now <,> yeah australia's got sixteen million seventeen of that order spaghetti meat sauce here you are <,,> we can just have that eh what's b y m going to do in mexico david um i don't know urban missions i think it IS a <{1><[1>mission <{2><[2>oh right <[1>out <[2>yeah yeah that's it <,,><&>3 <.>so yeah shortterm mission things taking <,> taking some of b y mers across <,,><&>3 um just giving them a taste they're doing <.>there's they're actually doing three doing one to the <{><[>philippines one to papua new guinea and one to mexico <&>6:00 <[><&>whistles i know what i'd rather do <,,> clears throat what's the story with YOUR weren't you weren't you talking about samoa or something for a <{><[>while <[>tonga tonga tonga mm fran knows all about it yes they rang while you were away laughs i told you that <{><[>i word they were going to ring back in a fortnight and they've never done it <[>laughs who rang <{><[>tonga? <[>john lance kent no uh uh? lance and fiona laurenson oh yeah you know the guy laurenson mhm lance's brother mm <&>6:35 <&>16:52 are you gonna cook bob and them a roast is that it i think it's probably a bit many to have a roast i think i'll just do chops and roast vegetables i think that's probably the easiest i've got plenty of chops sounds good to me <,,><&>3 oh i hope i've got plenty of dishes to put them into which i hadn't thought of <,,><&>5 that's a point laughs maybe i haven't well just dish them up <,> you don't have to have them in dishes can you mince bacon <,> before or after you cook it both before or you can mince it afterwards <,,><&>4 have we got a mincer sniffs <,,><&>4 sniffs what for you buy minced bacon do you you can <,> why and you can do it with breadcrumbs <{><[>word <[>do potato skins sometime what's that got to do with minced bacon <&>18:00 you put minced bacon on it and cheese and sour cream <,,><&>3 it's just fried potato with <,> you know fried slices of potato mm i've had potato skins when i went out you do it as an entree they're beautiful actually you probably <{1><[1>deep fry them do you or <{2><[2>do you pan fry them <[1>you could do it <[2>mm could do they were very greasy could do them in the wok <,,><&>4 have you used that dry fry <.>p pan yet nope NOPE <,,> i just have so little time to prepare what i'm gonna do for the meals i just sort of do something i know david could you open your door please laughs we've decided we want to keep the heat in remember <,,> i'm getting claustrophobic laughs claustrophobic <&>pronounced claustropobic have a piece of tubular spaghetti that'll sort you out <&>19:00 <,,><&>8 i'd better try swallowing a piece <{1><[1>when i'm before it's cooked since that's what the chemist reckons that's what <{2><[2>that's what estroscopy's like <[1>laughs <[2>HANG on laughs why don't we stick that down have a look down there oh yeah it's got a hole laughs mm i wonder if you can see right laughs probably be perfectly <{><[>strange <[>you can't even blow through it mm you can't either sniffs <,> i thought it had a hole right through it's only the beginning and the end the worm gets lost laughs it's still in there <,,><&>3 oh well <,,> clears throat <,,><&>4 well some of us have got things to do <,,> clears throat <,,><&>4 do you like mexican <,,><&>3 what girls or food <&>20:00 laughs <,,><&>6 i haven't tried you haven't <{><[>tried mexican <[>the girls or the food laughs <,,><&>7 i <{><[>don't know really <[>coughs enjoy that one mum sniffs i don't know <{><[>no <[>you must have had sometime <{><[>we've had tacos haven't we <[>have the chicken quiche <,> have the chicken quiche with the rice <{><[>crust <[>i don't LIKE quiche don't you real men don't eat it <,,><&>3 how many real men does it take to change a light bulb <,,><&>4 tell me none <,> real men aren't afraid of the dark laughs what's the light bulb got to do with the dark well if you have a light bulb on it's NOT no you've got to that's the switch that goes that's not the bulb <,> silly moo do you know what light bulbs actually are bits of glass with filaments inside them <&>21:00 mm but what do they do how do they work they glow up no they don't <,> that's actually that's actually an illusion they suck in darkness <,> they're darkness suckers they suck the darkness out of the air? <,,><&>3 laughs oh BUNG laughs no it's true there's all this air around you know it's all got darkness and when you turn the light bulb on it sucks the darkness out that's why it looks brighter laughs and why doesn't other darkness rush in from outside there to still be here well because it's doing it all the time it cannot it can't rush in fast enough <{><[>it's diffusion <[>so so the darkness is pulled out of this room quicker than it can come in through the windows and doors and everything yeah oh that's EXcellent gidday you big sucker laughs and what happens is that when it sucks does it what is it how does it why doesn't it suck it enough to explode does it push it up through the yeah that's what the line's for laughs it's TRUE <{><[>we learnt it in physics <&>22:00 <[>light that's rubbish LIGHT DISPELS darkness it doesn't abSORB darkness i didn't say the light absorbed darkness i said the light bulb did the light bulb don't <.>ab absorb darkness yes it does that's a load of CRAP laughs oh dear well once you've been to varsity you'll be able to say that <{><[>i don't <[>well varsity is varsity is the panacea of all ills isn't it sniffs it's just a great big building on the knob of a hill <{><[>that <[>laughs oh dear <,> never mind clears throat these little inadequacies that we have to carry around with us what at varsity no oh laughs clears throat mince curry you could do that mince curry sniffs <,,><&>3 we had mince pies with curry in them mm oh gosh <&>23:00 laughs curried mince is beautiful <,> with apples and coconut and sultanas in it is that right <,,><&>8 it's actually turned out to be quite a nice wee day <{><[>really <[>it has you are right it has it lifts your spirit doesn't it you know what the sun is what it's a big darkness sucker laughter it is laughs there goes another couple of tonnes of darkness up to the sun <,,><&>3 laughs why do you think it's dark at night then because the sun's not out to suck it <{><[>away <[>you're right you're right too you're right gosh i hadn't thought of <{><[>that <[>the moon's just a little sucker laughs and you're one of the biggest laughs i think it's quite clever light bulbs sucking darkness when they're pushing it through the <.>ligh the wires where does it go does it keep going right back to the hydro electric station or out into the sea or something <&>24:00 well i don't know <,> i don't understand the technique <{><[>to something <[>you've been to varsity and you don't know how can those words pass your lips that's only <{1><[1>that's only that's engineering though that's not science engineering is the is the mechanical part of how it actually works <{2><[2>i i'm into the concepts <[1>oh shut up <[2>the <.>mech into the concepts the concepts that's all you are ever into you're never practical are you laughs <&>24:28 <&>end of tape