<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>14:30 i know i'm meant to be getting pregnant this year <{><[>jesus <[>laughs <,> i'm not i'm going to have a baby jim and i are supposed to be THE most incompatible <.>s set of star signs i mean you know how <.>y you have the elements related to it i think well i'm i'm <{><[>water <[>a water sign <,> and i'm a <{><[>fire sign <[>a professional woman <[>it's strange cos <,> frank is taurus and i'm pisces pisces is supposed to be really compatible with taurus but taurus ISN'T supposed to <{><[>be compatible with pisces <&>15:00 <[>oh right <,> normally they carefully mirror them really really well <{1><[1><,> <{2><[2>but <.>v if virgo and sagittarius come up then <{3><[3>it's word <[1>mm <[2>normally they they work them off off the elemental sign word <[3>it's a real bitch being a parttime woman laughs <{1><[1><,> <{2><[2>laughs the cat couldn't get its <{3><[3>head all the way in the cup <{4><[4>to get to the very dregs of the milo so it was sticking its paw in and bringing it out and licking the milo off its paw <{5><[5>see there it goes again <[1>what <[2>it's a real bitch being a parttime woman <,> they want a professional woman <[3>yeah <[4>yeah <[5>laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs <[>laughs that's paTHEtic it's cool i like it <,> that's <{><[>entertaining <[>laughs <[>you don't want to drink that that's the stuff that i've left behind cos it's yukky oh no he'll drink it he shouldn't be drinking it though should he no not really i'll put it up here that is just pathetic laughs going oh i <{><[>need that word <[>wow this is a cat with real street survival skills laughs i'm quite impressed he didn't knock it over yeah he went through a stage of tipping things over like everything <{><[>just to see what was in it <[>yeah laughs <&>16:00 but did he also go through a stage of being whacked <{><[>word <[>a professional woman no oh wow professional nonsmoker? <&>cat hits microphone and everyone laughs word cat break them cat well there's one of a professional woman wow well that that sounds quite good you're a professional woman well you're going to get pregnant so laughs well that's true mm but do they want a <{><[>pregnant <[>anyway word <{><[>word <[>i'm going to have a baby laughs no that's not professional though is it alison holst teaching you how to cook possums laughter but possum tastes really vile oh <{><[>come on alison holst can do wonders <[>well not if word alison holst cooks it yeah <{1><[1>with maggi <{2><[2>sorry um <[1>word <[2>cook in the pot yeah with <{><[>word <[>no watties maggi ten minute possum laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs when <.>the when the possum <&>17:00 tender timer pops <{1><[1><,> you know to throw away the <{2><[2>possum <[1>laughs <.>pos laughs <[2>but <{1><[1>possum's really unpleasant cos you have to cook all the you have to cut all of the scent glands out otherwise it's poisonous and it all comes back a bit later and it tastes really really <{2><[2>horrible <[1>laughs oh yuk laughs <[2>yeah apparently there are some glands in the possum's <,> behind or <{><[>something <[>yeah the musk <.>the their scent glands so <{1><[1>basically it's like eating a musk flavoured stew and then a while later you be ill because it's actually a poison <,> <{2><[2>and if you manage to cut all of the glands and everything out and you cook it like normal then it tastes really revolting <,> cos the <.>best the best recipe for possum is possum soup where you put a possum and a rock <{3><[3>into a pot of water <[1>yes word <[2>yes and once you've killed it you've got <.>to <,,> oh yes <[3>really <[3>got to kill it first laughs and you BOIL it until there is no water left <{><[>and THROW away the possum and eat the rock <[>laughs word the possum won't be too bloody happy about that laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs just think how the rock feels <&>18:00 help let me out laughs <,,> my mother's tramping cooking book has got a takahe <,> takahe um no <{1><[1>pukeko soup <{2><[2>where you boil some old boots <[1>pukeko <[2>yeah yeah i was gonna say <{1><[1>if your mother's <,> voc bush recipe book has got <{2><[2>takahe recipes in it then i want to have her locked up by <{3><[3>any number of environmental groups <[1>and it gives a word <[2>oh <[3>no i mean pukekos <.>are are endangered anyway or protected anyway yeah but seagulls are protected what were you saying about ross meurant going out and shooting seagulls were you <{><[>saying that he word he goes out and shoots seagulls <[>yeah apparently yeah yep there's a whole lot of them go out there one of their favourite things is to dig up their shotguns that are sealed in the back yard for when the communists take over <,> well not FOR when the communists take over to use against <.>the when the communists take over <,> and they go out and shoot seagulls at the <{><[>beach <[>yeah it's illegal to <.>sea to shoot seagulls who are a protected bird <{><[>word <[>i thought it was illegal to shoot guns <&>19:00 <{><[>generally word <[>apparently he's quite a screwed up man ross meurant <{><[>um <[>yeah it is but you're not even allowed to like shoot seagulls off a beach or anything mm you can get special dispensations to shoot them around tips <,> <{><[><.>and <[>but you're supposed to make loud <{><[>noises <[>airports oh good so we can do something with that spare bofer's cannon out the back laughs stick it out in the airport just take it out near <.>the near <{1><[1>the <.>r rubbish dump and <&>shooting noises <{2><[2>pow <[1>laughs <[2>laughs laughs <{><[>right laughs <[>quick throw it in a stew <,> we've got two <{><[>possums in there <[>where was it recently where <{1><[1><.>an an aeroplane crash was caused by <.>th the hawk that had been brought in to scare off the other birds being sucked into the jet engine <{2><[2>intake <,> of one of those <.>st <{3><[3>planes which was taking off <{4><[4>laughs <[1>laughs <[2>ow <[3>oh <[4>my father got stuck in bombay for just over twenty four hours <,> because <.>the a vulture <{1><[1>went through the in <,> take of a seven four seven and <{2><[2>it like damaged all <.>the the propellers and <[1>because he <.>s because he sucked in a hawk <[2>laughs <[2>word laughs <&>20:00 oh yeah yuk that occasionally <{1><[1>happens on american aircraft carriers as well only because there's not a lot of birds around on american aircraft carriers it tends to be clumsy ground staff <{2><[2><,> <{3><[3>apparently <{4><[4>all you get out the back is a really greasy puff of smoke <[1>word <[2>laughs <[3>oh <[4>laughs yeah <{><[>yeah i've heard that <[>oh did you <{><[><.>see <[>but it really stuffs the engine did you see <{1><[1>in <,> <{2><[2>last week <{3><[3>there was a thing about um <,> the guys in the gulf war killed by <.>req friendly fire <[1>it really stuffs the ground staff <[2>laughs <[3>laughs oh jimmy laughs oh yeah yeah and there was one woman who <,> found out in the end that her husband was killed by friendly fire but started chasing it up because she got a letter <.>saying home with the coffin with her husband <{><[>in it saying that she was very sorry and that he'd died almost instantly and that the medical staff had got to him immediately and tried to save him but he <.>couldn't they couldn't do anything and all she basically got back was the charred stump of his hip because he was in a tank that burnt for two days <&>21:00 <[>yeah depleted uranium rounds AND they sort of screwed up a little bit on the cover story <{><[><,> just a weeny bit when she went no it's word just i don't beLIEVE you let's have a new one <[><.>a abrahams word are really quite word in taking out american tanks eh yeah <{1><[1>and then tried to work out why they were <{2><[2>covering it up <[1>word <[2>if they were caught in a tank i suppose it's reasonably yeah mm quick well it would be like it <.>went like they said from the bullet hole you could see through where he would have been sitting <.>s out the other side yeah but <,> <{><[>his <.>side <[>it's more the fact that they'd go in and go wumpf mm mm it's like sitting inside <.>a a tin can when a large amount of explosives go off oh <,,><&>4 mm which is tut even worse than sitting inside a car with all the doors shut and the windows shut when somebody slams the boot <,,> which my father used to do yeah <{1><[1>considerably worse in my opinion like you appear to have survived many boot slammings but most people don't survive more than one tank explosion <{2><[2>laughs <[1>laughs yes i know but i've only been through one of them laughs oh i don't know laughs <&>22:00 <[2>oh wow i saw this awesomely bad movie the last ten minutes of it one saturday night when i came home i've been having early saturday nights recently <,> so you get to watch some inTRIguing t v <,> <{><[>and um <[>laughs it wasn't called was it they were <{><[>advertising <.>this <[>this movie called and <.>i i <{1><[1>don't know but somehow this son was unjustly <.>comu accused of <,> <{2><[2>he and his father were and this woman who's been accused of being a <.>prost <[1>ah bleah <&>throwing up noise <[2><.>of <.>of of trafficking <,> of trafficking dope at the the local school so he was sent to prison <,> <{><[>doing hard time <[>and he was set up <{1><[1><.>and and the the father owned his own sherman tank <{2><[2>laughs <[1><.>and <[2>so they were tramping <.>across i only saw the end of it but the end of it was <{1><[1><.>they they just had to get across state lines and they were only about something like twenty metres away and across the state line there was sort of you know all this enormous crowd of people going oh come on cos they were real heroes cos they were dodging the police and everything and you know and <.>the the governor had been forced into saying yes we'll give them a fair hearing blah de blah de blah but of course <&>23:00 the sheriff and all his men who are all good old boys were across the line and had managed to get hold of a grenade launcher or a missile launcher or something and had blown out the tank so it wouldn't move and it was bogged down in this muddy field and so this BIKIE <,> rides his bike over where all the sheriff's men are entrenched and lands in front of the sherman tank <{2><[2>and he's got this rope with him and he links the rope around <{3><[3>the sherman tank <.>and and then they pull this through to a steel cable <.>and and one of the people who's entrenched in this tank and who hasn't been coming out for days because they don't want to get done out comes OUT of the tank and helps them tie it onto the <{4><[4>front of the tank <{5><[5><,> to that convenient um <.>like <[1>voc <[2>evil knievel style <[3>laughs <[4>laughs <[5>all of the time while under fire friendly fire well <.>not unfriendly fire <{1><[1>actually from the police <{2><[2><,> it's pretty unfriendly <[1>laughs <[2>yeah yeah to you know the tank tow bar yeah <{><[><.>and <[>laughs laughs <{><[>then <.>the <[>word tow bar lights and <.>our mm <{1><[1>yes and then <{2><[2>the er the all the people across the state line have <&>24:00 a go at <{3><[3><,> manually they don't get a <{4><[4>truck or anything like that there's MILLions of <{5><[5>trucks sitting around but they don't use any of them <{6><[6>they <.>just <[1>laughs <[2>word <[3>oh yeah <[4>pulling <[5>laughs <[6>including the governor <,> alongside the bikies voc the bikies and the governor and all the happy people and <{1><[1>the happy folk <{2><[2><.>all <[1>laughs <[2>with the ribbons with the red and white and blue balloon yes oh and the marching team i should <.>have <{1><[1>laughs they try and PULL <{2><[2>this tank <[1>oh yeah the marching team yeah <[1><&>hums the star spangled banner <[2>pulling this sherman tank <{1><[1>across line <{2><[2><,> thankfully they don't do it but then um <{3><[3>they <.>go <[1>laughs <[2>laughs <[3>no <.>but no no no you forget the most important bit they were starting to move this forty five tonne tank <{><[>across the state line with all these thousands of young happy americans <[>laughs oh that's right <{><[>laughs <[>laughs and the evil sheriff and his racist band of southern <,> <{><[><.>ch posse rush down and they began pulling the other way <[>laughs <{><[>laughs <[>laughs so that was word so they were MORE and it was stalemate but the people with the sherman tank on their end i susPECT had a bit of an advantage but anyway it was a stalemate so they gave that up so what did they do then attach it to a <{><[>truck <.>or <&>25:00 <[>they attached it to a bulldozer which is why <.>they <{1><[1>why they didn't do that in the beginning <{2><[2>was totally beyond me though laughs <[1>yes <[2>well yeah laughs <&>25:05